Prof. REFAT EL-SHEIKHY
Prof. Refat obtained his PhD from University of Cairo in the year 1995. His area of expertise includes Fracture Mechanics and Nano Technology. He has published number of articles in scholarly journals and international conferences.
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Researcher, Eng. Abdullah Bughshan Research Chair for Expansive soil, Civil Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, King Saud University. |
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| [Education] | |||||||
| University | Location | Degree | Field | Date | |||
| CairoUniversity / Faculty of Eng. | Giza, Egypt |
Ph. D. " A New Approach for mixed mode fracture theories" |
Structural Engineering | 1 / 11 / 1995 | |||
| Al-Azhar University / Faculty of Eng. | Cairo, Egypt |
M. Sc. " Behavior of plain and Reinforced Concrete Walls under Various types of Loadings" |
Civil Engineering |
25 / 6 / 1989 | |||
| Al-MansouraUniv./ Faculty of eng. | Mansoura, Egypt |
B.Sc. (honour degree ) |
Civil Engineering | May 1982 | |||
| [Previous academic positions ] | |||||||
| Name of Institution | Location | Position | From – To | ||||
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Osaka University, Japan |
Osaka, Japan |
Foreign Guest Professor |
Since Nov., 1997 – April 2008 | ||||
| Housing and Building Research Centre | Giza, Egypt | Professor of Concrete Structures | 21/4/2006 – until now | ||||
| Housing and Building Research Centre, | Giza, Egypt | (Associate Professor) | 21 /4 /2001 – 30/9/2008 | ||||
| Housing and Building Research Centre, | Giza, Egypt | (Assistant Professor) | 20/11/1995 – 20/ 4 / 2001 | ||||
| Housing and Building Research Centre, | Giza, Egypt | Assistant Researcher | 25 / 6/ 1989 – 19 / 11 / 1995 | ||||
| Housing and Building Research Centre, | Giza, Egypt | Research Assistant | 20 / 2 / 1985 – 24 / 6 / 1989 | ||||
Officer, Military service, Egyptian army, ( September 1982 - April 1985)
[ Practical Experience:]
1- Structural Consultant for Design of different types of Concrete Structures, such as: High rise structures, bridges, tunnels, water structures,
2- Consultant for Repair and strengthening of R C. structures.
3- Senior consultant at "Hamza Associates" Consultant Firm.
4- Construction supervision and quality control.
5- Project manager for several projects in Egypt
6. Contribution in the first edition of Egyptian code of practice for design and construction of reinforced concrete structures
Research interests:
- Advanced micro and nano Composites
- Clay-based nanocomposite
- Nano clay applications
- Expansive clay soil ( Mechanism and behavior)
- Fracture Mechanics Theories and Approaches
- Fracture Mechanics and composites at macro-micro-nano scales
- Fracture Analysis of Dissimilar Composites.
- Interfacial Fracture Analysis.
- Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Composite under Thermal Stresses.
- De-bonding Process at Bi-material Interface under Thermal Stresses.
- Analysis of Fracture in Ductile Materials.
- Prediction of the Safe Life Time of Dissimilar Composite Materials.
- Fracture Analysis under tri-axial Loading.
- Analysis of the Three Dimensional Failures of Brittle Composites.
- Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Cracks in Anisotropic Composites.
- Analysis of Fracture of Heterogeneous Composite Materials.
- plasma spray technology
- Fracture of concrete material and structures.
- Analysis and Design of different types of Concrete structures
- Repair and strengthening of Concrete structures.
Courses Taught at KSU:
Research Projects :
| "An Innovative Approach for Clay Polymer Nanocomposites", Centre of Excellence of Research in Engineering Materials (CEREM), King Saud University, 2009-2010 |
| " Studying of Fracture of Nanocomposite of Polymers and Silicate Minerals", SABIC , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2010-2011 |
Recent Publications (Articles Published During the Stay at King Saud University):
1. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Analytical Characterization of Natural Clay", Journal of American Institute of Physics AIP, Vol. 1282, pp. 132-135, Oct. 2010
2. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "General Analytical Concept and Design Methodology to Producing a Clay-Based Polymer Nanocomposite", Characterization and Control of Interfaces for High Quality advanced Materials III, John Willey publisher, Vol. 219, pp. 165-174, August 2010
3. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Characterizing of Natural Nanoclay / Polyethylene Nano Composite during Processing Steps", Advanced Materials Research Journal, Vol. 214, pp. 418-421, March 2011
4. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Fast Laboratory Test for Mechanism of Natural Nanoclay-Water Interaction", Advanced Materials Research Journal, Vol. 214, pp. 426-429, March 2011
5. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Size Effect on Volume - Shape Change of both Micro and Nano Aluminium-Silicate Minerals", Advanced Materials Research Journal, Vol. 214, pp. 430-433, March 2011
6. Koji Fujimoto, Refat El-Sheikhy and Akira Kobayashi, "Analysis of Interaction between Cracks in a Splat of Zirconia Coating Fabricated by Plasma Spraying Technique", Journal of Applied Plasma Science IAPS, Vol. 19, pp. 55-56, Feb. 2010
7. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Three-Dimensional Size Effect of Both Conventional and Nano Silicate Aluminium Minerals", Journal of Applied Plasma Science IAPS, Vol. 19, pp. 49-50, 2010
