Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Arman Khoshghalb is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He joined the academic staff of the School in 2012.
My Grants
Nasser Khalili; Arman Khoshghalb; Bernhard Schrefler 2019-2021. ARC Discovery Project, "Non-isothermal dynamic strain localisation in unsaturated porous...view more
Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Arman Khoshghalb is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He joined the academic staff of the School in 2012.
My Grants
Nasser Khalili; Arman Khoshghalb; Bernhard Schrefler 2019-2021. ARC Discovery Project, "Non-isothermal dynamic strain localisation in unsaturated porous media", $298,257
Adrian Russell; Nasser Khalili; GaoFeng Zhao; Arman Khoshghalb; Scott Sloan; Georgios Kouretzis; Buddhima Indraratna; Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn; Mark Cassidy; Christophe Gaudin; David Williams; Alexander Scheuermann. ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities 2015. With the University of Newcastle; University of Wollongong; The University of Western Australia; The University of Queensland. “An earthquake shaking table to investigate soil-structure interactions.”, $320,000
Nasser Khalili; Arman Khoshghalb; John Rubsov 2014-2017. ARC Linkage Project Grant together with Roads and Maritime Services. "Experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of weak rocks subject to mechanical and moisture degradation", $314,280
My Qualifications
PhD (Geotechnical Engineering), UNSW 2012
MSc (Geotechnical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology 2005
BSc (Civil Engineering), Sharif University of Technology 2003
My Awards
"IACMAG Excellent Paper Award" from The International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 2017.
"Research Excellence Award" from the The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW, 2012.
My Research Activities
His main area of research is numerical modelling of multi-phase porous media. He has developed a Meshfree based computer program (in FORTRAN) for the coupled analysis of flow and deformation in unsaturated soils including large deformations and hydraulic hysteresis. The formulation and the program he has developed can be used for modelling existing Geotechnical structures like earth dams and natural/manmade slopes. His other research concerns dynamics and micro-mechanics of unsaturated soils, and characterisation of soil water retention curve (SWRC) in deformable soils.
His areas of interest include the following research topics:
- Mechanics of porous media - unsaturated soils in particular
- Application of numerical methods (meshfree methods in particular) to model geotechnical engineering problems
- Investigation of the Soil Water Retention Curves (SWRC)
- Inclusion of effects of large deformation in numerical modelling of geotechnical (coupled) problems
- Large deformation modeling of slope failures
- Soil behavior under dynamic loading
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Dr Arman Khoshghalb is available to supervise PhD students interested in the following areas:
- Constitutive modeling of unsaturated soils in general 3D stress space (numerical and experimental study)
- Failure detection in unsaturated soils
- Post failure analysis of slopes
- Development of particle/meshfree methods for modeling large deformation problems in Geotechnical Engineering
Currently supervising
Mohammad Khoshini (jointly supervised with Prof Nasser Khalili)
Topic: Experimental investigation and constitutive modeling of weak rocks subject to mechanical and moisture degradation
Ashkan Shafee
Topic: Run-out analysis of slope failures
Past PhD students:
Dr Amin Pasha (jointly supervised with Prof Nasser Khalili)
Topic:Study of water retention curve in deformable porous media
Dr Meghdad Payan (jointly supervised with Prof Nasser Khalili and Dr Kostas Senetakis)
Topic: Study of small strain dynamic properties of sands and silty sands
Dr Omid Ghaffaripour
Topic: Application of smoothed point interpolation methods to numerical modeling of saturated and unsaturated porous media
Dr Arash Tootoonchi
Topic: Numerical aspects of the application of smoothed point interpolation methods in computational geomechanics
Dr Golnaz Alipour Esgandani (jointly supervised with Prof Nasser Khalili)
Topic: Elasto-viscoplastic modeling of unsaturated soils under static and dynamic loading in 3D stress space
My Teaching
He teaches the following Geotechnical Engineering courses to undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students:
- Fundamentals of Geomechanics
- Soil Mechanics
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