Resilient Design and Construction of Geostructures Against Natural Hazards

Laboratory Evaluation and Neural Network Modeling of Treated Macau Marine Clay.- Prediction of Seismic Site Coefficients for Northeast Arkansas.- Rheological Characterization and Computational Fluid Simulation of Foam.- Conditioned Muck during EPB Shield Tunneling in Gravelly Sand Stratum.- Earthquake Damage Estimation using RADIUS model (Case Study: Tehran).- Hydro-mechanics analysis on the strength development of cement-stabilized cracked clay.- Progressive Growth of Calcium Carbonate during MICP Process.- Large strain consolidation with time and distance dependent boundary conditions.- Effects of drilling uncertainty and seepage flow on the heat transfer in artificial ground freezing.- Finite element analysis of strain localization in natural clay using elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model.- Analysis of calculated subgrade settlement in the loess area.- Stress-Controlled Direct Shear Tests Of Straw Fiber Reinforced Loess.- Enhancement of expansive soils with the treatment of lignosulfonate.

Prof Behzad Fatahi is Head of Discipline (Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering)and Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has published more than 100peer reviewed journal papers related to civil/geotechnical/structural engineering.He hasabout 10 years of industry experience in the field of civil/ geotechnical engineering in consulting companies such as Coffey and Soil Engineering Services (SES) resulting in more than 50 major technical reports for clients. Behzad was named Australasia Young Railway Engineer of Year by Engineers Australia and Railway Technical Society of Australasia. Behzad was also awarded the first prize Young Geotechnical Professional by the Australian Geomechanics Society (Sydney Office).His research and practical interests include ground improvement techniques for roads and railway lines, viscous behaviour of clays, bioengineering, soil-structure-interaction, and unsaturated soil mechanics. Prof Fatahi hasworked significantly on design of bridges, structures and foundations against earthquakes and has been researching on new design and construction techniques to improve performance of these structures under large earthquakes and fault ruptures.





Prof Shenen Chen is professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a registered professional engineer with a research interest in Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges, Power Transmission Structure Design, Geophysics and Mining Science. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the West Virginia University. He has authored, co-authored and edited 92 journal papers, 15 books and book chapters and 80 peer-reviewed conference papers. He is a Fulbright Scholar, Indian GIAN and TEQIP visiting professor (National Institute of Technology Trichy), high-end experts for Tongji University and Sichuan University of