UBC Civil Engineering

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 received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Iran's Sharif University of Technology in 2001 and 2003 and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2008 for study on advanced elastic-plastic constitutive and numerical modeling in geomechanics. He received the UC Davis excellence in geotechnical engineering award in recognition of an outstanding scholarship, leadership, and fellowship. After receiving his Ph.D., he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship to work in the computational geomechanics division of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. He joined the UBC Department of Civil Engineering as an Assistant Professor in July 2009.

Research Interests:

Dr. Taiebat's professional and research interests are related to topics in theoretical and computational geomechanics and their applications in geotechnical earthquake engineering. These include rational mechanics and mathematical formulations, computational methods and implementations, and numerical modeling and simulations for practical applications. Of particular interest are the theory of plasticity and constitutive modeling of geomaterials, seismic wave propagation through saturated porous media, numerical methods in geomechanics (FEM, FDM, DEM), geotechnical earthquake engineering, and static and dynamic soil-structure interaction. He has worked on constitutive and numerical modeling research projects for the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Shell International Exploration and Production, British Petroleum, Woodside Energy, and the Structural Engineers Association of British Columbia (SEABC).

Courses:

  • CIVL 210 Soil Mechanics I
  • CIVL 570 Advanced Soil Mechanics
  • CIVL 580 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Recent Publications


Books

  • Taiebat, M. (2009). Advanced Elastic-Plastic Constitutive and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3-8383-1123-4, 264 pages. (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, September 2008).

Journals

(Please email Dr. Taiebat to request reprints of the following articles.)

  • Shahir, H., Pak, A., Taiebat, M., and Jeremic. B. (2012). "Evaluation of variation of permeability in liquefiable soil under earthquake loading." Computers and Geotechnics, 40, 74--88. Link
  • Taiebat, M., Kaynia, A. M., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2011). "Application of an anisotropic constitutive model for structured clay to seismic slope stability." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137(5), 492–504. Link
  • Mahan, M., Dafalias, Y. F., Taiebat, M., Heo, Y.-A., and Kunnath, S. K. (2011). "SANISTEEL: simple anisotropic steel plasticity model." Journal of Structural Engineering, 137(2), 185–194. Link
  • Taiebat, M. and Dafalias, Y. F. (2010). "Simple yield surface expressions appropriate for soil plasticity." International Journal of Geomechanics, 10(4), 161–169. Link
  • Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., Dafalias, Y. F., Kaynia, A. M., and Cheng, Z. (2010). "Propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils." Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 30(4), 236–257. Link
  • Taiebat, M., Dafalias, Y. F., and Peek, R. (2010). "A destructuration theory and its application to SANICLAY model." International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 34(10), 1009–1040. Link
  • Jeremic, B., Cheng, Z., Taiebat, M., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2008). "Numerical simulation of fully saturated porous materials." International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(13), 1635–1660. Link
  • Taiebat, M. and Dafalias, Y. F. (2008). "SANISAND: simple anisotropic sand plasticity model." International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(8), 915–948. Link
  • Taiebat, M., Shahir, H., and Pak, A. (2007). "Study of pore pressure variation during liquefaction using two constitutive models for sand." Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 27(1), 60–72. Link

Conference Proceedings

  • Taiebat, M., Ahmadnia, A., Finn, W. D. L., Ventura, C. E., Naesgaard, E., and DeVall, R. H. (2011). "Seismic assessment of basement walls for different design criteria." Proceedings of the Fourteenth Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering & Sixty Fourth Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Paper ID: 1069, 7 pages.
  • Taiebat, M., Dafalias, Y. F., Mahan, M., Heo, Y.-A., and Kunnath, S. K. (2011). "SANISTEEL: Bounding surface steel plasticity model." Proceedings of the 2011 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM11plus), Seoul, Korea, Paper ID: SC164-179, 12 pages.
  • Ahmadnia, A., Taiebat, M., Finn, W. D. L., and Ventura, C. E. (2011). "Seismic evaluation of existing basement walls." Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2011), M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis, V. Plevris, eds., Corfu, Greece. Paper ID: 670, 12 pages.
  • Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2010). "Prediction of seismically induced voids and pore fluid volume/pressure redistribution in geotechnical earthquake engineering." Proceedings of the Sixty Third Canadian Geotechnical Conference & Sixth Canadian Permafrost Conference, Calgary, AB, Canada. 233–237.
  • Taiebat, M., Kaynia, A. M., Dimmock, P., and Senders, M. (2010). "Three dimensional numerical model for nonlinear earthquake response of clay slopes." Proceedings of the Ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders, Toronto, ON, Canada. Paper ID: 661, 10 pages.
  • Taiebat, M., Dafalias, Y. F., and Kaynia, A. M. (2010). "Bounding surface model for natural anisotropic clays." Ninth HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Proceedings of Vardoulakis mini-symposia, P. Papanastasiou, E. Papamichos, A. Zervos, and M. Stavropoulou, eds., Limassol, Cyprus. 43–47.
  • Taiebat, M. and Kaynia, A. M. (2010). "A practical model for advanced nonlinear analysis of earthquake effects in clay slopes." Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, San Diego, CA. Paper ID: 1.09a, 8 pages.
  • Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., Dafalias, Y. F., and Kaynia, A. M. (2009). "Earthquake–induced shear deformation of slopes for performance–based engineering." Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: From Case History to Practice, Kokusho, Tsukamoto, and Yoshimine, eds., Tsukuba, Japan. Taylor & Francis Group, London, 907–914.
  • Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., and Kaynia, A. M. (2009). "Propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils." Contemporary Topics in In Situ Testing, Analysis, and Reliability of Foundations (GSP 186), Proceedings of Selected Sessions of the International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo, M. Iskander, D. F. Laefer, and M. H. Hussein, eds., ASCE, 198–205.
  • Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., Cheng, Z., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2008). "Numerical simulation of seismic ground motion isolation using fully coupled nonlinear response in saturated sands." Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (GSP 181), Proceedings of the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV Congress, D. Zeng, M. Manzari, and D. Hiltunen, eds., ASCE. 7 pages.
  • Cheng, Z., Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2007). "Issues in modeling and simulations of soil liquefaction." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece. Paper ID: 1159, 10 pages.
  • Cheng, Z., Taiebat, M., Jeremic, B., and Dafalias, Y. F. (2007). "Modeling and simulation of saturated geomaterials." Dynamic Response and Soil Properties (GSP 160), Proceedings of Geo-Denver 2007: New Peaks in Geotechnics, M. M. Dewoolkar and J. P. Koester, eds., ASCE. 10 pages.

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