Skip to main content
Image

Academic

Dr.

Fatemah Behbehani

Assistant Professor

Office Location:
S03D2081

Education

Degree Discipline Institution Year
Ph.D. Geotechnical Engineering  University of California San Diego 2022
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering  University of California Davis 2017
B.S. Civil Engineering Kuwait university 2013

 

Selected Publications

 

Thesis and Dissertation 

  • Behbehani, F. Theoretical and Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated Soil Using Fully Coupled Finite Element Formulation. (Master Thesis UC, Davis) ((2017). 

  • Behbehani, F. Numerical and Experimental Study of Issues Affecting Energy Piles in Unsaturated Silt (Doctoral dissertation, UC San Diego) (2022). 

Journal Papers 

  • McCartney, J. S., and Fatemah Behbehani. "Hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils: Interpretation of compression curves in terms of effective stress." Soils and Rocks 44 (2021). 

  • Feng, Y., S. K. Sinha, Han Yang, F. Behbehani, B. Jeremic, J. A. Abell, D. McCallen, and N. Orbovic. "3D non-linear modeling and its effects in earthquake soil-structure interaction." (2017). 

Conference Papers 

  • Behbehani, F., and McCartney, J. S. “Impact of transient heat transfer and water flow on the long-term thermal response of energy piles in unsaturated soils”. 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Sydney. Apr. 1 – May 5. pp. 1-6. (2022). 

  • Behbehani, F., and McCartney., J. S. "Simulation of the thermo-hydraulic response of energy piles in unsaturated soils." In E3S Web of Conferences, vol. 205, p. 05002. EDP Sciences, (2020). 

  • Behbehani, F., and McCartney., J. S. "Impacts of unsaturated conditions on the ultimate axial capacity of energy piles." In E3S Web of Conferences, vol. 195, p. 04005. EDP Sciences, (2020). 

  • Sinha, S. K., Behbehani, F., and Jeremic., B. "Modelling of buoyant forces in earthquake soil-structure interaction." In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG 15)’, Wuhan, China. (2017).  

Manuals  

  • The real ESSI Simulation system; Jeremic, B., Jie, G., Cheng, Z., Tafazzoli, N., Tasiopoulou, P., Pisano, F., Abell, J.A., Watanabe, K., Feng, Y., Sinha, S.K. and Behbehani, F., 1989. The real ESSI/MS ESSI simulator system