Doctor Nazanin Salehi
Biography
Dr Nazanin Salehi is a researcher at Centre for Infrastructure Engineering at the School of Engineering Design and Built Environment (EDBE). She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree from high-ranked universities of Iran in the field of Civil Engineering and Earthquake Engineering, respectively. She got awarded two scholarships from Edith Cowan University and Western Sydney University in Australia for doing PhD research. She has experiences of teaching in wide areas of civil engineering as well as leading full-scale structural research projects at the structural laboratory at Western Sydney University.
She has an excellent knowledge on research topics related to light-weight timber and steel buildings, the control of vibration of bridges, non-uniform excitation of bridges' piers, and earthquake engineering.
Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
Her areas of research include:
- Load Transferring/Distribution of Lightweight Floor Diaphragms
- Bridge Health Assessment
- Load Transferring in Bridges
- Vibration Control of Bridges
Her teaching expertise includes:
- Timber and Advanced Timber Structure Design
- Steel and Composite Structure Design
- Soil Mechanics
- Numerical Methods in Engineering
Selected Publications
Salehi, Nazaninsadat, “Mass Damper in Controlling the Vertical Seismic Vibrations for Simple Bridge Models”, Afsar Publication, 2014 (Book).
Salehi, N.S., Shahrouzi, M., Nouri, Gh. "Seismic Rehabilitation of the Bridge Performance using Optimal Tuning of Single and Multiple Tuned Mass Damper", 8th National Conference on Civil Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, May 7-8, 2014, Babol, Iran.
Salehi, N.S., Shahrouzi, M., Nouri, Gh. "Study on the Effects of Non-Uniform Excitation of Supports in Short Span Bridges", 2nd National Conference on New Material and Structures, Civil & Urban Development Research Centre, Isfahan University, February 27-28, 2014, Iran.
Shahrouzi, M., Nouri, Gh. and Salehi, N. “Optimal Seismic Tuning of Multiple Mass Dampers in Steel Bridges by Charged System Search”, International Journal of Civil Engineering, 2016.
Salehi, N.S., Shahrouzi, M., Nouri, Gh. "The Effect of Optimal Tuned Mass Damper on Dynamic Response Reduction of the Bridges for Near-Field and Far-Field Earthquakes”, The 4th National Conference on Steel and Structure, Iranian Society of Steel Structure, December 25-26, 2013, Tehran, Iran.
Salehi, N.S., Shahrouzi, M., Nouri, Gh. “Optimized Mass Damper Application for seismic Strengthening of Concrete Bridges”, 2nd National Conference of Concrete, Semnan University, Iran, 2014.
Contact Details
Email: n.salehi@westernsydney.edu.au
