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Dr. Mahdi Taiebat

Dr. M. Taiebat
Dr.Mahdi Taiebat, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Location: CEME - Room 2023
Telephone: 604.822.3279
Facsimilie: 604.822.6901
Email: mtaiebat@civil.ubc.ca

 

Biography:

Dr. Mahdi Taiebat obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2001 and 2003, and his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2008. He was the recipient of the UC Davis excellence in geotechnical engineering award (also known as the Idriss award) in 2007, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship, leadership and fellowship. After completing his Ph.D., he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to work in the Computational Geomechanics Division of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. Dr. Taiebat joined the Civil Engineering Department of UBC as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.

Research Interests:

Primary areas of research interests of Dr. Taiebat are related to theoretical and computational geomechanics topics. These include the rational mechanics and mathematical formulations, the numerical methods and computational implementations, and the computational modeling and simulations for practical applications. Particular issues and attributes of this research effort are theory of plasticity and constitutive modeling of geomaterials, mechanics of porous media and propagation of waves through saturated porous media, numerical methods in geomechanics (FEM, FDM, DEM), and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

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