Structures Failures Reasons and Mitigation
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This book presents the structures collapses that was happened in different countries worldwide for concrete and steel structures. This book is important for home owner, designer and contractors to know the reasons of structures failure as if you diagnosis the problem you can define the solution easily. The most famous reasons due to bad design, poor construction quality control in general or lake of maintenance. In most residential building the philosophy of run to fail maintenance is the most traditional which cause a lot of problems.
Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy
Mohamed A. El-Reedy's background in structural engineering. His main area of researches is reliability of concrete and steel structure. He has provided consulting to different engineering companies and oil and gas industries in Egypt and to international companies as the International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) and British Petroleum (BP). Moreover, he provides different concrete and steel structure design package for residential buildings, warehouses and telecommunication towers and electrical projects with WorleyParsons Egypt. He has participated in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) projects with international engineering firms. Curently, Dr. El-Reedy is responsible for reliability, Inspection and maintenance strategy for onshore concrete structures and offshore steel structure platforms. He has performed these tasks for hundred structures in Gulf of Suez in the red sea.Dr. El-Reedy has consulted with and trained executives at many organizations, including the Arabian American Oil Compnay (ARAMCO), bp, Apachi, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA), the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and King Saudi's Interior ministry, Qatar Telecom, EGPC , (SAPIC) , the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, and Qatar petrochemical Company (QAPCO). He has taught technical courses about repair and maintenance for reinforced concrete structures and the advanced materials in concrete industry worldwide , especially in the Middle East, malaysia and singapore.Dr. El-Reedy has written numerous publications and presented many papers at local and international conferences sponsored by the ASCE, CSCE, ACI, API and in technical committe for OMAE conference sponsor by ASME.He has published many research papers in international technical journals and has authored four books about total quality management, quality management and quality assurance, economic management for engineering projects, and repair and protection of reinforced concrete structures. He received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University in 1990, his master's degree in 1995, and his Ph.D from Cairo University in 2000.
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Structures Failures Reasons and Mitigation - Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy
Structures Failures Reasons and Mitigation
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Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy
Consultant Structural Engineer &
International Instructor
2018 by Mohamed A. El-Reedy
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