ShidehDashti

  • 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.

Education

  • PhD University of California at Berkeley (2009)
  • MS University of California at Berkeley (2005)
  • BS Cornell University (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.,Liel, A.B.,Dashti, S., Javernick-Will, A. (2016). “Flood Loss Models for Residential Buildings, Based on the 2013 Colorado Floods,” Natural Hazards, 85(2), 977-1003. DOI:10.1007/s11069-016-2615-3.
  2. Hushmand,A.,Dashti,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,”Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 88, 427-438.
  3. Hushmand, A.,Dashti, S., Davis, C., Hushmand, B., McCartney, J.,Hu, J., Lee, Y. (2016). “Seismic Performance of Underground Reservoir Structures: Insight from Centrifuge Modeling on the Influence of Backfill Soil Type and Geometry,”Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,, 04016058.
  4. Karimi, Z., andDashti, S.(2016). “Seismic Performance of Structures on Liquefiable Soils: Insight from Numerical Simulations and Centrifuge Experiments,”Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001479.
  5. Hushmand, A.,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,”Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001477.
  6. Hashash, Y.,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,”Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 78, 19-31.
  7. Karimi, Z., andDashti, S.(2016). “Numerical and Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction on Liquefiable Ground,”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,”Earthquake Spectra Journal,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,”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,”Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 136 (1), 151-164.