List of Publications Organized By Topic

Ph.D. Dissertation	Nonlinear Time-Dependent Seismic Response of Unanchored Liquid Storage Tanks, May 1995.
CADD Design Support Environment	Cook, M. and Zeiny, A. "A Methodology To Breakdown Bridge Designs into A Hierarchal Decomposition Assembly of Design Entities", 2005 NCUR Conference, April 2005. Zeiny, A., "Computable Dynamic Design Repository for Product Data Representation", 24th Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, September 28-October 3, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah. Cook, M. and Zeiny, A. "A Methodology To Breakdown Building Designs into A Hierarchal Decomposition Assembly of Design Entities", 2004 MUPEC Conference, March 2004.
Nonlinear Seismic Response of Unanchored Liquid Storage Tanks using the In-house Nonlinear Finite Element Code (DYNAZ) Developed by the Author (Al Zeiny) to Handle Nonlinear Liquid-Structure Interaction Problems with Free Surface and Soil-Structure Interaction as well as Contact Analysis at the Base of the Tank	Zeiny, A., Simplified Modeling of Liquid-Structure Interaction in the Seismic Analysis of Cylindrical Liquid Storage Tanks, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August, 2004. Zeiny, A., Factors Affecting the Nonlinear Seismic Response Of Unanchored Tanks, The 16th Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Seattle, Washington, July 2003. Haroun, M.A., Bhatia, H., and Zeiny, A., Characterization of Observed Uplift and Buckling of An Unanchored Tank During the Northridge Earthquake, The Northridge Earthquake Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, August 1997. Haroun, M. A., and Zeiny, A., A Computational Technique for the Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Unanchored Liquid Storage Tanks, Proceedings of the Third Asian-Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics, Seoul, Korea, September 1996, pp. 1007-1012. Haroun, M. A., and Zeiny, A., 1995, Simulation of Dynamic Behavior of Unanchored Tanks, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 1995, pp. 341-346. Haroun, M.A., Zeiny, A., and Bhatia, H., Seismic Analysis of the Meter Feed Hold Tank (MFHT), Report Submitted to Dames and Moore , Los Angeles, CA, August 1995. Haroun, M. A., and Zeiny, A., 1995, Nonlinear Transient Response of Unanchored Liquid Storage Tanks, Proceedings of the PVP Conference, ASME, Hawaii , July 1995, pp. 35-41.
Design Guidelines of Liquid Storage Tanks and Liquefied Natural Gas Tanks	Haroun, M. A., Zeiny, A., and Bhatia, H., 1994, Seismic Design Guidelines for Liquefied Natural Gas Tanks, Vol. 272, PVP Conference, ASME, June 1994, pp. 43-50. Haroun, M. A., Zeiny, A., and Bhatia, H., 1993, Seismic Qualification of Tanks for Storage of Liquefied Natural Gas, Egyquake Proceedings, December 1993, pp. 665-674. Haroun, M. A., and Zeiny, A., 1993, Seismic Design Considerations for Uplifted Tanks, Proceeding of the Structures Congress, Structural Engineering in Natural Hazards Mitigation, vol. 1, April 1993, pp. 139-144.
Soil Structure Interaction with Contact Analysis between Soil and Foundation	Haroun, M. A., and Zeiny, A., 1995, Dynamic Interaction of an Uplifted Beam with the Supporting Soil, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, April 1995, pp. 409-412.
Modeling of Nonlinear Liquid-Structure Interaction with Nonlinear Free Surface Sloshing using Finite Element	Zeiny, A., Computer Simulation of the Nonlinear Liquid-Structure Interaction Problem with Free Surface, Proceedings of the 37th Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute, Sacramento, California, June 2001.