Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Mahdi Taiebat, Amir M. Kaynia, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Anisotropic constitutive model for structured clay in 3D computational framework", Submitted to the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2009.
  2. Mark Mahan, Yannis F. Dafalias, Mahdi Taiebat, YeongAe Heo, and Sashi Kunnath. "SANISTEEL: a simple anisotropic steel plasticity model", Submitted to the Journal of Structural Mechanics, 2009.
  3. Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, Yannis F. Dafalias, Amir M. Kaynia, and Zhao Cheng. "Propagation of seismic waves through liquefied soils", Submitted to the Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2009.
  4. Hadi Shahir, Ali Pak, Mahdi Taiebat, and Boris Jeremić. "Evaluation of variation of permeability in liquefiable soil under earthquake loading", Submitted to the Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2008.
  5. Mahdi Taiebat and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Simple yield surface expressions appropriate for soil plasticity", Submitted to the International Journal of Geomechanics, 2008.
  6. Mahdi Taiebat, Yannis F. Dafalias, and Ralf Peek. "A destructuartion theory and its application to saniclay model", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, DOI: 10.1002/nag.841, 2009.
  7. Boris Jeremić, Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Numerical simulation of fully saturated porous materials", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(13), 1635-1660, 2008.
  8. Mahdi Taiebat and Yannis F. Dafalias. "SANISAND: simple anisotropic sand plasticity model", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 32(8), 915-948, 2008.
  9. Mahdi Taiebat, Hadi Shahir, and Ali Pak. "Study of pore pressure variation during liquefaction using two constitutive models for sand", Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 27(1), 60-72, 2007.

Conference Publications

  1. Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, Yannis F. Dafalias, and Amir M. Kaynia. "Earthquake-induced shear deformation of slopes for performance-based engineering", in Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: From Case History to Practice (Kokusho, Tsukamoto, and Yoshimine, eds.), (Tsukuba, Japan), pp. 907-914, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2009.
  2. Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, and Amir M. Kaynia. "Propagation of Seismic Waves through Liquefied Soils", in Contemporary Topics in In Situ Testing, Analysis, and Reliability of Foundations (M. Iskander, D. F. Laefer, and M. H. Hussein, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 186, pp. 198-205, ASCE, 2009.
  3. Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, Zhao Cheng, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Numerical simulation of seismic ground motion isolation using fully coupled nonlinear response in saturated sands", in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV (D. Zeng, M. Manzari, and D. Hiltunen, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 181, ASCE, 2008.
  4. Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Issues in modeling and simulation of soil liquefaction", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 25-28, 2007.
  5. Zhao Cheng, Mahdi Taiebat, Boris Jeremić, and Yannis F. Dafalias. "Modeling and simulation of saturated geomaterials", in Dynamic Response and Soil Properties (M. M. Dewoolkar and J. P. Koester, eds.), Geotechnical Special Publication No. 160, ASCE, 2007.
  6. Mahdi Taiebat, and Ali Pak. "A fully coupled dynamic analysis of VELACS experiment no. 1, using a critical state two-surface plasticity model for sands", in Proceedings of the Thirteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1-6, 2004. (Paper No. 2239)
  7. Mahdi Taiebat, and Ali Pak. "Liquefaction modeling using a fully coupled dynamic numerical approach and a two-surface critical state plasticity model for sands", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering, Beirut, Lebanon, May 19-22, 2004.
  8. Ali Pak, and Mahdi Taiebat. "Application of a critical state two-surface plasticity model for simulation of sand behavior under monotonic and cyclic loading", in Proceedings of the First National Congress of Civil Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 2004.

Theses

  1. Mahdi Taiebat. "Advanced Elastic-Plastic Constitutive and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics", Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Davis, September 2008.
  2. Mahdi Taiebat. "Application of a Critical State Two-Surface Plasticity Model for Numerical Simulation of Soil Liquefaction with a Fully Coupled Approach", M.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, November 2003.