Researcher

Dr Babak Shahbodaghkhan

Fields of Research (FoR)

Civil Geotechnical Engineering

Biography

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Babak Shahbodagh received his PhD from Kyoto University in 2011. He was awarded the Monbusho Scholarship for his PhD program from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Japan. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW. His research interests include:

- Computational Geomechanics

- Dynamics of Unsaturated...view more

Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Babak Shahbodagh received his PhD from Kyoto University in 2011. He was awarded the Monbusho Scholarship for his PhD program from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Japan. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW. His research interests include:

- Computational Geomechanics

- Dynamics of Unsaturated Soils

- Constitutive Modelling of Geomaterials

- Seismic Analysis of Geostructures

- Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction

My Qualifications

PhD in Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan (2008-2011)

MSc in Civil/Structural Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (2005-2008)

My Research Activities

Dr Shahbodagh has conducted original research in the fields of “dynamics of unsaturated soils”, “dynamic pile-soil interaction”, “plasticity and viscoplasticity”, “strain localisation in multiphase porous media”, and “seismic analysis of geo-structures”. The outcomes of his research have been published in top-ranked Q1 journals in the field, including Int J Numer Anal Meth Geomech, Com&Geo, Int J Geomech, J Mat Civ Eng, and Acta Geotechnica, and Constr Build Mater.