Civil and Architectural Engineering

Books:

  1. Shadmani, A., Mohammad Reza Nikoo, and Amir H. Gandomi. 2025. Ocean Wave Energy Technology: Fundamentals of Wave Farm Design. 1st ed. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95040-7
  2. Alalouch, C., Abdalla, H., Bozonnet, E., Elvin, G., Carracedo, O. (Eds.). 2019. Advanced Studies in Energy Efficiency and Built Environment for Developing Countries - Proceedings of IEREK Conferences: Improving Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries (ISCDC-2), Egypt 2017 and Alternative and Renewable Energy Quest in Architecture and Urbanism (AREQ-2), Spain 2017. Springer, 978-3-030-10856-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10856-4
  3. Rosso, F., Yousef M. Ghoneem, M., Cavalagli, N., Mohareb, N., Alalouch, C., Hawkes, D., Bougdah, H. (Eds.).  2019. Conservation of Architectural Heritage - A Culmination of Selected Research Papers from the Second International Conference on Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH-2), Egypt 2018. Springer, 978-3-030-10870-0. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10871-7
  4. Alalouch, C. and Waris, M.B. Edit. 2018. The Book of Abstracts of the 1st National Conference on Civil and Architectural Engineering. ISBN: 978-99969-3-060-7.
  5. Baawain, M.S., Choudri, B.S., Ahmed, A., Purnama, A. 2015. Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-19123-2.
  6. Benkari-Boudidah, N. 2014. L,architecture des Mosquées Ibadites au M,Zab, Djerba et Oman Tome II : Lecture des Principes de Conception et de Construction. Presse Académiques Francophones, ISBN: 978- 3841622808.
  7. Benkari-Boudidah N. 2013. L'architecture des mosquées Ibadites au M'Zab, Djerba et Oman Tome I: Lecture des principes de conception et de construction. Presses Académiques Francophones. ISBN: 978-3841621832.
  8. Mandour, M. 2012. Contemporary Architecture of Islamic Societies between Globalization and Traditions. UTM Publishers Ltd, ISBN: 978-1466619739.

 

 

Book Chapters:

