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Dr Ashraf El-Hamalawi
BEng(Hons) PhD(Cambridge), MASCE MCGS MILT PEng

Senior Lecturer in Geomechanics / Admissions Tutor: Civil Engineering / International-Erasmus Coordinator

Background

Dr El-Hamalawi joined Loughborough University as a member of faculty at the end of 1999. Previous to that, he did his PhD at Cambridge University and then worked at IGT in ETH-Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) for 2 years. Dr El-Hamalawi has won the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) prize and was one of 5 finalists at the international "J. Melosh Medal" Competition at Duke University (USA) for the best student paper on finite element analysis.

Professional Affiliations

Registered Professional Engineer
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE)
Member of the British Institute of Leadership Management (ILM)
Full Member of the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS)
Member of the International HTML Writer's Guild

External Activities

Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
Elected Chair of the ICE East Midlands Geotechnical Group (Part of the British Institution of Civil Engineers)
Member of the British ICE Education and Training Sub-Committee
Member of the British ICE Midlands Regional Committee
Member on the 'Ground Engineering Advisory Panel' of the national construction body CIRIA
Reviewer for several international journals published by national engineering institutions and publishers such as the ASCE and Elsevier

Broad Interests and Expertise

• Numerical and mathematical modelling of static and dynamic soil-structure interaction
• Adaptive finite element mesh refinement for multi-phase materials
• Computer-Aided Engineering
• Incorporating advanced networking, Internet and VoIP/voice-recognition technologies in the construction industry
• Nondestructive testing in civil engineering using advanced techniques
• Development of buried landmines and UXOs using advanced technologies

Research Interests

• Numerical modelling using finite elements (FEM), finite difference, boundary elements (BEM), discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) and the scaled boundary finite element methods
• Numerical and analytical modelling of static and dynamic soil-structure interaction and wave propagation during earthquakes
• Adaptive mesh refinement (enrichment and remeshing) for non-linear elastic/elasto-plastic coupled 2-phase flow (fluid continuity and equilibrium equations coupled together) using FEM
• 2- and 3-D mesh generation
• Chemical and physical interactions between buried water pipes and the surrounding ground under static and dynamic loads, both internally and externally
• Developing constitutive models for municipal solid waste
• Developing surveillance control data acquisition systems( SCADA) for both humans and non-humans
• Development of converged network systems with VoIP, voice recognition and Wifi for the construction industry
• Incorporating Internet/web-based technology into the construction industry, with emphasis on intelligent agents and online interactive product libraries
• Non-destructive testing in civil engineering using advanced technologies
• Detection of landmines and UXOs using advanced technologies

Research Group

Geotechnics, Water Engineering