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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 bridge structural health monitoring (SHM). 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
SHM including design of nondestructive tests, sensor
technologies, full-scale nondestructive testing and data
acquisition, optimization, parameter estimation for finite
element model updating, and damage localization and
quantification. 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 Bridge 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 also an expert in building floor vibrations
and structure-borne noise for human comfort, operation of
sensitive equipment, and precision manufacturing. In recent
years, the exploitation of air-rights construction has
resulted in buildings being subjected to potentially
disturbing vibrations and noise from urban rail lines and
roadways. Dr. Sanayei has conducted a number of full-scale
building floor vibration tests and impedance modeling for
Boston Convention Center, TD Banknorth Garden, MIT Brain and
Cognitive Science Center, 675 Massachusetts Avenue, and
Anderson Hall at Tufts University. He has closely
collaborated with Acentech, Inc. and LeMessurier Consultants
in Cambridge, MA for full scale testing, laboratory scale
model testing, and impedance modeling.
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, Sharif
University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Current Research
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
and the NSF-PFI workshop.
View the workshop poster
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Tobin Bridge Monitoring - Professor Masoud Sanayei is
working on a collaborative project to create a structural
model as well as design and implement an instrumentation
plan for the Tobin Memorial Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts.
This team is led by the Burlington-based firm, Fay, Spofford
and Thorndike. University of New Hampshire, Geocomp, INC and
Keville Associates are also members of this team.
More information >
Completed Research
- 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
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 |
