Ahmed Alnuaim CV
التعريف الشخصي:
The past 10 years working in the academic filed equipped me with the necessary skills and strong theoretical background. One of my professional goals is to combine the theoretical background with the construction industry experience (with special interest in underground construction) which was partially achieved by carefully selecting the academic courses during my master and PhD degrees. The selected courses were complemented with projects adopted from existing project and case histories. In addition, numbers of courses were focusing in analysis and design of tunnels in both rock and soft ground utilizing sophisticated approaches such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Furthermore, I have attended a special course in tunneling offered by one of the top schools in underground construction. I have good experience in some of the problematic soils in the Kingdom of Saud Arabia as my master degree thesis was focusing in designing foundation in sabkha soil.
Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Alnuaim PhD, MESc
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: alnuaim@ksu.edu.sa
Correspondence Address: Civil Engineering Department
College of Engineering, King Saud University,
PO Box 800, Riyadh 11421
EXPERIENCE
The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada (09/2010-01/2015)
PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant
Courses:
- Rock Mechanics (Including tunnels analysis and design in different type of rock);
- Advanced Soil Mechanics;
- Landslide and Slope Stability (Including analysing a case study and proposing stabilizing and monitoring programs), and;
- Seismic Analysis and Design of Buildings (Including analysis and design of a skyscraper under complex loading systems using ETABS).
- Thesis Title “Performance of Micropiled Raft in Sand and Clay: Centrifuge and Numerical Studies”
The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada (09/2008-08/2010)
Master Student and Research Assistant
Courses:
- Foundation Engineering (Including analysis and design of group pile under different loading systems);
- Finite Element Analysis;
- Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (Including analysis and design of tunnels using FEA) and;
- Durability, Monitoring, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures.
- Thesis Title “Performance of Foundations in Sabkha Soil- Numerical Investigation”
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (05/2006-Current)
Teaching Assistant
- Teaching Foundation Design and Soil Mechanics II.
EDUCATION
2010-2015 The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
PhD in Geotechnical Engineering.
2008-2010 The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Mater of Engineering Science in Geotechnical Engineering
2001-2006 King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering.
SKILLS
- Professional in Plaxis 3D and 2D which are Geotechnical oriented Finite Element softwares.
- Professional in SAP2000 and ETABS which are structural analysis and design programs.
- Professional in Geostudio which is useful tool for a wide variety of geotechnical problems.
- Design of shallow and deep foundations under the static and dynamic loading.
- Basics of using Abaqus which is advanced Finite Element software.
- Professional in Ms. Word, Ms. Excel and MS. PowerPoint.
- Excellent in group works.
COURSES
- September, 2014 Tunnelling
Colorado School of Mines, Denver, USA.
- February, 2013 Introduction to Academic Leadership
Academic Leadership Centre (ALC)
- December, 2009 Introduction to Abaqus
Simulia Central, Minneapolis. MN, USA.
PUBLICATIONS
- Journals
- Alnuaim, A. M., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2015). Performance of Micropiled Raft in Clay Subjected to Vertical Concentrated Load: Centrifuge Modeling. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, accepted.
- Alnuaim, A. M., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2015). Performance of Micropiled Raft in Sand Subjected to Vertical Concentrated Load: Centrifuge Modeling. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 52 (1): 33-45.
- Alnuaim, Ahmed M., & M. H. El Naggar. (2014) "Performance of Foundations in Sabkha Soil: Numerical Investigation." Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 32 (3): 637-656.
- Conferences
- Alnuaim, A., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2014). Using micropile as settlement reducer: centrifuge and numerical investigations. In the 67th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoRegina), Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, September 28 to October 1, 2014.
- Alnuaim, A., & El Naggar, M. H. (2013). Performance of Deep Foundation in Sabkha Soil. In the 66th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoMontreal), Montreal, Québec, September 29 to October 3, 2013.
- Alnuaim, A., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2013). Contact Pressure and Stress Distribution in Piled Raft Foundation Subjected to Vertical Loading. In the 66th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoMontreal), Montreal, Québec, September 29 to October 3, 2013.
- Alnuaim, A., & El Naggar, M. H. (2013). Performance of Shallow Foundation on Sabkha Soil. In the 3rd Specialty Conference on Material Engineering & Applied Mechanics part of CSCE annual conference (Montreal 2013), Montréal, Québec , May 29 to June 1, 2013.
- Alnuaim, A., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2013). 3D Modeling of Piled Raft Foundation Subjected To Vertical Loading. In the 3rd Specialty Conference on Material Engineering & Applied Mechanics part of CSCE annual conference (Montreal 2013), Montréal, Québec , May 29 to June 1, 2013.
- Alnuaim, A., El Naggar, H., & El Naggar, M. H. (2013). Performance of piled-raft system under axial load. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Paris, France, September2-6, 2013, pp. 2663-2666.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- The Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS)
- International Society Foe Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).
- The Geo-Institute (G-I) part of ACSE.
LANGUAGES
- English (Professional working proficiency)
- Arabic (Native)