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1. Appointment and education

BUET faculty profile

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Departmental page, maintained by the Department.
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

2. Bridge work on the public record

Wikipedia: Jamuna Bridge

Records the structural health monitoring campaign on the 4.8 km bridge, which I led as Team Leader, 2012 to 2015.
Archived copy, 1 September 2026

Wikipedia: Jamuna Railway Bridge

Records the seven-year atmospheric exposure programme with JFE Steel Corporation, Japan, that supported the use of unpainted weathering steel.
Archived copy, 30 August 2026

Wikipedia: Kalurghat Bridge

Records the rehabilitation of the century-old rail bridge to carry higher axle loads, for which I was Team Leader in 2022.
Archived copy, 30 August 2026

Wikipedia: Mausoleum of Ziaur Rahman

Names me as the engineer who analysed the pedestrian approach bridge for vibration serviceability (2004).
Archived copy, 30 August 2026

Bridge scour monitoring method, Springer, 2018

Vibration-based estimation of foundation scour, validated against bathymetric survey on the operational Meghna Bridge. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring.

3. From constitutive model to practice

Origin paper, Mechanics of Materials, 2002

Amin, Alam and Okui. The strain-energy function for high-damping rubber from which the later model developed.

Constitutive model, International Journal of Plasticity, 2006

Amin, Lion, Sekita and Okui, vol. 22, pp. 1610-1657. Acknowledges Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 12650457, Japan.

Independent discussion, European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, 2006

Bechir, Chevalier, Chaouche and Boufala, vol. 25, pp. 110-124. Discusses the 2002 hyperelasticity relation alongside the Yeoh and Arruda-Boyce models.

Citing article, Nature 465, 2010

Lv, Dudek, Cao, Balamurali, Gosline and Li, pp. 69-73. The 2006 model appears at reference 33. The reference list is viewable without subscription.

Named subsection in ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics review, 2020

Xiang, Zhong, Rudykh, Zhou, Qu and Yang, vol. 87, art. 110801. Review of constitutive models for soft materials; devotes a named subsection, “Model of Amin et al.” (Fig. 14), to the 2002 and 2006 models (references 59 and 60).

Benchmark of 44 hyperelastic models, ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2021

Dal, Açıkgöz and Badienia, vol. 73, art. 020802. State-of-the-art review; the 2006 Journal of Engineering Mechanics model is assessed as a named entry, “Amin Model” (section 3.1.23, reference 27).

Review of 85 constitutive models, Nano Materials Science, 2022

He, Zhang, Zhang, Chen, Zhang and Li, vol. 4, pp. 64-82. Independent comparative review; the 2006 model is among those assessed. The Saitama thesis and the 2006 paper appear at references 1 and 2.

Systematic comparison of elastomer models, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2023

Ricker and Wriggers, vol. 30, pp. 2257-2288. Independent systematic fitting comparison; cites the eight-chain and full-network comparative study by Hossain, Amin and Kabir (2015) at reference 49.

Citing article, Nature Materials 24, 2025

Wang and others, pp. 1074-1081. The 2002 Mechanics of Materials paper appears at reference 25, in the context of high-damping rubber dampers on cable-stayed bridges.

Citing article, Nature Communications 16, 2025

Wu and others, art. 11183. The 2002 Mechanics of Materials paper appears at reference 72.

Nonlinear viscosity law for bearing analysis, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2015

Amin, Bhuiyan, Hossain and Okui. Finite-element analysis of high-damping rubber bearings.

Rheology model for bearing design, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2015

Nguyen, Dang, Okui, Amin, Okada and Imai. Rate-dependent cyclic behaviour of high-damping rubber bearings.

4. Professional offices

Washington Accord signatories, International Engineering Alliance

Bangladesh is listed as a full signatory, admitted June 2024. I chaired the national accreditation board, the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE), at the time.
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

Wikipedia: Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh

The BAETE section records the chairmanship under which Bangladesh became a full signatory.
Archived copy, 30 August 2026

Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE): The Board

Board composition page of the earlier BAETE site, listing me as Chairman (IEB Fellow F/7212).
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

BAETE Homepage Covers IEB Australia Chapter at Sydney

Records my representation of IEB as Acting Chairman of BAETE at the IEB Australia Chapter's World Engineers' Day event, Sydney, 4 March 2023.
Archived copy, 3 September 2026

Kamruzzaman and Rahman, iCAEED2024 conference paper, Sydney, 2024

"Journey of Bangladeshi Engineering Education to Become a Full Signatory to the Washington Accord in 2024", 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Engineering Education, 20 to 23 November 2024. Independent account naming me as Chairman of BAETE in the acknowledgements and in the record of the 4 March 2023 Sydney meeting.
Archived copy, 17 February 2026

IABSE National Groups Activity Report, Structural Engineering International 36:3, 2026

The IABSE Secretariat records the Vice President's visit to Bangladesh on 12 June 2026 and names me as Chair of the Bangladesh National Group (photograph, p. 565).

ICE Regional Representative for Bangladesh

Institution of Civil Engineers regional page. Lists me as Regional Representative for Bangladesh at South Asia.
Archived copy, 11 September 2026

5. Publications and citation record

Google Scholar profile

Live citation record. h-index and citation count update automatically.

Memoir, Structural Engineering International 36:3, 2026

Sole author. Byline: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET; Chair, Bangladesh Group of IABSE.

Editorial, Structural Engineering International 31:1, 2021

Sole author. Structure to Bridge Creation Hubs During the Pandemic, p. 5.

Earthquake early warning with graph neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024

Murshed, Noshin, Zakaria, Uddin, Amin and Ali. Research supervised at BUET-JIDPUS.

Metro evacuation framework, Transportation Planning and Technology, 2026

Hoque, Quadir, Alam, Khan, Mehrin, Tasnim, Fariha and Amin.

Residual cementing property of recycled aggregates, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 2016

Amin, Hasnat, Khan and Ashiquzzaman. Occurrence and quantification of the residual cementing property.

Mullins effect calorimetry, ZAMM, 2010

Amin, Lion and Höfer, vol. 90, pp. 347-369.

Complete lists: Peer-reviewed Journals and Conference Proceedings on this site.

6. Independent institutional records

ACI FRP Composites Competition 2026, BUET news

BUET student team placed 4th of 43, Rosemont, Chicago, March 2026. I was Faculty Advisor.
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

BUET team ranks 4th at ACI FRP Composites Competition

The Daily Star, 1 April 2026. News report naming me as faculty adviser of the team.
Archived copy, 9 September 2026

JSCE International Outstanding Collaboration Award: 2016 awardees

Japan Society of Civil Engineers list of awardees. Entry: A.F.M. Saiful Amin (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology).
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

JSCE IAC News No. 62, December 2017

Awardee article, "Bridging Communities, Stakeholders and Global Partners for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh".
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Humboldt Network profile

Foundation register entry: Georg Forster Research Fellowship; host, Institut für Mechanik, Universität der Bundeswehr München.
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

7. Further published work

Show further published work

Lower-priority records, in order of priority. Each is a publisher DOI record.

Low-strength brick aggregate concrete columns, Structural Concrete, 2023

Matsukawa, Amin and Nakano. Journal of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib).

SATREPS-TSUIB manuals, guidelines and guidebooks

Download page for the bilingual manuals on visual rating, seismic evaluation and seismic retrofit of existing reinforced concrete buildings in Bangladesh, developed under the Japan-Bangladesh SATREPS project. Project page: jst.go.jp/global/english/kadai/h2712_bangladesh.html
Archived copy, 2 September 2026

Last checked: 11 September 2026.