Armin Masroor

212 Ketter Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260 (716) 435-7230 am249@buffalo.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Expected: June 2012
Major: Structural Engineering
Research Advisor: Prof. Gilberto Mosqueda
Thesis Topic: Performance Limit States in Seismically Isolated Buildings (Experimental and Numerical Studies).
GPA: 3.97(of 4.0)
M.Sc., University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 2010
Major: Structural Engineering
Course-based Master of Science
M.Sc., Sharif University of Technology 2008
Major: Earthquake Engineering
Thesis Topic: Design Criteria for Steel Frames Equipped with a New High Performance Semi-active Control Bracing
System.
B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology 2006
Major: Civil Engineering
Research Topic: Strength Reduction Factors for SDOF Systems Subjected to Irans Ground Motions.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant 2009-Present
Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Eng. (CSEE), University at Buffalo
Assessed performance limit states of seismically isolated buildings under strong ground motions.
Conducted analytical, numerical, and experimental studies.
Investigated behavior of isolated buildings under pounding against a moat wall, instability of elastomeric bearings and yielding
of the superstructure.
Finite element modeling of impact considering flexibility of moat wall and soil backfill.
Proposed a new impact element that captures experimental observations.
Collapse evaluation of seismically isolated structures.
Graduate Research Assistant 2006-2008
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng., Sharif University of Technology
Investigated an innovative control system with variable stiffness for controlling structural deformations.
Evaluated response modification factors of steel moment frames equipped with this system by performing nonlinear pushover
and incremental dynamic analysis.
Undergraduate Research Assistant 2005-2006
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng., Sharif University of Technology
Calculated strength reduction factors of a bilinear single degree of freedom subjected to a large number of ground motions.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Makan Afarin Consulting Engineers Co., Tehran, Iran May 2008 September 2008
Staff Engineer. Designed and developed the construction drawings of a 12-story steel building.
Makan Afarin Consulting Engineers Co., Tehran, Iran May 2007 September 2007
Intern. Checked the design and construction drawings of a 5-story concrete building.

COMPUTER SKILLS
SAP, ETABS, OpenSees, IDARC ABAQUS, LS-DYNA MATLAB, MathCAD
AutoCAD Programming Languages: FORTRAN Web development: HTML

RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSES

Seismic Design of Buildings Nonlinear Analysis of Structures Seismic Base Isolation
Structural Control Advance Concrete Structure Blast Engineering
Advance Steel Structures Advance Mechanics of Solids Dynamics of Structures
Advance Structural Analysis Bridge Design Risk Analysis
Probabilistic Analysis and Design Optimal Estimation Method Advance Finite Element
Earthquake Engineering Structural Health Monitoring (NDE) Experimental Mechanics
 Armin Masroor

COURSES PROJECTS
Structural Control
Evaluated the effect of different passive control systems such as friction dampers, viscous dampers, self centering systems, tuned-mass dampers,
and seismic isolation for the seismic retrofit of a 6-story steel building structure.
Recommended optimum design parameters for each control system.
Seismic Base Isolation
Designed seismic isolation system of a hypothetical emergency operations center using Triple Concave FP bearings.
Conducted simplified static and also nonlinear dynamic analysis.
Blast Engineering
Investigated the behavior of a steel column under blast loading using finite element analysis.
Compared results with simplified procedure proposed by UFC-3-340.

AWARDS AND HONORS

AISC scholarship to attend Innovation in Design of Steel Structures: Research Needs for Global Competitiveness workshop. 2012
NSF scholarship for 2012 NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference. 2012
FEMA scholarship to attend and present research in the 2011 EERI Annual Meeting/National Earthquake Conference. 2011
Exempted from M.Sc. program Entrance Exam as an "Exceptional Talented" undergraduate student. 2006
Given the title of "Brilliant and Gifted Student from Iran Graduation and Admission Office. 2002

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND AFFILIATIONS

PEER Reviewer for Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE 2012
President of Graduate Student Association (GSA), Dept. of CSEE, UB. 2011
Treasurer of Graduate Student Association (GSA), Dept. of CSEE, UB. 2010
Ambassador of Dept. of CSEE, UB. 2010
Ambassador of EERI Student Leadership Council (SLC) at CSEE, UB. 2010
Student Member of EERI, ASCE, ACI, ASME. Since 2008

PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
Masroor, A. and Mosqueda, G. Experimental Simulation of Base Isolated Buildings Pounding against Moat Wall and Effects on Superstructure
Response. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2012, DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2177.
Sanchez, J., Masroor, A., Mosqueda, G. and Ryan, K. Static and Dynamic Stability of Elastomeric Bearings for Seismic Protection of
Buildings. ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, October 2011 (Accepted for Publication).
Masroor, A. and Mosqueda, G. Impact Model Considering Surface Compliance for Simulation of Base Isolated Buildings Impacting Moat
Wall. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, January 2012 (Accepted for Publication).
Hashemi, M. J., Masroor, A., Mosqueda, G. Hybrid Simulation with On-line Updating of Numerical Model based on Measured Experimental
Behavior., To be submitted to journal of Computer & Structures.
Conference Papers
Masroor, A. and Mosqueda, G. (2012). Pounding of a Seismically Isolated Building with Adjacent Moat Wall. International
Conference on Earthquake Engineering Research. China.
Masroor, A. and Mosqueda, G. (2012). Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Limit States in Base Isolated Buildings Including
Pounding. ASCE Structures Congress- Analysis and Computation Specialty Track.
Masroor, A. and Mosqueda, G. (2011). Response of Base Isolated Building and Shake Table during Moat Wall Impact Experiments.
2nd EFAST Workshop and 4th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering.
Mosqueda, G., Masroor A., Sanchez J. and Ryan K. (2010). "Performance Limit States of Seismically Isolated Buildings with Elastomeric
Bearings. Proceedings of the 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering.

TEACHING AND OUTREACH EXPERIENCE

Outreach Activity January 2012
Organized and conducted the Seismic Design competition using portable shake table for 20 high schools.
Teaching Assistant 2007- 2009
Solid Mechanics (University at Buffalo).
Advanced Structural Analysis (Sharif University).
Graduate Student Mentor to Undergraduate Researcher Summer 2009
Mentored NEES REU student to perform small scale shake table testing and compare results with numerical simulators.
Iran Nationwide Graduate School Entrance Exam Instructor 2006-2008
Instructor for Civil Engineering undergraduate core courses.