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Masoud Sanayei
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Background
Dr. Sanayei earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California
at Los Angeles specializing in Civil/Structural Engineering. He is a leading
researcher in the field of condition assessment of structural systems.
In particular, he has worked with the implementation of bridge condition
assessment using of various types of nondestructive test data in the presence
of measurement and modeling errors. Dr. Sanayei is experienced in aspects of
structural condition assessment including design of nondestructive tests,
sensor technologies, full-scale nondestructive testing and data acquisition
of bridges, damage localization and quantification, optimization, parameter
estimation, and structural identification. Collaborative research activities
of Dr. Sanayei have encompassed academia as well as the professional community.
An academic collaboration with Northeastern University, University of Cincinnati,
and Drexel University supported by the National Science Foundation focused on
breaking down barriers limiting the application of structural identification
to bridge structures. Dr. Sanayei is currently is the PI for two funded research
grants for Structural Health Monitoring. Structural Health Monitoring of Vernon
Avenue Bridge in Barre, MA is supported by the National Science Foundation,
Partnership for Innovation. Modeling, instrumentation, and nondestructive
testing of Tobin Memorial Bridge in Boston is supported by Massachusetts Port
Authority through Fay Spofford & Thorndike. Intellectual collaborations and
support from the Federal Highway Administration and consulting firms such as
Fay, Spofford, & Thorndike, INFRASENSE and Olson Engineering have resulted
in full-scale nondestructive testing of bridges for finite element model updating
and damage assessment. Dr. Sanayei's research findings are widely known in his field
and they have been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and presented at
national and international conferences.
Dr. Sanayei is the coordinator of the Structural Engineering graduate program
and director of the Structures laboratory at Tufts University. He is responsible
for teaching, research, and program development at the graduate and undergraduate
levels in Structural Engineering. Dr. Sanayei's teaching and course development
endeavors has encompassed Finite Element Analysis, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake
Engineering, Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Analysis, Mechanics
of Deformable Solids, and Skyscrapers: Architecture and Engineering.
Education
Ph.D., (1986) Structural Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Science, (1980) Structural Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science, (1978) Civil Engineering, Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Research Interests
Finite Element Analysis and Structural Dynamics, Structural Analysis
and Design, Bridge Condition Assessment and Failure Detection, Floor
Vibration Testing, Instrumentation, Nondestructive Testing and Data
Acquisition, and Earthquake Engineering
Download PARameter Identification System Software (PARIS)
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This structural engineering software performs parameter estimation for finite element
model updating using nondestructive test data.
Whatever Happened to Long-Term Bridge Design? - This is a
summary of our recent PFI research grant by the National Science Foundation.
Structural Health Monitoring
of Tobin Bridge - This is a summary of our recent
research project by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
Teaching
EN 5 Skyscrapers: Architecture & Engineering
ES 9 Applied Mechanics (Strength of Materials)
CE 22 Structural Analysis
CE 81 Civil Engineering Design - Senior Capstone
CE 105 Finite Element Analysis
CE 106 Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
CE 123 Advanced Structural Systems Analysis
Research (Completed and Ongoing)
- Infrastructure Systems, Services and Climate
Change: Integrated Impacts and Response Strategies for the Boston Metropolitan Area, EPA
- Bridge Structural Identification for Condition Assessment, NSF
- Response-Based Parameter Estimation for
Determining Unknown Bridge Foundations, INFRASENSE / FHWA, SBIR Phase II
- Dynamic Bridge Substructure Identification
and Monitoring System, Olson Engineering / FHWA
- Wireless Evaluation of Bridge Abutments and
Piers (WREBAP), INFRASENSE / NSF, SBIR Phase I
- Response-Based Parameter Estimation for
Determining Unknown Bridge Foundations, INFRASENSE / FHWA, SBIR Phase I
- Other areas of Research
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