TAREK ELKHORAIBI, PHD, PE

Since co-founding HE3 in early 2019, Tarek has been involved in the nuclear industry supporting the analysis, design and licensing efforts for new SMR. He has also led several projects including seismic evaluation of existing buildings, design and peer-review of new buildings, and the development of seismic risk models for industrial and educational facilities to help prioritize within large portfolios of structures for the purpose of maintenance and retrofit.

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Before founding HE3, Tarek worked on a variety of large-scale projects at Bechtel's San Francisco office which he joined in 2007. One example is the currently under construction Nuclear Power Plant at Vogtle Units 3&4, where he was involved at different stages of the project to support the licensing effort starting from site response analysis to develop the seismic design motion, soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis to determine seismic demands for structural design and equipment qualification, and seismic probabilistic risk assessment (SPRA) for seismic margin evaluation. Other projects included licensing permit applications for several nuclear power plants, Hanford Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) and SPRA for new and existing plants.

​Ph.D.     UC Berkeley- Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Major in Structural Engineering

• Minors in Geotechnical Engineering and Statistics

• Thesis: Generalized Hybrid Simulation Framework for Structural Systems Subjected to Seismic Loading

M.Sc.     Cairo University, Egypt – Structural Engineering

B.Sc.      Cairo University, Egypt – Civil Engineering

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Teaching as Assistant Professor at Cairo University:

• Properties and strength of materials

• Technical writing

• Todorovski, L., Elkhoraibi, T., Hashemi, A., Tesoriero, T., and Supler, J., "Generic Design of Depply Embedded Small Modular Reactors," Proceeding of SMiRT-26, Berlin/Potsdam, Germany, July 10-15, 2022

• Electric Power Research Institute, “Advanced Nuclear Technology: High-Frequency Seismic Loading Evaluation for Standard Nuclear Power Plants” EPRI, Palo Alto, CA:2017. 3002009429.

• Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T. and Ostadan, F. “Effects of Structural Nonlinearity and Foundation Sliding on Probabilistic Response of a Nuclear Structure Nuclear Engineering and Design” Nuclear Engineering and Design, v.295, pp.887-900, 2015.

• Elkhoraibi, T., Hashemi, A. and Ostadan, F. “Probabilistic and deterministic soil structure interaction analysis including ground motion incoherency effects” Nuclear Engineering and Design, v.269, pp.250-255, 2014.

• Elkhoraibi, T. and Hashemi, A. “Integrated soil-structure fragility analysis method for nuclear structures” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, January 10-13, 2011.

• Anderson, L.M. and Elkhoraibi, T. “Structure-to-soil-to-structure interaction analysis: a case study” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, May 24-29, 2010.

• Elkhoraibi, T. and Mosalam, K. “Generalized Hybrid Simulation Framework for Structural Systems Subjected to Seismic Loading” Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center, PEER Report 2007/101.

• Elkhoraibi, T. and Mosalam, K. “Towards error-free hybrid simulation testing using mixed variables” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, published in Wiley InterScience, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.691, March 2007.