Abolfazl Hassani
Professor
Speciality: Civil Engineering
  • BS/BA: Civil Engineering
  • MS: Highways and Transportation
  • PhD: Pavement Design
  • Phone: 82883330
  • Fax: 82883985
  • Email: hassani@modares.ac.ir
    • Address: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
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PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name: Abolfazl
Surname: Hassani
Date of Birth: 1955
Place of work: Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department,
Highway and Transportation Engineering group.
P.O. Box 14155 - 4638, Tehran – Iran
Tel: +98 (21) 82883145-82882014
Fax: +98 (21) 82884180
Email address: hassani@modares.ac.ir



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Degree of PhD : University of Westminster - London, England, 1992
Degree of MSc : University of Birmingham - Birmingham, England, 1986
Degree of BSc : NESCOT - Surrey, England, 1981



ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Assistant Professor : Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) - Tehran, since 1992
Associate Professor : Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) - Tehran, since 2005

 


LECTURING EXPERIENCE:

Concrete Pavement Design
Advanced Concrete Technology
Railway Engineering Design
Pavement Management Systems
Airport Pavement Design

 


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

Rigid Pavement
Flexible concrete Pavement
Rutting potential of Flexible Pavements
Fibrous Concrete
Airport Pavement Management Systems (APMS)
 


PUBLICATIONS:

  • Cox D. W and Hassani, A. "Heavy duty concrete pavement" 3rd Int. Symp. on heavy vehicle - road interaction 1992, Cambridge Univ. Cambridge England.

  • Hassani. A "Concrete Pavement Design" Two days Seminar on Highway Materials, Amirkabir Univ. 1992.

  • Tehranizadeh. M, Hassani. A and Mohammadi Tehrani. F, "Base Isolation System", 8th Int. Conf. on Earthquake Prognostics, Tehran University, Sep. 1993, Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A and Mohammadi Tehran. F, "Introductory to Base Isolation" Ministry of Housing & Urban Development publication (Sarpanah), winter 1993. Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A "Overlay Pavement Design", Seminar on Road maintenance and Management, Tarbiat Modarres University, Summer 1993, Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A & Moahammadi Tehrani. F "Analytical comparative study of base isolation systems". International Workshop application and development of base isolation. 17-19 May 1994, Shantou, China.Mohammadi Tehrani F and Hassani A “ Behavior of Small Building During Earthquake”, 3rd Int. Kerensk Conf. on Structural Eng., Singapore, June 1994.

  • Hassani. A & Moahammadi Tehrani. F "Application of sliding base for strengthening small building during earthquake. Seminar on housing development policies, Tehran University, Oct. 3-5, 94, Tehran – Iran.

  • Hassani. A, Shademani. M and Zamani. H, "Importance role of construction material date base system in construction industry". Seminar on housing development policies, Tehran University, Oct. 3-5, 94, Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A "Flexible Concrete Pavements". 7th International Symp. on concrete rods. Vienna, 3-5, Oct 1994.

  • Bakhtiari. S & Hassani. A "Air Blown Bitumen". 1st Conf. on Bitumen and Asphalt mixes, Tarbiat Modarres University, 16-18 Oct 1994, Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A "Concrete today and tomorrow". 8th REAAA Conf. on Roads for future development.

  • Mohammadi Tehrani. F & Hassani. A "Buildings with sliding base". Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Seismology & Earthquake Eng., 15-17 May 1995, Tehran - Iran.

  • Hassani. A, & Cox. D. W "Flexible concrete beams on elastic rubber foundation model". International Congress on concrete in the service of mankind.

  • University of Dundee 24-28 June 1996, Dundee, England.Member of committee “Code of practice for the earthquake resistant design of road and railroad bridges,”, BHRC, publication No.R235, 1996.

  • Hassani A "Effect of speed on fatigue in concrete pavements", 4th Int. conf. on civil Eng., Tehran - Iran, May 1997 Hassani A and Jafarpoor F “ How can Additives help fresh concrete”, Geotechnical and material strength magazine, Geotechnical- Ministry of Road and Transportation, year 15, 1997.

  • Hassani A and Azadi A “ Effect of silica fume on permeability and compressive strength of RRC, Modares Science and Research journal, 2005.,

  • Hassani A “Sliding base isolation for protecting small buildings against earthquake, BHRC

  • Hassani, A. & Saied M. "Role of steel fiber in enhancing concrete properties in coastal marine structures", the 3rd Int. conf. on Coast, Ports and Marine Structures (ICOPMAS), Tehran - Iran, 1998

  • Hassani, A "Proposed Standard for Concrete Retarding Admixtures", BHRC Publication , 1998.

  • Hassani A. & Saied M "The study of mean time drying shrinkage behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete pavements", 8th Int. Symposium on concrete roads, Lisbon, 1998

  • Hassani A. "Effect of steel fibers on concrete tensile", BHRC, Tehran – Iran publication No. R263, 1999.

  • Hassani A “Laboratory investigation of reinforced rubber elastomers as base isolation for buildings, Daneshvar Science & Research journal Year 7, No. 25, Autumn 1999.

  • Hassani A. "Application of Ceramic Pigments on concrete durability", the 4th Int. conf. on Coast, Ports and Marine Structures (ICOPMAS), Bandar Abbas, Iran, 2000

  • Hassani A “ Earthquake resistance of building with rubber bearings”, BHRC publication No. 340, Tehran – Iran 2002.

  • Hassani A “Life Cycle cost comparison between Flexible and Rigid Pavement”, Ministry of Road and Transportation, Deputy of Education Research and Technology, Report 79BITIP12, 1ST print, 2004.

