Majid Ghayoomi

Majid Ghayoomi
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Civil and Environmental Engineering
UNH Arctic
Office: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Kingsbury Hall Rm W183, Durham, NH 03824
Websites: Full profile: FindScholars@UNH, https://mypages.unh.edu/geo
Majid Ghayoomi

An Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Teach and Research in different areas of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics with focus on unsaturated soil mechanics and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Tehran

Research Interests

  • Bioremediation
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Hazards - Mitigation/Reduction
  • Materials Testing
  • Soil Mechanics & Foundations
  • Soil/Structure Interaction

Selected Publications

Mousavi, S., Ghayoomi, M., & Dave, E. V. (2022). A Conceptual System Dynamics Framework to Evaluate Performance of Pavement Foundations Under Moisture Variations. In Unknown Conference (pp. 3-15). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77230-7_1

Turner, M. M., Ghayoomi, M., Ueda, K., & Uzuoka, R. (n.d.). Performance of rocking foundations on unsaturated soil layers with variable groundwater levels. Géotechnique, 1-14. doi:10.1680/jgeot.20.p.221

Mousavi, S., Ghayoomi, M., & V. Dave, E. (2021). A system dynamics framework for mechanistic analysis of flexible pavement systems under moisture variations. TRANSPORTATION GEOTECHNICS, 30. doi:10.1016/j.trgeo.2021.100619

Rafiei, A., Gabr, M. A., Rahman, M. S., & Ghayoomi, M. (2021). Cyclic Response and Instability Analysis of Seabed With Cohesionless Soils Due to Surging Waves. In Volume 6: Ocean Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. doi:10.1115/omae2021-62635

Mousavi, S., Ghayoomi, M., & Jones, S. H. (2021). Compositional and geoenvironmental factors in microbially induced partial saturation. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS, 8(4), 282-294. doi:10.1680/jenge.18.00087

Ghayoomi, M., Suprunenko, G., & Mirshekari, M. (2017). Cyclic Triaxial Test to Measure Strain-Dependent Shear Modulus of Unsaturated Sand. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS, 17(9). doi:10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000917

Mirshekari, M., & Ghayoomi, M. (2017). Centrifuge tests to assess seismic site response of partially saturated sand layers. SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 94, 254-265. doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2017.01.024

Hashash, Y. M. A., Dashti, S., Romero, M. I., Ghayoomi, M., & Musgrove, M. (2015). Evaluation of 1-D seismic site response modeling of sand using centrifuge experiments. SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 78, 19-31. doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2015.07.003

Ghayoomi, M., & Dashti, S. (2015). Effect of Ground Motion Characteristics on Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction. EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, 31(3), 1789-1812. doi:10.1193/040413EQS089M

Ghayoomi, M., McCartney, J. S., & Ko, H. -Y. (2013). Empirical Methodology to Estimate Seismically Induced Settlement of Partially Saturated Sand. JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, 139(3), 367-376. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000774

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