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Dr.Mohamed Farid Riad Abbas

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Associate Professor College of Engineering

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011-588-8213
m.abbas@psau.edu.sa

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Education

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2016) M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (2004) B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1998)

Research Interests

Geotechnical engineering and foundations
Unsaturated soils
Expansive soils
In-situ testing

Experience

2019 - until now - Assistant professor - Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University
2003 - 2004 - Research assistant - Housing and Building National Research Center
2004 - 2008 - Assistant lecturer - Housing and Building National Research Center
2008 - 2019 - Researcher - King Saud University
2016 - 2019 - Assistant professor (Collaborator) - Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University

Responsibilities

Member of the department's academic supervision committee
Member of the department's laboratories committee

Publications

ISI indexed journals
1. Abbas, M.F., 2023, “Simulating the Hydraulic and Volume Change Behavior of Compacted Highly Expansive Soil under Potential Field Stress and Seasonal Climatic Variation. Sustainability, Vol. 15, 14, 10797, https://doi.org/10.3390/su151410797
2. Abbas, M.F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-Shamrani, M.A., 2023, “Hydraulic and volume change behaviors of compacted highly expansive soil under cyclic wetting and drying”, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 15(2), 486-499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2022.05.015.
3. S Almuaythir, S., Abbas, M.F., 2023, “Expansive soil remediation using cement kiln dust as stabilizer”, Case Studies in Construction Materials, Vol. 18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2023.e01983.
4. Al-Mahbashi, M. A., Al-Shamrani, M. A. Abbas, M.F., 2021, "Hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated expansive clay under repetitive loading", Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 13(5), 1136-1146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2021.05.002
5. Abbas, M.F., Elkady, T.Y. Aldrees. A. A., Shaker, A. A., 2021, “Impact of stress path on hydraulic and mechanical behavior of compacted Al-Qatif clay” Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100417
6. Moghal, A. M. Ashfaq, M., Al-Obaid, A., Abbas, M. F., Al-Mahbashi, A. M. and Shaker, A. A., 2020, " Compaction delay and its effect on the geotechnical properties of lime treated semi-arid soils" RoadMaterials and Pavement Design, Vol 22 (11), 2626-2640. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2020.1784256
7. Moghal, A., Abbas, M. F., Al-Mahbashi, A. M. and Shaker, A. A., 2016 “Effect of structure anisotropy and compaction method on the swelling behavior of Al-Qatif soil” Geomate Journal, Vol 11(26), 2600-2605. https://geomatejournal.com/geomate/article/view/2643
8. Abbas, M.F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-Shamrani, M.A., 2016, “Effect of stress ratio on the volume change behavior of compacted highly expansive clay” Arabian Journal of Geosciences Vol. 9 (2), 1-10.
9. Elkady, T.Y., Abbas, M.F. and Al-Shamrani, M.A., 2016, “Behavior of compacted expansive soil under multi-directional stress and deformation boundary conditions” Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment Journal, Published online.
10. Abbas, M.F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-Shamrani, M.A., 2015, “Evaluation of strain and stress states of a compacted highly expansive soil using a thin-walled oedometer” Engineering Geology Journal, Vol. 193, pp. 132-145.
Non-ISI indexed Journals
11. Abbas, M.F., Al-Shamrani, M.A. and Elkady, T.Y., 2017, “Influence of Applied Boundary Condition during Wetting on Volume Change Characteristics of a Compacted Highly Expansive Soil” Sustainable Civil Infrastructures Journal, Accepted for publication.
12. Abbas, M. F., Elkady, T. Y. and Al-Shamrani, M. A., 2017, “Calibrations for volume change measurements using osmotic suction control technique” HBRC Journal, Vol. 13, pp. 39-46.
13. Amer, M.I., Hussein, A.K., El Zahaby, K.M and Abbas, M.F., 2008, “Geotechnical Characterization of Northeast Nile Delta Clay Deposits: In Situ and Lab. Tests “, Soil Mechanics and Foundation Journal of the Egyptian Geotechnical Society, Vol. 19, Part 1, June 2008, P.P. 1-27.
PUBLICATION, PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES
14. Abbas, M.F., Hussein, A.K., Amer, M.I. and El Zahaby, K.M., 2010, "Site Characterization of Clay Deposits in Northeast Nile Delta", GeoFlorida 2010: Advances in Analysis, Modeling & Design.
15. Abbas, M.F. and Dhowian, A.W., 2010, "The Prediction of Heave in Expansive Soils", 63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference & 6th Canadian Permafrost Conference, Calgary, Canada.
16. Elkady, T.Y. and Abbas, M.F., 2012, “Shear Strength Behavior of KSA Expansive Soil”, Geocongress 2012, California, USA, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 225, pp. 2532-2541.
17. Abbas, M.F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-shamrani, M.A., 2013, "Multi-dimensional swelling behavior of Al-Qatif expansive soils", Advances in Unsaturated Soils, Proc. of 1st Pan-Am Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Cartagena, Colombia, pp. 279-284.
18. Dafalla, M.A., Al Mahbashi A.M., Abbas, M.F., Abdalfattah, M., Al-Shamrani, M.A. and Nimnim, A., 2013, “Geotechnical behaviour and properties of selected soils from a semi-arid zone”, Proceedings of Geo-Montreal 2013, 66th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Montreal, Canada.
19. Abbas, M. F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-Shamrani, M. A., 2014, "Calibration Procedure for Osmotic Suction Controlled Testing ", Unsaturated Soils: Research & Applications First Pan-Am conference on unsaturated soils, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1667-1674.
20. Abbas, M. F., Elkady, T.Y. and Al-Shamrani, M. A., 2017, "Evaluation of Lateral Stress States for a Compacted Highly Expansive Soil”, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Accepted and under publication.
PUBLICATION, NON-PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES
21. Abbas, M. F., Moghal, A. A., Al Mahbashi A. M. and Shaker, A. A., 2012, “Effect of Structure Anisotropy and Compaction Method on the Swelling Behavior of Al-Qatif Soil”, 3rd Scientific Conference for Saudi Arabia Kingdom Students, Dammam.
22. Abbas, M. F. and Elkady, T. Y., 2012, “Shear Strength Behavior of Al-Qatif Expansive Soil in Saudi Arabia”, 3rd Scientific Conference for Saudi Arabia Kingdom Students, Dammam.

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