  • Hassani A. Arjmandi M “Comparative Investigation on Concrete Pavement Thickness Using Industrial Waste Chips, Steel Fiber and Silica Fume”, 9th Int. Symposium on Concrete Roads, Istanbul – Turkey, 4-7 April 2004.

  • Hassani A and Sadeghi D “Analysis of loading characteristics effect on flexible pavements performance”, Modares Science & research Journal, 2005

  • Hassani A “Life Cycle cost comparison between Flexible and Rigid Pavement”, Ministry of Road and Transportation, Deputy of Education Research and Technology, Report 79BITIP12, 2nd print, 2005.

  • Hassani, A and saghafi,b, "Roller – compacted concrete for heavy duty pavements" 6th International DUT workshop on fundamental Modeling of Design and Performance of concrete pavements, September 15-16 2006, Belgium.

  • Hassani, A, Rezaee, A, and Mansorian, A, "Life cycle cost evaluation Concrete and asphalt concrete pavement in Iran ", 10 th symposium on concrete Roads 18 – 22 – September, 2006, Belgium.

  • Hassani, A and Jamshidi, A "Modeling and Structural Design of concrete Block Pavements systems. & International conference on concrete Bloch paving ICPI, Sanfrancisco 2006.

  • Hassani, A. Saghafi, Behrooz, Bahraininezad, Ardeshir and Noori, Roholla. " Artificial Neural Networks for predicting faulting in jointed concrete pavements considering base conditions", Six International Conference on sustainable aggregates, asphalt technology and pavement engineering, 21 -22 Feb 2007, Liverpool, UK.

     

 

THESIS SUPERVISION

  • The study of mean time drying shrinkage behavior of steel fiber reinforced concrete pavements, summer 1997

  • Design of concrete pavements using finite element and comparison with Westergaard'solutions, summer 1997

  • Evaluation of a road pavement in province of Kordestan by MCI method, Autumn 1998

  • Software development for road accident analysis, summer 1998

  • Evaluation of Tehran - Saveh freeway using MCI and PCI methods, summer 1999

  • Application of high strength concrete in pavements, March 1999

  • The durability of Railway concrete sleepers using steel fibers, spring 2000

  • Cracks due to sub-base materials in flexible pavements, Spring 2001.

  • Application of ramp strategy in expressways, 2001.

  • Determination of criteria for the application and implementation of concrete pavements in Iran, winter 2001.
    Effect of industrial chips on design criteria in high strength rigid pavements, Feb. 2002.

  • Application of FRP dowel bars in concrete pavements, 2003.

  • The study of permeability of RCC with pozzolanic material in concrete pavements May 2003.

  • Analysis of heavy axle loads effects on pavements, winter 2003.

  • Stabilization of eolian sand sediment using lime and pozzolan, April 2004.

  • Determination of stabilization methods for swamps area, winter 2004.

  • Development of railway analysis software, spring 2005.

  • Techno-economical analysis of suitable pavement in tunnels, winter 2005.

  • An analytical – computer model for determining stress and strain in concrete pavements, winter 2005.

  • Laboratory investigation of road stone characteristics and road surface skid resistance, winter 2005.

  • Prevent of biological corrosion in urban sewage pipes by addition of materials in concrete mixture, July 2005.

  • Stabilization of Mashy sub-grades case study on South Pars Region, Autumn 2005.

  • Technical @ economical comparison of concrete and ballasted infra-structures in railways, winter 2005.

  • Technical @ economical evaluation of doubling railways of Tehran – Tabriz, Autumn 2006.

  • An analytical study on overlay material to prevent reflective cracks in composite pavements, winter 2006.

  • Investigation and Development of a degradation model for Iranian Railway with ballasted track system, winter 2006.

  • Correlation between California Bearing Ratio (CBR) & Light Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) test results, winter 2005.

  • Back calculation of the FWD test results in flexible pavements using artificial Neural Networks, Autumn 2006.

 


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:

  • Member of Iranian Society of Earthquake Engineering (MISEE)

  • Member of International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP)

  • Member of PIARC Committee in Iran

  • Member of Editorial board of Asian Journal of Structural Eng.

     

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

1) Member : Committee on Durability of Concrete, AFN20 –
Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies.
2) Member : Committee on Durability of Concrete, AFN30 –
Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies.

 

 

PAPER PEER REVIEW
ACI Concrete and Materials Journal

ACADEMIC & RESEARCH CENTER WORK EXPERIENCE :

  • Deputy in Education, Building & Housing Research Center (BHRC) – Ministry of building and Housing, 1993 – 1994.

  • Deputy in Research , Building & Housing Research Center (BHRC) – Ministry of building and Housing, 1994 – 1995.

  • Head of Highway & Transportation Group- Tarbiat Modares University, 1994 – 1996

  • Head of publication committee , Building & Housing Research Center (BHRC) – Ministry of Building and Housing, 1994- 1996

  • Deputy in Education, Building & Housing Research Center (BHRC) – Ministry of Building and Housing, 1995 – 1996.

  • Member of education committee, Ministry of Building and Housing, 1994 – 1996.

  • Head of Material Department – Building & Housing Research Center, 1996- 1999.

  • Member of research committee at for materials properties, Building & Housing Research Center (BHRC) – Ministry of Housing, 2002 – Present.

  • Member of research committee, civil engineering department, Tarbiat Modares University, 2002 - 2005

  • Head of Highway & Transportation Group- Tarbiat Modares University, 2003 - 2006

  • Deputy of Faculty in Education, Faculty of engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, 2005 - Present

  • Head of Pavement management research center (PMRC), 2005 - Present

  • Head of Extended Education Office 2005-Present


AWARDS:

  • Distinguished Researcher By Tarbiat Modares University, 2004 and 2005