Roles

Hakim S. Abdelgader - is a Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1996 respectively from Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland. His research interests include pre-placed aggregate concrete, self-consolidating concrete, concrete with recycled materials, utilization of pozzolanic materials, underwater concreting, concrete durability, and concrete casting in fabric forms. He has authored or co-authored over 80 professional technical papers and reports. He was been involved in organization of several International Conferences and member of Scientific Committees. He is a associate member and voting member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committees 221, Aggregates; 237, Self-Consolidating Concrete; 304, Measuring, Mixing, Transporting, and Placing Concrete; 444, Structural Health Monitoring and Instrumentation; and 555, Concrete with Recycled Materials. He is an Editorial Board member of more than four academic Journals. He is reviewer and contributor to ACI, Construction & Building Materials and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE). Prof. Abdelgader was elected fellow of ACI in 2019.

https://www.concrete.org/aboutaci/honorsandawards/fellows.aspx

He has been a keynote speaker at several international conferences in North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Japan, Iran, and India. 

Careers

2018-2021       Visiting Professor at Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk, Poland 

2020                Visiting Professor at Lublin University of Technology, Lublin University of Technology Doctoral School, Lublin, Poland 

2008                Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, In the City of New York, USA.

                          www.columbia.edu/cu/civileng/announcements/hakim/index.html

2005-Present   Full  Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya.

2003-2005       Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya. Chair of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Tripoli University.

2003 May       Research Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.

2001                Co advisor MSC and Ph. D. at Engineering School, Sfax, Tunisia.

1996-2002       Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland. 

Research Interests

AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST:

1.      Concrete mix design.

2.      Recycled materials for concrete production.

3.      Optimization of chemical admixtures and supplementary cementitous materials and fillers for concrete.

4.      Microstructure of cement-based materials.

5.      Concrete elements cast in fabric forms.

6.      Two-stage concrete (Pre-placed aggregate concrete) technology and its practical applications.

7.      Concrete repair.

8.      Durability.

9.      Self compacting concrete, High-Performance Concrete.

10.  Fiber reinforcement.11.  Underwater Concreting.

External Activities

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES:

1.      Voting member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committees 221 Aggregates.

2.      Voting member of the committee (ACI), 304 Measuring, Mixing, Transporting and Placing of  Concrete.    http://www.concrete.org/pubs/newpubs/304609.pdf

3.      Associate member of committee (ACI), 444 Experimental Analysis for Concrete Structures.

4.      Associate member of committee (ACI) 555 Concrete with Recycled Materials.

5.      Associate Members of committee (ACI) 237 Self-Consolidating Concrete.

6.      Editorial Board-Journal of Materials and Engineering Structures « JMES

http://revue.ummto.dz/index.php/JMES/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0

7.      Reviewer of several Journals (ACI Materials & Structural, Cement & Concrete Research ,Construction & Building Materials and Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE).

He was invited keynote speaker in several International Conferences (North America, Europe, Africa, Iran, India, Middle East, China and Japan). He also was been involved in organization of several International Conferences and member of Scientific Committees