Dr Asaad Faramarzi BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCert

Dr Asaad Faramarzi

School of Engineering
Lecturer
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Civil Engineering Tutor (second year)

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 5050
Email
a.faramarzi@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Faramarzi is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering. His main research interests are computational mechanics, condition assessment of infrastructure, geomechanics including poroelasticity, reservoir engineering, and inter-particle interaction of granular assemblies. He also has interest in application of evolutionary computing in geomechanical and civil engineering problems, and design of materials with unusual elastic constants. He has published over 50 research papers in prestigious journals and international conferences.

Please contact Dr Faramarzi, if you are interested to pursue a PhD study in any of the aforementioned areas of research.

Qualifications

  • FHEA, 2014
  • PGCert in HE, 2014
  • PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, 2011
  • MSc in Structural Engineering, 2006
  • BSc (Eng) in Civil Engineering, 2004

Biography

Dr Faramarzi graduated with a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Exeter in 2011. After completion of his doctorate he started a postdoctoral position as a research fellow at the University of Greenwich to work on an EPSRC funded project titled: “Assessing current state of buried sewer systems and their remaining safe life”. He joined the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in 2014.  .

Research

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Numerical simulation of reservoir
  • Finite element modelling of geotechnical problems
  • Simulation and prediction of inter-particle interaction of granular assemblies
  • Design and optimisation of microstructures with unusual elastic behaviour
  • Application of evolutionary computing in geotechnical and civil engineering problems

Other activities

  • Chair, 25th UKACM Conference on Computational Mechanics, University of Birmingham, April 2017
  • Guest Editor: Environmental Geotechnics (ICE), special issue: Reservoir engineering: geo-environmental issues
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the 22nd ACME Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2014.
  • Member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), UK.

Publications

Journal Articles:

  • Alzabeebee, S., Chapman, D., Jefferson, I., Faramarzi, A. (2016), Theresponse of buried pipes to UK Standard traffic loading, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.15.00190
  • Mehravar, M., Harireche, O., Faramarzi, A. (2016), Evaluation of undrained failure envelopes of caisson foundations under combined loading, Applied Ocean Research, 59, pp. 129–137.
  • Harireche, O., Faramarzi, A. (2015), Prediction of inter-particle capillary forces for non-perfectly wettable granular assemblies, Granular Matter, 17(5), pp. 537-543.
  • Mehravar, M., Harireche, O., Faramarzi, A., Alani, A.M. (2015), Modelling the variation of suction pressure during caisson installation in sand using FLAC3D, Ships and Offshore Structures, doi: 10.1080/17445302.2015.1051311.
  • Alani, A.M., Faramarzi, A., Mahmoodian, M., Tee, K.F. (2014), Prediction of sulphide build-up in filled sewer pipes, Environmental Technology, 35(14): 1721-1728.
  • Alani, A.M., Faramarzi, A. (2015), Predicting the Probability of Failure of Cementitious Sewer Pipes using Stochastic Finite Element Method, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(6), pp. 6641-6656.
  • Alani, A.M., Faramarzi, A. (2014), An evolutionary approach to modelling concrete degradation due to sulphuric acid attack, Applied soft computing, (in press), doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2014.08.044.
  • Faramarzi, A., Alani, A.M., Harireche, O. (2013), A Hybrid Approach to Design Materials with Negative Linear Compressibility, Computational Materials Science, 79: 971-976.
  • Faramarzi, A., Alani, A. M., Javadi, A. A. (2013), An EPR-based Self-learning Approach to Material Modelling, Computers & Structures, 137: 63-71.
  • Harireche, O., Faramarzi, A., Alani, A.M. (2013), A Toroidal Approximation of the Polydisperse Contact Force in Granular Assemblies, Granular Matter, 15(5): 573-581.
  • Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A., Ahangar-Asr, A. (2012), Numerical Implementation of EPR-based Material Models in Finite Element Analysis, Computers and Structures, 118: 100-108.
  • Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A., Alani, A. M. (2012), EPR-based Material Modelling of Soils Considering Volume Changes, Computers & Geosciences, 48: 73-85.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., Ahangar-Asr, A. (2012), Analysis of behaviour of soils under cyclic loading using EPR-based finite element method, Finite Element in Analysis and Design, 58: 53-65.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., and Farmani, R. (2012), Design and Optimization of Microstructure of Auxetic Materials, Engineering Computations, 29(3): 260-276.
  • Javadi, A. A., Ahangar-Asr, A., Johari, A. Faramarzi, A. Toll, D. G. (2012), Modelling Stress-Strain and Volume Change Behaviour of Unsaturated Soils using an Evolutionary Based Data Mining Technique, an Incremental Approach, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 25(5): 926-933.
  • Rezania, M., Faramarzi, A., and Javadi, A. A. (2011), An evolutionary based approach for assessment of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction and lateral displacement, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 24(1): 142-153.
  • Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A. and Giustolisi, O. (2011), Modelling Mechanical Behaviour of Rubber Concrete Using Evolutionary Polynomial Regression, Engineering Computations, 28(4): 492-507.
  • Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Mottaghifard, N., Javadi, A. A., (2011), Modelling of Permeability and Compaction Characteristics of Soils using Evolutionary Polynomial Regression, Computers and Geosciences, lume 37(11), pages 1860-1869.
  • Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A. (2010), A New Approach for Prediction of the Stability of Soil and Rock Slopes, Engineering Computations, 27(7): 878-893.
  • Javadi, A. A., Mehravar, M., Faramarzi, A., Ahangar-Asr, A. (2009), An Artificial Intelligence Based Finite Element Method, ISAST Transactions on Computers and Intelligent Systems, 1(2): 1-7.

