Presentations

Technical Talks

  1. "Propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils", International Foundation Congress and Equipment Expo, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 15-19, 2009.
  2. "Advanced elastic-plastic constitutive and numerical modeling in geomechanics", Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Bjerrum Auditorium, Oslo, Norway, September 25, 2008.
  3. "Numerical simulation of seismic ground motions isolation using fully coupled nonlinear response in saturated sands", Fourth Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference, Sacramento, California, USA, May 18-22, 2008.
  4. "Rotational hardening in anisotropic soil plasticity", Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, May 18-21, 2008.
  5. "Liquefaction simulations", UC Davis Round Table, Annual Geotechnical Engineering Open House, University of California, Davis, April 11, 2008.
  6. "Three-dimensional numerical simulation of fully coupled nonlinear response in saturated sands", Ninth US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, California, USA, July 23-26, 2007.
  7. "Systematic generalization of the constitutive equations from triaxial to the multiaxial setting in SANISAND", Eighteenth Engineering Mechanics Division Conference (EMD2007) of American Society of Civil Engineers, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, June 3-6, 2007.
  8. "A general framework for simulation of saturated porous media", Eighteenth Engineering Mechanics Division Conference (EMD2007) of American Society of Civil Engineers, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, June 3-6, 2007.
  9. "SANISAND: A simple anisotropic model for sands accounting for constant stress-ratio loading", UC Davis Geotechnical Seminar Series, University of California, Davis, March 06, 2007.
  10. "Constitutive modeling of sand taking into account the response under constant stress-ratio loading", Seventh World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, California, USA, July 16-22, 2006.
  11. "SANISAND: A simple anisotropic model for sands accounting for constant stress-ratio loading", Fifteenth U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 25-30, 2006.
  12. "Application of a critical state two-surface plasticity model for simulation of sand behavior under monotonic and cyclic loading", First National Congress of Civil Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 2004.

Poster Presentations

  1. "Numerical modeling of propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils", Poster presentation at the workshop on Deformation and Failure of Geomaterials, Masseria Salamina, Brindisi, Italy, June 15-19, 2009.
  2. "Advanced geomechanics simulation tool for performance-based earthquake engineering design", Poster presentation at the NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, January 7-10, 2008.
  3. "Issues in modeling and simulation of soil liquefaction", Poster presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 25-28, 2007.
  4. "A simple plasticity sand model in opensees", Poster presentation at PEER (Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, January 19-20, 2007.