Machhour Sadek, Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Machhour Sadek

Senior Geotechnical Engineer

Keo International Consultants - Qatar

Location
France - Lille
Education
Doctorate, DEVELOPMENT OF A BEAM EMBEDDED ELEMENT: APPLICATIONS TO STUDY THE BEHAVIOR OF GROUPS AND NETWORKS O
Experience
21 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months

Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Keo International Consultants - Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since December 2008

Leading a team of geotechnical design engineers for delivering a wide range of geotechnical services.

Services provided include: - Ground Investigations including scoping, specifications, BOQ., and tendering.
- Preparing geotechnical interpretitive reports including reccomendation of foundation types.
- Detailed design for foundations, pile group, ground improvement, dewatering, temporary retaining structures, modeling, and soil structure interaction.
- Tunneling engineering including shaft design, tunnel design using TBM, NATM, and Micro tunneling, and settelment monitoring assesment.

-Supervision of geotechnical works including piling, DWall, anchoring, vibrocompaction, dynamic compaction, and grouting.

Technical Manager at Soletanche Bachy
  • France
  • March 2007 to December 2008

Leading a team of geotechnical design engineers for delivering a wide range of geotechnical services.

Services provided include: - Ground Investigations including scoping, specifications, BOQ., and tendering.
- Preparing geotechnical interpretitive reports including reccomendation of foundation types.
- Detailed design for foundations, pile group, ground improvement, dewatering, temporary retaining structures, modeling, and soil structure interaction.
- Tunneling engineering including shaft design, tunnel design using TBM, NATM, and Micro tunneling, and settelment monitoring assesment.

-Supervision of geotechnical works including piling, DWall, anchoring, vibrocompaction, dynamic compaction, and grouting.

Technical Engineer at Keller Ground Engineering
  • France
  • February 2003 to March 2007

Leading a team of geotechnical design engineers for delivering a wide range of geotechnical services.

Services provided include: - Ground Investigations including scoping, specifications, BOQ., and tendering.
- Preparing geotechnical interpretitive reports including reccomendation of foundation types.
- Detailed design for foundations, pile group, ground improvement, dewatering, temporary retaining structures, modeling, and soil structure interaction.
- Tunneling engineering including shaft design, tunnel design using TBM, NATM, and Micro tunneling, and settelment monitoring assesment.

-Supervision of geotechnical works including piling, DWall, anchoring, vibrocompaction, dynamic compaction, and grouting.

Teaching and Research Assistant at Polytechnic University of Lille
  • France
  • September 2002 to February 2003

Teaching roles specializing in the subject areas listed below.

-(Sep 05 - 2006) Soil mechanics, finite elements, soil reinforcement methods (Polytechnic University of Lille)

-(2002 - 2003) Finite elements, CESAR software, resistance of materials, ROBOT V15.5 software package (Polytechnic University of Lille)

-(2001 - 2002) Finite elements, PLAXIS and CESAR software, settlement of foundations, behavior of retaining walls, tunnel project, CAO, AutoCAD2000 in 2D and initiation to 3D (Polytechnic University of Lille)
FORTRAN (Laboratory of Mechanics of Lille)

Education

Doctorate, DEVELOPMENT OF A BEAM EMBEDDED ELEMENT: APPLICATIONS TO STUDY THE BEHAVIOR OF GROUPS AND NETWORKS O
  • at Polytechnic University of Lille
  • July 2003

Laboratory of Mechanics of Lille (UMR 8107), University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille and Polytechnic University of Lille, France, entitled: « DEVELOPMENT OF A BEAM EMBEDDED ELEMENT: APPLICATIONS TO STUDY THE BEHAVIOR OF GROUPS AND NETWORKS OF MICROPILES »  Funding: Excellence Award of the Foreign Affairs Ministry (France): « Bourse d’excellence Eiffel du ministère des affaires étrangères » The PhD is integrated as new development in the international worldwide used Geotechnical Software PLAXIS 3D foundations.

Master's degree, DEA (Master) in Geotechnical & Civil Engineering
  • at Polytechnic University of Lille and University of Science and Technology of Lille
  • September 1999

DEA (Master) in Geotechnical & Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Lille and University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France, Laboratory of Mechanics of Lille (UMR 8107) : Graduated with high Academic honours (Very Good) - Major of promotion

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Civil Engineering :
  • at LEBANESE UNIVERSITY – Faculty of Engineering III – Lebanon.
  • June 1998

Graduated with high Academic honours (Very Good) - Major of promotion

Specialties & Skills

Modeling
Tunneling
TALREN and SLOPE
FORTRAN and MATHCAD
REPUTE and FOXTA
LPILE and PIGLET
WAALLAP and RIDO
Auto CAD
FLAC 3D and ABAQUS
STAD and ROBOT V 15.5
FLAC 3D and ABAQUS
PLAXIS 2D and 3D

Languages

English
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French
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Arabic
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