Faculty Members of the Department of Civil Engineering

• Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
• Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
• In-Situ Soil Testing
• Static and Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction
• Numerical Modeling
• Case Studies
• ​​​​​​​Geohazard

• ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems)
• Traffic Control Strategies
• Smart Cities
• ​​​​​​​Traffic Flow Theory

• New Monitoring and Control Guidelines Based on BIM for Construction Projects in Tehran Province
• Design and Project Management of a New Innovation Center Based on BIM
• Application of BIM in Construction Procurement
• Application of BIM in the Maintenance and Operation Phase
• BIM-Based Project Management in Hospital Construction
• A New Approach to Road Safety Management Using BIM
• Development of BIM Vision and Strategic Plan for Tehran Province
• Use of Discrete Event Simulation in Airport Development Improvement
• Application of Augmented Reality in Building and Real Estate Marketing
• Enhancing Safety in Construction Projects Using BIM Capabilities

• Structural Engineering
• Earthquake Engineering
• Plate and Shell Structures
• Industrial Buildings
• High-Rise Buildings
• ​​​​​​​Construction Technology

• ​​​​​Environmental Geotechnics
• Ground Improvement
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Liquefaction Modeling
• Petroleum Geomechanics
• ​​​​​​​​​​​Computational Geomechanics

• Techniques for Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Existing Structures
• Application of Polymer Concrete
• Testing and Modeling of Soil-Structure Interface
• Constructive Laws Using Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing Methods (Finite Element Method)
• Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring Using Ultrasonic Techniques
• Design and Fabrication of Innovative New Testing Devices
• Laboratory Testing of Structural Components
• Application of Green Building Materials
• Application of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP)
• Moisture Analysis of Structural Elements

• Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Analysis
• Hydrology Modeling
• Qualitative River Modeling
• Flood Modeling, Control, and Management in Urban Watersheds
• Artificial Intelligence

• Active and Passive Structural Control
• Nonlinear Structural Analysis
• Base Isolation
• Seismic Vulnerability Analysis and Retrofitting of Structures and Lifelines.

• ​​​​ Structural Performance of Non-rectangular RC Shear Walls
•   Cyclic Response of Curved Structural Elements
•    Curved RC/SP Shear Walls
•   Dynamic Response Assessment of Horizontally Curved Beams (HCBs) 
•    Design and Construction of Complicated and Innovative Test Setups for Experimental Programs
•    Laboratory Testing of Structural Components

• Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Stratified Flows, Mixing in Surface Waters, Lake Dynamics)
• Numerical Methods in Engineering (Finite Element Method, Boundary Element Method, Finite Difference Method)
• Coastal and Ocean Engineering (Wave Hydrodynamics, Offshore Structures, Coastal Sediment Transport, Numerical Modeling)
• Thin-Walled Structures

• Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Liquefaction, Landslides and Local Effects, Microzonation, Laboratory Testing, Physical and Numerical Modeling, Field Testing and Evaluation)
• Static and Dynamic Behavior and Properties of Earth Dams
• Soil Characteristics Including Unsaturated Soils and Cemented Sandy Soils
• Implementation of Neural Networks and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Geotechnical Engineering
• Deep Excavations and Related Retaining Structures

• Application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing in Water and Environmental Engineering
• Hydrological Modeling for Quantifying Water and Solute Movement Characteristics in Hydrological Systems
• Development of Quantitative and Qualitative Water Monitoring Systems
• Coupled Simulation of Water and Energy Cycles Using Physical Hydrological Models
• Agent-Based Modeling in Water Resources Management

• Water Engineering, Hydrodynamics, and Sediment Transport
• Environmental Engineering, Pollution Dispersion and Diffusion
• Hydraulic, Marine, and Pipeline Engineering
• Renewable Energies and Hydroge

•     Watershed Systems Analysis & Modelling
•     Sensitivity & Uncertainty Analysis of Environmental Systems Models
•     Machine Learning Techniques with Application in Water Resources
•     Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty

• Urban Transportation Planning; Road, Rail, and Air Transport
• Applications of Operations Research and Soft Computing
• Transit Network Design and Planning
• Machine Learning and Simulation in Transportation

• Reliablity of Structures 
• Risk
• Resilliance 
• Optimization 
• Survey of the Safety of Structures

