Dr. Moab Maidi

Academic Appointments:

• Since 2025, Staff lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department at BRAUDE –College of Engineering Karmiel.

• 2024-2025, Staff lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department at SCE – Sami Shamoon College of Engineering Ashdod.

• 2014 to 2024, Adjunct lecturer at the Civil Engineering Department at SCE – Sami Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva.

Details of the activity among years :

2024-2025, lecturer (Academic Staff) at the Civil Engineering Department at SCE – Shamoon College of Engineering, Ashdod.

Courses list:
• Principles of Structural Design.
• Structural Engineering.
• Earthquake Resistance Design.
• Final project Workshop (Structural & Seismic Eng').
• Pretested Concrete Structures.

Industrial Engineering Experience
Since 2005, I am owner of Engineering Company "Moab Civil and Seismic Engineering ltd.

Licenses in Civil Engineering fields:
• Structural Engineering, No' 114983.
• Environmental Engineering, No' 114983.
• Transportation Engineering, No' 45357283.
• Highway and Flight lanes Engineering, No' 45357283.
• Project Management Engineering, No' 114983.

Train young engineers for a full license:
• Since 2012, Qualified to train a young Engineers (Structural Eng').

Academic Research Field:

• Seismic retrofitting for existing buildings by adding stiffening components.
• Assessing the resistance of existing buildings against earthquake events.
• Predicting of seismic resistance and performance for reinforced concrete structures.
• Design a non-corrosive structure.
• Passive control of reinforced concrete structures.
• Ductility properties of non-corrosive structures under monotonic and cyclic loading.
• Failure Criteria of reinforced concrete (Large Scale).

List of Publications

• Maidi M., Lifshitz Sherzerc G., Gal E., (2024), Enhancing ductility in carbon fiber reinforced polymer concrete sections: A multi-scale investigation. https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2024.33.4.385.
• Maidi M., Igor Shufrin. 2024. “Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Retrofit through External Stiffening: Limit Displacement Method.” Buildings 14 (9): 2781. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14092781.
• Maidi M., Lifshitz Sherzer, G., Shufrin, I., & Gal, E. (2024). Seismic Resilience of CRC- vs. RC-Reinforced Buildings: A Long-Term Evaluation. Applied Sciences, 14(23), 11079. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142311079.
• Maidi M., Sherzer, G. L., & Gal, E. (2025). Multiscale Numerical Study of Enhanced Ductility Ratios and Capacity in Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Concrete Beams for Safety Design. Polymers, 17(2), 234.
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17020234.

In Submission Status
• Maidi M., Lifshitz Sherzerc G., Gal E., Seismic Resistance and dissipation Energy Assuming of Rigid (CRC) Frames Structures Part 1: Monotonic Loading.
• Maidi M., Lifshitz Sherzerc G., Gal E., Seismic Resistance and dissipation Energy Assuming of Rigid (CRC) Frames Structures Part 2: Cyclic Loading.
• Maidi M., Seismic Resistance and Energy Dissipation prediction under Numerical Cyclic Loading for Shear Wall CFRP Reinforced.

Under Writing (In Process)
• Aarar A., Maidi M., The Residual Axial Compressive Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Column Array Expose to Fire Standard.
• Maidi M., Seismic Retrofitting and Adding Stories of Existing Structures Using a Transform Slab vs `More Columns: Analytical and Numerical Approaches.
• Maidi M., Seismic resistance and energy dissipation prediction of column-ring beam interior joints under numerical cyclic loading.
• Maidi M., Evaluation of Structural Vulnerability in High-Rise Residential Buildings Under Ballistic Missile Blast Effects.

Books/collective volumes 
• Writing two chapters in "Guidelines for Risk Assessment in Mature Trees" (in process); Ministry of Agriculture (Israel).

Other Publications/Reports

• Maidi M., “Structural assessment of existing buildings for earthquake resistance (seismic retrofitting), M.Sc. thesis (in Hebrew)” Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 2020.

Seminar Presentations
• Moab Maidi. "Multi Scale Seismic Design Methodology for Non-Corrosive Reinforced Concrete Structure" Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Beer Sheva, Israel, 2025.
• Moab Maidi " Structural assessment of existing buildings for earthquake resistance (seismic retrofitting)." SCE – Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel, 2021.
• Moab Maidi " Structural assessment model of existing buildings for earthquake resistance". Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Beer Sheva, Israel, 2020.

Workshop At SCE
• Retrofitting, Methods and structural design principles, 06/2022
• Aspects of building conservation engineering, 02/2023
• Sinkhole: Introduction, phenomena and coping, 06/2023
• Wind turbine and high-water tanks, structural design principles, 08/2024

Hackathons At SCE
• Loading Competition for spatial structures were built by the students.
The competition named "Moab Maidi" that ends with monetary reward. (3,000 NIS)
In the years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024,2025.

Other relevant activities
Ministry of Agriculture (ISRAEL)
• As part of training professionals in climbing and tree risk assessment, I give two lectures every year in the field of Tree Orthopedics, also a two practical workshops on this subject.

Ministry of Labor (ISRAEL)
• Technical Education, Essay and exam writing for structural design- (Handasaeem), April 2024.
• Member of the Advisory Committee (One from five members) to the Registrar of Engineers, February 2025
Membership in professional/scientific societies
• IACIE -Israeli Association of Construction & Infrastructure Engineers.

Manuscript's reviewer
• The Journal of Applied science 2024;
• The Journal of Sustainability 2025;
• The Journal Discover Civil Engineering 2025;
• Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation;