Shervan Ataei

  University:     Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)

  Faculty:        School of Railway Engineering

  department: Track and Structure

  Phone:        +98-21-73916102

  Fax:            +98-21-77451568

  PO.Box:       16845-115

  Email:          ataei@iust.ac.ir

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

B.Sc in civil engineering, , 1998, University of Tehran
M.Sc. in structul engineering, Fuzzy design of transmision tower, 2000, University of Tehran
Ph.D. in structural engineering, Vibration health monitoring of railway bridges, 2006, Tarbiat modares university

WORK EXPERIENCE:

METRA consulting engineers

  Period: 2000-2005

  Position: Design of bridge group 

  Responsibilities: Design of bridge

School of Railway Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran , Iran

  Period: 2005-up to now

  Position: Assistant Professor

  Responsibilities: manager of computer center

  Teaching in:

undergraduate courses

• Design of steel bridges
• Design of concrete bridges
• Structural analysis
• Design of steel structures
• Design of concrete structures
• Statics
• Bridge design projects
• Final projects

graduate courses

• Computational Intelligence in railway engineering

  PROJECTS ACHIEVED/UNDERTAKEN:

• field load testing of bridges
• field load testing of railway track
• mining of railway track database
• soft computing in railway track engineering
• design of bridges

 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Structural health monitoring of bridge (field load testing of bridge, vibration health monitoring of bridge)
• Modeling of railway track and switch behavior (field load testing of railway track, train-track interaction, train-bridge interaction, bridge-CWR track interaction)
• Mining of railway track databases for track management (decision tree, association rule, classification, clustering)
• Quality assessment of railway maintenance machines (tamping machine, dynamic stabliser, welding machine, grinding machine)
• Soft computing (using intelligent algorithms for problem solving (fuzzy set and systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, evaluational strategy))

 

PUBLICATION:

Journals:

• M.S. Marefat, Sh. Ataei, S. Ghahremani, Load test of a plain concrete arch railway bridge of 20-m span, Construction and Building Materials, 2004, 18(9), pp. 661-667,
• Sh. Ataei, A.A. Aghakouchak, M.S. Marefat and S. Mohammadzadeh, Sensor fusion of a railway bridge load test using neural networks, Expert Systems with Applications, 2005, Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 678-683,

Conferences:

• M.S. Marefat, Sh. Ataei, S. Ghahremani, Field test of a 20-meter span unreinforced arch bridge, sixth international conference on short and medium span bridges, 2002, Canada.
• Sh. Ataei, A. Aghakouchak, M.S. Marefat, S. Mohammadzadeh, Fusion of the Neka Bridge with Neural Network, International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis For Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2005), 2005, Bordeaux, France. 

RESEARCH GRANTS OBTAINED:

-Strut and tie modeling,2006.