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.
My Teaching
- “Applied Geotechnics & Engineering Geology” (CVEN3203 – Undergraduate course)
- “Civil Engineering Design Practice” (CVEN9000 – Project-based undergraduate/postgraduate course - Flipped classes)
- “Fundamentals of Geomechanics” (CVEN9525 – Postgraduate course)
- “Advanced Foundation Engineering” (CVEN9513 – Postgraduate course)
- “Sustainable Transport and Highway Engineering” (CVEN2401 – Undergraduate course)
- “Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering” (CVEN9514 – Postgraduate course)
- “Advanced Topics in Geotechnical Engineering” (CVEN4202 – Undergraduate/Postgraduate course)
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