Mosleh Alshamrani

Prof. Mosleh Alshamrani

Professor, Director of Bugshan Research Chair in Expansive Soils, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Biography

Prof. Mosleh A. Al-Shamrani graduated in Civil Engineering from King Saud University. Following one year as a Teaching Assistant in the Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Al-Shamrani completed an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at King Saud University in 1992 and became a Professor in 2005. He is the author/coauthor of over 40 peer-reviewed papers. He has served as a member of the Structural Committee and a Chair of the Soils and Foundation Committee, Saudi Building Code. He has also served as Chairman of the Research, Development, and Innovation Committee, the Saudi Council of Engineers and a member of the team auditing projects of newly established Hail, Tabuk, Jizan, Najran, Northern Boarders, Al-Baha, and Al-Kharj universities and also serves as a member of the Structural Team assessing the current conditions of the Holy Haram and auditing the design of the proposed Third Saudi Expansion. Presently he serves as a director of Eng. His research interests include the behavior of expansive and sabkha soils, the soil–structure interaction, anisotropic and time-dependent behavior of cohesive soils, constitutive modeling, computational geomechanics, limit plasticity applied to geotechnical engineering stability problems, and development of computer codes for geotechnical problems.

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