Dr. Mahdi 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.
Courses:
- CIVL 210 Soil Mechanics I
- CIVL 311 Soil Mechanics II
- CIVL 570 Advanced Soil Mechanics
Recent Publications
Journals
- Mahdi Taiebat, Amir M. Kaynia, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Anisotropic constitutive model for structured clay in 3D computational framework", Submitted to the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2009.
- Mark Mahan, Yannis F. Dafalias, Mahdi Taiebat, YeongAe Heo, and Sashi Kunnath. "SANISTEEL: a simple anisotropic steel plasticity model", Submitted to the Journal of Structural Mechanics, 2009.
- Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, Yannis F. Dafalias, Amir M. Kaynia, and Zhao Cheng. "Propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils", Submitted to Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2009.
- Hadi Shahir, Ali Pak, Mahdi Taiebat, and Boris Jeremic. "Evaluation of variation of permeability in liquefiable soil under earthquake loading", Submitted to Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2008.
- Mahdi Taiebat and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Simple yield surface expressions appropriate for soil plasticity", Submitted to the International Journal of Geomechanics, 2008.
- Mahdi Taiebat, Yannis F. Dafalias, and Ralf Peek. "A destructuartion theory and its application to saniclay model", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, DOI: 10.1002/nag.841, 2009.
- Boris Jeremic, Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Numerical simulation of fully saturated porous materials", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(13), 1635-1660, 2008.
- Mahdi Taiebat and Yannis F. Dafalias. "SANISAND: simple anisotropic sand plasticity model", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(8), 915-948, 2008.
- Mahdi Taiebat, Hadi Shahir, and Ali Pak. "Study of pore pressure variation during liquefaction using two constitutive models for sand", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 27(1), 60-72, 2007.
Conference Proceedings
- Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, Yannis F. Dafalias, and Amir M. Kaynia. "Earthquake-induced shear deformation of slopes for performance-based engineering", in Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical
Engineering: From Case History to Practice (Kokusho, Tsukamoto, and Yoshimine, eds.), (Tsukuba, Japan), pp. 907-914, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2009.
- Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, and Amir M. Kaynia. "Propagation of Seismic Waves through Liquefied Soils", in Contemporary Topics in In Situ Testing, Analysis, and Reliability of Foundations (M. Iskander, D. F. Laefer, and M. H. Hussein, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 186, pp. 198-205, ASCE, 2009.
- Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, Zhao Cheng, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Numerical simulation of seismic ground motion isolation using fully coupled nonlinear response in saturated sands", in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV (D. Zeng, M. Manzari, and D. Hiltunen, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 181, ASCE, 2008.
- Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Issues in modeling and simulation of soil liquefaction", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 25-28, 2007.
- Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremic, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Modeling and simulation of saturated geomaterials", in Dynamic Response and Soil Properties (M. M. Dewoolkar and J. P. Koester, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 160, ASCE, 2007.
- Mahdi Taiebat, and Ali Pak. "A fully coupled dynamic analysis of VELACS experiment no. 1, using a critical state two-surface plasticity model for sands", in Proceedings of the Thirteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1-6, 2004.
(Paper No. 2239)
- Mahdi Taiebat, and Ali Pak. "Liquefaction modeling using a fully coupled dynamic numerical approach and a two-surface critical state plasticity model for sands", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Beirut, Lebanon, May 19-22, 2004.
- Ali Pak, and Mahdi Taiebat. "Application of a critical state two- surface plasticity model for simulation of sand behavior under monotonic and cyclic loading", in Proceedings of the First National Congress of Civil Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 2004.
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