Arghavan Louhghalam

Arghavan Louhghalam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering
Cambridge, MA 02139
Education
phone: (443)840-0512
Email: arghavan@mit.edu
Webpage: arghavan.mit.edu
◦ Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, 2010
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Civil Engineering
◦ M.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics, 2007
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Civil Engineering
◦ M.Sc. in Earthquake Engineering, 2002
University of Tehran, Department of Civil Engineering
◦ B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, 2000
Iran University of Science and Technology
First Woman Valedictorian
Research
experience
◦ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Concrete Sustainability Hub
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012 – present)
· Quantitative engineering sustainability: development of mechanics-based models
(e.g., pavement vehicle interaction models) to identify the key contributing factors
to vehicle fuel consumption and evaluate their environmental footprint for life cycle
assessment of pavement systems.
◦ Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2011 – 2012)
· Analysis of Primary-Secondary (PS) systems: theoretical and numerical analysis of
variability in floor response spectra (FRS) to investigate the reliability of FRS for
designing non-structural components and sensitive equipment.
· Theoretical analysis of dynamic characteristics of laminated composite cylindrical
shells with emphasis on the edge effect.
Graduate Research Assistant (2004 – 2010)
· Study of high-cycle fatigue of passenger cars in high-speed trains: fatigue reliability analysis based on random vibrations and modal techniques via high-fidelity
computational models and measurements data as well as proposing straightforward
dynamic proof testing procedures for full-scale passenger car bodies.
· Study of structural damage in satellites and their sensitive instruments due to extreme loads such as deployment-induced shock.
· Developing Bayesian classifiers for performance-based design of material microstructures: proposing a multi-scale predictive tool for rapid assessment of composite
material performance; integration of machine learning methods with a uniquely
designed moving window technique to bridge the micro-scale to macro-scale.
Student
mentoring
◦ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D student, Mehdi Akbarian, Supervisor: Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm (2012-present)
Master student, Nicolas Charles Bain, Supervisor: Prof. Franz-Josef Ulm (2013-present)
◦ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Master student, Mohammadreza Moharrami Gargari, Supervisor: Prof. Mazdak Tootkaboni (2011)
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Teaching
experience
2
◦ University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Instructor
· Analysis & Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Undergraduate level (2012)
· Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Graduate level (2011)
◦ Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Teaching Assistant
· Dynamics, Undergraduate level (2008) – Graduate Teaching Award
· Structural Reliability, Graduate level (2005)
· Structural Mechanics, Graduate level (2005 and 2008) – Graduate Teaching Award
Journal
Publications
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Flugge’s Conjecture: Dissipation- vs.
Deflection-Induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions, Journal of Engineering Mechanics,
Vol 14, No 8, 2014, Featured Article.
A. Louhghalam, M. Tootkaboni and F.J. Ulm, Roughness-Induced Vehicle Energy
Dissipation: Statistical Analysis and Scaling, submitted to the Journal of Engineering
Mechanics 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Roughness-Induced Pavement-Vehicle
Interactions: Key Parameters and Impact on Vehicle Fuel Consumption, submitted to
the Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2014.
A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa and M. Tootkaboni, Dynamic Characteristics of Thin Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells: Asymptotic Analysis Accounting for Edge Effect,
Journal of Composite Structures, Vol 112, 22-37, 2014.
M. M. Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Folding of Cold Formed
Steel Cross Sections under Compression, Journal of Thin Walled Structures, Vol 76,
145-156, 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Scaling Relations Of Dissipation-Induced
Pavement – Vehicle Interactions, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, accepted for publication, 2013.
A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa, C. Park, S. Choi and K. Kim, Analysis of Stress Concentrations in Plates with Rectangular Openings by a Combined Conformal Mapping - Finite
Element Approach, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol 16, 1991-2004,
2011.
S.R. Arwade, M. Moradi and A. Louhghalam, Variance Decomposition and Global
Sensitivity for Structural Systems, Engineering Structures, Vol 32, 1-10, 2010.
A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Incipient Damage Sites in Composites Using Classifiers, International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Vol 19, 233-260, 2010.
Conference
Proceedings
M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam, S. Shetty and F.J. Ulm, Network Analysis of Virginia’s
Interstate Pavement-Vehicle Interactions: Mapping of Roughness and Deflection Induced
Excess Fuel Consumption, submitted to the Transportation Research Board 2014.
M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam and F.J. Ulm, Mapping the Excess-Fuel Consumption
due to Pavement Vehicle Interaction: a Case Study of Virginia’s Interstate System,
International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Pavement Infrastructures Footprint: The
Impact of Concrete and Asphalt Pavement Properties on Vehicle Fuel Consumption.
Proceedings of the Euro-C 2014 conference: Computational Modeling of Concrete and
Concrete Strutures, St. Anton, Austria, March 2014.
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M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in
Floor Response Spectra Using Random Vibration Theory, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2013.
M. M. Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Cross Sections for Cold
Formed Steel Members under Compression, Proceedings of the World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Paper No. 5591, May 2013.
