Welcome to the
Geomechanics and
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Research
under the direction of Professor Majid Manzari
The geomechanics and geotechnical
engineering research at the George Washington
University
addresses computational as well as physical modeling of
geomaterials. The computational research spans constitutive and
numerical modeling of cohesionless and
cohesive soils as well as development of rigorous methods for analysis
of pre- and post- failure of geostructures.
The research in physical modeling involves shake table testing of soils
and soil structures.
Majid T. Manzari, Ph.D.
Professor of Civil Engineering
Office: 635 Academic Center
Phone: (202) 994-5970
Fax: (202) 994-0127
Email
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Majid
Manzari is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the George Washington University,
where he has served on the faculty since 1994. From 1986 to 1990
Manzari held a faculty position in the School
of Engineering of Tehran University. Professor Manzari
received his BSc and MSc
degrees in Civil Engineering from Tehran University,
Iran,
and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California
at Davis.
He
has
been a visiting researcher at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
Professor
Manzari has
served as an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering
Mechanics of American Society of Civil Engineers, and as the Chair
of Inelastic Behavior Committee
of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division.
In
addition to research in geomechanics, Professor Manzari has
conducted research on constitutive modeling of ferroelectric ceramics
with domain switching behavior, behavior of mixed finite elements in
hyperbolic heat conduction, and active control of structures and
soil-structure systems during earthquakes.
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Recent research projects:
Constitutive and Numerical Modeling of Permanent Deformation in Soil
Structures, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Significance of Dilatancy and Localization on the behavior of geostructures, sponsored by the National Science
Foundation
Development of a Strain Gradient Plasticity Model for Geomaterials in a
Meshfree Environment, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories.
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Selected Recent Publications:
Manzari, M. T. and Nour, M. A.
(2000). “Significance of Soil Dilatancy in Slope Stability
Analysis.” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental
Engineering, Vol. 126, pp. 75-81.
Dafalias, Y.
F., Manzari, M. T., and Akaishi, M. (2002). “A Simple Anisotropic
Clay Plasticity Model.” Mechanics Research Communication, 29,
241-245.
Manzari, M.T. (2004). “Application of Micropolar
Plasticity to Post Failure Analysis in Geomechanics.”
International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in
Geomechanics, 28(10), 1011-1032.
Dafalias, Y. F. and Manzari, M. T.
(2004). “Simple Plasticity Sand Model Accounting for Fabric
Change Effects.” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 130(6),
622-634.
Yonten, K., Manzari, M.T., Marzoughi, D., Eskandarian, A. (2005). “An Assessment of
Constitutive Models of Concrete in the Crashworthiness Simulation of
Roadside Safety Structures.” International Journal of Crashworthiness,
Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 5-19.
Manzari, M.T. and. Regueiro, R. A. (2005). “Gradient Plasticity
Modeling of Geomaterials in a Meshfree Environment.” Mechanics
Research Communication, 32, pp. 536-546.
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