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Walid Abubaker Salem Al-Kutti, PhD Assistant Professor, Chairman,
Department of Construction Engineering College of Engineering
Univesity of Dammam Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
June 2013
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE RECORD (RESUME) 1. Personal
Date and Place of Birth : November 22nd, 1972- Aden/Yemen Nationality : Yemeni
Status : Married, three children
Present Address : University of Dammam Box 1982 Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
Telephone: +966-13-333-1700 (work) Mobile: +966-55-949-3087
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2. Education
Ph.D. (Civil Engineering)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2011.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Simulation of Chloride Transport in Concrete with Stress Induced Damage
M.S. (Civil Engineering)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2005.
M.S. Thesis: Compliance Criteria for Quality Concrete
B.S. (Civil Engineering) Cairo University, Egypt, 1998.
Project: Structural Design of High-Rise Building (Distinction).
3. Computer Literacy
Professional: MS OFFICE, AutoCAD, STAAD Pro, ETABS.
Research Finite Element Software’s: ANSYS 11, COMSOL, and MATLAB.
4. Resume of Experience and Qualifications
Walid Abubaker Al-Kutti is an assistant professor at University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia where he has been involved in the teaching and research activities in the Department of Construction Engineering. He has also gained considerable theoretical and experimental knowledge about the behaviour of concrete and steel structures in the Gulf environment.
From 2005 to 2011, he was working as Lecturer in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia in concrete durability in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Al-Kutti PhD research focussed on simulation of chloride transport in concrete with stress-induced damage and composite structures where experimental and numerical research was conducted. Moreover, he was involved in investigating the strengthening of existing structures using CFRP which is one of the latest techniques used in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region to improve the capacity of concrete structure, specially the precast slab panels.
From 1998-2003, he was working as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Civil Engineering at Aden University, in which he gained academic experience and worked as an instructor of the following undergraduate courses: Concrete Materials I, Structural Analysis II, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures I and Design of Steel Structures I.
Beside his postgraduate studies, he worked as a Structural Engineer from 1998 to 2003 in a construction company in Yemen to design different commercial and industrial structures using the latest design software and according to international codes and specification.
5. Specialization
Construction materials engineering, specifically, the following fields: Mechanical damage of concrete structures subjected to static and dynamics loading, composite materials, durability of plain and blended cements in sulfate and/or chloride environments. Protection of reinforced concrete structures using mineral admixtures, such as silica fume, fly ash, natural pozzolans, etc. Assessment of concrete structures using non-destructive testing. Repairing and strengthening of concrete structures using FRP.
Numerical and experimental studies on chloride transport in concrete with stress- induced damage. Finite element simulation of the mechanical and the transport properties of reinforced concrete. Continuum damage modeling of materials such as reinforced concrete and composite materials.
6. Employment
June 2013 to Present
Chairman, Department of Construction Engineering
Sep. 2011 to June 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Construction Engineering, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Work responsibilities included teaching undergraduate students in the academic year 2011-2012 the following courses:
ENG 351: Strength of Materials ENG 311: Dynamics
ENG 232: Statics
CONEN 541: Design of Steel Structures
CONEN 534: Assessment of Concrete Structures using NDT CONEN 551: Senior Design Project
CONENE 583: Design of Concrete Structures II
During this period the courses files according to NCAAA and ABET accreditation procedures were developed for the above mentioned courses.
Dec. 2005 to June 2011
Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Work responsibilities included teaching undergraduate senior students computer oriented class for the course of CE 408 (Design of Steel Structures) for three years.
During this period an intensive collaboration with faculty members was achieved in different scientific-applied researches in the fields of structural and damage mechanics problems, experimental-computational investigations, behavior of steel and concrete structures, durability of local building materials, and multi-disciplinary techniques.
March 1999 to Jan. 2003
Graduate Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, Aden University, Aden, Yemen.
Work responsibilities included teaching different courses for undergraduate students such as: Concrete Materials I, Structural Mechanics I and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures I.
1998 to 2003
Structural Engineer, Prefab Building Factory (PBF), Aden, Yemen.
Work responsibilities included designing and later on supervising different concrete and steel structures in the major project of Aden Container Terminal. The scope of the
work was including preparing the structural drawings; technical proposals, reviewing specifications and the supervisions of all construction phases.
Sep. 1991 to June 1992
Teacher, Abdulbari Qasem School, Aden, Yemen.
Work responsibilities include teaching Grade 6 students Mathematics course.
