Pooya Allahverdizadeh
Address: 1500 Illinois St. Department of Civil and Environmental Eng.
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401
E-mail: pallahve@mines.edu
Cell Phone No.: 720-421-7118
Education
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
Ph.D. Civil-Geotechnical Engineering
2012-Dec 2014 (Expected)
GPA: 3.95
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
M.Sc., Civil-Marine Structures Engineering
2008-2011
GPA: 3.8
K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.Sc., Civil Engineering
2003-2007
GPA: 3.2
Work Experiences
Fulade Harir Sabalan, Structural Design and Construction Company, Ardabil, Iran.
Construction Supervisor and field engineer
2007-2008
“I worked as a construction supervisor for 9 months, and I was involved with different structural projects. My duties were
completing construction projects by planning, organizing and controlling projects, completing quality inspections, supervising
sub-contractors and staff including 40 technicians and labors.”
Internship
“Quality control and field engineer”
2006 (3months)
Computer Skills
Engineering Software: ABAQUS, SLOPEW, FLAC2D, SAP2000, SAFE, ETABS, AutoCAD, MS Office.
Programming Languages: MATLAB
Academic Work Experiences
Colorado School of Mines, Research Assistant
Risk assessment in geotechnical stability problems, under supervision of Dr. D. V. Griffiths
2013-Present
“Numerical modeling of different geotechnical problems such as slope stabilities, earth retaining walls and foundations using
random finite element method.”
Evaluation of the effects of pre-grouting on cutoff wall construction risks funded by Risk Management Center of the US Army
Corps of Engineers, under supervision of Dr. D. V. Griffiths
2012- 2013
“Completing a report about the pre-grouting effects on cutoff wall construction for the “earth dams and levees cutoff wall
manual” providing by the Risk Management Center of the US Army Corps of Engineers. This report includes 16 dam case
histories inside and outside of the United States with details about project, geological conditions, cutoff wall construction and
grouting.”
Colorado School of Mines, Teaching Assistant
Multidisciplinary Engineering Lab,
Soil Mechanics, Dr. Alexandra Wayllace
Multidisciplinary Engineering Lab,
2014
2013
2012
Knowledge Village institute of higher education, Instructor and tutor
Soil Mechanics” and “ABAQUS software”
2010-2011
University of Tehran, Research Assistant
Behavior of offshore pile groups under lateral and vertical loading, under supervision of Dr. Behrouz Gatmiri
2009-2011
“Numerical modeling of pile groups was carried out using the ABAQUS software under different vertical and horizontal loading.
P-y curves were derived for each pile in the group based on their location in the group. P-multipliers indexes were calculated
for each pile and a formula was suggested for calculating the p-multipliers as a function of pile spacing for any pile groups.”
Suction cassions application in offshore foundations, under supervision of Dr. Behrouz Gatmiri
“An overview of suction cassions application in offshore engineering including design and construction phases.”
2008
K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Research Assistant
Aging effects on shear strength of sand and rubber, under supervision of Dr. Mahmoud Ghazavi
2005
“Experimental study of shear behavior of sands, rubber, and sand and rubber mix using direct shear test.”
Professional Affiliations
Reviewer of papers for “Computers and Geotechnics”
Language Skills
English, Persian (Farsi), Turkish, Azeri, Arabic
Selected Publications
1.
P. Allahverdizadeh, D. V. Griffiths, G. A. Fenton, (2015) “The random finite element method (RFEM) in probabilistic
slope stability analysis with consideration of spatial variability of soil properties” under preparation for IFCEE 2015,
San Antonio, TX.
2.
P. Allahverdizadeh, (2015) “Group effect on behavior of piles in a group under lateral loading” under preparation for
IFCEE 2015, San Antonio, TX.
3.
P. Allahverdizadeh, D. V. Griffiths, G. A. Fenton, (2015) “Influence of highly anisotropic properties on probabilistic
slope stability” under preparation for XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVI
ECSMGE 2015), Edinburgh.
4.
P. Allahverdizadeh, D. V. Griffiths, G. A. Fenton, (2015) “Influence of different input distribution on probabilistic
outcomes in geotechnical stability analysis” under preparation for XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering (XVI ECSMGE 2015), Edinburgh.
5.
P. Allahverdizadeh, D. V. Griffiths, Gregg Scott, David Paul, (2013) “Pre-grouting effects on construction of cutoff walls
for dam remediation projects: An overview and analysis of case histories”, in proceeding of the 81th ICOLD 2013,
Seattle, WA.
6.
B. Gatmiri, P. Allahverdizadeh, A. Abbasi, (2011) “Numerical modeling of pile groups under lateral loading in sand”, in
proceeding of the 2011 PanAm CGS Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
7.
A. Abbasi, P. Allahverdizadeh, B. Gatmiri, (2011) “Instability of seabed under wave Induced loading” in proceeding of
the 2011 PanAm CGS Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
8.
Abbasi, P. Allahverdizadeh, B. Gatmiri, (2011) “New simplified analytical solution for water wave induced deflection of
offshore pile” in proceeding of the International Conference on the Advances in Geotechnical Engineering 2011, Perth,
Australia.
9.
Gatmiri, P. Allahverdizadeh, A. Abbasi, (2011) “Behavior of vertical piles under lateral loading in layered sandy soil”, in
proceeding of the 6th national congress of civil engineering, 2011, Semnan, Iran.