Seyed Farzad Nikrad

University of Alberta, Doctoral Candidate, 09/01/20, present, Advanced finite element methods, Numerical Methods of Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Strength of Materials, Mechanical Measurements, Vibrations and sound

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• Date of Birth: 05/30/88
• Marital Status: Married
• Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran

Doctoral Scholarship (NSERC), Awarded the prestigious doctoral scholarship by NSERC, a highly competitive and esteemed scholarship recognizing outstanding research potential and academic merit in the field of solid mechanics., 2020

Thermal instability and vibration characteristics of laminated composite struts with Graphene reinforcements: An analysis of distribution patterns and geometrical imperfections, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823124005263?via%3Dihub, Effects of functionally graded graphene reinforcements on nonlinear post-local buckling and axial stiffness of laminated channel section struts, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823123009941?via%3Dihub, Nonlinear thermal postbuckling of functionally graded graphene-reinforced composite laminated plates with circular or elliptical delamination, Journal of Acta Mechanica, 2023, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00707-023-03694-0, Effect of graphene reinforcement distribution on energy release rate and vibration of thermally pre/post-buckled delaminated composite plates, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, 189, 2023, 110876, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823123003543, Large deformation behavior of functionally graded porous curved beams in thermal environment, Journal of Archive of Applied Mechanics, 91, 2255-2278, 2021, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00419-021-01882-9, Compressive Instability of Open Section Nanocomposite Struts Using a Layerwise Theory, Journal of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 355, 820-839, 2019, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045782519303858, Postbuckling behaviors of open section composite struts with edge delamination using a layerwise theory, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, 132, 315-326, 2017, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020746217302834, Computational study on compressive instability of composite plates with off-center delaminations, Journal of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 310, 429-459, 2016, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045782516307794, Thermal post-buckling analysis of temperature-dependent delaminated composite plates, Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, 97, 296-307, 2015, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823115301075, On thermal instability of delaminated composite plates, Journal of Composite Structures, 132, 1149-1159, 2015, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263822315005619, Nonlinear postbuckling of functionally graded graphene composite laminates with a circular or elliptical delamination, International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), Nanjing, China, 11/01/23, Effect of graphene reinforcement distribution on energy release rate and vibration of thermally pre/post-buckled delaminated composite plates using layerwise third-order shear deformation theory, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 05/01/23, Post-buckling analysis of delaminated composite beam-columns, Iranian Society for Mechanical Engineering (ISME), Tehran, Iran, 05/01/15

• Zengtao Chen, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, zengtao@ualberta.ca
• Hamid Akbarzadeh, Associate Professor, Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, hamid.akbarzadeh@mcgill.ca
• Mahdi Hamidinejad, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, hamidine@ualberta.ca

• Thermo-Mechanical Instability
• Computational Continuum Mechanics
• Numerical Methods
• Fracture Mechanics
• Smart Material
• Nanocomposite
• Composite Manufacturing
• Nanomanufacturing

• University of Alberta, Doctoral Candidate, 09/01/20, present, Investigation the influence of different kinds of porosity on the thermal stress analysis and nonlinear bending response of curved beams., Analyzing numerically the influence of several graphene distribution patterns on the thermo-mechanical instability responses of laminated composite plates with several elliptical or circular interface damage area., Evaluation the influence of graphene reinforcements on the energy release rate and probability of delamination propagation in a composite laminate plate based on the layerwise theory., Developing a novel numerical model based on the layerwise theory to investigate the effect of different graphene distribution patterns on the initial postbuckling responses of the laminated composite channel section struts., Performing a comparison between the computational cost efficiency of the layerwise theory and finite element method in analyzing the nonlinear post-buckling of FG-GRC laminated channel section struts., Nonlinear thermoelastic vibration analysis of laminated polymeric composite thin-walled struts with different sectional geometries reinforced with graphene sheets.
• Amirkabir University of Technology, Researcher, 01/01/12, 12/31/15, Investigation of the large deflection behavior of a constant curvature cantilever beam under follower load via the GDQ method., Stress analysis of 3-dimensional trusts by using finite element analysis., Accurate simulation of delamination growth under compressive loading by using a finite element method., Thermomechanical analysis of the delaminated composite plates by using the Ritz method., Computational study on compressive instability of composite plates with off-center delamination.