Dr. Saraf specializes in structural failure analysis, design, damage assessment and repair design of wood, steel, concrete and composite structures; and blast and impact loading on structures. Dr. Saraf’s expertise in structural engineering also extends to structural evaluation of bridges, pipelines and other buried structures, storage tanks and silos, shoring systems, cranes and mechanical equipment, marine structures, and nonlinear and dynamic finite element analysis of structures under extreme loadings such as blast, wind and earthquake. He has performed extensive research focused on reliability-based risk analysis, development of LRFD-based design codes, and nondestructive field evaluation of bridges and other structures.
Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Saraf held several research positions at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the University of Cincinnati, and the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.