Contact details
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
School of Engineering and Built Environment (MMUST)
P.O. Box 190-50100
Kakamega, KENYA
Office no. LBB Room 302
Kakamega-Webuye Road
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3537-1402
ResearcherID: AAI-3420-2021
Dr. Benard O. Omondi (PhD)
Dr. Benard Omondi holds a Doctorate Degree in Engineering (Applied Sciences) from Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium. His areas of academic and research interest are in the fields of Structural Analysis, Emerging Construction Materials, Structural Health Monitoring, Advances in Concrete Technology, Structural Design Based on Eurocodes, Affordable Housing, and Finite Element Modelling/Analysis.
His major scholarly contribution was his role in developing a methodology for crack detection in structural concrete using combined Digital Image Correlation and Acoustic Emission with practical application in Prestressed Concrete Railway Sleepers. He currently serves as the Departmental Postgraduate Coordinator and Departmental Final Year Projects Coordinator.
In the university, Dr. Omondi is a trained Integrity Assurance Officer (IAO). Nationally, he is a member of the technical committee on Eurocodes with Kenya Bureau of Standards.
Professionally, Dr. Omondi is a registered Graduate Engineer with Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK).
Some of his key published works include: -
- Kipyego, D. Sagini, B. Omondi, Determination and Mapping of the Bearing Capacity of Subsurface Soil: A Case Study of Moi University, Eldoret Kenya, Civil and Environmental Research, ISSN 2224-5790 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0514 (Online) Vol.12, No.7, 2020. DOI: 10.7176/CER/12-7-05.
- Omondi, B.O, D. G. Aggelis, H. Sol, C. Sitters, Improved Crack Monitoring in Structural Concrete by Combined Acoustic Emission and Digital Image Correlation Techniques, Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, 2016, Vol. 15(3) 359–378, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921716636806.
- Omondi, B.O, H. Sol, S.M. Shitote, Finite Element Simulation of the Quasi-static Homologation Procedure for Prestressed Concrete Sleepers, in J. Pombo, (Editor), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 38, 2012. https://www.ctresources.info/ccp/paper.html?id=6687 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4203/ccp.98.38
