
Risk assessment and analysis including risk-based inspection
Aging, durability and life assessment of structures
Structural reliability modeling and analysis
Uncertainty modeling and analysis
Reliability analysis of marine and offshore structures
Reliability of navigation components
Intelligent computational mechanics

Dr. Ayyub has completed several research projects that were funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Maryland State Highway Administration, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and several engineering companies. Dr. Ayyub is the double recipient of the ASNE "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best papers in the Naval Engineers Journal in 1985 and 1992. Also, he received the ASCE "Outstanding Research Oriented Paper" in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management for 1987, the ASCE Edmund Friedman Award in 1989, and the K.S. Fu Award from NAFIPS in 1995.
