Mehdi Modares
- Associate Professor
- Director of Structural Engineering
- Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Structures), Case Western Reserve University (2005)
Research Interests
Reliability of infrastructures; computational mechanics; structural dynamics; structural uncertainty analysis.
- Asset management of infrastructures
- Structural health monitoring of high-rises
- Damage detection of structures using interval finite element method
- Dynamic analysis of uncertain structures using imprecise probability
- Reliable lifetime prediction of dental restorations
Publications
Modares, M., and Waksmanski N., An Overview of Structural Health Monitoring for Steel Bridges ,ASCE's Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction,?Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)SC.1943-5576.0000154, (2012).
Mohammadi, J. and Modares, M., A Practical Approach in Using Uncertainties in Structural Condition Assessment, ASCE's Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)SC.1943-5576.0000149, (2012).
Modares, M., Reliable Dynamic Analysis of an Uncertain Shear Beam,International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 6, Nos. 1/2/3, 2012 (2012).
Modares, M. and Mullen, R. L., Static Analysis of Uncertain Structures Using Interval Eigenvalue Decomposition, International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 3 Issue 1-3, pp.246-257 (March 2009)
Modares, M., Mullen, R. L. and Muhanna R. L., Frequency Analysis of Structures with Bounded Uncertainty, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics- Vol. 132, Issue 12, pp. 1363-1371 (December 2006)
Modares, M. and Mullen, R. L., Uncertainty Analysis on Dynamics of Mechanical Systems ,SAE 2006 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars: Mechanical Systems, pp. 54-61 (March 2007)
Modares, M. , Mullen, R. L., Bellini, P. X. and Muhanna R. L., Buckling Analysis of Structures with Interval Uncertainty ,SAE 2005 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars: Mechanical Systems, pp. 284-290 (March 2006)
Expertise
Reliability of Infrastructures, Structural Health Monitoring, Computational Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Interval Analysis, and Set Based Methods for Treating Uncertainty in Finite Element Models.
