Shideh泭Dashti

  • GAANN Project Director
  • Associate Professor
  • GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING & GEOMECHANICS

Faculty Director, Shideh Dashti, CEAE associate professor in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, is a world-renowned researcher in the design and assessment of hazard resilient physical infrastructure, innovative sensing technologies, and intersection of resilience, environmental sustainability, and justice. She served as co-director of the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing (2015-22), acting associate dean for research (2022-23), and director of CEAS-funded Resilient Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RISE) (since 2020). For additional information, visit her or email her at shideh.dashti@colorado.edu.泭

Education

  • PhD 勛圖厙 of California at Berkeley (2009)
  • MS 勛圖厙 of California at Berkeley (2005)
  • BS Cornell 勛圖厙 (2004)

Interests

  • Centrifuge Modeling
  • Seismic soil-structure interaction and structure-soil-structure interaction
  • Seismic response of underground structures in dense urban environments
  • Consequences of liquefaction
  • Performance-based design of liquefaction remediation techniques
  • Interdisciplinary research involving sensing technologies and information technology in earthquake engineering

Selected Publications

  1. Deniz, D., Arneson, E.E.,泭Liel, A.B.,泭Dashti, S., Javernick-Will, A. (2016). Flood Loss Models for Residential Buildings, Based on the 2013 Colorado Floods, 泭Natural Hazards, 85(2), 977-1003. DOI:10.1007/s11069-016-2615-3.
  2. Hushmand,泭A.,泭Dashti,泭S., Davis, C., McCartney, J.S., Hushmand, B. (2016). A Centrifuge Study of the Influence of Site Response, Relative Stiffness, and Kinematic Constraints on the Seismic Performance of Buried Reservoir Structures,泭Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 88, 427-438.
  3. Hushmand, A.,泭Dashti, S., Davis, C., Hushmand, B., McCartney, J.,泭Hu, J., Lee, Y. (2016). Seismic Performance of Underground Reservoir Structures: Insight from Centrifuge Modeling on the Influence of Backfill Soil Type and Geometry,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,泭泭, 04016058.
  4. Karimi, Z., and泭Dashti, S.泭(2016). Seismic Performance of Structures on Liquefiable Soils: Insight from Numerical Simulations and Centrifuge Experiments,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001479.
  5. Hushmand, A.,泭Dashti, S., Davis, C., Hushmand, B., Zhang, M., Ghayoomi, M., McCartney, J., Lee, Y., Hu, J. (2016). Seismic Performance of Underground Reservoir Structures: Insight from Centrifuge Modeling on the Influence of Structure Stiffness,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,泭10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001477.
  6. Hashash, Y.,泭Dashti, S., Romero Arduz, M.I., Ghayoomi, M., and Musgrove, M. (2015). Evaluation of 1-D Seismic Site Response Modeling of Sand using Centrifuge Experiments,泭Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 78, 19-31.
  7. Karimi, Z., and泭Dashti, S.泭(2016). Numerical and Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction on Liquefiable Ground,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 04015061(14), 1-14.
  8. Dashti, S., Bray, J.D., Reilly, J., Glaser, S., Bayen, A., Ervasti, M. (2014). Evaluating the Reliability of Mobile Phones as Seismic Monitoring Instruments,泭Earthquake Spectra Journal,泭Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 30(2), 1-22.
  9. Dashti, S., Bray, J.D., Pestana, J., Riemer, M.R., and Wilson, D. (2010). Centrifuge Testing to Evaluate and Mitigate Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement Mechanisms,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 136 (7), 918-929.
  10. Dashti, S., Bray, J.D., Pestana, J.M., Riemer, M.R. and Wilson, D. (2010). Mechanisms of Seismically-Induced Settlement of Buildings with Shallow Foundations on Liquefiable Soil,泭Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 136 (1), 151-164.