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Curriculum Vitae
Farrokh Nadim
Director, International Centre for
Geohazards
Address:
NGI, P.O. Box 3930 Ullevaal Stadion, N-0806 Oslo, Norway
Phone:
+47 22 02 30 47
Fax:
+47 22 23 04 48
Email:
fna@ngi.no
Education
- 1978 B.Sc.
Structural Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Teheran, Iran
- 1980 M.Sc.
Civil Engineering, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- 1982 D.Sc.
Civil Engineering, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Countries where worked
Norway, India, Nepal, USA, Central
America, France and Iran.
Professional Societies:
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Norwegian Geotechnical Society (NGF)
• Norwegian Society for Earthquake Engineering (NJF)
Professional Activities:
- Coordinator of International Society
for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical
Committee 32: “Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management”,
2001–2005, Website:
http://www.engmath.dal.ca/tc32
- Norwegian representative at European
Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE)
- Member of ISO Panel 5 for Development
of Seismic Design Guidelines for Offshore Structures and ISO TC98 for
Seismic Actions on Geotechnical Works
- Past president in Norwegian Society
for Earthquake Engineering
Areas of expertise
- Geohazards
Project leader and/or key engineer
in offshore geohazard assessment projects in Norwegian fjords (Fensfjord,
Trondheimsfjord, ...), Norwegian Continental Shelf (Seadbed Project,
Ormen Lange), Gulf of Mexico (Sigsbee Escarpment), Caspian Sea (ACG,
Shah Deniz), Black Sea (Blue Stream pipeline), West Africa and
Indonesia.
Director of the Centre of Excellence, the International centre for
Geohazards, since 1st of January 2003.
- Offshore platform foundations
- Seismic hazard and earthquake
engineering
- Earth- and rockfill dams
- Development of numerical models
- Performance monitorin
Research interests
- Evaluation of deepwater soil
instability
- Earthquake response of soil profiles
- Reducing uncertainties in offshore
geotechnical engineering
- Reliability methods in offshore
geotechnical engineering
- Reliability methods in snow avalanche
risk assessment
- Reliability methods in rock mechanics
- Probabilistic slope stability
evaluation
- Effects of spatial variation of
earthquake motions on dynamic response
- Cyclic axial and lateral pile capacity
– Computer code development
- Earthquake response of piled
foundations
Publications
See list
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