نظام مواقع التدريسيين

About

Qualifications:
• Ph.D. Degree of Geotechnics-Civil Engineering Department at the year 2019-Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM),
• Master’s degree (M.Sc.) of Hydraulic Structures-Civil Engineering Department at the year 2013-University of Kufa,
• Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) of civil engineering department at the year 2009-University of Kufa,
• Department Head of Civil Engineering at Al Maaqal Private University in Basrah from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Examination Committee Member of Civil Engineering Department at Al Maaqal Private University in Basrah from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Examination Committee Chair of Civil Engineering Department at Almaaqal Private University from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• VMO Committee Chair (Vision, Mission, and Objectives) in the Civil Engineering Department at Almaaqal Private University from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Safety and Risk Management Committee Member in the Civil Engineering Department at Almaaqal Private University from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Scientific Committee Member in the Civil Engineering Department at Almaaqal Private University from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Teaching Abilities Committee Member in the Civil Engineering Department at Almaaqal Private University from Jan. 2021 to Sept. 2022,
• Advisor in a Ph.D. Dissertation under title of “Behavior of Unsaturated Gypsum Sand soils in AlNajaf City using Unsaturated Oedometer Device”.
• Supervisor in an M.Sc. thesis under title of “Laboratory Investigation of swollen
soil volume change based on unsaturated soil mechanics and presenting of improvement plan to reduce soil swelling”.
• Supervisor in a Ph.D. Dissertation under title of “Settlement Investigation of Unsaturation Gypsum Sand Soil and Its Improvement using a Modified Odometer Apparatus”.
• Supervisor in an M.Sc. thesis under title of “Improvement of unsaturated gypseous sand soils using a modified apparatus”.
• Language counselor (Advisor) in three M.Sc. theses in Persian language,
• Cooperator student in M.Sc. thesis under title of “An Experimental Investigation on Saturation Collapse of AlNajaf Gypsum Sand”,
Businesses and projects that have contributed to the completion:
1. Project Manager in developing of Al-Najaf Happy Land with IGC (International Group for Construction) from Jan.2020 to Jan 2021.
2. QC/QA Manager in constructing a daily clinic in AlNajaf with ICG (Imam Construction Group), consists of 6 floors from Mar. 2019 to Sept. 2019.
3. Project Manager in constructing three schools with Al-Barrak Company and every school consists of two stories and eighteen rooms in AlNajaf from Nov. 2014 to Dec. 2016.
4. Project Manager in constructing the headquarters of the Telecom Omnnea Company in Babylon from Sept. 2013 to Nov. 2014.
5. Site Manager in constructing a housing project in AlNajaf, consists of 1001 housing units for the Biapan Company (Kurdish company) from Nov. 2012 to Aug. 2013.
6. Site Engineer in constructing the Faculty of Literatures at the University of Kufa Campus for the Abbas Musa Pasha Company Aug. 2010 to Oct. 2012.
7. Site Engineer in establishing the Olympic Pool Closed in AlNajaf for the Abbas Musa Pasha Company from Aug. 2010 to Oct. 2012.
8. Site Engineer in constructing a housing project in Karbala, consists of 51 vertical buildings consist of 4 stories for the Ocean Blue Emirati Company from Sept. 2009 to Aug. 2010.

Certifications and training courses:
1. Holds a certificate of Auto CAD 2010 program of the Iraqi Center Consulting and Development (ICCD),
2. Holds a certification of IC3 from CERTIPORT (Saudi Arabia for Computer Driving efficiency) in good degree,
3. Holds a certification from Najaf Chamber of Commerce of “how to start up or how to improve a business”,
4. Has a good experience in MS Project program,
5. Has a good experience in GeoStudio Program.
6. Has a good experience in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
Languages:
1. Arabic,
2. Holds a certificates efficiency in the English language (TOEFL ITP, TOEFL IBT, TELP and MSRT),
3. Holds a certificate efficiency in the Persian language from the Persian Language Center in Imam Khomeini University in Kazvin.

Research Interests

Investigation of Unsaturated Gypsum Soils

Publications

2020

Settlement assessment of gypseous sand after time-based soaking

AuthorsMohammed Sh Mahmood, Ali Akhtarpour, Rusul Almahmodi, Mustafa M Abdal Husain

JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of the soaking process on gypseous sand soils. The recent research investigates the time-based soaking method on high gypsum contents (29%) of soil samples. The softening of gypsum materials upon wetting process leads to break the bonds of the soil particles and the settlement of structures will be occurred. The settlement value and rate are the basic problems for the geotechnical engineers. The samples of this investigation have been collected from the selected site in Al-Najaf city in Iraq, then these samples are remoulded to the density of 85% of the maximum dry density from Proctor test and moisture content of 4% in the cell of the computerized Oedometer device and under different stress levels (1.11, 2.23 and 4.47 kg/cm2). The soil specimen is soaked under three stress levels (1.11, 2.23, and 4.47 kg/cm2) separately. The results revealed that with increasing of soaking periods and stress level, there is increasing in collapse potential of such soils. The collapse potential was increased from <1% after half-hour soaking to about 8% after two-weeks of soaking.

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2019

Effect of soaking on unsaturated gypseous sand soils

AuthorsMustafa M Abdalhusein, Ali Akhtarpour, Mohammed Sh Mahmood

JournalInternational Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology

Abstract

This paper shows the different in the volumetric strains between the Oedometer tests with different soaking durations and the unsaturated triaxial tests. The disturbed samples were taken from Al-Najaf city in Iraq. All specimens have the same high gypsum content of 29 %. For Oedometer tests, the specimens are tested in the different soaking durations; the first is in natural moisture content then half hour, one week and two weeks. While in triaxial tests, a wetting induce has been conductive to estimate the volumetric strains under two stress levels (2.5 and 5 kg/

2019

Effect of wetting process with presence of matric suction on unsaturated gypseous sand soils

AuthorsMustafa M. Abdalhusein, Ali Akhtarpour, Mohammed Sh. Mahmood

JournalJournal of Southwest Jiaotong University

Abstract

This paper presents the results of laboratory experiments on the effect of matric suction on the compressibility of unsaturated gypsum sand soil under various types of loading. The soil samples were obtained from Al-Najaf city in Iraq with gypsum contents of 14 %, 22 % and 29 %. A wetting-process tests were conducted in a modified triaxial cell on these soil. This procedure likes when a structure has been constructed and the degree of saturation of a foundation soil is increased (decreasing in matric suction). Four matric suctions were adopted; 100, 60, 30 and zero percentages of initial matric suction under two different mean net stresses; 100 kPa and 200 kPa. The changes in the degree of saturation may be due to rainfall, water table rising and/or leaking of sewage and water pipes. The results from this path revealed that the volumetric strains are increased with decreasing of the matric suction and increasing of the gypsum content.

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2018

Wetting Challenges on the Gypsiferous Soils

AuthorsMustafa M Abdal Husain, A Akhtarpour, M Sh Mahmood

JournalProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Plannin

Abstract

Many structures that have been constructed on gypsiferous soils have big problems, especially in drying-wetting sequence, contrast of construction on non-gypsum-soils due to the collapsibility of gypsum. These soils are formed by the evaporation of saline groundwater when the water table is near the ground surface. Gypsiferous soils are widespread in the Middle East especially in regions peripheral to the Red sea and Arabian Gulf. They cover large areas of Iraq which may be extended to 20% of the total Iraq's area. The present work condenses on the effect of soaking and leaching progresses on the soil stability in the saturated and unsaturated conditions.