Civil Engineering and Geosciences

civil engineering and geosciences

people

	Dr Mohamed Rouainia Lecturer in Computation Geomechanics Phone: 222 3608 m.rouainia@ncl.ac.uk
background
My research interests include constitutive modelling of natural soil behaviour, geotechnical engineering, computational plasticity, constitutive models and algorithms for finite strain geomechanics and flow processes in unsaturated soils/rocks.
main expertise/research interests
My research interests include constitutive modelling of natural soil behaviour, computational plasticity, constitutive models and algorithms for finite strain geomechanics, numerical analysis of geotechnical structures, computational modelling of liquefaction-induced ground deformations and flow processes in unsaturated soils/rocks.
esteem indicators
Visiting Research Fellow at the USQ, Australia Visiting scholar at the University of Newcastle, Australia Invited Panel Presentation, 16th Int. Conf. on Soil Mech. and Geotech. Eng., Osaka, Japan, Sept 2005 Keynote Speaker, NAFEMS Awarness seminar, The Institution of Mechanical Engineering, 2004 Invited Speaker, European Plaxis users meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2004 Invited speaker, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, 2001 Invited speaker, Scottish Geotechnical Network, University of Napier, 2001 Reviewed papers submitted to international journals including the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Engineering Geology, Computers and Geotechnics Computers and Geosciences and Geotechnique
industrial relevance
Small strain modelling of excavations and tunnels Offshore wind turbine foundations Soil/pipe interaction Software consultancy services
undergraduate teaching
Erasmus Coordinator I also teach the following modules: CIV1202 - Introduction to geotechnical engineering CIV122 - Construction materials CIV2201 - Geotechnical design
postgraduate teaching
CIV8201 - Soil modelling and numerical methods GSC8202 - Geomechanics and geoskills CIV8207 - Civil and geotechnical aspects of pipeline engineering
sample publications

Peng J; Clarke B; Rouainia M. A device to cyclic lateral loaded model piles. Geotechnical Testing Journal 2006, 29(4), 341-347.
Rouainia M; Muir Wood D. Computational aspects in finite strain plasticity analysis of geotechnical materials. Mechanics Research Communications 2006, 33(2), 123-133.
Rouainia M; Lewis H; Pearce C; Bicanic N; Couples GD; Reynolds MA. Hydro-geomechanical modelling of seal behaviour in overpressured basins using discontinuous deformation analysis. Engineering Geology 2006, 82(4), 222-233.
Zhao J; Sheng D; Rouainia M; Sloan SW. Explicit stress integration of complex soil models. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 2005, 29(12), 1209-1229.
Peng J; Rouainia M; Clarke BG. Lateral resistance of finned piles established from cyclic model tests. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE 2005.
Hiley RA; Rouainia M. Simple elastoplasticity for natural clays. In: Oñate E; Owen DRJ, ed. COMPLAS 2005: VIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity 2005. Barcelona, Spain: International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE).
Peng JR; Rouinia M; Clarke BG; Allan P; Irvine J. Lateral resistance of finned piles established from model tests. In: Shahrour I, ed. International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering 2004. Beirut, Lebanon: Université Libanaise.
Rouainia M; Muir Wood D. Implicit numerical integration for a kinematic hardening soil plasticity model. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 2001, 25(13), 1305-1325.
Rouainia M; Muir Wood D. A kinematic hardening constitutive model for natural clays with loss of structure. Geotechnique 1999, 50(2), 153-164.
Rouainia M; Peric D. A Computational model for elasto-plastic viscoplastic solids at finite strain with reference to thin shell applications. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 1998, 42(2), 289-311.