• Analysis of Strain Localization
• Calculational Nanomechanics 
• Calculational Felexibilty (FEM، X_FEM and Meshless methods)
• Calculational Fracture Mechanics 
• Calculational Soil Mechanics 
• Analysis of Large Deformations 
• Contact and Frictional Modeling 
• Error estimation and adaptivity for plasticity problems

•     Decision Analysis of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
•     Economics of the Construction Industry
•     Quantitative Methods in Construction Management
•     Innovative Project Delivery Systems (IPDS)
•     Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF)​​​​​​​

•     Multiphysics of natural and engineered soils
•     Green geotechnology and urban greenery
•     Bioremediation of contaminated soils
•     Ecohydrology of rhizosphere
•     Natural hazard mitigation

•     Environmental Fluid Mechanics
•     Hydrodynamics
•     Lake Modeling
•     Ocean and Coastal Engineering Remote Sensing and GIS
•     Hydrology
•     Limnology and Oceanography
•     Computational Fluid Dynamics
•     Wave-Structure Interactions
•     Turbulence and mixing in stratified flows
•     Coastal processes
•     Surface water - groundwater interactions
•     Water Quality Modeling
•     Flood forecasting
•     Sediment and pollution transport
•     Water resilience

•     Urban Chimney, a method to solve air pollution
•     Roller compacted concrete gravity and arch dams, state of the art in analysis and design
•     Effect of foundation mass on seismic response of structures
•     Nonlinear seismic analysis of concrete dams using damage mechanics and smeared crack approaches
•     Experimental study of small scale model of concrete dams
•     Effect of construction joints on the seismic response of concrete dams
•     Experimental investigation for determination of specific fracture energy of dam concrete
•     Alkali aggregate reaction (AAR) effect on concrete dams
•     Temperature effects on the response of concrete arch dams
•     Hydro seismic isolation of concrete dams
•     Stability of staggered solution schemes for fluid-structure interaction
•     Retrofit of concrete gravity dams using advanced nonlinear finite element analysis
•     Application of Advanced finite element analysis techniques to bridge analysis with (Abacus) box girder alternative, post-tensioned concrete cast-in-place

•     Structural Engineering
•     Earthquake Engineering
•     Vibration of Structures under Moving Mass

•     Structural Engineering
•     Earthquake Engineering
•     Thin-walled Structures

• Erathquake Engineering
• Calculational Mechanics 

•     Theory and application of performance-based design
•     Application of Adaptation Theory for optimum seismic performance design
•     Effects of strain jump phenomenon on seismic performance of structural elements such as connections and braces
•     Fragility of steel structures, bracings, connections, RC shear walls, masonry and concrete infills
•     Arching action and out of plane resistance of masonry infills
•     Development of R factor using FEMA P695 approach
•     Seismic Behaviour of Steel, Concrete, and Masonry Structures Seismic retrofitting of masonry, steel and RC structures interaction
•     Retrofitting RC structures using FRP and Steel Strips
•     Seismic Behaviour of Infilled Frames
•     Masonry, RC and Steel Shear Walls Dynamic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
•     Dynamic Characteristics of Shaking Tables
•     Application of Base Isolations and dampers
•     Development of Seismic Loading for Space Structures

•     Seismic design of buildings & bridges
•     Seismic isolation
•     Steel connections
•     Metallic yielding dampers

• Micro-/Nano-mechanics 
• MEMS/NEMS، Nano-antenna, Metamaterials
• Piezo-electro-magnetic media
• Terahertz acoustic waves
•  Magneto-electro-elastic waves
• Strain gradient theories
• Polar theories
• Nonlocal theory
• Surface elasticity theory 
• Theoretical calculations of the constitutive parameters associated with various augmented continuum theories
•  Constitutive modeling of nanocomposites

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• Hydrometeorology
• climate change
• Extreme weather
• Environmental sustainability
• Remote sensing in hydroclimatology
• Anthropogenic forcing
• Adaptation and mitigation plans

•     Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
•     Physical Modeling
•     Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction
•     Ground Improvement

•     Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Development
•     Solutions, Principles, and Policies for Sustainable Development
•     Interaction Between Economic Systems and Construction Projects
•     Financial Planning in Projects Using Econometric Models for Predicting Environmental Factors
•     Analysis of Construction Projects Throughout the Life Cycle from a Circular Economy Perspective
•     Risk Management and Uncertainty Analysis for Managing Construction Projects in Inflationary Conditions
•     System Dynamics in Investment Project Analysis and Sustainable Development