RESEARCH INTERESTS

● Computational mechanics

● Boundary element methods

● Radial basis functions methods (Sample of my work: Presentations, Paper 1, Paper2)

● Mesh-less methods

  

PUBLICATIONS

A. Papers in Refereed Journals

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. J. and  Altiero, N. J., “Application of the boundary element method to rubber-like elasticity”, Applied Mathematical Modelling , v20, n9, 1996, pp. 654-661.

 

  1. S. Khan & Al-Gahtani, H. J, “Exact stiffnesses for tapered members”, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, v122, n10, Oct, 1996, pp. 1234-1239 Cited by

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. J, “Finite beams on nonhomogeneous elastic foundations”, Boundary Elements Communications , v 8, n 3, 1997 , pp. 168-170 Cited by

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. J et al., “Concrete mixture design for hot weather: Experimental and statistical analyses”, Magazine of Concrete Research , v 50, n 2, Jun, 1998, pp. 95-105 Cited by

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. J, “Exact analysis of nonprismatic beams”, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics , v 124, n 11, 1998, pp. 1290-1293 Cited by

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. J, “Integral-based solution for a class of second order boundary value problems”, Applied Mathematics and Computation, v98, n1, Jan, 1999, pp. 43-48

 

  1. El-Gebeily, M., Elleithy, W. M. and Al-Gahtani, H. J., "Convergence of the Domain Decomposition Finite Element-Boundary Element Coupling Methods," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 191, Issue 43, 2002, pp. 4851- 4867.

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  1. Elleithy, W. M. and Al-Gahtani, H. J., "Iterative Coupling of Boundary and Finite Element Methods in Elasto-Plasticity," Boundary Elements Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2002, pp. 21-28.  Cited by

 

  1. Elleithy, W. M., Al-Gahtani, H. J. and Tanaka, M., “Iterative Coupling of BEM and FEM for the Solution of Elasto-Plastic Fracture Mechanics Problems,” Transactions of JASCOME, Journal of Boundary Element Methods, Vol. 18, November 2001, pp. 43- 48.

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  1. Elleithy, W. M., Al-Gahtani, H. J. and El-Gebeily, M., "Iterative Coupling of BE and FE Methods in Elastostatics," Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 25, No. 8, 2001, pp. 685-695.

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  1. Elleithy, W. M. and Al-Gahtani, H. J., "An Overlapping Domain Decomposition Approach for Coupling the Finite and Boundary Element Methods," Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2000, pp. 391-398.

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  1. Al-Gahtani, H. “A Meshless Method for Non-linear Poisson Problems with High Gradients", to appear in Computer-Assisted Mechanics & Eng. Sciences CAMES, 13 (2006), p.  367. 

 

  1. Azad, A.K., Al-Gahtani, H.J. & Ahmed Shamshad, " Chloride Diffusion Modeling for Micro-silica Concrete Under Different Exposures",  to appear in AJSE.

 

  1. Naffa, M.  & Al-Gahtani, H., "RBF-based Mesh-less Method for Thin Plates Undergoing Large Deformations",  to appear in Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H. “Optimum Design of Buried Pipe-line Block Anchors", to appear in ASCE Journal of Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction.

 

 

B. Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

  1. Al-Gahtani, H.J. and Khan, M.S., “ Exact analysis of continuous beams”, Fourth Saudi Engineering Conference, 1994, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  2. Shuja, Shahzada, Al-Gahtani, H.J., “Application of BEM to sub-regions”, Fifth Regional Conference on Computer Applications in Civil Engineering, Kual., Malaysia, 1994.
  3. Al-Suwaiyyan, M.S. and Al-Gahtani, H.J., “The method of images”, Fifth Regional Conference on Computer Applications in Civil Engineering, Kual., Malaysia, 1994.

  4. A. Azad, I. Asi, Naser Al-Shayea, M. Al-Suwaiyan, H. Al-Gahtani, and A. Khathlan, “Certification of Practicing Civil Engineers in Saudi Arabia: An opinion survey”, Proceedings of the 6th  Saudi Engineers Conference, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, December 14-17, 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 99-11

  5. Elleithy, W. M., Al-Gahtani, H. J. and El-Gebeily, M., "Convergence of the Iterative Coupling of BEM and FEM," 21st World Conference on the Boundary Element Method, Oxford University, UK, August 1999, pp. 281-290.

  6. Elleithy, W. M. and Al-Gahtani, H. J., "Elasto-Plastic Analysis for Infinite and semi-infinite Problems using an Overlapping Iterative Coupled FEM and BEM," The Fifth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Leuven, Belgium, September 2000.

  7. Al-Gahtani, H. J., “A new meshless method for general Poisson-type differential equation”, Sixth Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, August, 2001

  8. A. Azad, I. Asi, Naser Al-Shayea, M. Al-Suwaiyan, H. Al-Gahtani, A. Khathlan and H. Al-Abdul Wahhab, “An opinion survey on Certification of Civil Engineers in Saudi Arabia”, Proceedings of a Symposium on Certification of Practicing Engineers in Saudi Arabia: Issues & Challenges, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 30, 2002, English Part, pp. 19-26.

 

 

 

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