Date of birth: 03/04/1997

Nationality: Pakistani

Phone number: (+92) 3410002498 (Mobile)

Email address: engr.sheraz@uetmardan.edu.pk

Address: Village Landishah, Tehsil & P/O District Mardan, KPK, 54000, Pakistan (Home)

Teaching/Lab experience

1. Lab Engineer Civil (Junior Lecturer) at the university of engineering & technology (UET) Mardan (April 2022 to Present)
2. Lecturer at Government Polytechnic Institute Takhtbhai Mardan (Structural Analysis & RCC design + Lab) (15 Sept. 2019 to April 2022)

Duties as Lab Engineer (Civil)

1. Performing experiments to the bachelor’s degree students at UET Mardan in the following
   • Material testing lab
   • Mechanics lab
   • Survey Lab
   • Drawing lab
   • Public Health Engineering lab
2. Conducting commercial tests on various construction materials for the government
3. Engaged during MSc degree with supervisor Yuan Qiang (Central South University China, Changsha) on concrete research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Low carbon concrete
• Fiber-reinforced concrete
• Carbon footprint of concrete
• 3D printing concrete
• Utilization of waste rubber in concrete
• Utilization of solid wastes in concrete for sustainable construction
• Bond between new and old concrete

1. Predicting compressive and splitting tensile strengths of silica fume concrete using M5P model tree
2. Fresh and hardened properties of waste rubber tyre based concrete: A review
3. Surface and groundwater pollution: the invisible, creeping threat to human health.
4. Reliability Analysis of Macro-Modeling Techniques for Assessment of RC Beam-Column (Submitted)
5. Concrete reinforced with agriculture fibers (Hemp, Jute, Banana and coconut): A (Submitted)
6. Comparative Study of Design Codes and Models to Investigate the Effect of Shear-Span-to- Effective-Depth and Reinforcement Ratio on Shear Behavior of High Strength Concrete (Submitted)
7. Experimental investigations of wooden ash based concrete reinforced with nylon (Submitted)
8. Bond between new and old concrete – A review (In progress)

1. One-month survey camp
2. Training on various civil engineering labs equipment in the department of civil engineering, university of engineering & technology mardan
3. OBE (Objective based education) training workshop

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

LABORATORY TRAININGS (April 2022-November 2023)

Trained by Tequipment(TQ), GUNT, Ibertest, Armfield and other International vendors/ manufacturers on different lab equipment in the following Labs:

• Material Testing
• Engineering Mechanics
• Surveying
• Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

1. SC. RESEARCH THESIS

01/09/2021 – 13/06/2023

Effect of Waste Tire Rubber on Fresh and Hardened Properties of Concrete and Roadside Concrete

Barriers

The completion of the thesis was a prerequisite for attaining a Master's degree in structural engineering (Civil engineering). It also constituted a segment of the research effort, culminating in the subsequent publication of a research paper.

1. SC. RESEARCH THESIS

01/01/2019 – 01/06/2019

Compressive and Tensile strength of Concrete Containing Steel Fibers

The completion of the thesis was a prerequisite for attaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering

RESEARCH SKILLS

15/04/2022 – CURRENT

Material Lab Testing

• Proficient in working with the Universal Testing Machine (Ibertest 2000) for concrete compression and flexural tests moreover, performed elongation and tensile testing on steel reinforcement for different
• projects and pull-out tests on concrete cubes for assessment of bond strength in concrete cubes.
• Proficient in working with fresh concrete for different tests, i.e. workability, air entrainment, density, and tests related to finding the optimum quantity of admixtures.
• proficient in working with rebound hammer apparatus for non-destructive testing of concrete.
• Proficient in working with ultrasound pulse velocity apparatus to analyze the quality of hardened concrete.
• proficient in performing permeability and impact testing on concrete cylinders.

Additional Projects Conducted in Lab

15/04/2022 – CURRENT

• Wooden ash-based nylon fiber-reinforced concrete: an experimental study on concrete strength properties

• Concrete reinforced with agriculture fibers (Hemp, Jute, Banana and coconut): A review.