Dr. Emami specializes in material behavior of concrete, and her work focuses on issues related to effects of elevated temperatures on concrete, moisture transfer in concrete, concrete deterioration due to external and internal chemical attacks, numerical modeling of material behavior, and design and analysis of concrete structures.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Emami was a Consultant with K2 Technologies, Inc. She also has held several research and engineering positions with the Reinforced Concrete Council in the United Kingdom, the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the UK, IRITEC in Tehran, Iran, and Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Emami NK. Micro-biological attack on concrete—A threat to concrete infra-structure. Paper presented in Forensic Engineering Conference, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK, September 1998.
Emami NK. The effect of elevated temperatures on the moisture migration and spalling behavior of concrete. ACI Special Publication – High Strength Concrete, SP-167, March 1997.
Emami NK. The effect of moisture on spalling of normal and high strength concrete. Proceedings, ASCE Structure Congress XIV: Worldwide Advances in Structural Concrete and Masonry Symposium, 1996.
Emami NK. Modeling of moisture behavior in normal and high performance concrete at elevated temperatures. 4th Wiemar Workshop on High Performance Concrete, Material Properties and Design, Wiemar, Germany, October 1995.
Emami NK. Numerical modeling of moisture migration in non-uniformly heated concrete. International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, SMiRT 13th, Paper Number 404, Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 1995.
Emami NK. Moisture flow in concrete under steady-state non-uniform temperature states: Experimental observations and theoretical modeling. Nuclear Engineering and Design Magazine 1995; 156(83–107), June.
Emami NK. Numerical observations and theoretical predictions of the effect of elevated temperatures on the migrational behavior of moisture in thick concrete sections. Lecture at University of Calgary, Canada, May 1995.
Emami NK. Numerical predictions of migrational behavior of moisture in non-uniformly heated concrete. Proceedings of the 15th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Victoria, Canada, May 1995.