Ali Noorzad
@sbu.ac.ir
Faculty of Civil, Water and Environmental Engineering
Shahid Beheshti University
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Civil and Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Biotechnology, Building and Construction
130
Scopus Publications
2378
Scholar Citations
26
Scholar h-index
61
Scholar i10-index
Scopus Publications
- Stochastic Analysis of Reverse Fault Rupture Hazards in Tunnels Considering Soil Parameter Uncertainties
S. Mousavi, A. Noorzad, B. Ebrahimian, and S. Foti
International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (IDOSI) - Seismic performance of inclined discontinuous broken-back block-type gravity quay walls: Numerical investigation and GEP-based modeling
Babak Ebrahimian, Ali Akbar Ehterami, and Ali Noorzad
Elsevier BV - Fragility curves evaluation of cemented material dam (CMD) utilizing incremental dynamic analysis
Alireza Ayati Ahmadi, Ali Noorzad, Hamid Mohammadnezhad, and Ali Asghar Mirghasemi
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - A Coupled Effect of Eccentric Loading and Upward Seepage on Collapse Settlement of Strip Footings on Reinforced Sand
Ehsan Badakhshan, Ali Noorzad, Jean Vaunat, and Guillaume Veylon
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Soil Improvement by Electrokinetic Sodium Silicate Injection into a Sand Formation Containing Fine Grains
Amin Falamaki, Ali Noorzad, Mehdi Homaee, and Amir Hossein Vakili
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Liquefaction Mitigation Using Stone Columns with Non-Darcy Flow Theory
Rohollah Taslimian and Ali Noorzad
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Explicit FE analysis of 3D failure envelopes of suction caisson foundations supporting offshore wind turbines in sand subjected to combined loading
Hamoun Alimoradi, Ali Noorzad, and Babak Ebrahimian
Elsevier BV - Reliability Analysis of Soil Liquefaction Using Improved Hypercube Sampling (IHS) Method
Saeed Golmoghani Ebrahimi, Ali Noorzad, and Hosein Javaheri Kupaei
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Evaluation of the dynamic behavior of cemented granular soil by the three-dimensional discrete element bonded contact model
Nazanin Mahbubi Motlagh, Ahmad-Reza Mahboubi Ardakani, and Ali Noorzad
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Stabilization and solidification of arsenic contaminated silty sand using alkaline activated slag
Alireza Komaei, Ali Noorzad, and Pooria Ghadir
Elsevier BV - Development of high-strength rammed earth walls with alkali-activated ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) and waste tire textile fiber (WTTF) as a step towards low-carbon building materials
Mostafa Zamanian, Mahdi Salimi, Meghdad Payan, Ali Noorzad, and Marzieh Hassanvandian
Elsevier BV - Small-scale cyclically thermally-activated pile under inclined mechanical loads
Aylin Nouri, Ali Noorzad, Jean-Michel Pereira, and Anh Minh Tang
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Stabilization of Soft Clays Exposed to Freeze-Thaw Cycles Using Chitosan
Ehsan Badakhshan, Ali Noorzad, and Jean Vaunat
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Seismic Fragility of Rockfill Dams with Asphaltic Concrete Core
Alireza Ayati Ahmadi, Ali Noorzad, Hamid MohammadNezhad, and Ali Asghar Mirghasemi
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Experimental and numerical studies of a three-dimensional bonded contact model of cemented granular soils
Nazanin Mahbubi Motlagh, Ahmad-Reza Mahboubi Ardakani, and Ali Noorzad
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Seismic behavior of tiered geogrid reinforced soil (GRS) using treated backfill soil
A.M. Safaee, A. Mahboubi, and A. Noorzad
Thomas Telford Ltd.
