Abdelbaset Midawi

Abdelbaset Midawi is a Research Associate at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Midawi was a former lecturer at the University of Benghazi-Libya (2008-2012).  He joined the Centre of Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ) at the University of Waterloo in 2013 since then his focus was to develop a novel technique to estimate the strength for welded structures. The technique successfully developed, which is based on an instrumented indentation approach to measure strength in local zones across the weld. In January 2019, Dr. Midawi joined Forming and Crash Lab at the University of Waterloo since then he is working on spot welding characterization for automotive steel components and testing state-of-the-art advanced high strength steels, that are targeted for use in future vehicles to reduce weight and gas consumption. This research aimed to improve industrial competitiveness and reduction of the environmental footprint of new vehicles.

Areas of interest:

• Welding processes optimization such as GMAW, GTAW, and RSW
• Physical metallurgy and welding metallurgy of engineering alloys.
• Instrumented Indentation (Macro and Nano-indentation) and its applications.
• Material characterization (Advanced High Strength Steels and Line Pipe Steels) using advanced techniques such as digital image correlation, SEM, EBSD, and XRD.
• Stress analysis for mechanical systems, such as pipelines and pressure vessels.