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Masoud Sanayei
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Background
Dr. Sanayei is the coordinator of the Structural Engineering graduate
program and director of the Structures laboratory. He is responsible for teaching,
research, and program development at the graduate and undergraduate levels in Structural
Engineering. Dr. Sanayei is a leading researcher in the field of condition assessment
of structural systems. Specifically, he has been involved 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
a number of fields within the realm of structural condition assessment including
design of nondestructive tests, sensor technologies, full-scale nondestructive testing
and data acquisition of bridges, damage localization, optimization, parameter estimation,
structural identification, and performance-based design. 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. Intellectual collaborations and support from the Federal Highway
Administration and consulting firms such as INFRASENSE and Olson Engineering have
resulted in full-scale nondestructive testing of bridges for 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's teaching and course development
endeavors encompass Finite Element Analysis, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake
Engineering, Steel and Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Analysis, Mechanics
of Deformable Solids, and Skyscrapers: Architecture and Engineering. Professor Sanayei
holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Arya-Mehr University of Technology, Tehran,
Iran. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering specializing in
Structural Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles.
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
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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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