Md. Kabirul Islam

Email: raja6bd@gmail.com
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Dr. Mohammed Kabirul Islam

Professor
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering

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Education

  • UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA; Ph.D.  in  Civill Engineering (October 27, 2000)
  • UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA; P.G. Diploma in Business Computing (April 20, 2001)
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, USA; M.S.  in Civil Engineering (May 25, 1989)
  • BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY; B.S. in Civil Engineering (August, 1984)

 

Professional Certifications

  • Professional Engineer (PE), North Carolina, USA : 057344
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI), USA : 4117296

 

Memberships

  • Member, ASCE (American Society for Civil Engineering): 000012461726
  • Member, IEB (Institute of Engineers Bangladesh): M/8421
  • Member, PMI (Project Management Institute): 10001511
  • Member, BSGE (Bangladesh Society for Geotechnical Engineering)

Research Interest

  • Constitutive modeling of the stress-strain behaviour of carbonate sand, structured and cemented soils, unsaturated and expansive soils. Finite element modeling of offshore foundation under combined loads. Footing plasticity models for offshore foundations under combined loads,Cavity expansion problems using advanced constitutive models, Seismic risk assessment, analysis and reduction.

Research Awards

  • Doctoral Research Scholarship , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, June 1995 to October, 2000
  • Graduate Scholarship, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA, September 1985 to May 1989
  • University Merit Scholarship, BUET, September 1980 – August 1984

Professional Work at National and International Levels

  • Base Camp for Submarine of Bangladesh Navy (BNSUB), December 2017 – Present, Team Leader and Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Padma Bridge Railway Link Project (PBRLP), January 2019 – Present,  Deputy Team Leader and Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Feasibility study report and DPP for a cable car in Madhabkundo Eco Park under Sylhet Forest Division, November, 2019 – July, 2022, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Preparation of Detailed Master Plan and Other Related Services For Payra Sea Port Authority, August 2017 – Present, Deputy Team Leader and Engineering Consultant
  • Feasibility Study, Design, Drawing & Documentation of Lighterage Jetty and Service Jetty, Hamid Char, Chittagong, October 2018 – Present, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Construction of Dual Gauge Double Rail Line and Conversion of Existing Rail Line into Dual Gauge between Akhaura and Laksam, December, 2017 – March, 2022, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Construction of 13 Nos. Pre-Fabricated Steel Structure Buffer Godown Project at 13 Districts of Bangladesh, December, 2017 – March, 2019, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Consultancy Services for the Construction of 20-Storied Academic cum Administrative Building at Bangladesh University of Textiles, December 2015 – March, 2022, Deputy Team Leader and Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Design and Construction Supervision of Purbachal Link Road Canal Project, July, 2015 – October, 2020, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • River Crossing Tower at Old Brahmaputra River, February, 2007 – May, 2007, Geotechnical Engineering Consultant
  • Engineering Project Management, Construction and Supervision 
    • As team lead of BNSUB, PBRLP and team member Payra Port project, I managed the Consulting Team. I selected Engineering Consultants, Resident Engineers, and Office Staff and organized vetting of design drawings and monitoring of construction work. I organized resources and equipment, assigned and managed tasks, made quantity and cost estimates, prepared resource, personnel, work schedules and timelines, put in place methods for site supervision and quality assurance, and established communication protocols between stakeholders. I checked that engineering designs submitted by Design-Build Contractor adhere to design standards, codes and specifications and construction work follow quality guidelines as set in the contract document.
  • Geotechnical Field and Laboratory Testing 
    • Planned, supervised and submitted reports on subsurface soil investigations including SPT, CPT, DCP, VST etc.
    • Planned, supervised and submitted reports on geotechnical laboratory tests including soil index tests, Atterberg limits, sieve and hydrometer analysis, standard and modified Proctor Compaction, CBR, permeability, consolidation, unconfined compression, direct shear and triaxial test.
    • Performed Static Pile Load Test and High Strain Dynamic Load Test (HSDT) of drilled and driven test and working piles including PDA and CAPWAP analysis with report preparation and design recommendations.
    • Performed Pile Integrity Test (PIT) and Cross Hole Sonic Logging (CSL) Test on concrete piles for checking structural integrity of piles
  • Geotechnical Engineering Consulting, Design and Construction Supervision
    • Checked, vetted design, designed and verified field data of ground improvement by various methods such as Vacuum Consolidation of Soft Clays with Prefabricated Vertical Drains (PVD), Deep Soil Mixing (DSM), Dynamic Compaction, High Vacuum Densification Method (HVDM) with top supervision of construction in Padma Bridge Railway Link Project, Payra Deep Sea Port Master Plan Project, Bangladesh Navy Submarine Base Project.
    • Checked, vetted design and designed for stability and settlement earthen road and railway embankments, bridge abutments, reinforced earth retaining systems and revetments, flood protection embankments, breakwaters using analytical, semi-analytical and finite element methods following AASHTO codes with top supervision of  construction.
    • Checked, vetted design and designed shallow and deep foundation of high rise buildings, bridges, river crossing electrical transmission towers, cable car towers, river jetties for static, wind and seismic loads using analytical, semi-analytical and finite element methods following AASHTO codes with top supervision of  construction.
  • Numerical and Constitutive Modelling, Programming Languages and Application Software
    • Numerically modelled the bearing capacity and settlement behavior of shallow and deep foundations on compressible sands and clays using advanced elasto-plastic critical state constitutive models such as Mohr-Coulomb, Drucker-Prager, Tresca, Modified Cam Clay, Molenkamp model.
    • Developed a constitutive model within the critical state framework for compressible carbonate sands. Implemented by programming the constitutive model in a finite element routine for simulating load-settlement response of foundations on compressible sands.
    • Programmed routines for shallow and deep foundations, earth retaining structures, sheet piles etc. using programming languages FORTRAN77, C, C++. Programmed bearing capacity, settlement, deflections, rotations, moments and shears etc. of shallow foundations, axially and laterally loaded piles, pile caps, sheet piles, mechanically stabilized earth walls using MS Excel programming and VBA.
    • Familiar with geotechnical finite element application software PLAXIS, GeoStudio, MATLAB
    • Proficient in MS Office 365, MS Teams, Zoom and Google Meet.
  • SPECIALTY TRAINING
    • Public Private Partnership (PPP), Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company (IIFC), External Resources Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh, 3 – 5 December, 2019–2014
    • BioNanotechnology  Summer Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, July 25 – August 8, 2014
    • Water Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, 2011
    • Geotechnical – Earthquake Engineering, Centre for Continuing Education, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 2005
    • Environmental Impact Assessment, Centre for Environmental and Resource Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2002
    • Soil and Rock Property Estimation for Foundation Design, Civil Engineering Foundation and Centre for Geotechnical Research,  University of Sydney, 1999
    • Engineering Leadership, Australian Centre for Innovation and International Competitiveness, University of Sydney, 1998

