Professor

Full Name: Alemayehu Teferra
Academic rank: Emeritus Professor
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: alemayehu.teferra@aait.edu.et
Tel: +251 924 356454
Address: Addis Ababa Institute of Technology
King George VI St Addis Ababa 1000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Office number: 239

Research interest:

• Geotechnical earthquake engineering
• Stability and stabilization of slopes
• Soil stabilization
• Properties of tropical soils
• Soil modelling
• In-situ and laboratory measurements of soil properties







Teaching

Course Code	Course Name	Level of Course	Other remarks
CEng 6206	Advanced Soil Mechanics	Masters
CENG 6212	Field exploration, Soil Testing and Monitoring	Masters
CENG 6208	Analysis of Slopes, Earth Retaining Structures and Underground Conduits.	Masters
CENG 6209	Engineering Properties of Tropical Soil	Master
CEng 6204	Advanced Foundation Engineering	PhD

Scientific, academic and artistic work
Journal publications

• Analysis and parametric study of piled raft foundation using finite-element based software
  Plaxis-3D”. Journal of the Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineers (EACE). Vol.8-No.8,2018
• Effect of sample preparation and testing procedure on the geotechnical properties of
  tropically weathered residual, lateritic soils”. Zede: Journal of Ethiopian Engineers and Architects, Vol.33,2015
• Improved mathematical models for particle-size distribution data representation of
  tropical weathered residual soils”. Zede: Journal of the Ethiopian and Engineers and Architects. Vol.32,2014
• On the Assessment of the Dynamic Response of Soils”. Zede: Journal of the Ethiopian
  Association of Engineers and Architects, Vol. 9, 1991
• A Study on the Stability of the Stelae of Axum”. The Journal of CIB. Building Research and
  Practice No. 4, July/August 1989
• Investigation on the Expansive Soils of Addis Ababa”. Zede: Journal of the Ethiopian
  Association of Engineers and Architects, Vol. 7, 1986
• Design of Mat Foundation using the Method of the Modulus of Compressibility”. African
  Journal of Science and Technology, Vol., 5, No. 2, 1986
• Design of Mat Foundation using the Method of the Modulus of Subgrade Reaction”. African
  Journal of Science and Technology, Vol., 4, No. 2, 1985
• Estimation of the Angle of Internal Friction of Non-Cohesive Soils from Sounding Tests”.
  Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1983
• Estimation of Settlement of Rigid Footings”. Zede: Journal of the Ethiopian Association of
  Engineers and Architects, 1983.
• Relation Between Liquid Limit and Shear Strength of Soils”. Materials Research and
  Standards (ASTM) Vol. 5, No. 11, November, 1965

Books

• Soil Mechanics - Addis Ababa University Press, 1999
• Foundation Engineering - Addis Ababa University Press ,1992
• Principles of Foundation Engineering - Addis Ababa University Press, 2008 ,2013#
• Formulae, Charts and Tables in the area of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering.
  Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, 1988
• Soil Mechanics- Faculty of Technology, Addis Ababa University, 1981