Mohammed Arafa

Quantifying the Effect of Ammonium Nitrate Attack on Mechanical and Physical Properties of Cement Mortars

Mohammed Arafa, Mamoun Alqedra & Tamer Shubair · Journal of Scientific Research and Reports · 2015

The purpose of the current study is to quantify the effect of ammonium nitrate attack on the mechanical and physical properties of cement mortars. After 28 days of curing, the mortar specimens were immersed in ammonium nitrate solutions with 5%, 20% and 50% concentrations. The sp...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JSRR/2015/16824

An Intelligent Tuned Harmony Search Algorithm for Optimum Design of Steel Framed Structures to AISC-LRFD

Mamoun Alqedra, Ashraf Khalifa & Mohammed Arafa · Advances in Research · 2015

Abstract: An optimum design of non-linear steel frames using an effective artificial intelligence algorithm is presented. To consider the actual behavior of steel connections, the studied steel frames were designed as semi rigid connections. The Frye and Morris polynomial model i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AIR/2015/16831