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Name: Babak Moaveni
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
Degrees: Ph.D. (2007), Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
M.S. (2001), Earthquake Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
B.S. (1999), Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Expertise: System and damage identification of civil structures, experimental modal analysis, finite element analysis and finite element model updating, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation of computational models.
E-mail: babak.moaveni@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://engineering.tufts.edu/cee/people/moaveni
Scholarship & Research: Moaveni, B., He, X., Conte J.P., and de Callafon, R.A. (2008). “Damage Identification of a Composite Beam Using Finite Element Model Updating.” Journal of Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 23, Issue 5, 339-359.

De Callafon, R.A., Moaveni, B., Conte, J.P., He, X., and Udd, E. (2008). “General Realization Algorithm for Modal Identification of Linear Dynamic Systems.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 134, Issue 9.

He, X., Moaveni, B., Conte, J.P., Elgamal A., and Masri, S.F. (2008). “System Identification of Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge Using Dynamic Field Test Data.” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, in press.

Moaveni, B., Conte, J.P., Hemez, F.M. (2008). “Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of Damage Identification Results Obtained Using Finite Element Model Updating.” Journal of Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, accepted for publication.

Conte, J.P., Moaveni, B., He, X., and Barbosa, A.R. (2007). “System and Damage Identification of a Seven-story Reinforced Concrete Building Structure Tested on the UCSD-NEES Shake table.” Keynote paper, Proc. of International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, Porto, Portugal.

Moaveni, B., Barbosa, A.R., Conte, J.P., and Hemez, F.M. (2007). “Uncertainty Analysis of Modal Parameters Obtained from Three System Identification Methods.” Proc. of International Conference on Modal Analysis (IMAC-XXV), Orlando, USA.

Calvert, S., Conte, J.P., Moaveni, B., Schultz, W.L., and de Callafon, R. (2003). “Full-Scale Testing Results of Structural Damage Detection Using Long Gage Fiber Bragg Gratings and Modal Analysis”, Proc. of 10th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, USA.

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