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Dr.Mohamed Ragab Saleh Elbahar

PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California - Irvine. Specialization in Structural and Earthquake Engineering. Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering College of Engineering

Civil Engineering Department College of Engineering Al-kharj Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
011-588-4415-8269
m.elbahar@psau.edu.sa

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, 2004, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine (2000-2004) • M.S. in Civil Engineering, 1996, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt (1993-1996) • B.S. in Civil Engineering (with honor), 1992, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt (1987-1992)

Research Interests

Structural and earthquake engineering area including: Analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures, Computer-Aided Design of structures, Finite Element Analysis of structures under seismic loading, Laboratory testing and research.

Experience

1430 - until now - General Secretary of Scientific Council. - Rectorate for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research.
1430 - until now - Assistant Professor - College of Engineering
2004 - 2006 - Structural Engineer - Ken Okamoto & Associates – Costa Mesa, CA, USA
2010 - 2015 - General Program Coordinator - Service Agreement between Salman bin Abdulaziz University, SAU and the University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Responsibilities

Teaching the following course in the B.Sc. 1 - Structural Analysis - I. 2 - Structural Analysis - II. 3 - Concrete Design - I. 4 - Concrete Design - II. 5 - Building Construction> 6 - Statics.
Supervising Graduation Projects for B.Sc. 1 - Graduation project - I. 2 - Graduation project - II.

Publications

Selective papers are listed as follow:
1) Haroun, M.A, A. Abdel-Kareem, H. M. Elsanadedy, M. R. Elbahar, A. S. Mosallam, M. Yashinsky, and C. Whitten, " Cyclic Testing of Column Bents Strengthened by Infill Walls,” Caltrans 6th Workshop, Sacramento, June 13-14, 2001.
2) Haroun, M.A, H. M. Elsanadedy, M. R. Elbahar, and A. S. Mosallam, “Design Evaluation of Seismically Retrofitted Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column Bents by Infill Walls,” EERI conference, 2001.
3) Mosallam, A., Haroun, M., Elsanadedy, H, Elbahar, M, and Abdel-Kareem, A., “Theoretical and Experimental Study on Behavior of Un-reinforced Brick Walls Retrofitted with Composites,” Proceeding of the Structural Faults and Repair Conference, The Commonwealth Institute, London, UK, July, 2001.
4) Haroun, M.A, H. M. Elsanadedy, M. R. Elbahar, “Design Evaluation of Seismically Retrofitted Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column Bents by Infill Walls,” Proceeding of the Seventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston, USA, 2002.
5) Haroun, M.A. and M.R. Elbahar, “Testing of Column Bents Strengthened by Infill Walls,” Final Report to the California Department of Transportation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2002.
6) Mosallam, A., Haroun, M., Hassan, A., Elsanadedy, H., Elbahar, M., and Abdi, F., “ Service and Ultimate Behavior of The Schuyler Heim Bridge Hybrid Composite Deck,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Composite Engineering (ICCE/9), San Diego, California, July 1-6, 2002, USA.
7) Haroun, M.A., M.R. Elbahar, and A.S. Mosallam, “Design Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Infill Walls for Structural Upgrade of Highway bridges in California,” CRSI Workshop on Reinforced Concrete, Irvine, California, January 17-19, 2003.
8) Mosallam, A.S., Haroun, M.A., Allam, K.H., and Elbahar, M.R., “Performance of lightly-Reinforced Masonry Walls Strengthened with Composites,” SAPME international Conference, Long Beach, California, May 2004.
9) Elbahar, M.R., “Seismic Performance of RC Bridge Column Bents Strengthened by Infill Walls,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2004.
10) Mosallam, A., Elbahar, M.R.,” Structural Evaluation and Analysis of Unreinforced Masonry Walls Retrofitted with Polymer Composite under Out-of-Plane Loading,” American Society of Civil Engineers, 5th International Engineering and Construction Conference (IECC’5), August 2008.
11) Al Gahtani, O., Elbahar, M.R.,” Experimental Study on the Effect of Beam Depth and Type of Loading on the Immediate Defection of RC Beams,” The twenty first Annual International Conference on COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE - 21), ICCE-21, Tenerife, Spain, July, 2013
12) Al Gahtani, O., Elbahar, M.R.,” Experimental Study of the Effect Beam Depth on the Immediate Deflection of RC Beams, Final Report to the Deanship of Research, Research Technical Agreement no. (11/H/32) Salman bin Abdulaziz University, KSA, 2014.

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