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Sara Khoshnevisan

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Sara Khoshnevisan

Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Eng

Email: skhoshne@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315/268-7716
Office: 140 Rowley Lab
Mailbox: CU Box 5710

Education

Civil Engineering Ph.D. - 2015
Clemson University
Civil Engineering M.S. - 2014
Clemson University
Mining Engineering B.S. - 2012
University of Tehran

Experience

University (July 2017- present) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Clemson University
2017
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering
Clemson University
2015

Teaching Interests

  • Geotechnical Design
  • Fundamental and Advanced Soil Mechanics
  • Earth Retaining Structures and Slope Stability
  • Foundation Engineering
  • Uncertainty and Risk Analysis
  • Robust Design in Civil Engineering
  • Engineering Geology
  • Statics
  • Statistics

Research Interests

  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Reliability-based design and risk assessment
  • Robustness to lack of knowledge
  • Numerical modeling
  • Liquefaction
  • Soils and Foundations

Publications

Book Chapter:

Juang, C.H., Khoshnevisan, S., and Zhang, J., “Maximum likelihood principle and its   application in soil liquefaction assessment,” Chapter 4, in Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering, K.K. Phoon and J. Ching, editors, CRC Press, January 2015. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482227215

Journal Articles:

Khoshnevisan, S., Wang, L. & Juang, C.H. (2016), “Simplified procedure for reliability-based robust geotechnical design of drilled shafts in clay using spreadsheet, Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 121-134, DOI: 10.1080/17499518.2016.1146305.

 

Khoshnevisan, S., Wang, L., and Juang, C.H. (2016), “Response surface-based robust geotechnical design of supported excavation – spreadsheet-based solution,” Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 90-102. DOI:10.1080/17499518.2016.1247285.

 

Khoshnevisan, S., Gong, W., Juang, C.H., and Atamturktur, S. (2015), “Efficient robust geotechnical design of drilled shafts in clay using a spreadsheet,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 141(2). 04014092. DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001214.  

 

Khoshnevisan, S., Juang, C.H., Zhou, Y.G., and Gong, W. (2015), “Probabilistic assessment of liquefaction-induced lateral spreads using CPT - Focusing on the 2010-2011 Christchurch events,” Engineering Geology, Vol. 192, June 2015, pp. 113–128.

Wang, L., Juang, C.H., Atamturktur, S., Gong, W., Khoshnevisan, S. and Hsieh, H.S. (2014), “Optimization of design of supported excavations in multi-layer strata,” Journal of GeoEngineering, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 35-44.


Khoshnevisan, S., Juang, C.H., Wang, L., and Gong, W. (2014), "Robust design of geotechnical systems - An update," Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 217-234.

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