Mohammad DAVOODI

Present Occupation: Assistant Prof. and Head of Instrument Design and Construction Dept. of IIEES

E-mail: m-davood@iiees.ac.ir
Tel: +98 21 2229 9418
Fax: +98 21 2283 3656

Joined IIEES on 1994

Education

• Ph.D. (Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering )
  Dissertation: "Dynamic Characteristic Evaluation of Embankments Dams Using Ambient and Forced Vibration Tests", IIEES, Tehran, Iran, 2003

• M.Sc. (Soil Mech. and Found. Eng.)
  Thesis: "Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Embankment Dams Using EIDAK-1 Software", Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran, 1996

• B.Sc. (Civil Eng. )
  Tabriz University, Iran, 1993

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Research/Teaching & Memberships

Research Interests

• Dynamic Analysis of Embankment Dams

• Neural Networks in Geotechnical structures

• Forced and Ambient Vibration Tests in Geotechnical structures

• Signal Processing Techniques

• Ambient Noise Array in Geotechnical Investigations

Active Projects

• Using Advanced signal Processing Techniques for Evaluating Dynamic Behavior of Geotechnical Structures (Embankment Dams and Machinery Foundations)

• Studding the Amplitude and Frequency Contents of Vibrations Around Vibrosize Instruments

Recent Accomplished Projects

Teaching

• "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering" and "Advanced Soil Mechanics” in Ph.D. Level

• “Soil Dynamics” and “Advanced Foundation Engineering” in MSc level

Membership

• Analysis and Design Committee of Iranian Committee on Large Dams (IRCOLD)

• Iranian Society of Earthquake Engineering (ISEE)

• Iranian Society of Construction Engineers

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Professional Experience

Engineering

• Cooperation in various projects on Geotechnical Hazards Microzonation at IIEES

• Cooperation in Developing the Seismic Design Guidelines for Gas Transmission and Distribution Systems at IIEES

• Studding the characteristics of vibrations on special locations (such as SAIPA Company) at IIEES

• Soil Dynamic Tests on Karkheh, Masjed Soleiman and Ahar embankment Dam materials

Administration

• Head of Instrument Design and Construction Dept. of IIEES, 2006

• Head of Soil Dynamic Tests Laboratory, IIEES, 1995-1996

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Selected Publications

• Jafari, M. K. and Davoodi, M., 2006, " Dynamic Characteristics Evaluation of Masjed Soleiman Dam Using In-situ Dynamic Tests" Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 43 (10): 997-1014.

• Askari, F., Azadi, A., Davoodi, M., Ghayamghamian, M.R., Haghshenas, E., Hamzehloo, H., Jafari, M.K., Kamalian, M., Keshavarz, M., Ravanfar, O., Shafiee, A. and Sourabi-Bidar, A., 2004, "Preliminary seismic microzonation of Bam", JSEE special issue on Bam Earthquake, 69-80.

• Jafari, M.K. and Davoodi, M. (2002). “Forced and Ambient Vibration Tests of embankment Dams”, IIEES, I.R. Iran, Research Report No. 81-2002-2, (in Persian).

• Jafari, M.K. and Davoodi, M. (2001). “Relative Calibration Test of SS-1 Seismometers and FBA-11 Accelerometers on Shaking Table”, Research Bulletin of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 2&3, IIEES, I.R. Iran, (in Persian).

• Jafari, M.K. and Davoodi, M. (1999). “Dynamic Characteristics Evaluation of Masjed-soleiman Embankment Dam by Ambient Vibration and Explosion Tests”, 4th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, May 12-14, 2003, Tehran, I.R. Iran.

• Jafari, M.K. and Davoodi, M. (1999). “Dynamic Analysis of Karkheh Embankment Dam in Iran”, Third International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, May 17-19, 1999, Tehran, I.R. Iran.

• Jafari, M.K. and Davoodi, M. (1999). “Dynamic Characteristics Evaluation of Masjed-soleiman Embankment Dam by Using Forced Vibration Test”, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, August 1-6, 2004, Vancouver, Canada.

• Davoodi, M. and Jafari, M.K. , “Using in-situ Dynamic Tests for Accurate Seismic Stability Evaluation of MS Embankment Dam ”,4th International Conference on Dam Engineering, October 18-20, 2004, Nanjing, China.

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