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Amin Rafiei

Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering
Office: Holmes Hall 340
Phone: (808) 956-6628
E-mail: arafiei@hawaii.edu

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Personal website: amin-rafiei.com

Areas of Specialty and Research Interest

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Marine Geotechnics applied to Ocean Renewable Energy Foundations and Coastal Resilience
  • Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
  • Slope Instability and Geohazard Assessment
  • Numerical and Experimental Geotechnics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2019
  • M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, 2015
  • B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 2012

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 2022 – Present.
  • Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of New Hampshire, 2020-2022
  • Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scholar, North Carolina State University, 2020

Courses Taught (in the last five years)

  • CEE 355 Geotechnical Engineering I (F’22, F’23)
  • CEE 696 Marine Geotechnics (S’ 23)
  • CEE 455 Geotechnical Engineering II (S’23)
  • CEE653 Advanced Soil Mechanics (F’24)

Professional Activities

  • Member, Offshore Technology Conference ASCE Committee
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Member, Marine Energy Council (MEC)

Awards and Honors

  • Sustainability Award, University of New Hampshire, 2021
  • International GSI Fellowship Grant from Geosynthetic Science Institute, 2019
  • Mentor Teaching Fellowship, North Carolina State University, 2018
  • Graduate Study Scholarship, North Carolina State University, 2015-2019

Research Grants

  • Amin Rafiei (Co-P.I.) “Coupled Fluid-Structure-Soil Interaction (FSSI) Design for Marine
    Energy Foundations: Numerical Investigations”, funded by Department of Energy–Marine Energy
    Program, 2024-2028.
  • Amin Rafiei (Co-P.I.) “RAPID/Collaborative Research: Investigating the Liquefaction
    Susceptibility of Calcareous Sand in Hawaii with an Enhanced NHERI@UTexas Large Mobile
    Shaker”, funded by National Science Foundation–CMMI Division, 2023-2024
  • Amin Rafiei (Co-P.I.) “Geo-hazard Assessments of Wave-Driven Submarine Landslides”, funded
    by University of Hawaii Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship–Undergraduate Research
    Opportunities Program, 2023
  • Amin Rafiei (Co-P.I.) “Mitigation of Wave-Induced Liquefaction within Seabed Supporting the
    Foundations of Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Modeling Progressively-Developed Pore
    Water Pressure Due to Cyclic Wave Loading”, funded by North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute
    –NCOREP Program, 2020-2021

Selected Publications

  1. Rafiei A., Rahman M.S., Gabr M.A., “Evaluation of Wave-Induced Instability of Nearly Saturated Sandy Slopes under Partially Undrained Condition: A Case Study of Landslide in Fraser River Delta Front”, Computers and Geotechnics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105496
  2. Rafiei A., Gabr M.A., Rahman M.S., “Analysis of Wave-Driven Progressive Buildup of Excess Pore Water Pressure in Sands Supporting Marine Hydrokinetic Devices”, Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4043/32639-MS.
  3. Rafiei A., Rahman M.S., Gabr M.A., and Ghayoomi M., “Analysis of Wave-Induced Submarine Landslides in Nearly Saturated Sediments at Intermediate Water Depth”, Journal of Marine Georesources & Geotechnology, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/1064119X.2021.2001610.
  4. Rafiei A., Rahman M.S., Gabr M.A., “Response and Instability of Sloping Seabed Supporting Small Marine Structures: Wave-Structure-Soil Interaction Analysis”, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 2021, DOI: 10.1115/1.4052864.
  5. Rafiei A., Rahman M.S., Gabr M.A., “Coupled Analysis for Response and Instability of SlopingSeabed under Wave Action”, Elsevier Journal of Applied Ocean Research, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2019.04.017.
  6. Rafiei A., Vahdani S., Badiei P., “Forced Vibration of Dam and Reservoir Using SBFEM”, International Journal of Technical Research and Applications, Special Issue 9 (Nov-Dec 2014), PP. 09-11
  7. Rafiei A., Gabr M.A., Rahman M.S., Ghayoomi M., “Cyclic Response and Instability Analysis of Seabed with Cohesionless Soils due to Surging Waves”, OMAE 2021, DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2021-62635.
  8. Rafiei A., Rahman M.S., Gabr M.A., “Coupled Analysis of Wave, Structure, and Sloping Seabed Interaction: Response and Instability of Seabed”, Geo-Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2019, DOI: 10.1061/9780784482124.019.
  9. Rafiei A., Gabr M.A., Rahman M.S., “Wave-Induced Instability of Seabed beneath Geotextile Sand Containers”, Geosynthetics Conference, Houston, Texas, 2019

 

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