Dr. Behnam Shadravan

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 233

Phone:

(814) 898 6664

Fax:

(814)8 986 125

Email:

bus17@psu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Behnam Shadravan received his B.S (1993), and M.S. (1996) from Sharif University of Technology, and the Ph.D. (2010) from University of Ottawa all in civil engineering. He joined the Penn State Behrend in fall 2012.

Dr. Shadravan's job background includes teaching, research, and engineering in interdisciplinary projects. He worked part time as a research engineer (1993-1994) at the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. Then, he worked as a researcher and dam engineer, and later deputy of the large Karkheh Dam with about 2 miles length and 400 ft height and hydropower of 400 MW(south east Iran) and continued as an expert and researcher in Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers (1994-1998). Later he established a new research engineering company, Sadr Sazeh. Dr. Shadravan is involved in engineering aspects and technical documentation of three large dam and hydropower construction projects -Karkheh, Karun3 and Masjed Soleiman (southeast Iran)- and some other great projects.

Dr. Shadravan's Ph.D. project was in experimental and analytical research on the bond behaviour of Fiber Reinforced Polymers on concrete an masonry material. The project was nominated for the best research medal at the University of Ottawa in 2010. He was a visiting research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh on retrofitting methods using FRP (2010-2012). He taught as a lecturer of dam engineering (2001-2002) at Water and Power Technology University in Iran, mechanics of materials, and design of steel structures (2006-2010) at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was an associate professor of civil engineering at CCAC in Pittsburgh (2010-2012) where he taught various courses in civil and general engineering. Since 2004 to 2010, he was a research assistant and teaching assistant for several courses.

Teaching

Courses for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013

Statics

Strength of Materials

Engineering Materials Laboratory

Research

Research interests are in the following areas:

Sustainable engineering

Sustainable materials
Wind and water power plants
Development engineering
Retrofitting

Material Properties

Composites, CFRP, GFRP, AFRP
Metal, concrete, masonry, polymer
Nondestructive testing and equipment

Publications

Publications and presentations

B. Shadravan, Surface bond characteristics of FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Bond-slip model for surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Comparison of the Suggested model with previous experimental data and analytical models bond characteristics of FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2012.

B. Shadravan, Study of the art on bond behavior of surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete and masonry substrates, prepared to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2011.

B. Shadravan and M. Saatcioglu, Testing method for direct shear surface bonds characteristics of FRP sheets On Concrete and Masonry Substrates, prepared for CSCE Journal, 2011.

B. Shadravan, M. Saatcioglu, The effect of cyclic loading on performance of surface bonded FRP sheets on concrete, 9th International Symposium on Fiber Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, Sydney, Australia, July 2009.

B. Shadravan, Bond Behavior of Surface-Bonded FRP Sheets for Seismic Retrofitting, CSRN Graduate Student Conference, McGill University, Montreal, September 2009.

B. Shadravan, M. Saatcioglu, S. Foo, An Investigation on the Bond Length of FRP Sheets on Concrete Substrate, 8th Int. Symposium on Fiber Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, University of Patras, Patras, Greece, 2007.

A.A Mirghasemi, M. Pakzad, and B. Shadravan, The world’s largest cutoff wall at Karkheh dam, Hydropower and Dams Journal, Issue 2, pp. 90-94, 2005.

B. Shadravan,Construction Of Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, Dams and Reservoir Journal, The journal of the British Dam Society, pp. 9-15 , UK, November 2006.

B. Shadravan, A.A Mirghasemi and M. Pakzad, Karkheh dam Cutoff wall Analysis and design, ASCE, Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, New York, NY, USA, 2004.

B Shadravan , M. Pakzad and N. Tarkeshduz, Cost and Advantage Evaluation of Karkheh Dam Foundation Water-tightening System, Proceedings of 56th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Manitoba, Canada, 2003.

B Shadravan, An Overview to Small Hydropower Programming in Developing Countries, Proceedings of The First National Hydro Power Conference, 6 pp., Tehran, Iran, 2003.

B. Shadravan, Bond Behviour of FRP Sheets on Concrete and Masonry, University of Ottawa, November 2008.

B. Shadravan, Dams And Heritage (a) Dams Impact, (b) Dams as Heritage, Seminar at University of Ottawa, 2008.

B. Shadravan, Plastic concrete in Karkheh Dam, Hydro Quebec, Montreal, August 2005

B. Shadravan, M. Pakzad and A.A. Mirghasemi, The Analysis and Design Criteria of the Karkheh Dam Cutoff wall, IRCOLD Workshop on Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, 12 pp., Tehran, Iran, October 2001..

B. Shadravan, Methods of Cutoff Wall Construction, Top paper of Supervisor Engineers Seminar on Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers Company, Tehran, 1997.

B. Shadravan, A. H. Azadmanesh, Final Report of Karkheh Dam Cutoff Wall, Mahab Ghodss Consulting Eng. Co., 209 pp., Fall 2002, Tehran, Iran.

SadrSazeh Co Research Group, Masjed Soleiman Dam and Hydropower Plant Technical Documentation Master Plan, 300 pp., SadrSazeh Koosha Co., Tehran, Iran, 2001..

SadrSazeh Co Research Group, Masjed Soleiman Dam and Hydropower Plant Construction Problems Systematic Classification Research Report , 100 pp., SadrSazeh Koosha Co. , 400 pp., 2001.

Service

Professional Membership

Licensed Professional Engineer, Ontario (2009-Current)
American Society for Civil Engineering (2008-Current)
American concrete Institute (2008-Current)
EERI (earthquake engineering research institute) (2010-Current)
Diversity Faculty Committee at CCAC (2010-2012)
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (Since 2005)
Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering (Since 2005)
Canadian Dam Association (Since 2005)
Canadian Geotechnical Society, The Ottawa geotechnical Group ( Since 2005)
Executive committee and member in good standing for CUPE2626 ( 2006-2010)
Licensed Professional Engineer, Tehran (1997-2004)
Board of directors in Omran (Civil Engineering student Journal) at Sharif University
Active on establishing student chapter for Engineers Without Borders at Behrend

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