Scrap tires and fly ash are major discarded waste worldwide.
Utilization of waste materials in bricks making.
Mortarless interlocking masonry system.
Newly developed rubberized concrete interlocking bricks (RCIBs).
Structural behavior of masonry wall built with RCIBs.
Speaker
Dr. Amin Ali Al-Fakih
Post Doctoral Fellow
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Amin is holding a PhD specialized in structures and materials from Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 1 year the same university. His research interests are in in the utilizing of waste and nano materials, such as scrap tires, fly ash, nano-silica, nano-graphene in concrete for structural and masonry applications as well as RC strengthening. Amin has over 34 publications (Journal and conference publications) in which 22 of them are ISI. Q1 & Q2. His H-Index is 12 with 427 citations. He is currently working as postdoctoral fellow at IRC for CBM.