Selected conference publications:

  • Faramarzi, A., Harireche, O. Alani, A.M. (2014) Representation of Capillary forces in polydisperse granular assemblies in the pendular regime, 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, 18-20 June 2014, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • Faramarzi, A., Alani, A.M. (2014) Assessing the remaining safe life of concrete sewer pipes using stochastic finite element method, 22nd ACME Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2-4 April 2014, Exeter, UK.
  • Faramarzi, A., Alani, A.M. (2013) EPR-based material modelling of soils, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, EGU2013, Vienna, Austria, from 07–12 April 2013.
  • Alani, A.M., Faramarzi, A. (2013) Modelling degradation of concrete subject to sulphuric acid attack, International Conference on Computational Mechanics (CM13), 25-27 March 2013, Durham, UK.
  • Faramarzi, A, Alani, A.M. (2013) Probabilistic analysis of sewer pipes using finite element method, 3rd Annual International Conference on Civil Engineering, 10-13 June 2013, Athens, Greece.
  • Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A.A. (2013) Modelling Stress-Strain Behaviour of Granular Soils, Poromechanics V: Proceedings of the Fifth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, pp. 1075-1081.
  • Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., Javadi, A. A. (2012) Thermo-mechanical modelling of unsaturated soils using EPR, Intelligent Computing in Engineering 2012 (eg-ice 2012), July 4-6, 2012, Herrsching (Munich), Germany.
  • Faramarzi, A., Mehravar, M., Veladi, H., Javadi, A. A., Ahangar-Asr, A. and Mehravar, M. (2011) A Hysteretic Model for Steel Plate Shear Walls, Proceedings of the 19th ACME Conference, 5-6 April 2011, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 2011, pages 69-72.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., Ahangar-Asr, A., and Mehravar, M. (2010) Intelligent Finite Element Method in Geotechnical Engineering, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME-UK), 29-31 March 2010, University of Southampton, pages 89-92.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., Ahangar-Asr, A. and Mehravar, M. (2010) Finite element analysis of three dimensional shallow foundation using artificial intelligence based constitutive model, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, 30 June-2 July 2010, University of Nottingham, pages 421.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., Farmani, R., Mehravar, M., and Ahangar-Asr, A. (2010) Optimising Microstructure of Auxetic Materials, 8th ASMO UK / ISSMO conference on Engineering Design Optimization, Queen Mary University of London, London, 8-9 July, 2010., 2010.
  • Javadi, A. A., Johari, A., Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., and Toll, D. G. (2010) Prediction of the behaviour of unsaturated soils using evolutionary polynomial regression: An incremental approach, 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, 6-8 September, Barcelona, Spain, 2010, pp 837-842.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A. and Ahangar-Asr, A. (2009) An Intelligent Finite Element Method, Proceedings of 17th. conference on computational mechanics (ACME-UK), 6-8 April 2009, Nottingham, pp 307-310., 2009.
  • Javadi, A. A., Faramarzi, A., Farmani, R. and Evans, K. E. (2009) Design of Microstructure and Topological Optimisation of Auxetic Materials, Proceedings of 17th. conference on computational mechanics (ACME-UK), 6-8 April 2009, Nottingham, pp 251-254., 2009.
  • Javadi, A. A., Johari, A., Ahangar-Asr, A., Faramarzi, A. and Toll, D. G. (2009) A New Approach to Constitutive Modelling of Unsaturated Soils Using Evolutionary Polynomial Regression, Proceedings of 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Newcastle, Australia., 2009.
  • Faramarzi, A. Design of microstructure and topological optimisation of auxetic materials (poster presentation), 11th. Young Researchers Conference, IStructE, 18 March 2009, London, UK. 2009.
  • Faramarzi, A. and Javadi, A.A. Dynamic Analysis of Steel Plate Shear Walls (Poster Presentation), 10th. Young Researchers Conference, IStrucE, 19 March 2008, London, UK. , 2008.

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