8. Akira Kobayashi, Refat El-Sheikhy, Koji Fujimoto, "Observation and Analysis of Cracks Running in a Splat of Zirconia Coating Fabricated by Plasma Spray Coating Technique", Journal of Applied Plasma Science (IAPS), Vol.17, No.2 pp. 117-122, Dec.2009
9. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani , " Morphology and Characterization of Saudi Arabian Natural Nano Silicate Minerals", Advances in Applied Plasma Science, Vol.7, pp., 303-306, July 2009
10. Refat El-Sheikhy, Mosleh Al-Shamrani and Akira Kobayashi, "Application of Natural Nano Silicate-Aluminium Powder in Advanced Smart Nanocomposite Coating", Transactions of JWRI Journal, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 49-52, 2010
11. Refat El-Sheikhy, Mosleh Al-Shamrani and Akira Kobayashi, "Structure and Analysis of Natural Nano Silicate Layers Based on (RM-K) Fracture Theory", Transactions of JWRI Journal, Vol. 38 No. 2, pp. 103-109, 2010
12. Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Mechanism of Silicate - Aluminium Nano Powder/Water Interaction on the View of Observations of New Simple Technique", Journal of Applied Plasma Science IAPS, Vol. 19, pp. 47-48, 2010
International Conferences
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- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Three-Dimensional Size Effect of Both Conventional and Nano Silicate Aluminium Minerals", International Workshop of IAPS Annual Meeting, Bussan, Korea, Feb. 2010
- Koji Fujimoto, Refat El-Sheikhy and Akira Kobayashi, "Analysis of Interaction between Cracks in a Splat of Zirconia Coating Fabricated by Plasma Spraying Technique", International Workshop of IAPS Annual Meeting, Bussan, Korea, Feb. 2010
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Mechanism of Silicate-Aluminium Nano Powder/Water Interaction on the View of Observations of New Simple Technique", International Workshop of IAPS Annual Meeting, Bussan, Korea, Feb. 2010
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, " Characterizing of natural nanoclay/polyethylene Nanocomposites during processing steps", International conference on Key Engineering materials, Sanya, China, March 2011
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, " Fast Laboratory Test for Mechanism of Natural nanoclay-water Interaction ", International conference on Key Engineering materials, Sanya, China, March 2011
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, " Size effect on Volume Change of Both Micro and nano Aluminium Silicate Minerals ", International conference on Key Engineering materials, Sanya, China, March 2011
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Characterization and assessment of cracking in hybrid high functional silicate aluminium based nanocomposite ", 18th annual meeting of institute of applied plasma science and 4th international workshop on plasma application and hybrid functional materials , Melbourne, Australia, March 2011
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Proposing of high functional nanocomposite of Zirconia and alumino-silicate ", 18th annual meeting of institute of applied plasma science and 4th international workshop on plasma application and hybrid functional materials , Melbourne, Australia, March 2011
- Koji Fujimoto, Refat El-Sheikhy and Akira Kobayashi, "Inter-Granular Cracking of Splat of Zirconia Coating Fabricated by Plasma Spraying Technique ", Visual-JW2010, Osaka, Japan, pp. , Nov. 2010
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Analysis of Structure of Natural Nano Clay During Clay /Polymer Nanocomposite Manufacturing Steps", 18Th International Conference on Composites and Nanotechnology, Alaska, USA, July 2010
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Morphology and characterization of Saudi Arabian natural nano silicate minerals ", 18th International Conference on Composites and Nanotechnology, Germany, Sep. 2009
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Clay / Polymer Nanocomposite ", International Exhibition and Conference NANOTECH 2010, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2010
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," General analytical concept and methodology of design and producing of clay-based polymer nanocomposite ", The third international conference on the characterization and control of interfaces for high quality advanced materials and joining technology for new metallic glasses and inorganic materials, Kurashiki, Japan, , pp.85, Sep. 2009
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," On Manufacturing of Fracture Controlled Green Lightweight Advanced Nanocomposite ", ICAF International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Canada, June 2011
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Clay / Polymer Nanocomposite ", International Exhibition and Conference NANOTECH 2011, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2011
- Paper Indexed in ( Harvard University) Database and ( NASA ) Data base
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani, "Analytical Characterization of Natural Clay", Journal of American Institute of Physics AIP, Vol. 1282, pp. 132-135, Oct. 2010
- International Exhibitions:
1- Nanotech 2010 at Tokyo, Japan:
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Clay / Polymer Nanocomposite ", International Exhibition and Conference NANOTECH 2010, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2010
2- Nanotech 2011 at Tokyo, Japan:
- Refat El-Sheikhy and Mosleh Al-Shamrani," Clay / Polymer Nanocomposite ", International Exhibition and Conference NANOTECH 2011, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2011