A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Damage Initiation Locations in Random Composite Materials Using Classification, Proceedings of the 18th Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Blacksburg, VA, June 2007.
S.R. Arwade, T. Igusa, A. Louhghalam and L. Tan, Reduced Order Representation
Analysis, and Design of Random Material Microstructures, Proceedings of the 2006 NSFDMI grantees conference, St. Louis, July 2006.
Invited Talks
Keynote Speaker: Pavement Environmental Footprint: How Pavement Properties
Impact Vehicle Fuel Consumption, Iberoamerican Concrete Pavements Congress, Cancun
Mexico, October 2014.
Seminar Speaker: Novel Predictive Models to Study the Behavior of High-Performance
Structures, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Jersey Institute
of Technology, Newark, NJ, February 2014.
Seminar Speaker: Vibration Study of High-Performance Structures, Department of
Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 2012.
Seminar Speaker: Reliability Analysis and Damage Prediction in High-Performance
Structural Systems, Department of Civil Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM, February 2010.
Conference
Presentations
and Posters
M. Akbarian, A. Louhghalam and F.J. Ulm, Mapping the Excess-Fuel Consumption
due to Pavement Vehicle Interaction: a Case Study of Virginia’s Interstate System,
International Symposium on Pavement LCA, Davis, CA, October 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Model for Roughness-Induced
Pavement Vehicle Interaction and its Impact on Vehicle Fuel Consumption, EMI Conference, ASCE, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, August 2014.
A. Louhghalam, T. Igusa and M. Tootkaboni, Perturbation Analysis of Model Properties
in Laminated Composite Cylinders: Accounting for Edge Effect, First International
Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Stony Brook University, NY, June 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, Pavement Infrastructures Footprint: The
Impact of Concrete and Asphalt Pavement Properties on Vehicle Fuel Consumption.
Euro-C 2014 conference: Computational Modeling of Concrete and Concrete Strutures,
St. Anton, Austria, March 2014.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Approach to PavementVehicle Interaction in the US Roadway Network, EMI Conference, ASCE, Northwestern
University, IL, August 2013.
M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in
Secondary System Response Spectra in Primary-Secondary Systems, EMI Conference,
ASCE, Northwestern University, IL, August 2013.
M. Tootkaboni, A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Statistical Analysis of Variability in Floor
Response Spectra Using Random Vibration Theory, 11th International Conference on
Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Columbia University, NY, May 2013.
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M. Moharrami Gargari, A. Louhghalam and M. Tootkaboni, Optimal Cross Sections for
Cold Formed Steel Members under Compression, WCSMO-10, Orlando, Florida, US,
May 2013.
A. Louhghalam, M. Akbarian and F.J. Ulm, A Mechanistic Approach for PavementVehicle Interaction in LCA: Analysis of Deflection, Meet the CSHub, MIT, MA, February
2013.
A. Louhghalam, M. Tootkaboni and T. Igusa, Perturbation Analysis of Modal Properties
of Laminated Composite Cylinders: Accounting for Edge Effect, EMI/PMC Conference,
ASCE, University of Notre Dame, IN, June 2012.
J. Gong, A. Louhghalam and B.W. Schafer, Computational Modeling of Cells and
Actin Filament Networks, Cancer Nanotech Symposium, Johns Hopkins Institute for
NanoBioTechnology, MD, May 2011.
A. Louhghalam and T. Igusa, Analysis of Stresses in Plates with Rectangular Openings Using Coarse Finite Element Meshes, New England Workshop on the Mechanics of
Materials and Structures, Harvard University, MA, September 2010.
A. Louhghalam and S.R. Arwade, Prediction of Damage Initiation Locations in Random
Composite Materials Using Classification, EMI Conference, ASCE, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, VA, June 2007.
S.R. Arwade, T. Igusa, L. Tan and A. Louhghalam, Classifier based methods for evaluating localization in heterogeneous materials. European Conference on Fracture (CFRAC),
Nantes, France, June 2007.
A. Louhghalam, S.R. Arwade and T. Igusa, Representation of Random Composite Materials Using Basis Functions Extracted From Principal Component Analysis, 15th U.S.
National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, June 2006.
Other
Publications
T. Igusa and A. Louhghalam, Development of Design Recommendations for Light Car
Bodies with High Structural Reliability, KRRI Research Reports, Year 2, August 2009.
T. Igusa and A. Louhghalam, Development of Design Recommendations for Light Car
Bodies with High Structural Reliability, KRRI Research Reports, Year 1, August 2008.
Professional
Service and
Memberships
Mini-Symposium Organizer, Quantitative Engineering Sustainability, Engineering Mechanics Conference, Stanford University, June 2015
Peer Reviewer for:
· International Journal of Solids and Structures
· Journal of Thin-Walled Structures
· Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling
American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Associate Member (2010-present)
American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, Student Member (2005-2010)
Women of Whiting School of Engineering, WOW, Member (2007-2010)
Professional
experience
Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, soil structure interaction (SSI) analysis of underground
structures (2011)
MAPNA Co. (Iran Power Plant Project Management), design of industrial steel and
concrete structures (2002 – 2004)