  1. El-Diasty, M., A. Al-Hashim, and R. Abdalla. 2026. "An Efficient UAV-Based LIDAR System for Urban Mapping and Modeling Applications." In Geospatial Innovation: Igniting Smart Cities, Eco-Synergy, and Urban Resurgence, edited by R. N. Yadava and U. Ujang. Sustainable Landscape Planning and Natural Resources Management. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96965-2_12
  2. Abdelfattah, H. F. H., and Khalid Al-Shamsi. 2025. "Estimation of Damage Cost from Truck Overload on Flexible Pavements Based on Rutting Performance." International Journal of Pavement Engineering 26 (1). doi:10.1080/10298436.2025.2525524.
  3. Abdelfattah, H. F. H., and K. Al-Shamsi. 2025. "Estimating Damage Cost of Truck Overweight on Flexible Pavements in Oman Using MEPDG Rutting Model." Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 10: 296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-025-02080-0
  4. Hassan, H. F., Khalid Al-Shamsi, Khalifa Al-Jabri, and Saba Al Amri. 2025. "Evaluation of the Rutting Performance of Hot-Mix Asphalt Concrete Containing Ferrochrome Slag Aggregate." Construction Materials 5, no. 2: 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/constrmater5020035
  5. Yavari, Z., Amirreza Shahmiri, and Mohammad Reza Nikoo. 2026. "Accessible Reservoir Water Quality Monitoring: An Integrated Google Earth Engine and Machine Learning Framework." Environmental Modelling & Software 196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106767
  6. Al Balushi, N. J., Al-Mamun, A., Al Hasani, Z., Yavari, Z., Sana, A., and Dhar, B. R. 2025. "Architectures of Microbial Electrosynthesis Cell for Acetate Extraction: A Mini Review." Bioresource Technology Reports 102135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2025.102135
  7. Ehsanifar, M., and Z. Yavari. 2025. "Neurotoxicity Following Exposure to Micro and Nanoplastics." OBM Neurobiology 9 (1): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2501277
  8. Al Abri, Dawood, Arif S. Malik, Saleh Al-Saadi, Mohammed Albadi, Yassine Charabi, and Nasser Hosseinzadeh. 2025. "Smart Grids and Smart Buildings." In Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, pp. 2767-2822. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  9. Al-Khatri, Hanan, and Mohamed B. Gadi. "Thermal comfort contradiction in public spaces: The case of educational buildings." In Sustainable and Healthy Building Environments, pp. 271-296. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2023.
  10. Al-Khatri, Hanan. "Exploring the Potential of Adaptive Behavior as a Tool Intended for Comfort and Saving Energy." In Removing Barriers to Environmental Comfort in the Global South, pp. 133-143. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.
  11. Bakhtiari, Parnian Hashempour, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, and Amir H. Gandomi. "Evolutionary computation techniques for optimal response actions against water distribution networks contamination." In Comprehensive Metaheuristics, pp. 65-84. Academic Press, 2023.
  12. Geranmehr, Mohammadali, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Ghazi Al-Rawas, Khalifa Al-Jabri, and Amir H. Gandomi. "Application of metaheuristic algorithms in optimal design of sewer collection systems." Comprehensive Metaheuristics (2023): 153-161.
  13. Rifaat, A., El-Diasty, M., Andrey Kostogryzov, and Nikolay Makhutov, eds. Time Series Analysis: New Insights. BoD–Books on Demand, 2023.
  14. Shadmani, Alireza, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, and Amir H. Gandomi. "Robust Optimization of PTO Settings for Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter." In Handbook of Formal Optimization, pp. 1-19. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.
  15. Yousefi-Khoshqalb, Ehsan, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, and Amir H. Gandomi. "Optimal deployment of sensors for leakage detection in water distribution systems using metaheuristics." In Comprehensive Metaheuristics, pp. 269-291. Academic Press, 2023.
  16. Abbasi, A., Alalouch, C., Saleh, M.S. 2022. Toward Resilient and Socially Sustainable Places: A Pedagogical Experiment on the Use of Placemaking in Design Studios. In: Resilient and Responsible Smart Cities. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, Springer, pp. 237–247
  17. Al-Hashim A., Al-Saadi S., Al-Khatri H. 2022. Comfort at The Extremes CATE21 Conference Proceedings. SQU, 978-99969-4-951-7.
  18. Al-Hashim, A., and Al-Khatri, H. 2022. Souq Mutrah: A Hub for Cultural Exchange in the Gulf of Oman. In: Architecture and Urban Transformation of Historical Markets: Cases from the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, pp. 186-198.
  19. Aliya Al-Hashim, Hanan Al-Khatri 2022. Souq Muttrah: A Hub for Cultural Exchange in the Gulf of Oman. In: Architecture and Urban Transformation of Historical Markets: Cases from the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, pp. 186-199.
  20. Al-Khatri, H., and Gadi, M.B. 2022. Thermal Comfort Contradiction in Public Spaces: The Case of Educational Buildings. In: Sustainable and Healthy Building Environments, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 271-296.
  21. Al-Mamun, A.  2022. Microbial desalination cell (MDC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery: Various Challenges. In: Novel Approaches towards Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies, ELSEVIER, pp.  73-108.
