Dr. Mubeen Beg presented his research paper at HYDRO-2009

ALIGARH February 4:* Dr Mubeen Beg, Associate Professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University has presented his research
paper entitled "Local Scour at Bridge Piers Placed in Transverse
Arrangement" in the National Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources,
Coastal and Environmental Engineering (HYDRO-2009) organized by the Indian
Society for Hydraulics (ISH), Central Water & Power Research Station (CWPRS)
Pune, Groundwater Survey Development Agency (GSDA) and UNICEF. In his paper
Dr. Beg focused on the effect of mutual interference of bridge piers on
local scour and recommended safe spacing between adjacent piers for the
purpose of safety of bridges constructed on rivers.

Dr. Mubeen also chaired a technical session in the conference along with
Professor Emeritus, IIT, Roorkee and former Pro-Vice Chancellor of lGNOU, R.
J. Garde.

Earlier Dr. Beg had presented his research papers in Netherlands and
Singapore on the safety of bridges against local scour. Dr. Beg has obtained
his Ph.D. Degree on the Effect of Mutual Interference of Bridge Piers on
Local Scour.