CEN Lecture Series | Sustainable Backfilling Alternatives for Green Structures (February 2023)
Recycling and reuse of waste materials including scrap tires is a top priority worldwide to cope with the serious environmental challenges that the world is currently facing. Hence, several methods are currently employed to reuse discarded tires to address these problems. One of these methods, which has been gaining popularity over the last decade in North America, is to shred discarded tires into tire derived aggregates (TDA) and use them in various civil engineering applications. This seminar presents some preliminary results of a comprehensive research project currently underway at Dalhousie University to evaluate the performance of different sustainable TDA inspired backfilling alternatives for green structures.
About the speaker
Dr. Hany El Naggar, PhD, PEng., is a Professor of GeoStructural/Geotechnical Engineering at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, with more than 25 years of experience in civil construction, geotechnical and structural engineering and research in Canada and overseas. He has participated in several geotechnical and structural investigations and is experienced in the analysis and design of foundations and soil-structure interaction of buried infrastructure. Dr. El Naggar's research findings have been reported in more than 180 technical publications covering both experimental and numerical work in the fields of SSI, resilient buried infrastructure and concrete pipes.
For more information, please contact dgregorio@aus.edu.