As the use of geogrid reinforced soil (GRS) walls increases, appropriate solutions should be considered to improve their performance. In recent years, wall construction in the multi-tiered configuration has improved both static and post-earthquake behavior, and become an appropriate approach to building high-reinforced soil walls. In addition to the above approach, treatment of the soil used as the wall backfill is also a suitable solution to enhance the wall performance. In this study, a combination of the two above concepts has been employed for better understanding the GRS wall behavior by developing a series of reduced-scale physical models. One-meter-high models in one- and multi-tiered fashion were tested backfilled with untreated and treated (by adding a combination of cement and polypropylene fibers) silty sand mixture. A comparison of the 1g shaking table tests among wall models subjected to seismic waves indicated the influence of the treating solutions on the dynamic response of the walls. The findings suggest that use of the two proposed approaches in the GRS walls construction has a notable effect on the wall stability after construction and during an earthquake. It also improves the essential seismic parameters such as displacement and acceleration responses. - Cyclically thermally-activated pile under combined axial/horizontal loads in clay
A. Nouri, A. Noorzad, J.-M. Pereira, and A. M. Tang
Thomas Telford Ltd.
In this study, the influence of cyclic thermal loading on the mechanical response of an energy pile installed in saturated clay subjected to sustained combined axial/horizontal mechanical loading was investigated using physical modelling. After completion of the soil saturation process and prior to starting the thermo-mechanical loading, the pile fixation was released inducing pile head heave. When the rate of pile head heave became small, the model pile was subjected to compression axial loading of 100 N (i.e. 20% of the estimated ultimate axial load) followed by horizontal loading of 35, 71 and 109 N (corresponding to accumulative pile head horizontal displacements of 4, 7 and 12% of pile diameter) before subsequent 15 heating–cooling cycles. The results indicated that imposing heating–cooling cycles to the pile resulted in irreversible horizontal displacement, accumulating at a reducing rate as the number of thermal cycles increased. By the end of the 15th cycle, the accumulated irreversible horizontal displacement was estimated at 0·57, 1·15 and 1·84% of pile diameter under the horizontal loads of 35, 71 and 109 N, respectively. Reversely, thermally induced pile head axial displacement at the end of the 15th cycle is practically insignificant (smaller than 0·1% of pile diameter). - A Strategic Approach for Instrumentation System Upgrade in Under-Instrumented Dams
Mohammad Safi and Ali Noorzad
Springer Nature Singapore - An investigation on non-linear behavior of unsaturated soils focusing on Barcelona Basic Model
Alireza Sadeghabadi, Ali Noorzad, and Amirali Zad
CRC Press - Load-settlement response of strip footing overlaid fine sand strengthened with different arrangements of geogrid inclusions
Hussein Ahmad, Ahmad Mahboubi, Ali Noorzad, and Mostafa Zamanian
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT This study reports the results of experiments conducted on strip foundations with and without reinforced geogrids over fine sand and with a wraparound geogrid arrangement. A load up to 25 kN was applied to the strip foundations to determine the loading-settlement response. These tests examined the number of planar and folded geogrid sheets, the placement of folded geogrids in the soil bed, the thickness of folded geogrid sheets, the length of wraps and overlaps, and the spacing between folded and planar geogrid sheets. The results indicate that the performance of the foundations due to static loading is better for folded geogrid-reinforced sand than for planar geogrid-reinforced sand. Overall, the results demonstrate that reinforced soil foundations with sufficiently folded geogrid layers behave much stiffer and thus can support higher loads with a lower settlement than planar reinforced soils. Moreover, the results indicate that the values of the embedment depth of the overlap element (d), the lower part (D), and the thickness (x) of the folded geogrid are 0.2, 0.4, and 0.2 of the foundation widths (B), respectively. As a result, by increasing the number of geogrid layers, the settlement rate is reduced significantly, and it is recommended that these layers be placed vertically without vertical spacing (h/B = 0). - Numerical Analysis of Liquefaction Phenomenon Considering Irregular Topographic Interfaces Between Porous Layers
