Biography

I was born and raised in Iran, where I received my BSc in Civil Engineering in 2017 from Amirkabir University of Technology and graduated from Sharif University of Technology in 2020 with an MSc in Structural Engineering after doing my thesis on rehabilitating brick masonry buildings using shotcrete. I have also been a Civil Engineering PhD student at the University of California – Davis (US) during the 2021 academic year before joining TU Delft in 2022.

Expertise

I have widely worked on the experimental and numerical study of Masonry buildings throughout my education: from leading a shake table test on an unreinforced/retrofitted Clay Brick room to developing my macro-modeling package for Earth Block constructions. Our current research at TU Delft focuses on computational simulation of the interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane damages in pristine and pre-damaged Masonry walls through comparing different modeling approaches, improving existing constitutive models, and proposing new solutions.

Projects

2022 – Present Computational modelling of interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane behavior in masonry walls. Supervisors: Dr. F. Messali, Prof. J.G. Rots. Applied Mechanics Section, Department 3MD, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

2020 – 2021 Macro-modeling framework for the analysis of Compressed and Stabilized Earth Block masonry constructions. Supervisor: Prof. M. Barbato. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis, USA.

2020 – 2021 Feasibility study of earth block construction as an economical and sustainable fireproof construction material to mitigate wildfire risk. Supervisor: Prof. M. Barbato. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis, USA.

2019 – 2020 Effects of flanges on ultimate strength and failure mode of masonry walls. Supervisor: Prof. K.M. Dolatshahi. Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2019 – 2020 Behaviour of single masonry walls with considering the variations in construction properties. Supervisor: Prof. K.M. Dolatshahi. Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2018 – 2020 Simplified fish-bone models for 2D Moment-resisting Steel frames. Supervisor: Prof. H. Estekanchi. Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

2018 – 2020 Experimental study on seismic behaviour of masonry buildings retrofitted with shotcrete. Supervisors: Prof. K.M. Dolatshahi, Prof. K. Beyer. Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

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