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
- Wang, Y.,Smith, J.,Nazem, M. (2023). Effect of Various Rainfall Conditions on the Roadside Stabilisation of Slopes in Gippsland In: International Journal of Civil Engineering, 21, 173 - 192
- Shafie, A.,Aminpour, M.,Hasanzadehshooiili, H.,Ghorbani, A.,Nazem, M. (2023). Mechanical characterization of marl soil treated by cement and lignosulfonate under freeze–thaw cycles: experimental studies and machine-learning modeling In: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 82, 1 - 26
- Nofalah, M.,Ghadir, P.,Hasanzadehshooiili, H.,Aminpour, M.,Javadi, A.,Nazem, M. (2023). Effects of binder proportion and curing condition on the mechanical characteristics of volcanic ash- and slag-based geopolymer mortars; machine learning integrated experimental study In: Construction and Building Materials, 395, 1 - 24
- Barari, A.,Zhou, J.,Ibsen, L.,Nazem, M.,Nielsen, K. (2023). A theoretical and practical framework based on plasticity theory for the drained behavior of single and multiple shallow footings In: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, , 1 - 27
- 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
- Aminpour, M.,Alaie, R.,Kardani, N.,Moridpour, S.,Nazem, M. (2022). In press - Highly efficient reliability analysis of anisotropic heterogeneous slopes: machine learning-aided Monte Carlo method In: Acta Geotechnica, , 1 - 17
- Kardani, N.,Aminpour, M.,Raja, M.,Kumar, G.,Bardhan, A.,Nazem, M. (2022). Prediction of the resilient modulus of compacted subgrade soils using ensemble machine learning methods In: Transportation Geotechnics, 36, 1 - 14
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)