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CarbonWrap™ Solutions, through its cutting edge R&D, has served organizations, individual engineers, and architects around the world. We continue to maintain the lead in this technology by offering the most innovative products and solutions. Our patents are a testimony to both our commitment and our vision in the field of FRP. CarbonWrap™ Solutions has also extended the utilization of these materials to geotechnical engineering, a first for FRP materials.
Hamid Saadatmanesh, Ph.D., P.E., is the founder and the Chief Executive Officer of CarbonWrap™ Solutions. Dr. Saadatmanesh is considered by many to be the father of FRP technology for repair and retrofit of structures. He has been developing innovative solutions for strengthening structures since 1983 and has received top National Awards for his work in 1986, 1992, 1998, 1999, and 2001. Dr. Saadatmanesh's companies have installed hundreds of thousands of square footage of FRP materials in all types of structures since 1994. He has also been a member of various national organizations' special committees on FRPs including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Concrete Institute (ACI), and Transportation Research Board (TRB). He was the first Secretary of the ACI Committee 440 on the use of FRP in concrete structures and served for five years. Dr. Saadatmanesh has published over one hundred technical articles on the subject of FRP applications in construction.
Dr. Saadatmanesh has chaired a number of international conferences and forums on the utilization of FRP in infrastructure and has been invited as the keynote speaker by many organizations around the world. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California and is a professor of structural engineering at the University of Arizona. For a complete reference of Dr. Saadatmanesh's professional background, click below.
1983 Initiated work on strengthening steel structures.
1986 Received top award in a national design competition sponsored by the Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation for his work on strengthening steel structures.
1987 Invented the concept of strengthening structures using fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) and published the first paper on this subject.
1989 Became the first Secretary of ACI committee 440 on the use of FRPs in concrete structures.
1991 Received the first National Science Foundation grant for his invention on seismic retrofitting of concrete columns using FRP wrap. Dr. Saadatmanesh was the Principle Investigator of this $200,000 grant.
1992 Received the prestigious award of the National Science Foundation, the NSF NYI Award, for his innovative work on strengthening infrastructure with FRPs. The award also included $500,000.
1994 Incorporated External Reinforcement, Inc. -- his first company in the commercial application of FRPs. Dr. Saadatmanesh performed numerous projects under this company which eventually evolved into the present company, CarbonWrap™ Solutions.
1996 Chairman of the first International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure, with attendees from 23 countries.
1997 Was awarded US Patent #5,640,825 on "Methods of Strengthening Masonry and Concrete Walls with Composite Straps and High-Strength Random Fibers".
1998 Received the year's best paper Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his work on developing design guidelines for application of FRPs in concrete structures.
1998 Chairman of the second International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure. Dr. Ehsani served as Dr. Saadatmanesh's co-chairman in this conference.
1999 Received the year's best paper award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his basic research work on the use of FRPs in structures.
2001 Received the year's best paper award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his basic research work on the use of FRPs in steel structures.
2002 Chairman of the Third International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure.
2005 Tested his invention of energy absorbing FRPs for application against blast and earthquake forces.
2006 Developed the first application of FRPs in geotechnical engineering.