Mojtaba Mahmoodian

Dr. Mojtaba Mahmoodian

Senior Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Mahmoodian is a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering and a Chartered Engineer in Civil Engineering and Asset Management working on wide variety of infrastructures, such as bridges, pipelines, railways, mines, ports and offshore platforms.

Honours, Awards and Certificates
• RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions in Learning and Teaching, 2019
• Chartered Engineer in Civil Engineering, Engineers Australia, 2019
• Chartered Engineer in Asset Management, Engineers Australia, 2019
• Chair of special session on ‘Deterioration Modelling and Structural Reliability Analysis of Bridges’ in the 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), Sapporo, Japan, 2020
• Chair of special session on ‘Advances in Corrosion Modelling of Steel Bridges’ in the 9th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), Melbourne, Australia, 2018
• Conference chair, ICWSS 2017: 19th International Conference on Water Supply Systems, November 13-14, Tokyo, Japan
• ‘Postgraduate Teaching and Learning’, University of Greenwich, UK, May 2011
• School of Engineering PhD scholarship, 78000 British Pounds, University of Greenwich, UK, 2010
• Scholarship from European Union, Erasmus Mundus Master’s degrees, 42000 Euros, 2007
• “Internal Quality Auditing, ISO9001:2000”, Certificate of Successful Completion, EAQA, Aug 2004.
• ‘Kharazmi Festival Award’ for inventing ‘a new method for measuring consistency of self- compacted concrete’, 2004
• "General training course on measurement and calibration, in civil engineering labs", Certificate of Successful Completion, April 2004

Reviewing Journals and Conferences
• Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety
• Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
• Journal of Construction & Building Materials
• Journal of Structures and Infrastructures
• Austroads Bridge Conference, ABC 2017, Melbourne, Australia
• Conference technical committee member, Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT4) Conference, August 7- 11, 2016, Las Vegas, USA.
• Conference technical committee member, The 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, CEUP2014, China

Professional Involvement
• Institute of Engineers Australia, MIEAust
• Australasian Corrosion Association, ACA
• Australasian Association for Engineering Education, AAEE
• Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring, ANSHM
• International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS)
• International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE
• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), UK

Supervisor projects

  • Automatic condition assessments of civil infrastructure
  • 27 Mar 2024
  • Micro Tunnelling to lay pipes through very soft soil
  • 19 May 2023
  • Intelligent monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure
  • 4 Apr 2023
  • Intelligent monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Structural Corrosion Detection by High-resolution Image Processing using Deep Learning
  • 23 Jul 2021
  • Optimum data collection for structural integrity management of railway infrastructure
  • 3 May 2021
  • Application of Digital Twin technology in infrastructure management
  • 19 Apr 2021
  • Asphalt materials for sustainable transport infrastructures
  • 12 Dec 2020
  • Service Life Prediction of Bolted Steel Structure under Corrosion Fatigue
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Life Cycle Assessment in Circular Economy for Built Environment
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Stochastic Service Life Prediction of RC Girders Subjected to Chloride Induced Corrosion - Shear Limit State
  • 15 Sep 2019
  • Time-Dependent Reliability Method and Its Application in Mild Steel Pipelines
  • 30 Jul 2019
  • Predicting Failure Time and Location in Buried Cast Iron Water Pipes Due to External Corrosion
  • 28 Oct 2018
  • Fracture Failure of Mild Steel and Its Application in Steel Pipeline
  • 3 Sep 2018
  • An Integrated Bridge Asset Management Method Combining Condition Degradation, Load Rating, Serviceability and Risk-Cost
  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Prioritisation in Infrastructure Asset Maintenance
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • Stochastic Finite Element Methods for Reliability Analysis of Deteriorating Structures and Infrastructures
  • 1 Aug 2017
  • Spatio-Temporal Reliability Analysis of Pipeline
  • 1 Mar 2016
  • External Corrosion and its Effects on Mechanical Properties of Buried Pipes 
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Service Life Prediction of Deteriorated Infrastructure
  • 6 Aug 2015

Teaching interests

Teaching areas
• Advanced Structural Assessment (Master course)
• Engineering economics and infrastructure planning
• Construction engineering and management

Supervisor interests
Deterioration modelling (e.g. corrosion) and reliability analysis of structures and infrastructures, Asset maintenance and management, Innovative and smart materials in Civil Engineering

Research interests

• Structural reliability analysis and safe life prediction of structures and infrastructure
• Deterioration modelling of structures and infrastructures
• Optimum asset maintenance and management
• Smart materials in Civil Engineering

Collaboration in research projects
• Investigation on Remaining Safe Life of Metro Infrastructure, $1M, Melbourne Metro, Australia, 2014-2017
• Assessing Current State of Buried Sewer Systems and Their Remaining Safe Life, $515K, EPSRC UK, 2013-2014
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