Position:

Assistant Professor

Program Area:

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Phone:

Ex: 3155

Fax:

(+98-21) 77240398

Email:

salehzadeh AT ius.ac.ir

Education:

Mailing Address:

Ph.D.  

Manchester University, UK

M.S.  

Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

B.S.    

Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Civil designing of some projects

• Design and construction of the first national geotechnical centrifuge

• Preparation of national standards for unconfined and direct shear tests

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

• Civil designing of some projects

• Geotechnical studies of marine exploratory well- Hendijan 1

• Complementary studies of sporting stadium- Ghom

• Liquefaction potential zonation studies- Tehran south

• Quality control of Ghomrud water conveyance tunnel- Lots 3&4

• Member of supervising team for technical and economical evaluation of highway and railway tunneling methods and national manual preparation.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

• Tunneling/Soil Mechanics/Foundation Engineering/Soil Mechanics Lab. For BSc degree

• Advanced Soil Mechanics/Advanced Soil Mechanics Lab./Marine Geotechnics  For Postgraduate degree

• Lecturer for training workshops held by Transportation and Buildings Ministries, Engineering disciplinary Association, Tehran Manucipality

AFFILIATION

• Assistant Professor at Iran University of Science and Technology

• Head of Geotechnical Group since 2003

• Head of Quality controlling team at Sahel Consulting company for Karaj-tehran water conveyance tunnel

• Head of technical documenting team at 5^th lot of Ghom rud water conveyance  tunnel

Msc theses Supervising

• Stress-strain response at Emamzadeh Hashem (A.S.)- comparative study between numerical and - experimental methods

• Tehran south east  zonation for liquefaction potential using neural network and CPT results

• Excessive settlement  and deformation analysis of Mahabad earth dam

• Parametric study of Kish island carbonate sand under triaxial shearing

• Comparative study of carbonate  and quartz sands under direct shear testing

• Micro-zonation of liquefaction potential in the South-East of Tehran by CPT

• Reliability estimation of the tunnel- case study

• Back analysis of Talon tunnel by monitored data

• Behavior investigation of geosythetic-reinforced walls with geotechnical centrifuge

• Parametric study of the behavior of vertical sand trenches by geotechnical centrifuge

PHD thesIS Supervising

• Behavior of Non-Cemented and Cement Injected Carbonate Sands under Shear Loading

MEMBER OF ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

• Iranian Geotechnical Society

• Iranian Tunneling Association

• Iranian Civil Engineering Society

PUBLICATIONS

Papers

• Esna-ashari, M.; Salehzadeh, H.; Jafari, M.K.; Shafiee, A.; Ziaie Moayed, R. and Baziar, M.H. (2002)“Correlation between Cyclic Strength of Loose Silty Sands and CPT Results”, Proc. 12 ECEE Conf., Elsevier Science Ltd.

• Esna-ashari, M.; Baziar, M.H. and Salehzadeh, H. (2004)“Soil Classification using CPT Results”, Proc. 5^th  Int. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotech. Engng., New York, NY.

• Soleimani, K.; Baziar, M.H. and Salehzadeh, H. (2004)” Analysis of Excessive Deformation of the Mahabad Dam”, Proc. of  Computational Mechanics, WCCM VI in conjuction with APCOM 04, Tsinghua Un. Press & springer, Beijing, China.

• Salehzadeh, H. and Ghazanfari, E. (2004) “ Parametric Study of Kish Carbonate Sand Under Triaxial Shearing”, Proc.  of Int. Conf. on Geotech. Engng.,3 – 6 Oct., Sharjah – United Arab Emirates (UAE).

• Salehzadeh, H. ; Razeghi, H.R. and Soltani, M.H. (2004) “Comparative Study of Carbonate and Siliceous Sands under Direct Shear Testing”, Proc.  of Int. Conf. on Geotech. Engng.,3 – 6 Oct., Sharjah – United Arab Emirates (UAE).

• Parvizi, M. ;Merrifield, C. M. and Salehzadeh, H. (2004) “ Attentuation of Stress and Velocity Waves by Low Energy Dynamic Compaction”, 5^th Int. Conf. on Ground Improvement Techniques, March, Malaysia.

• Salehzadeh, H. and Ghazanfari, E. (2004) “ Parametric Study of Kish Carbonate Sand Under Triaxial Shearing”, Int. Jrn. of Civil Engng.,Dec., Vol. 2, No. 4  pp. 223-232.

• Salehzadeh, H.; Esna-ashari, M.; Ghazi Shiraz, M.H.; Baziar, M.H. (2005) “Tehran south east  zonation for liquefaction potential using CPT  and numerical evaluation”, Proc. of  4^th Int. Conf on Earhquake and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran, Iran (in Persain).

• Hassanloo-rad, M. and Salehzadeh, H.(2005) “Tunnel Initial Support Confident Evaluation ” Proc. Of  6^th  Conf. on Tunneling, Tehran, Iran (in Persian).

• Salehzadeh, H, Procter, D.C. and Merrifield, C.M.(2005) “ A Carbonate Sand Particle Crushing under Monotonic Loading”, Int. Jrn. of Civil Engng.,Sept., Vol. 3, Nos. 3&4, pp. 140-152.

• Salehzadeh, H, Procter, D.C. and Merrifield, C.M.(2006) “ Medium Dense Non-Cemented Carbonate Sand under Reversed  Cyclic Loading”, Int. Jrn. of Civil Engng.,March, Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 54-64.

• Choobbasti, A.J., Heshmati, A.A.R. and Shalehzadeh H., (2008), ”Numerical Simulation of Undrained Behaviour”, Computational Mechanics in Engineering in UK, 16^th ACME Annual Conference UK, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1-2 April Proc., pp. 74-78.

• Shahnazari, H., Salehzadeh, H. and Askarinejad, A.(2008) “ Determination of Virtual Cohesion in Unsaturated Sand Trenches using Geotechnical Centrifuge”, Int. Jrn. of Civil Engng.,March, Vol. 6, No. 1 pp. 1-10.

• Askarinejad, A. Shahnazari, H., Salehzadeh, H. and. Zare, M.(2008) “ Failure Surface Determination using Image Processing in Geotechnical Centrifuge Tests”, 2^nd BGA Conf. on Foundations-ICOF,June, Dundee, Scotland, pp. 653-662. 

Books (In Persian- All translated)

• Soil Mechanics-Vol. 1

• Soil Mechanics- vol. 2

• Soil Mechanics Lab. Manual

• TBM in Faulted and Jointed Rocks Soil Mechanics

• An Introduction to critical state Soil Mechanics

• Tunnel and Shaft in Rock

• Mohr Circles, Stress Paths and Geotechnics