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Dr Saeed Mahini

Saeed Mahini

Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Sciences

Qualifications

PhD (UQ); MEngSc (IUT); BEngSc (IUT)

Contact

Email:
Room: Civil and Environmental Engineering Building; W21-306
Phone: 02 6773 2860 (or +61 2 6773 2860 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3084
Mobile: 0411 862 915

Discipline of Civil and Environmental Engineering
School of Environmental and Rural Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The University of New England (UNE)
Armidale, NSW 2351
Australia

Lecturer in Civil Engineering with interests in

  • Structural Health Monitoring of infrastructures;
  • Structural Safety and Reliability;
  • Bridge Engineering;
  • Strengthening of RC and Unreinforced Masonry Structures under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading using Fibre Composites;
  • Laboratory Testing and Field Experiments of Structural Systems;
  • Sustainable Materials in Construction;
  • Construction Management;
  • Design of new formworks and Support Systems for Construction and Testing;
  • Finite Element Modelling;
  • Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics;
  • Soil-structure Interactions;
  • High-rise Building Systems;
  • Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructures; and
  • Renewable Energies.  

Professional Memberships

  • Member of Engineers, Australia (IEAust);
  • Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE);
  • Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng);
  • National Professional Engineers Register (NPER);
  • Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ);
  • Council member of the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures (ISHMII);
  • Executive committee member of the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM), 2010-present;
  • Member of the International Institute of FRP in Construction (IIFC);
  • Member of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (IPWEA);
  • Member of the Concrete Institute of Australia, 2003-2006;

International Conference Organisation and Chairmanship

  • Secretary General and scientific and organising committee member of the 8th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure – SHMII-8 to be held in Brisbane in 2017;
  • Co-chair of the Session Picasso-9, Field Applications and Case Studies-2; First Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS 2007), organized by IIFC & the University of Hong Kong (12-14 Dec 2007);
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee of 3rd  International Workshop on Conservation of Heritage Structures Using FRM and SHM (CSHM-3), held in August, 2010, in Ottawa, Canada;
  • Member of the International ISHMII/IIFC Joint Task Group on Heritage Structures; 2007-present;

 Reviewer

  • Chapters of the text book titled ‘Reinforced and prestressed Concrete’ written by Loo & Chowdhury, published by Cambridge University Press, Australia (Sep 2012);
  • Advances in Structural Engineering, an International Journal;
  • Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring;
  • Australian Journal of Structural Engineering;
  • Structural Engineering and Mechanics, an international journal;
  • First Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS 2007), Hong Kong, China;

Other Memberships

  • Member of the Chartered Assessment panel, the Institution of Engineers, Queensland Division, Australia;
  • Registered Structural Engineer, Tehran City Council;
  • Member of Iranian Official Experts of the Justice Administration;
  • Member of the Iranian Institute of Professional Civil Engineers;
  • Member of the Editorial Board for planning the tests for the National Entrance Postgraduate Exams, National Iranian Organisation of Testing and Training, 1998-1999.

 Awards

  • International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), Australian federal Government (2001- 2004);
  • University of Queensland International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (UQIPRS), Australia (2001-2004).

Recognitions

  • 2012: Included in Marquis Who’s Who in the world, USA.
  • Interviewer of the Chartered Assessment panel, Engineers Australia, Queensland Branch, Brisbane 

Areas of Teaching

At UNE

  • Structural Mechanics;
  • Building Technology 1 (RC structures & concrete technology);
  • Building Technology 2 (introduction to structural design);
  • Statics;
  • Dynamics;
  • Planning and Design in Engineering Practice;
  • Sustainable Management (Introduction to Engineering).

Other units taught

  • Structural Mechanics, St Johns’ college (UQ);
  • Design of Earthquake-Resistant Buildings (Postgraduate) (UQ);
  • Dynamic of Structures (Postgraduate);
  • Finite Element Method (Postgraduate);
  • Structural Analysis (UQ); 
  • Statics Lab (UQ)
  • Urban Infrastructures & Sustainability (Griffith University for ITAS)
  • Structural Softwares;
  • Foundation Engineering;
  • Rehabilitation of Building Structures;
  • Reinforced Concrete Structures;
  • Design of Steel Structures;
  • Solid Mechanics & Lab.

Research interests

  • Structural health monitoring of infrastructures, particularly road/railway bridges and heritage buildings in terms of reliability and safety;
  • Sustainable materials in construction particularly the reuse of materials and recycling of waste products, e.g. recycled concrete, glass as aggregate, polystyrene in concrete for insulation and lightweight properties;
  • Concrete technology;
  • Strengthening/rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, unreinforced masonry and timber structures using natural fibres and FRPs;
  • Truss analogy for FRP-retrofitted RC joints;
  • Soil-structure interactions in concrete rafts slabs on reactive/expansive clay;
  • Sustainable buildings and infrastructures;
  • Renewable energies.

Grant supported research projects

  • (Grant No. PGD137-0809 supported by Forest Wood Products Australia (FWPA), 2010-2012), BudgetA$90,000.00. Project title: Monitoring the Health of Timber Bridge Beams (in terms of reliability and safety) (Project Manager);
  • Grant No. 2/1, YU,  2009, Project Title: Development of new Equations for Design of the Shear-retrofitted Exterior RC Beam-column Joints using FRPs, Budget A$10000.00, (Chief Investigator);
  • Grant No. 1291/1, YU, 2007, Investigation into the Behaviour of Brick Vaults in Historical Masonry Buildings under Seismic loads and Introducing their Failure Mechanisms,  (Chief Investigator);
  • Grant No. NRCI 4743,  National Research Council of Iran, 2000, Investigation into the Use of Tubular Systems for Design of High-Rise Buildings in Iran, (Chief Investigator);
  • Water & Sewerage Company of Yazd, 2000, Investigation into the Minimum Soil Depth Requirements over the Water Pipelines under Heavy Traffic Loads in Abarkooh City Built on the Rock Formation, (PI); and
  • The Agriculture Organisation of Hormozgan, Bandare-Abbas, Iran, 1995, Design of the Rockfilled Dam Located in the North of Bandar-Abbas City

Grant supported research projects in proposal

  • Two ARC linkage grants in area of Structural Health Monitoring (Chief Investigator, CI and Partner Investigator, PI).

  • Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in area of Strengthening Bridges using Fibre Composites,

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