About Siavash Zamiran
Siavash Zamiran
Lecturer
Civil, Arch & Environ Engr
211 Butler-Carlton Hall
Biography
Dr. Zamiran is a geotechnical and geomechanics engineer with over 15 years of industry and academic experience in different geotechnical and petroleum engineering disciplines. Currently, Dr. Zamiran is a consultant in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics fields and an adjunct professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Zamiran is a member of ASCE Geo-Institute Computational Geotechnics Committee. He was the winner of national ASCE Edmund Friedman Award in 2019 and ASCE St. Louis Young Engineer Award in 2018.
Research
Expertise areas
Earth Retaining Structures, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Reservoir Analysis, Mine Stability, Pipeline Geohazard, Computational Geotechnics & Geomechanics
Research interests
Pipeline geohazard investigations, numerical modeling of reservoirs, subsidence engineerings, fragility analysis of retaining walls under seismic loading
Publications
- An Overview of Chimney Subsidence Above Coal Mines
- A cost-effective chemo-thermo-poroelastic wellbore stability model for mud weight design during drilling through shale formations
- Investigation of the Horizontal Displacement of Ground Surface Due to Longwall Mining
- Comparison of Seismic Response of Gravity and Cantilever Walls Backfilled with Dirty Coarse-Grained Material
- Geomechanical upscaling methods: comparison and verification via 3D printing
- A geomechanical study of Bakken Formation considering the anisotropic behavior of shale layers
- Seismic motion response and fragility analyses of cantilever retaining walls with cohesive backfill
- Fragility Analysis of Seismic Response of Cantilever Retaining Walls with Cohesive and Cohesionless Backfill Materials