Selected Publications

JOURNALS

  1. Rahman, M. M. and Islam, M. K. (2018). Derivation of Virgin Compression Destructuring Line Parameters for Natural Clays, Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, Vol 49, No 2
  2. Siddiquee, M. S. A., Islam, M. S., Tatsuoka, F. and Islam, M. K. (2017). An Anisotropic Model for Granular Material Based on Experiments, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering,36: 1447-1462
  3. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P., Siddiquee, M. S. A., Islam, M. S. (2013). A Method for Derivation of Consolidation Equation and Value of Degradation Exponent for Structured Soils, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 31: 1587-1601
  4. Islam, M. K. et al. (2007). A Study on Seismic Risk Assessment Methods Applicable for Bangladesh, Journal of the Civil Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (Bangladesh), Vol. 31, No. 1, December 2006, pp. 33-40
  5. Islam, M. K. and Talukder, K. (2005). Numerical Prediction of Response of Circular Footings on Structured Soils, Australian Geomechanics, Vol. 40, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 51-56
  6. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and Airey, D. W. (2004). Comparison of the yield locus and stress-dilatancy function of some critical state constitutive models with experimental data for carbonate sand, Journal of the Civil Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (India), Vol. 84, February 2004, pp. 267-274
  7. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and Airey, D. W. (2003). An elasto-plastic footing model for  circular footings resting on carbonate sand and subjected to inclined load, Journal of the Civil Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (Bangladesh), Vol. CE 31, No. 1, June 2003, pp. 9-24
  8. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and Airey, D. W. (2002). Three dimensional   elasto-plastic finite element analysis  of offshore circular foundations  resting on carbonate sands and subjected to inclined loads, Journal of the  Civil Engineering Division, The Institution of Engineers (Bangladesh),  Vol. CE 30, No. 1, June 2002, pp. 25-41

