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Dr Kazem Ghabraie

Name :	Dr Kazem Ghabraie
Position :	Lecturer (Geotechnical Engineering)
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office :	Z434
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1958
Extension :	1958
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng, MEng Tehran PhD RMIT

Research Interests

Structural optimisation
Topology and shape optimisation
Tunnel reinforcement design
Finite element method
Material design

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

B Ghabraie, G Ren, K Ghabraie & YM Xie (published on-line: Feb 2013) A study on truss bolt mechanism in controlling stability of underground excavation and cutter roof failure, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.

B Ghabraie, G Ren & K Ghabraie (2013) Effects of thickness of roof layers on optimum design of truss bolt system using finite element modeling techniques, Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 18/A:147--158.

T Nguyen, K Ghabraie & T Tran-Cong (2012) Tunnel Reinforcement Optimization for Nonlinear Material, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-28 November 2012.

Most notable :

B Ghabraie, G Ren, K Ghabraie & YM Xie (published on-line: Feb 2013) A study on truss bolt mechanism in controlling stability of underground excavation and cutter roof failure, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering.

K Ghabraie (2012) Applications of topology optimization techniques in seismic design of structures, in: V Plevris, CC Mitropoulou & ND Lagaros (eds.), Structural Seismic Design Optimization and Earthquake Engineering: Formulations and Applications, IGI Global, pp. 232-268.

K Ghabraie, R Chan, X Huang & YM Xie (2010) Shape optimization of metallic yielding devices for passive mitigation of seismic energy. Engineering Structures, 32(8): 2258–2267.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

CIV2403 Geology and Geomechanics
CIV2901 Geology and Geomechanics Prac.
CIV1500 Applied Mechanics
MEC2402 Stress Analysis
ENG3103 Engineering Problem Solving Computations

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 4 years