Rohollah Taslimian, Ali Noorzad, and Mohammad Reza Maleki Javan
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT In order to identify the liquefaction potential, soil is considered as homogeneous horizontal layers in all previous studies. However, in reality, soil is composed of layers with some irregularities. Therefore, in the present research, the liquefaction potential of two layers of saturated sand is evaluated considering the irregular topography of layers. The effect of different topographies including crown and valley shapes of one, two, and four sine waves has been considered using two-dimensional models subjected to earthquakes. The results indicate that the irregularly embedded topographies play a role in assessing liquefaction, which can be useful in geotechnical earthquake engineering.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Influence of corner radius on the axial compressive behavior of FRP-confined rectangular reinforced concrete columns
AJ Noorzad, H Dilma
Journal of Ceramics and Composites 1 (1), 26-39 2025 - Seismic performance of inclined discontinuous broken-back block-type gravity quay walls: Numerical investigation and GEP-based modeling
B Ebrahimian, AA Ehterami, A Noorzad
Ocean Engineering 315, 119735 2025 - Developing Failure Envelopes for Suction Caisson Foundations of Offshore Wind Turbines in Sand Using a Numerical Approach
H Alimoradi, A Noorzad, B Ebrahimian
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering 11 (10), 157-183 2024 - an investigation on the effective parameters of loose sands liquefaction using improved hypercube sampling method
S Golmoghani Ebrahimi, A Noorzad, H Javaheri Koupaei
Sharif Journal of Civil Engineering 2024 - Fragility curves evaluation of cemented material dam (CMD) utilizing incremental dynamic analysis
A Ayati Ahmadi, A Noorzad, H Mohammadnezhad, AA Mirghasemi
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 9 (11), 422 2024 - Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Seismic Excitation Characteristics on the Response of Hunchbacked Block-type Quay Walls with Varying Geometries
AA Ehterami, B Ebrahimian, A Noorzad
Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering 2024 - A coupled effect of eccentric loading and upward seepage on collapse settlement of strip footings on reinforced sand
E Badakhshan, A Noorzad, J Vaunat, G Veylon
International Journal of Geomechanics 24 (8), 04024160 2024 - Soil improvement by electrokinetic sodium silicate injection into a sand formation containing fine grains
A Falamaki, A Noorzad, M Homaee, AH Vakili
Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 42 (6), 4913-4929 2024 - Liquefaction mitigation using stone columns with non-Darcy flow theory
R Taslimian, A Noorzad
Geotechnical and Geological Engineering 42 (6), 4375-4399 2024 - Effect of root age on the slope stability using vetiver grass
R Maadi, A Noorzad
Arabian Journal of Geosciences 17 (7), 217 2024 - Explicit FE analysis of 3D failure envelopes of suction caisson foundations supporting offshore wind turbines in sand subjected to combined loading
H Alimoradi, A Noorzad, B Ebrahimian
Ocean Engineering 301, 116831 2024 - Reliability analysis of soil liquefaction using improved hypercube sampling (IHS) method
S Golmoghani Ebrahimi, A Noorzad, HJ Kupaei
International Journal of Civil Engineering 22 (2), 195-207 2024 - Investigation of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill's Stability by considering its Temperature
M Taheri, M Delfanazari, A Darvishpour, A Ranjbar, A Noorzad
2023 - Numerical modeling of mechanically earth walls stabilized by plate anchors under the vibration of high-speed train
AS Moaradi Andarab, AA Zad, A Noorzad, M Yazdi
Sharif Journal of Civil Engineering 39 (3), 51-60 2023 - Evaluation of the dynamic behavior of cemented granular soil by the three-dimensional discrete element bonded contact model
N Mahbubi Motlagh, AR Mahboubi Ardakani, A Noorzad
Computational Particle Mechanics 10 (6), 1843-1857 2023 - Stabilization and solidification of arsenic contaminated silty sand using alkaline activated slag
A Komaei, A Noorzad, P Ghadir
Journal of Environmental Management 344, 118395 2023 - Development of high-strength rammed earth walls with alkali-activated ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) and waste tire textile fiber (WTTF) as a step towards low
M Zamanian, M Salimi, M Payan, A Noorzad, M Hassanvandian
Construction and Building Materials 394, 132180 2023 - An investigation on non-linear behavior of unsaturated soils focusing on Barcelona Basic Model
A Sadeghabadi, A Noorzad, A Zad
Smart Geotechnics for Smart Societies, 1999-2008 2023 - Small-scale cyclically thermally-activated pile under inclined mechanical loads
