STEEL BRIDGES

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METWALLY ABU-HAMD Head of Structural Engineering Dept Professor of Bridge and Steel Structures Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University ================================ Dr Metwally Abu-Hamd Bio Dr Abu-Hamd is a Professor of Steel Structures and Bridges in the Structural Engineering Dept of the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt. He received his B.Sc. form Cairo University, Egypt in 1971 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1975 and 1977 from Duke University, USA. On the academic level, Dr Abu-Hamd served as Department Head from 2007 to 2009 and served as Director of the Civil Engineering Research and Studies Center from 1994 to 2005. He authored two text books on the design of Plate Girder Bridges and Steel Bridges. Recently he established a Virtual Education Lab in the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. Dr Abu-Hamd research interests include optimization of steel structures, composite columns, load distribution in bridges, and local stability of plate girders. Dr Abu-Hamd has published numerous research papers and supervised several M.SC. and Ph.D. theses in the field of Structural Steel Design. He received the Cairo University Award for Distinguished Research in Structural Engineering in 1985 and the Egyptian Government State Prize for Engineering Sciences in 1989. Dr Abu-Hamd is a member of the Egyptian Universities Committee for Promotion of University Professors since 2001. On the professional level, Dr Abu-Hamd is a member of the Permanent Committee of the Egyptian Code of Practice for Steel Structures and Bridges since 1984 and a registered Professional Engineer since 1991. He has been working as a Consulting Engineer since 1980 and was involved in the structural steel design of many major projects in Egypt.