Bahar Abdollahi, PhD, PE

Experience

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  RADYAB Engineered Solutions Co.

  Oct 2007 - Mar 2012

  Supervising and Structural Design Engineer

  • Supervised and certified installation of viscous dampers (1st application in buildings of Iran) and FRP materials (over 20,000 m2, the highest quantity in retrofit projects of Iran) in Azadi Parsian Hotel seismic retrofit project.• Performed structural design of canopy, facade, stairs, elevators, etc.• Designed FRP structural retrofit (over 10 commercial and public buildings; bridges).• Prepared regular work orders, construction drawings, and design reports for contractors and clients. Show less

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  SMTeam GmbH

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

  Part-time Remote Assistant

  • Translated 2 books from English to Persian in the areas of seismic design and soil dynamics .• Designed FRP structural retrofit.• Co-authored presentations for talks, seminars, conferences, workshops, and graduate-level courses (in Sharif University of Technology, University of Tehran, Tabriz University, and Shiraz University in Iran) by Dr. Sassan Mohasseb with subjects of:o Seismic retrofito Soil-structure interactiono Base isolationo Scaled boundary finite element method Show less

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  University of Nevada, Reno

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2017

  • Designed soil-abutment-structure shake table test models to study skew effect on seismic response of skewed bridges.• Developed construction drawings and material detailing and interacted with suppliers of materials.• Coordinated and supervised construction of concrete elements, timber soil box, steel frames, and backfill soil compaction with four different contractors.• Monitored structure and backfill response using a detailed instrumentation plan (earth pressure cells, LVDTs, String Potentiometers, and accelerometers).• Performed extensive post processing of measured data (soil pressure, displacements and accelerations of abutment wall and backfill).• Developed pre-test and post-test analytical models in OpenSees, PLAXIS2D, PLAXIS3D, and FLAC3D to verify the experimtal data.• Proposed design recommendations to estimate the abutment passive capacity due to skew effect.• Prepared technical papers for conferences and journals based on the experimental and analytical studies.• Prepared technical reports for client (project funded by Caltrans). Show less

  • Structural Graduate Research Assistant

    Aug 2012 - Oct 2017

  • Substitute Instructor and Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2014 - Dec 2014
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  Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers

  Nov 2017 - now

  Structural Engineer