A Nouri, A Noorzad, JM Pereira, AM Tang
Acta Geotechnica 18 (7), 3683-3696 2023 - Developing a composite-based constitutive model for municipal solid waste
MR Yousefi, A Noorzad, MJ Mahmoodi
Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management 9 (3), 607-618 2023
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Strain energy based evaluation of liquefaction and residual pore water pressure in sands using cyclic torsional shear experiments
Y Jafarian, I Towhata, MH Baziar, A Noorzad, A Bahmanpour
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 35, 13-28 2012
Citations: 147 - Modeling time-dependent behavior of gas caverns in rock salt considering creep, dilatancy and failure
SN Moghadam, H Mirzabozorg, A Noorzad
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 33, 171-185 2013
Citations: 114 - A new approach to particle shape classification of granular materials
MA Maroof, A Mahboubi, A Noorzad, Y Safi
Transportation Geotechnics 22, 100296 2020
Citations: 91 - A laboratory study on the MSW mechanical behavior in triaxial apparatus
M Karimpour-Fard, SL Machado, N Shariatmadari, A Noorzad
Waste management 31 (8), 1807-1819 2011
Citations: 87 - Load eccentricity effects on behavior of circular footings reinforced with geogrid sheets
E Badakhshan, A Noorzad
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 7 (6), 691-699 2015
Citations: 79 - Subsidence estimation utilizing various approaches–A case study: Tehran No. 3 subway line
A Darabi, K Ahangari, A Noorzad, A Arab
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 31, 117-127 2012
Citations: 77 - Municipal solid waste effective stress analysis
N Shariatmadari, SL Machado, A Noorzad, M Karimpour-Fard
Waste Management 29 (12), 2918-2930 2009
Citations: 65 - Effect of footing shape and load eccentricity on behavior of geosynthetic reinforced sand bed
E Badakhshan, A Noorzad
Geotextiles and Geomembranes 45 (2), 58-67 2017
Citations: 64 - A worldwide SPT-based soil liquefaction triggering analysis utilizing gene expression programming and Bayesian probabilistic method
M Goharzay, A Noorzad, AM Ardakani, M Jalal
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 9 (4), 683-693 2017
Citations: 63 - On the efficiency and predictability of strain energy for the evaluation of liquefaction potential: A numerical study
Y Jafarian, AS Abdollahi, R Vakili, MH Baziar, A Noorzad
Computers and Geotechnics 38 (6), 800-808 2011
Citations: 47 - Experimental investigation on the performance of multi-tiered geogrid mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls with wrap-around facing subjected to earthquake loading
AM Safaee, A Mahboubi, A Noorzad
Geotextiles and Geomembranes 49 (1), 130-145 2021
Citations: 45 - Strengthening of dune sand with sodium alginate biopolymer
H Fatehi, M Bahmani, A Noorzad
Eighth international conference on case histories in geotechnical 2019
Citations: 43 - Seismic analysis of dam-foundation-reservoir system including the effects of foundation mass and radiation damping
H Mohammadnezhad, M Ghaemian, A Noorzad
Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 18, 203-218 2019
Citations: 43 - Predicting crest settlement in concrete face rockfill dams using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and gene expression programming intelligent methods
D Behnia, K Ahangari, A Noorzad, SR Moeinossadat
Journal of Zhejiang University Science A 14, 589-602 2013
Citations: 43 - Effects of particle morphology on the minimum and maximum void ratios of granular materials
MA Maroof, A Mahboubi, E Vincens, A Noorzad
Granular Matter 24 (1), 41 2022
Citations: 41 - Hydro-mechanical interaction analysis of reinforced concrete lining in pressure tunnels
E Dadashi, A Noorzad, K Shahriar, K Goshtasbi
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 69, 125-132 2017
Citations: 41 - Stabilization and solidification of arsenic contaminated silty sand using alkaline activated slag
A Komaei, A Noorzad, P Ghadir
Journal of Environmental Management 344, 118395 2023
Citations: 38 - A 3D-DEM investigation of the mechanism of arching within geosynthetic-reinforced piled embankment
E Badakhshan, A Noorzad, A Bouazza, S Zameni, L King
International Journal of Solids and Structures 187, 58-74 2020
Citations: 35 - Development of high-strength rammed earth walls with alkali-activated ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) and waste tire textile fiber (WTTF) as a step towards low
M Zamanian, M Salimi, M Payan, A Noorzad, M Hassanvandian
Construction and Building Materials 394, 132180 2023
Citations: 30 - Biological soil improvement using new environmental bacteria isolated from northern Iran
M Bahmani, H Fatehi, A Noorzad, J Hamedi
Environmental Geotechnics 9 (8), 534-546 2019
Citations: 30