Dr. Pooyan Ghasemi

Pooyan Ghasemi earned a Master of Science in Seismic Geotechnical Engineering at University of Tehran (Iran) in 2012 with a dissertation on "Experimental study of remediation measures of anchored sheet pile quay walls using soil compaction". He conducted experimental (shaking table test) and numerical (Finite Element Method) investigation on the remediation measures of anchored sheet pile quay walls that are embedded in the liquefaction-susceptible soil. After his master degree, he started working in Hexa consulting Engineer Company where he has gained some professional experiences in designing of roadways and railways infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, retaining walls, etc.

Since December 2015, he was awarded a PhD position by the Laboratory of Geotechnical Engineering at  University of Salerno. Meanwhile, he has been also a visiting scholar at Deltares (The Netherlands) for almost 9 months working on the applications of  material point method to geotechnical problems and on the implementation of inverse analysis algorithms in the MPM code. He also was partially involved in JIP-SIMON project, a Joint Industry Project on the Simulation of installation of offshore Monopile. During the PhD and mentioned project, he earned valuable skills in program developing, advanced numerical methods, landslide analysis and risk assessment, Constitutive models, laboratory and in-situ tests data interpretations.

By the time of finalizing his PhD, he joined the Marine Engineering Geology Group of Marum as an associated researcher. He is now working on the RE-strike Project. He is responsible of the numerical modelling of pile installation with different methods. the main aim of his research is to figure out the effect of different pile installation methods on the soil states parameters around the pile. 

Pooyan is also the contact of Marum in Anura 3D research community which develops Material Point Method software able to simulate geotechnical large deformation phenomena. 

He already had contributed in many peer-reviewed journals and conferences articles and a chapter in a book about Material Point Methods and its application.

Research Interests:

• Offshore geotechnical engineering  
• Soil parameter determination 
• Numerical Methods 
• Inverse Analysis
• Constitutive models  

Publications:

Journal articles:

• Galavi, V., Martinelli, M., Ghasemi, P., Elkadi, A., Thijssen, R., (2019) Numerical simulation of an impact driven offshore monopile, Geotechnique, (under preparation)
• Cuomo, S., Ghasemi, P., Martinelli, M., Calvello, M., (2019)  Simulation of liquefaction and retrogressive slope failure in loose cohesionless material, ASCE  International Journal of Geomechanics  (Accepted).
• Calvello, M., Cuomo, S., & Ghasemi, P. (2017). The role of observations in the inverse analysis of landslide propagation. Computers and Geotechnics, 92, 11-21.
• Zekri, A., Ghalandarzadeh, A., Ghasemi, P., & Aminfar, M. H. (2015). Experimental study of remediation measures of anchored sheet pile quay walls using soil compaction.Ocean Engineering,93, 45-63.

Book Chapter:

• Calvello, M., Cuomo, S., & Ghasemi, P. (2017). MPM and inverse analysis for modelling reduced-scale laboratory slopes, the material point method for geotechnical engineering, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, The Netherlands.

Conference Proceedings:

• Ghasemi,P, Martinelli, Galavi, V,   M, Cuomo, Calvello, M (2019)  Calibration of Cyclic Triaxial test by Hypoplastic model and Inverse Analysis, XVII ECSMGE Reykjavik Iceland 2019,  Iceland 2019  (under review)
• Galavi, V., Martinelli, M., Elkadi, A., Ghasemi, P., Thijssen, R. (2019), Numerical simulation of impact-driven offshore monopiles using the material point method, XVII ECSMGE Reykjavik Iceland 2019,  Iceland 2019  (under review).
• Calvello, M., Ghasemi, P., Martinelli, M., Galavi, V., & Cuomo, S. (2019), In-Situ calibration of Hypoplastic model using material point method and inverse analysis, II Int. Conf. On The Material Point Method For Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction – Cambridge,  UK. 
• Ghasemi,P ,  Cuomo, S, Martinelli, M., Calvello, M,  Di Perna, A. (2019), MPM-analysis of landslide propagation observed in flume test, Case Study, Moriwaki, II Int. Conf. On The Material Point Method For Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction – Cambridge,   UK.
• Cuomo, S , Ghasemi,P , Martinelli, M.  Calvello, M,  Di Perna , (2019), Combined LEM and MPM analyses for the simulation of a fast moving landslide in Hong Kong, II Int. Conf. On The Material Point Method For Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction – Cambridge,   UK.
• Ghasemi,P ,  Cuomo, S,  Calvello, M,  Di Perna, A. back analysis  of landslide propagation   stage  by employing different type  of observations, Case Study, Moriwaki, II Int. Conf. On The Material Point Method For Modelling Soil–Water–Structure Interaction – Cambridge,   UK
• Cuomo, S., Ghasemi, P., Calvello, M., Hosseinezhad (2018). Using a Hypoplastic constitutive model and inverse analysis for laboratory soil tests simulation., of 9th NUMGE Conf., Porto, Portugal.
• Ghasemi, P, Martinelli, Cuomo, Calvello (2018). MPM modelling of static liquefaction in reduced-scale slope. , of 9th NUMGE Conf., Porto, Portugal.
• Calvello, M., Ghasemi, P., Cuomo, S., and Martinelli, M. (2018). “Optimizing the MPM model of a reduced scale granular flow by inverse analysis.” , of 9th NUMGE Conf., Porto, Portugal.
• Ghasemi, P., Ghalandarzadeh, A., Zekri, A., & Aminfar, M. H. (2013). Mitigation of Seismic Deformation of Anchored Quay Wall by Compacting.