Raed M. Abendeh is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He received his BS and MS from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, in 1998 and 2001, and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include construction and building materials and finite element analysis.