Shideh听Dashti

  • 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.听

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.,听Liel, A.B.,听Dashti, S., Javernick-Will, A. (2016). 鈥淔lood Loss Models for Residential Buildings, Based on the 2013 Colorado Floods,鈥 听Natural Hazards, 85(2), 977-1003. DOI:10.1007/s11069-016-2615-3.
  2. Hushmand,听A.,听Dashti,听S., Davis, C., McCartney, J.S., Hushmand, B. (2016). 鈥淎 Centrifuge Study of the Influence of Site Response, Relative Stiffness, and Kinematic Constraints on the Seismic Performance of Buried Reservoir Structures,鈥澨Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 88, 427-438.
  3. Hushmand, A.,听Dashti, S., Davis, C., Hushmand, B., McCartney, J.,听Hu, J., Lee, Y. (2016). 鈥淪eismic Performance of Underground Reservoir Structures: Insight from Centrifuge Modeling on the Influence of Backfill Soil Type and Geometry,鈥澨Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,听听, 04016058.
  4. Karimi, Z., and听Dashti, S.听(2016). 鈥淪eismic Performance of Structures on Liquefiable Soils: Insight from Numerical Simulations and Centrifuge Experiments,鈥澨Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001479.
  5. Hushmand, A.,听Dashti, S., Davis, C., Hushmand, B., Zhang, M., Ghayoomi, M., McCartney, J., Lee, Y., Hu, J. (2016). 鈥淪eismic Performance of Underground Reservoir Structures: Insight from Centrifuge Modeling on the Influence of Structure Stiffness,鈥澨Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE,听10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001477.
  6. Hashash, Y.,听Dashti, S., Romero Arduz, M.I., Ghayoomi, M., and Musgrove, M. (2015). 鈥淓valuation of 1-D Seismic Site Response Modeling of Sand using Centrifuge Experiments,鈥澨Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Journal, 78, 19-31.
  7. Karimi, Z., and听Dashti, S.听(2016). 鈥淣umerical and Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction on Liquefiable Ground,鈥澨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). 鈥淓valuating the Reliability of Mobile Phones as Seismic Monitoring Instruments,鈥澨Earthquake Spectra Journal,听Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 30(2), 1-22.
  9. Dashti, S., Bray, J.D., Pestana, J., Riemer, M.R., and Wilson, D. (2010). 鈥淐entrifuge Testing to Evaluate and Mitigate Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement Mechanisms,鈥澨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). 鈥淢echanisms of Seismically-Induced Settlement of Buildings with Shallow Foundations on Liquefiable Soil,鈥澨Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 136 (1), 151-164.