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Kamal Safa | Structural Consultant, BE MS MBA PhD – Ecole Polytechnique
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Lebanese
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Marital Status
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Single
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Languages
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Arabic
(native), English and French: fluently written and spoken
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CONTACT INFO
Mina
El Hosn, Phoenicia St. Sfeir Bldg. 6th floor, Facing Radisson Hotel, Beirut,
Lebanon; Tel/Fax: 00961 1 369693; Mobile: 00961 3 440 648;
Email: Kamal.safa@ Polytechnique.edu
EDUCATION
- 2008:
PhD « Damage of concrete under
dynamic loading
» Ecole Polytechnique of Paris
- 2005:
MBA Sorbonne University, Paris
- 2002: M.Sc. Fluids Mechanics
Saint Joseph University (ESIB)
- 1997: B.E.
Civil Engineer.
Saint Joseph
University (ESIB)
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE IN CIVIL
ENGINEERING
- Design and Calculation
of reinforced concrete and steel structures using American and
European codes. (More than 500 references available): Buildings, towers, retaining walls, hangars, domes,
facades, warehouses,
water
tanks, silos….
- Practiced
in US and European
Standards in reinforced
concrete and
steel design
- Extensive experience in numerical modeling of structures using Robot Structural Analysis,
ETABS, SAP,
STAAD, PROKON
- Strong knowledge in continuum mechanics, finite elements, earthquake analysis, non-linear analysis (material and geometrical),
cables
structures, soil mechanics
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2003 to present:
Professor
of Structural Analysis at
Saint-Joseph
University
- Static and vibrational analysis
- Seismic analysis
- Modeling of structures
with
the use of finite elements programs
Development
of high
quality software for civil engineers
- Programming and coding in C#
and VB.NET: graphical
interface, calculation
engine, automation of Word, Excel and AutoCAD, and the use of finite elements
- Developed
applications: continuous beams, deep beams, shear walls, finite elements analysis of 2D slabs
and 3D buildings
PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
- "Influence of free water on
the
quasi-static and dynamic strength
of concrete in confined compression tests” in Cement and
Concrete Research,
Volume 40, Issue 2
- "Accounting for the effect of local
punching at the bar/specimen
interface in
SHPB experiments” DYMAT 2009
international conference
- "Mise au
point d’un essai de compaction dynamique et statique sur
matériaux
fragiles MECADYMAT 2009
international conference
- "Displacement
correction for punching at
a dynamically loaded
bar end" in
International Journal of Impact Engineering, Volume 37,
Issue 4,
2010
To note that Sandia Laboratories (US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration) released in 2015 a whole publication for the evaluation of the above-mentioned article:
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