Prof. Majid T. Manzari


 

 

Prof. Majid Manzari is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the George Washington University, where he has served on the faculty since 1994.  Professor Manzari received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Tehran University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Davis in 1994.  He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of American Society of Civil Engineers, and as the Chair of Inelastic Behavior Committee of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division. 

 
In addition to research in constitutive modeling of soils, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and computational modeling of higher order continua, Professor Manzari has conducted research on constitutive modeling of ferroelectric ceramics with domain switching behavior, behavior of mixed finite elements in hyperbolic heat conduction, and active control of structures and soil-structure systems during earthquakes.