STAFF PROFILE
Dr Mojtaba Mahmoodian
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Phone:
99250806
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
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, Rails, Mines, Ports and Offshore Platforms
After six years of professional experience of working for several civil engineering projects, Dr Mahmoodian started his academic career at University of Greenwich in the UK and later on at RMIT University.
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
Teaching areas
- Advanced Structural Assessment (Master course)
- Engineering economics and infrastructure planning
- Construction engineering and management
Research areas
- 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
- PhD, Structural Engineering, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom, 2013
- MSc., Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2009
- MSc., Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2008
- MSc., Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 2007
- BEng. (hons), Civil Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran,1999
- QA/QC Engineer, STA Chinese Group, 2009-2010
- Manager of quality control department, DKP Consulting Eng., 2004-2007
- QC Engineer and head of civil lab, Tablieh Construction company, 2002-2004
- Wasim, M.,Li, C.,Robert, D.,Mahmoodian, M. (2020). Effect of Soil's Acidity and Saturation on Degradation of Fracture Toughness of Buried Cast Iron In: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 32, 1 - 10
- Li, L.,Li, C.,Mahmoodian, M. (2019). Effect of applied stress on corrosion and mechanical properties of mild steel In: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 31, 1 - 30
- Wasim, M.,Li, C.,Mahmoodian, M.,Robert, D. (2019). Mechanical and microstructural evaluation of corrosion and hydrogen-induced degradation of steel In: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 31, 1 - 11
- Li, L.,Li, C.,Mahmoodian, M. (2019). Prediction Of Fatigue Failure Of Steel Beams Subjected To Simultaneous Corrosion And Cyclic Loading In: Structures, 19, 386 - 393
- Traynor, B.,Mahmoodian, M. (2019). Time and cost contingency management using Monte Carlo simulation In: Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, 17, 11 - 18
- Wasim, M.,Li, C.,Mahmoodian, M.,Robert, D. (2019). Quantitative Study of Coupled Effect of Soil Acidity and Saturation on Corrosion and Microstructure of Buried Cast Iron In: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 31, 1 - 11
- Mahmoodian, M.,Li, C. (2018). Reliability-based service life prediction of corrosion-affected cast iron pipes considering multifailure modes In: Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 24, 1 - 8
- Aryai, V.,Mahmoodian, M.,Ferdowsi, N.,Ariai, F. (2018). Structural Reliability Analysis of Corroding Steel Bridges Using Random-Field Representation In: Maintenance, Safety, Risk, management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018
- Li, L.,Mahmoodian, M.,Li, C. (2018). Effect of corrosion on mechanical properties of steel bridge elements In: Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018
- Li, L.,Li, C.,Mahmoodian, M.,Wasim, M. (2018). Preferred corrosion and its effect on delamination of steel In: Construction and Building Materials, 193, 576 - 588
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
3 PhD Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Deterioration modelling (e.g. Corrosion) and reliability analysis of structures and infrastructures, Asset maintenance and management, Innovative and smart materials in Civil Engineering