Ashraf Osman
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Osman obtained an MPhil in 2002 and a PhD in 2005 from Cambridge University, both in geotechnical engineering. Dr Osman’s research focuses on developing analytical and numerical solutions for soil-structure interaction problems. His research has been funded by the RCUK, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Council. He is currently leading the Newton Fund international consortium on Unsaturated Soils Mechanics for Engineering Practice (UnsatPractice). Dr Osman is currently a member of the editorial board of the ICE proceedings- Geotechnical Engineering and he was a member of the Géotechnique Advisory Panel (Jan 2011-Jan 2014) and the Executive Committee of the UK Association of Computational Mechanics (2012-2014).
Research Interest
Perfomance-based design methods, Large-strain deformation analysis, Urban data systems.
Publications
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Osman, AS & Rouainia, M (2014). A Semi-analytical solution for consolidation around a spherical cavity in an elasto-plastic medium and its potential application for tunneling. International Journal of Computational Methods 11(02): 1342010.
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Osman, A. S. & Randolph, M. F. (2015). On the calculation of cumulative strain around full-flow penetrometers in steady-state conditions. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics 39(4 ): 368-387
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Osman, A. S. (2016). Discussion of “Undrained Stability of Dual Circular Tunnels†by Daniel W. Wilson, Andrew J. Abbo, Scott W. Sloan, and Andrei V. Lyamin (in print). International Journal of Geomechanics 16(5): 1.