7. Membership of Professional Societies
Member, American Concrete Institute, ACI-SA.
Member, Saudi Society of Civil Engineering.
8. Research
A- Modeling of multiphysics problems in reinforced concrete and composite sections:
Numerical and experimental studies on simulation of chloride transport in concrete with stress induced damage. Finite element simulation of the mechanical and the transport properties of reinforced concrete. Continuum damage modeling of materials such as reinforced concrete and composite materials. Modeling strengthened material such as CFRP. Expert with finite element software's such as COMSOL and ANSYS.
B- Concrete Durability:
Hot-weather concreting. Usage of pozzolanic materials in concrete including silica fume, fly ash and natural pozzolans. Durability and protection of reinforced concrete structures in aggressive media. Non-destructive testing of concrete. Repair materials and repair systems. Impact of concrete constituents on durability. Compliance criteria for concrete in eastern Saudi Arabia.
9. Publications
9.1 Journals:
1. Walid A. Al-Kutti, Shazali, M.A., Rahman, M.K., Baluch, M. H, (2013)"
Enhancement in Chloride Diffusivity due to Flexural Damage in Reinforced Concrete Beams", Accepted paper, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.
2. Rahman, M.K., Al-Kutti, W.A., Shazali, M.A., Baluch, M.H.,(2012)
“Simulation of Chloride Migration in Damaged Self Compacting Concrete”, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 24(7), cited (3).
3. Baluch, M. H, Rahman, M.K., Shazali, M.A., Walid A. Al-Kutti, (2011),
“Shrinkage stresses in concrete using a new material parameter”,Proceedings of the ICE - Construction Materials ,Volume 164, Issue 4, cited (1).
4. Al-Amoudi, O.S.B., Walid A. Al-Kutti, Shamsad Ahmad, and Mohammad Maslehuddin, (2009), “Correlation between Strength and certain Durability Indices of Plain and Blended Cement Concretes", Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol. 31, Issue 9, pp. 672-676. ), cited (10).
5. Ahmad, Shamsad, Al-Kutti, W.A., Al-Amoudi, O.S.B., and Maslehuddin, M., (2008) “Compliance Criteria for Quality Concrete,” Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 22, Issue 6, pp. 1029-1039, cited (2).
6. Ahmad, Shamsad, Al-Kutti, W.A., Al-Amoudi, O.S.B., and Maslehuddin, M., (2008) “Correlation between Depth of Water Penetration, Chloride Permeability and Chloride Diffusion in Plain, Silica Fume and Fly Ash Cement Concretes”
ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 136-139, cited (3).
7. Al-Amoudi, O.S.B., Al-Kutti, W.A., Ahmad, Shamsad, and Maslehuddin, M., (2008) “Toward Specific Compliances to Assess the Concrete Quality in the Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Building Technology, Issue 14, (Rabi I 1429H), pp. 20-27 (in Arabic).
9.2 Conferences
8. Al-Kutti,W.A., Rahman, M.K., Shazali, M.A. Baluch, M. H, (2013)" Effect Of Crack Width and Chloride Binding on the Diffusivity of Chlorides in Damaged Reinforced Concrete Beams", VIII International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures FraMCoS-8, Toledo, Spain , pp. 1877-1883.
9. M.K. Rahman, M.A. Shazali, W.A. Al-Kutti and M.H. Baluch, (2011),
"Coupled Damage and Chloride Diffusion Behaviour in RC Beams under Flexure", accepted paper for the 2nd International Engineering Mechanics and Materials Specialty Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
10. Walid A. Al-Kutti, M.K. Rahman , M.A. Shazali, M.H. Baluch, (2010)”
Effect of Axial Compressive Damage on Chloride Migration Through Concrete Subjected to Marine Environment” Long Abstract accepted for presentation in 2nd International Conference on Marine environment Damage to Coastal and Historical Structures MEDACHS10, La Rochelle University, France.
11. Walid A. Al-Kutti, M.H. Baluch, M.A. Shazali, M.K. Rahman, (2010)”
Simulation of Chloride Diffusion in Saturated Concrete Members Subjected to Mechanical Loading” Abstract accepted for presentation in Symposium of
Concrete Modelling CONMOD10, Laboratory of Construction Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale, Switzerland.
12. M.A. Shazali ,Walid A. Al-Kutti, M.K. Rahman, A.H. Al-Gadhib M.H.
Baluch, (2009),” COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling of Chloride Binding in Diffusive Transport of Chlorides in Concrete” COMSOL Users Conference in DhahranKSA.
