Arghavan Louhghalam Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Cambridge, MA 02139 Education phone: (443)840-0512 Email: [email protected] Webpage: arghavan.mit.edu ◦ Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, 2010 Johns Hopkins University, Department of Civil Engineering ◦ M.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics, 2007 Johns Hopkins University, Department of Civil Engineering ◦ M.Sc. in Earthquake Engineering, 2002 University of Tehran, Department of Civil Engineering ◦ B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, 2000 Iran University of Science and Technology First Woman Valedictorian Research experience ◦ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Concrete Sustainability Hub Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012 – present) · Quantitative engineering sustainability: development of mechanics-based models (e.g., pavement vehicle interaction models) to identify the key contributing factors to vehicle fuel consumption and evaluate their environmental footprint for life cycle assessment of pavement systems. ◦ Johns Hopkins University Postdoctoral Research Associate (2011 – 2012) · Analysis of Primary-Secondary (PS) systems: theoretical and numerical analysis of variability in floor response spectra (FRS) to investigate the reliability of FRS for designing non-structural components and sensitive equipment. · Theoretical analysis of dynamic characteristics of laminated composite cylindrical shells with emphasis on the edge effect. Graduate Research Assistant (2004 – 2010) · Study of high-cycle fatigue of passenger cars in high-speed trains: fatigue reliability analysis based on random vibrations and modal techniques via high-fidelity computational models and measurements data as well as proposing straightforward dynamic proof testing procedures for full-scale passenger car bodies. · Study of structural damage in satellites and their sensitive instruments due to extreme loads such as deployment-induced shock. · Developing Bayesian classifiers for performance-based design of material microstructures: proposing a multi-scale predictive tool for rapid assessment of composite material performance; integration of machine learning methods with a uniquely designed moving window technique to bridge the micro-scale to macro-scale. Student mentoring ◦ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D student, Mehdi Akbarian, Supervisor: Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm (2012-present) Master student, Nicolas Charles Bain, Supervisor: Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm (2013-present) ◦ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Master student, Mohammadreza Moharrami Gargari, Supervisor: Prof. Mazdak Tootkaboni (2011) Arghavan Louhghalam Teaching experience 2 ◦ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Instructor · Analysis & Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Undergraduate level (2012) · Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Graduate level (2011) ◦ Johns Hopkins University Graduate Teaching Assistant · Dynamics, Undergraduate level (2008) – Graduate Teaching Award · Structural Reliability, Graduate level (2005) · Structural Mechanics, Graduate level (2005 and 2008) – Graduate Teaching Award Journal Publications A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Flugge’s Conjecture: Dissipation- vs. Deflection-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol 14, No 8, 2014, Featured Article. A. Louhghalam, M. Tootkaboni and F.J. Ulm, Roughness-Induced Vehicle Energy Dissipation: Statistical Analysis and Scaling, submitted to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Roughness-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions: Key Parameters and Impact on Vehicle Fuel Consumption, submitted to the Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2014. A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa and M. Tootkaboni, Dynamic Characteristics of Thin Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells: Asymptotic Analysis Accounting for Edge Effect, Journal of Composite Structures, Vol 112, 22-37, 2014. M. M. Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Folding of Cold Formed Steel Cross Sections under Compression, Journal of Thin Walled Structures, Vol 76, 145-156, 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Scaling Relations Of Dissipation-Induced Pavement – Vehicle Interactions, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, accepted for publication, 2013. A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa, C. Park, S. Choi and K. Kim, Analysis of Stress Concentrations in Plates with Rectangular Openings by a Combined Conformal Mapping - Finite Element Approach, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol 16, 1991-2004, 2011. S.R. Arwade, M. Moradi and A. Louhghalam, Variance Decomposition and Global Sensitivity for Structural Systems, Engineering Structures, Vol 32, 1-10, 2010. A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Incipient Damage Sites in Composites Using Classifiers, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Vol 19, 233-260, 2010. Conference Proceedings M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam, S. Shetty and F.J. Ulm, Network Analysis of Virginia’s Interstate Pavement-Vehicle Interactions: Mapping of Roughness and Deflection Induced Excess Fuel Consumption, submitted to the Transportation Research Board 2014. M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam and F.J. Ulm, Mapping the Excess-Fuel Consumption due to Pavement Vehicle Interaction: a Case Study of Virginia’s Interstate System, International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Pavement Infrastructures Footprint: The Impact of Concrete and Asphalt Pavement Properties on Vehicle Fuel Consumption. Proceedings of the Euro-C 2014 conference: Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Strutures, St. Anton, Austria, March 2014. Arghavan Louhghalam 3 M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in Floor Response Spectra Using Random Vibration Theory, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2013. M. M. Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Cross Sections for Cold Formed Steel Members under Compression, Proceedings of the World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Paper No. 5591, May 2013. A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Damage Initiation Locations in Random Composite Materials Using Classification, Proceedings of the 18th Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Blacksburg, VA, June 2007. S.R. Arwade, T. Igusa, A. Louhghalam and L. Tan, Reduced Order Representation Analysis, and Design of Random Material Microstructures, Proceedings of the 2006 NSFDMI grantees conference, St. Louis, July 2006. Invited Talks Keynote Speaker: Pavement Environmental Footprint: How Pavement Properties Impact Vehicle Fuel Consumption, Iberoamerican Concrete Pavements Congress, Cancun Mexico, October 2014. Seminar Speaker: Novel Predictive Models to Study the Behavior of High-Performance Structures, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, February 2014. Seminar Speaker: Vibration Study of High-Performance Structures, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 2012. Seminar Speaker: Reliability Analysis and Damage Prediction in High-Performance Structural Systems, Department of Civil Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, February 2010. Conference Presentations and Posters M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam and F.J. Ulm, Mapping the Excess-Fuel Consumption due to Pavement Vehicle Interaction: a Case Study of Virginia’s Interstate System, International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Model for Roughness-Induced Pavement Vehicle Interaction and its Impact on Vehicle Fuel Consumption, EMI Conference, ASCE, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, August 2014. A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa and M. Tootkaboni, Perturbation Analysis of Model Properties in Laminated Composite Cylinders: Accounting for Edge Effect, First International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Stony Brook University, NY, June 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Pavement Infrastructures Footprint: The Impact of Concrete and Asphalt Pavement Properties on Vehicle Fuel Consumption. Euro-C 2014 conference: Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Strutures, St. Anton, Austria, March 2014. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Approach to PavementVehicle Interaction in the US Roadway Network, EMI Conference, ASCE, Northwestern University, IL, August 2013. M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in Secondary System Response Spectra in Primary-Secondary Systems, EMI Conference, ASCE, Northwestern University, IL, August 2013. M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in Floor Response Spectra Using Random Vibration Theory, 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Columbia University, NY, May 2013. Arghavan Louhghalam 4 M. Moharrami Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Cross Sections for Cold Formed Steel Members under Compression, WCSMO-10, Orlando, Florida, US, May 2013. A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Approach for PavementVehicle Interaction in LCA: Analysis of Deflection, Meet the CSHub, MIT, MA, February 2013. A. Louhghalam, M. Tootkaboni and T. Igusa, Perturbation Analysis of Modal Properties of Laminated Composite Cylinders: Accounting for Edge Effect, EMI/PMC Conference, ASCE, University of Notre Dame, IN, June 2012. J. Gong, A. Louhghalam and B.W. Schafer, Computational Modeling of Cells and Actin Filament Networks, Cancer Nanotech Symposium, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, MD, May 2011. A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Analysis of Stresses in Plates with Rectangular Openings Using Coarse Finite Element Meshes, New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Harvard University, MA, September 2010. A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Damage Initiation Locations in Random Composite Materials Using Classification, EMI Conference, ASCE, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, VA, June 2007. S.R. Arwade, T. Igusa, L. Tan and A. Louhghalam, Classifier based methods for evaluating localization in heterogeneous materials. European Conference on Fracture (CFRAC), Nantes, France, June 2007. A. Louhghalam, S.R. Arwade and T. Igusa, Representation of Random Composite Materials Using Basis Functions Extracted From Principal Component Analysis, 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, June 2006. Other Publications T. Igusa and A. Louhghalam, Development of Design Recommendations for Light Car Bodies with High Structural Reliability, KRRI Research Reports, Year 2, August 2009. T. Igusa and A. Louhghalam, Development of Design Recommendations for Light Car Bodies with High Structural Reliability, KRRI Research Reports, Year 1, August 2008. Professional Service and Memberships Mini-Symposium Organizer, Quantitative Engineering Sustainability, Engineering Mechanics Conference, Stanford University, June 2015 Peer Reviewer for: · International Journal of Solids and Structures · Journal of Thin-Walled Structures · Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Associate Member (2010-present) American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Student Member (2005-2010) Women of Whiting School of Engineering, WOW, Member (2007-2010) Professional experience Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, soil structure interaction (SSI) analysis of underground structures (2011) MAPNA Co. (Iran Power Plant Project Management), design of industrial steel and concrete structures (2002 – 2004)
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