STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Majid Nazem
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399253628
Email:
majidreza.nazem@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Associate Professor - Geotechnical Engineering
Research expertise
Computational Geomechanics Finite Elements Method Finite Plasticity Contact Mechanics Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction
Teaching expertise
- Geomechanics, Theory of Structures, Geotechnical Engineering
- Stress and Finite Element Analysis
- Engineering Mechanics
- Engineering Computations
Collaborations
- Computational Geomechanics
- Computational Solid Mechanics
- Adaptive Finite Element Methods
- Meshless Methods
- Offshore Geomechanics
- Multi-seam Mining and Land Subsidence
Awards and fellowships
- Manby Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers UK, 2012
- Outstanding Reviewer Award by Elsevier, 2012
- Research Fellowship, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2009
- The D.H. Trollope Medal by Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS), 2006
- Research Prize by the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2005
Associate Professor, Geotechnical Engineering
Fridays: 10:00-12:00
- PhD, Geomechanics, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2006,
- MSc, Structural Engineering, Ferdowsi University, 1996.
- BSc, Civil Engineering, Ferdowsi University, 1993.
- Aminpour, M.,Alaie, R.,Khosravi, S.,Kardani, N.,Moridpour, S.,Nazem, M. (2023). Slope stability machine learning predictions on spatially variable random fields with and without factor of safety calculations In: Computers and Geotechnics, 153, 1 - 18
- Kardani, M.,Bardhan, A.,Samui, P.,Nazem, M.,Zhou, A.,Armaghani, D. (2022). A novel technique based on the improved firefly algorithm coupled with extreme learning machine (ELM-IFF) for predicting the thermal conductivity of soil In: Engineering with Computers, 38, 3321 - 3340
- Kardani, M.,Bardhan, A.,Roy, B.,Samui, P.,Nazem, M.,Armaghani, D.,Zhou, A. (2022). A novel improved Harris Hawks optimization algorithm coupled with ELM for predicting permeability of tight carbonates In: Engineering with Computers, 38, 4323 - 4346
- Kardani, M.,Bardhan, A.,Samui, P.,Nazem, M.,Asteris, P.,Zhou, A. (2022). Predicting the thermal conductivity of soils using integrated approach of ANN and PSO with adaptive and time-varying acceleration coefficients In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 173, 1 - 15
- Kardani, M.,Zhou, A.,Lin, S.,Nazem, M. (2022). Experimental Study and Machine Learning Aided Modelling of the Mechanical Behaviour of Rammed Earth In: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 40, 5007 - 5027
- Wang, Y.,Nazem, M.,Smith, J. (2022). Effect of Dimension Variables on the Behaviour of Slopes Stabilised by an Integrated Method Combining Gabion-Faced Geogrid-Reinforced Retaining Wall with Embedded Piles In: International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering, 8, 1 - 19
- Kardani, M.,Zhou, A.,Shen, S.,Nazem, M. (2021). Estimating unconfined compressive strength of unsaturated cemented soils using alternative evolutionary approaches In: Transportation Geotechnics, 29, 1 - 20
- Ghorbani, J.,Nazem, M.,Kodikara, J.,Wriggers, P. (2021). Finite element solution for static and dynamic interactions of cylindrical rigid objects and unsaturated granular soils In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 384, 1 - 32
- Nazem, M.,Moavenian, M. (2021). Alternative remeshing techniques for large deformation analysis of geotechnical problems In: Computers and Geotechnics, 138, 1 - 13
- Wang, Y.,Smith, J.,Nazem, M. (2021). Optimisation of a Slope-Stabilisation System Combining Gabion-Faced Geogrid-Reinforced Retaining Wall with Embedded Piles In: KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 25, 4535 - 4551
Computational Mechanics, Computational Geomechanics, Contact Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Soil-Structure Interaction
Soil Dynamics, Finite Plasticity, Meshless Analysis
2 PhD Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions
- A 4m Diameter Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility (externally led by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2022 to 2023)
- Soil dynamics at extreme deformations. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Unsaturated Soil Dynamics. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2015 from (2015 to 2019)