Professor Mostafa Mohamed,Head of School - BEACI
Information about Professor Mostafa Mohamed at the University of Bradford.
- School of BEACI
(Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies) - Email:
- m.h.a.mohamed@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 233856
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supervised researchers.Biography
Dr Mohamed is Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering and currently the Head of Civil Engineering Department. Dr Mohamed has gained a wide range of expertise from working in academia and industry. His research interests lie in the area of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. In particular, his key research areas are recovery of thermal energy from soils, soil reinforcement, modelling unsaturated soils, consolidation of soft soils, soil structure interaction, contaminant transport and treatment of wastewater using soil aquifers. Dr Mohamed supervised 4 PhD projects to completion and is currently supervising 9 PhD projects. Dr Mohamed has published over 60 technical papers in leading engineering journals and at international conferences.Dr Mohamed regularly reviews articles for the ASCE, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Water Research, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (GEGE), International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics.Materials - Open Access Materials Science Journal, Journal of Water and Climate Change, ICE journal - Energy.Environmental Technology, Geomechanics and Engineering.
Administrative and managerial duties and responsibilities:
July 2018: Head of Civil Engineering Department
Oct. 2013-June 2018: Head of Civil Engineering Discipline and Programme Leader.
2007 - 2013 Course Tutor and MEng tutor for Civil and Structural Engineering Courses.
Research
Dr Mohamed's research interests are;i. Heat recovery from shallow soil layers,
ii. Reinforcement of weak soils ,
iii. Modelling of soil-structure interaction.
iv. Constitutive modelling of unsaturated soils
v. Consolidation of soft heterogeneous soils
vi. Experimental and numerical analysis for the patterns and mechanisms of contaminants transport in porous media.Soil Aquifer Treatment.
Research Groups: Bradford Centre for Sustainable Environments
Research supervision
Professor Mostafa Mohamed is responsible for the supervision of 5 postgraduate researchers at the University of Bradford.
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Mostafa Mohamed as follows:
Teaching interests
Teaching Duties:1. Soil Mechanics (CSE5009-B)
2. Geotechnical and Civil Engineering (CSE6009-B)
3. Advanced Geotechnics (CSE7009-B)
In addition he contributes to the teaching of several other modules.
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Professor Mostafa Mohamed is as follows:
Education
- BSc (Hons)
- MSc
- University of Bradford - PhD
- University of Bradford - PGCHEP
Publications
There are 25 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Mostafa Mohamed.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patterns and mechanisms of light non-aqueous phase liquid in unsaturated sand. | 2003 | Geotechnique | 53 | Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Sharma, R.S. | |||||||
| Experimental Investigation of the effects of water saturation on the acoustic admittance of sandy soils. | 2006 | Horoshenkov, Kirill V.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| An experimental investigation of LNAPL migration in an unsaturated/saturated sand. | 2003 | Sharma, R.S.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| Role of dynamic flow in relationships between suction head and degree of saturation. | 2007 | Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Sharma, R.S. | |||||||||
| Airborne acoustic method to determine the volumetric water content of unsaturated sands | 2009 | Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Horoshenkov, Kirill V. | |||||||||
| Two dimensional experimental study for the behaviour of surface footings on unreinforced and reinforced sand beds overlying soft pockets | 2010 | Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| Soil aquifer treatment of artificial wastewater under saturated conditions | 2011 | Essandoh, Helen M.K.; Tizaoui, Chedly; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Amy, G.; Brdjanovic, D. | |||||||||
| Removal of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen during simulated soil aquifer treatment | 2013 | Essandoh, Helen M.K.; Tizaoui, Chedly; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| Analysis of ground-source heat pumps in north-of-England homes | 2016 | Ali, Alexis; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Abdel-Aal, Mohamad; Schellart, A.; Tait, Simon J. | |||||||||
| Effects of coolant flow rate, groundwater table fluctuations and infiltration of rainwater on the efficiency of heat recovery from near surface soil layers | 2015 | Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; El Kezza, O.; Abdel-Aal, Mohamad; Schellart, A.; Tait, Simon J. | |||||||||
| Predicting wastewater temperatures in sewer pipes using abductive network models | 2015 | Abdel-Aal, Mohamad; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Smits, R.; Abdel-Aal, R.E.; De Gussem, K.; Schellart, A.; Tait, Simon J. | |||||||||
| Analysis of strip footings on fibre reinforced slopes with the aid of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) | 2017 | Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering | 29 | Mirzababaei, M.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Miraftab, M. | |||||||
| Impact of Carpet Waste Fibre Addition on Swelling Properties of Compacted Clays | 2012 | Geotechnical and Geological Engineering | 31 | Mirzababaei, M.; Miraftab, M.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; McMahon, P. | |||||||
| Unconfined Compression Strength of Reinforced Clays with Carpet Waste Fibers | 2013 | Mirzababaei, M.; Miraftab, M.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; McMahon, P. | |||||||||
| Modelling the viability of heat recovery from combined sewers | 2014 | Abdel-Aal, Mohamad; Smits, R.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; De Gussem, K.; Schellart, A.; Tait, Simon J. | |||||||||
| The effects of compaction delay and environmental temperature on the Mechanical and Hydraulic properties of lime-stabilized extremely high plastic clays | 2017 | Ali, Hatim; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| Practical approach to predict the shear strength of fibre-reinforced clay | 2018 | Mirzababaei, M.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Arulrajah, A.; Horpibulsuk, S.; Anggraini, V. | |||||||||
| Acoustical properties of novel sound absorbers made from recycled granulates | 2017 | Applied Acoustics | Vol. 127 | Khan, Amir; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Al Halo, N.; Benkreira, Hadj | |||||||
| Analysis of sequential active and passive arching in granular soils | 2018 | Aqoub, K.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Sheehan, Therese | |||||||||
| The effects of lime content and environmental temperature on the mechanical and hydraulic properties of extremely high plastic clays | 2018 | Ali., H.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A. | |||||||||
| Airborne acoustic method to determine the volumetric water content of unsaturated sands | 2010 | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE | 135 | 1872 - 1882 | Mohamed M.;Horoshenkov K. | 1090-0241 | 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000168 | ||||
| Fate of triclocarban during soil aquifer treatment: Soil column studies | 2010 | Water Science and Technology | 61 | 1779 - 1785 | Essandoh H.;Tizaoui C.;Mohamed M.;Amy G.;Brdjanovic D. | 0273-1223 | 10.2166/wst.2010.148 | ||||
| Modelling the potential for multi-location in-sewer heat recovery at a city scale under different seasonal scenarios | 2018 | Mohamad, A-A.; Schellart, A.; Kroll, S.; Mohamed, Mostafa H.A.; Tait, S. | |||||||||
| Removal of Estrone (E1), 17β-Estradiol (E2) and 17α-Ethinylestradiol (EE2) During Soil Aquifer Treatment of a Model Wastewater | 2012 | Separation Science and Technology | 47 | 777 - 787 | Essandoh H.;Tizaoui C.;Mohamed M. | 0149-6395 | 10.1080/01496395.2011.644618 | ||||
| Nonlinear numerical modelling for the effects of surface explosions on buried reinforced concrete structures | 2010 | Geomechanics and Engineering | 2 | 1 - 18 | Nagy N.;Mohamed M.;Boot J. | 2005-307X | 10.12989/gae.2010.2.1.001 |