CONFERENCES

  1. Manzur, T., Islam, M. K. and Yazdani, N. (2013). Obtaining ABET Accreditation: Identifying Challenges, Problems and Prospects for BUET: A Case Study, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA, March 11-13, 2013
  2. Islam, M. K. and Rajan, S. (2011). Limitations of Critical State Models for Predicting the Behavior of Cemented Calcerinite, 14th Asian Regional Conference in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Hong Kong, China
  3. Paul, S., Islam, M. K. and Dhar, A. S (2009). Wall Forces from Standard Installation Direct Design of Buried Rigid Pipe, Bangladesh Geotechnical Conference 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh Ahmed, M.Z., Islam, M. K. and  Ahsan, R. (2008). Seismic Analysis of  Selected Buildings using Turkish Approach, GEOMAR08, Nanjing, China
  4. Ahmad, R., Islam, M. K., Ahmed, M. Z. and Kundu, T. (2007). Structural Health Assessment of Infrastructure: The Bangladesh Perspective, International Symposium of Urban Safety for Mega Cities of Asia (USMCA), Dhaka, Bangladesh
  5. Islam, M. K. and Dhar, A. S. (2007). Interpretation of Plate Load Tests  on   Controlled Fills, 13th Asian Regional Conference in Soil Mechanics and  Geotechnical Engineering, Kolkata, India Islam, M. K., Siddique, A. and Khalil Ullah, M. I. (2007). Modeling the stress-strain response of a Cemented Regional Clay, 10th Australia    NewZealand  Conference in Geomechanics, Brisbane, Australia
  6. Siddique, A., Islam, M. K. and Siddiquee, A. K. M. (2007). Modeling the Stress-Strain Response of  Coastal Clays of Bangladesh, 10th Australia NewZealand Conference in Geomechanics, Brisbane, Australia
  7. Ahmed, M. Z., Hussaini, T. M., Ahsan, R. and Islam, M. K. (2007). Seismic Risk Reduction in Bangladesh: The Recent Activities, Sixth National   Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
  8. Ahmed, M. Z., Islam, M. K., Ahsan, R. and Ozcebe, G. (2007). Seismic Vulnerability Assessment Methods: A Possible Application to Bangladesh, 1st Annual  Conference in Regional Science, Bangladesh Regional Science Association (BRSA), Dhaka,  Bangladesh, Vol. 1
  9. Islam, M. K. and Ibrahim, M. (2006). A Constitutive Model for Soft Rocks, Soil Stress-Strain Behaviour: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis, Hoe I. Ling et al (eds), Springer, Netherlands, pp. 791-800
  10. Dhar, A. S.  and  Islam, M. K. (2006). Water supply and sewerage    pipeline system in Bangladesh: prospects of trenchless installation methods, 24th International NO-DIG Conference 2006, Queensland,  Australia
  11. Ahmed, M. Z., Hussaini, T. M., Ahsan, R. and Islam, M. K. (2006).  Seismic Risk Reduction in Bangladesh: The Network Approach, CEMCT- 06, Civil  Engineering: Meeting the Challenges of Tomorrow, Guru  Nanak Dev  Engineering College, Ludhiana, India
  12. Islam, M. K. and Talukder, K. (2005). Finite Element Analysis of a Service Pile in c-φ soil using the Mohr-Coulomb model, Third Annual Paper Meet and International Conference in Civil Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 291-296
  13. Islam, M. K. (2003). Behaviour of Circular Footings Under Inclined Loading, Paper No: BD09, 12th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Singapore
  14. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and  Airey, D. W. (2001). A Study of Surface Footings on Carbonate Soils, Developments in Engineering and Technology, Proceedings Brunei International Conference on Engineering  and Technology, Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam, pp.73- 85
  15. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and  Airey, D.W. (1999). A Constitutive Model  for Carbonate Sediments, Proceedings 8th  Australia New Zealand  Conference on Geomechanics, Hobart, Vol 1, pp. 961-967
  16. Vafeian, M., Airey, D. W., Carter, J. P. and Islam, M. K. (1999).  Analysis  of  pressuremeter tests in calcareous soils, Engineering for Calcareous  Sediments, Al Shafei (ed), Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 283-290
  17. Al-Hussaini, T. M., Seraj, S. M., Islam, M. K., Safiullah, A. M. M. and  Chowdhury, J. R. (1999). A methodology for selecting of post-disaster shelter, Proceedings of the Second Dhaka Housing and Hazard International Seminar on Affordable Village Building Technologies: From   Research to  Realisation, pp. 61-77
  18. Islam, M. K., Carter, J. P. and Airey, D. W. (1998). Model Simulation of  Calcareous Sediments, The Geotechnics of Hard Soils-Soft Rocks,  Evangelista & Picarelli (eds), Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 561-569
  19. Carter, J. P., Bransby, M. F., Taeibat, H. and Islam, M. K. (1998). Recent Developments in the Analysis of Offshore Foundations, Computer Methods  and Advances in Geomechanics, Yuan (ed), Wuhan, Balkema, Rotterdam,  pp. 2435-2444
  20. Kabir, M. H., Hossein, N. B., Islam, M. K. and Akhteruzzaman, M.  (1993).  Some aspect of mat foundations for  design of tall  buildings in  Dhaka  subsoil,  Presented in IEB Specialty Conference on Tall Buildings   in   Developing Countries, Institute of Engineers, Dhaka, Bangladesh