Mohammed Boulfiza, Ph.D.

University of Saskatchewan
Department of Civil Engineering
57 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9
Ph: 306.966.5299
Fax: 306.966.5427
Email: moh.boulfiza@usask.ca

Dr. Boulfiza is Associate Professor of Civil and Geological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His research activities deal with the entire life of cement-based materials and structures in their natural environments.

After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1998 from The University of British Columbia, he worked on a highly multidisciplinary project in Japan involving Government, Academia and Industry on the development of the necessary tools (constitutive models and numerical codes) for a rational fully integrated durability-structural analysis procedure for concrete infrastructure.

The evolution of concrete and reinforcement deterioration under the simultaneous action of mechanical loading and chemical attacks represent the core of Dr. Boulfiza’s research. His current areas of interest include durability mechanics of cement-based materials and structures, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling of materials, damage mechanics, high performance concrete. The thermodynamics of continuous media is used as the unifying medium of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and chemistry. Numerical simulations and experiments are typically conducted to investigate the very long-term performance of reinforced concrete structures under the combined action of mechanical loading and harsh environments. Long-term field performance of both metallic reinforcing steels (Carbon Steel, MMFX, Stainless Steels, etc.)  and FRP composites in concrete are being evaluated.

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