  22. Waris M.B., Al- Jabri K., Bhuta W.H. and El-Hussain I. 2022.  Incremental Dynamic Analysis of a Hospital Building in Oman. In: Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling, and Design of Structural Systems, CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 128-131.
  23. Waris M.B., Al-Hadi H. and Al-Nuaimi A. 2022. Influence of Infill Walls on Lateral Load Carrying Capacity of Buildings. In: Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling, and Design of Structural Systems, CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 203-207.
  24. Baawain, M.S., Al-Sabahi, J.N., Al-Wardy, M.M., Sana, A., Chitrakar, P., Al-Yaqoob, A.H.  2019. Oil and Chemical Spills. In: Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Elsevier, pp. 750–757
  25. Pandit, S., Jadhav, D. A., & Al‐Mamun, M.A., & Fosso‐Kankeu, E. 2019. Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment: A New Approach. In: Nano and Bio‐Based Technologies for Wastewater Treatment: Prediction and Control Tools for the Dispersion of Pollutants in the Environment. John Wiley, pp. 303-337
  26. Alalouch, C., Piselli, C., Cappa, F. (Eds) 2021. Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries. Springer, ISBN (Online): 978-3-030-74349-9, ISBN ( Hardcover):  978-3-030-74348-2.
  27. Sajana T.K., Pandit S., Dipak A.J., Al-Mamun A. and Fosso-Kankeu, E. 2018. Sediment Microbial Fuel Cell for Wastewater Treatment: A New Approach. In: Scrivener Publishing LLC, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 541J, Beverly, MA. ISBN:01915-6106.
  28. Al-Mamun, A. 2017. Pesticide Degradations, Residues and Environmental Concerns. In: Khan, M.S. and Rahman, M.S. (Eds). Pesticide Residue in Foods: Sources, Management, and Control, Springer, New York, pp. 87-102.
  29. Amer, M., Sotoca, A., Naselli, F., Mohareb, N. and Alalouch, C., Edit. 2017. Alternative & Renewable Energy Quest in Architecture & Urbanism. Elsevier, Energy Procedia, Volume 115, ISSN 1876-6102.
  30. Carughi, U. et al. 2017. Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage, Routledge. Dr Naima Benkari contributed with the Chapter about Oman.
  31. Zhai, Z., Al-Saadi, S.N., El Mankibi, M. and Slowinski R. 2017. Breathing and Living Walls” Chapter: 3 in Advanced Energy Efficient Building Envelope Systems, Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Editors: M. Krarti, pp. 75-130.
  32. Shaaban A.K. and Khudhayer W. 2016. Responding to Environmental Constraints for Sustainable Urban Space in Muscat Region. In: Nebel, S. and Richthofen, A. (Eds.). Urban Oman - Trends and Perspectives of Urbanization in Muscat Capital Area, LIT Verlag, pp 195-210.
  33. Baawain, M.S., Choudri, B.S., Ahmed, M., Purnama, A. 2015. An Overview: Desalination, Environmental and Marine outfall systems. In: Baawain, M.S., Choudri, B.S., Ahmed, M., Purnama, A. (Eds.). Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems, Springer, pp. 3-10.
  34. Sana, A. 2015. Hydrodynamic and Thermal Dispersion Modeling of the Effluent in a Coastal Channel. In: M. Baawain, B.S. Choudri, M. Ahmed and A. Purnama (Eds.). Recent Progress in Desalination, Environmental and Marine Outfall Systems, Springer, pp. 269-283
  35. Benkari, N. 2015. Les Caractéristiques de l’ArchitecturereligieuseIbadite: Etude des mosquéesdans la vallée du M’zab, à Djerba, DjebelNafusa et les piedmonts Omanais. In: Davie, M. (Ed.). Le Patrimoine Architectural de l’EgliseOrthodoxed’Antioche. Publications of the University of Balamand, Lebanon, pp. 203-224.
  36. Gunawardhana, L.N. and Al-Rawas, G.A. 2014. Trends in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation in Muscat, Oman. In: Castellarin, A., Ceola, S., Toth, E. and Montanari, A. (Eds.). Evolving Water Resources Systems: Understanding, Predicting and Managing, Water-Society Interactions, IAHS Publication, pp. 57-63.
  37. Baawain, M.S. 2012. Impinging-Jet Ozone Bubble Column Reactors. In: Rao, D.G., Senthilkumar, R., Byrne, J.A., and Feroz, S. (Eds.). Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Processes and Technologies. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Co-Publisher: IWA Publishing, London, pp. 107-136.
  38. Baawain, M.S., and Sana, A. 2012. Feasibility of Treated Wastewater Application for Aquifer Recharge to Defy Saline Water Intrusion. In: Hadi, S. and Copty, N.K. (Eds.). Groundwater Modeling and Management under Uncertainty. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 169-174.
  39. Tetzlaff, D., Al-Rawas, G., Blöschl, G., Carey, S.K., Fan, Y., Hrachowitz, M., Kirnbauer, R., Jewitt, G., Laudon, H., McGuire, K. J., Sayama, T., Soulsby, C., Zehe, E. and Wagener, T. 2012. Process Realism: Flow Paths and Storage. In: Blöschl, G., Sivapalan, M., Wagener, T., Wagener, T. (Eds). Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Synthesis across Processes, Places and Scales, Cambridge University Press, UK.
  40. Mandour, M. 2012. Building Walls and Dissolving Borders. In: Stephenson, M. and Zanotti, L. (Eds). The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space, Virginia Tech University, USA- Ashgate Publishers.
  41. Perera, R. and Permana, A.S. 2012. Integrating Land Use, Transport, Energy and the Environment: The Case of Bandung, Indonesia. In: Zusman, E., Sirinivasan, A. and Dhakal, S. (Eds.). Low Carbon Transport in Asia, Earthscan, pp.159-178.
  42. Baawain, M.S., Sana, A., Al-Sabahi, J.N., Al-Wardy, M.M. and Al-Yaqoobi, A.H. 2011. Oil and Chemical Spills. In: Nriagu, J.O. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, volume 4, Elsevier, pp. 231-239.
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