M. Hesham El Naggar
Contact
Geotechnical Research Centre
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Spencer Engineering Building,
Room SEB 3010B
Western University
Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 84219
Fax: 519-661-3942
naggar@uwo.ca
Projects
Consulting Engineering Projects
Served as a consultant in a variety of challenging projects both in Canada and abroad. Examples of projects include:
- Design consultant for major petrochemical plants in China, Thailand, UK, KSA, USA, Qatar and Canada.
- Design consultant for cement plants in Europe, North and South America.
- Assessment of vibration damage to buildings from construction activities (Winnipeg, MB).
- Vibration monitoring for effects of rails on office/residential buildings.
- Vibration monitoring and design of mitigation measures in industrial facilities (Kautex, Windsor, Ontario).
- Ground vibration analysis for the foundation of the Canadian Light Source (Synchrotron, Saskatoon, SK).
- Assessment of vibration problems in the vicinity of machinery NorthSide Industries (Vancouver), DuPont Canada (Kingston), CocaCola Bottling Canada (Brampton).
- Evaluation of vibration and mitigation solution for ground vibrations due to quarry blasting on foundations of a power generation plant, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp., USA.
- Evaluation of foundation design for wind turbines (Hawaii, North Minnesota) for Barr Engineering, Spira International. Renewable Energy.
- Served as external reviewer for major projects in the oil and gas industry.
- Evaluation of seismic performance of rock pillars for mine waste containment facility, Milton.
- Provided foundation design of an oil production platform, Venezuela.
Research Projects (2020 - 2025)
Source |
Title |
Start
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End
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NSERC-PromoSci | Expansion of High School STEM Programming to Underserved Communities | 2020 | 2023 |
NSERC-DAS |
Design of sustainable and resilient geotechnical infrastructure for energy systems | 2020 | 2023 |
NSERC-DG | Design of sustainable and resilient geotechnical infrastructure for transportation systems | 2020 | 2025 |
DCCHC | Analysis of deepening and rehabilitation of container berth terminal | 2020 | 2022 |
MITACS/National Silicates | Innovative silicate based shotcrete | 2020 | 2022 |
MITACS/AIL | Soil-structure interaction and design limit states for large-span Ultra-Cor steel bridges | 2020 | 2022 |
Ministry of Transp. Ontario | Soil-structure behaviour of three sided culverts | 2018 | 2021 |
NSERC-CRD/CCP PA | Field testing of three sided culverts | 2018 | 2020 |