Publications & Conference Presentations

Books

1. Ghafooripour Amin, LalehMajin Rahim, “Analysis and Design of ERCOLITH structural system(Published book-Design guideline for the new structural system in the high seismic risk area with light weight concrete wall panel system)”, Rashedin, Tehran, 2015, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3141.8640
ISBN: 978-600-7092-16-3.

Journal Articles:

2. Ghafooripour, E. Nezamifar, O. Ogwuda, M. Sun, “The effectiveness of sustainable floating structures in the Gulf Region (Middle East)”, High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials, DOI: 10.2495/HPSM140591, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK Volume: 137, June 9, 2014, Ostend, Belgium.ISSN: 1743-3509, ISBN: 978-1-84564-774-2, eISBN:978-1-84564-775-9

3. HamedNiroumand, KhairulAnuarKassim, Amin Ghafooripour, Ramli Nazir, H.S. Chuan,3,Performance of Helical Anchors in Sand, the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ISSN 1089-3032, Vol. 17, 2012, Oklahoma, USA

4. Hamed Niroumand1, KhairulAnuar Kassim1, Amin Ghafooripour2, Ramli Nazir1, Uplift Capacity of Enlarged Base Piles in Sand, the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ISSN 1089-3032, Vol. 17, 2012, Oklahoma, USA

5. Hamed Niroumand1, KhairulAnuar Kassim1, Amin Ghafooripour2, Ramli Nazir1, The Role Of Geosynthetics in Slope Stability, the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ISSN 1089-3032, Vol. 17, 2012, Oklahoma, USA

6. Hamed Niroumand1, KhairulAnuar Kassim1, Amin Ghafooripour2, Ramli Nazir1, SayyedYaghoubZolfeghari Far, Investigation Of Slope Failures In Soil Mechanics, the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ISSN 1089-3032, Vol. 17, 2012, Oklahoma, USA

7. Hamed Niroumand, K. Faizi, R. Nazir, K. A. Kassin, T. Loon, B. Adhami, A. Ghafooripour, H. Moayedi, Slope Stability of the Design Concept of the Sheet Pile and Contiguous Bored Pile Walls, Archive of Science Journal-ISI -Thomson Reuters, ISSN1661-464X, Vol. 65, Part 4, Switzerland, Geneva, PP(2-17), April 2012.

8. Hamed Niroumand, K. A. Kassim, R. Nazir, K. Faizi, R. Haines, B. Adhami, A. Ghafooripour, H. Moayedi, Numerical Simulation of Buried Pipe under Wheel Loads, Archive of Science Journal- ISI- Thomson Reuters , ISSN1661-464X, Vol. 65, Part 5, Switzerland, Geneva, PP(394-401), May 2012.

9. Ghafooripour Amin, Kolahdooz A., Tahmasb A., Sabeti H., Mir Motahari H., “Application of Recycled tire technology in civil engineering”,Mehr-Ab Journal, Tehran, Iran, Aug. 2011.

10. Ghafooripour Amin, Feyzi M., “Feng Shui Philosophy”. Gostaresh-Sakhteman .Journal, No. 5, 2011

11. Ghafooripour Amin, Razavi Sh., Ahangari K., “Prediction of Soil Layers Using Neural Network Method”. Omran Ab Journal, ISSN 1735-3971 Aug. 2010. (In Persian)

12. Ghafooripour Amin, Ghasem Nejad, Modarresi A., “Industrial Production of Buildings”. GostareshSanat Journal, No. 8/423, 2010. (In Persian)

13. Ghafooripour Amin, Razavian M.T., Razavian M., “Green Roofs”, Amayesh Mohit. ISSN 2008-618X, No. 10, 2010. (In Persian)

14. Ghafooripour Amin, Razavi Sh., Ahangari K., Goshtasbi K., “Prediction of Soil density Using Neural Network Method”. Ave Sina University Journal, Hamadan, ISSN 2228-5873 Iran, Dec. 2010.

15. Ghafooripour Amin, TavoosiSh.,Babajanian H., “New proposed amethod for analysis of hinged roofs for covering the missile repair workshops for the effect of internal explosion”. Iranian Institute of SteelConstruction(IISC) Journal, ISSN 1735-515X, Summer, 2010

16. Ghafooripour Amin, Asgarian B., Amiri M., “Damage Detection in Jacket Type Offshore Platforms Using Model Strain Energy،ISI, techno Press, Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics, ISSN: 1225-4568 Vol.33, N03, 2009, PP (325-337).

17. Ghafooripour Amin, Shoar Sh., Mohammadi M., “Bubble Box Building in China Beijing”. Tarahi-Mohandesi journal, No. 3, 2009. (In Persian)

18. Ghafooripour Amin, Azarmi F., “Nano Technology in Civil Engineering”, Payam Nezam Mohandesi journal. No. 12, 2009. (In Persian)

19. Ghafooripour Amin, Shemirani A.A., Sheykhfallah M., “Bionic Architectural from Structure-Architecture Point of View in 3rd Millennium”. Rah-Sakhteman Journal, ISSN 1728-6166 (April-May) 2009. (In Persian)

20. Ghafooripour Amin, Shemirani A.A., Sheykhfallah M., “Bionic Architecture”. Memar Journal, ISSN 1684-7490 (June-July) 2009. (In Persian)

21. Ghafooripour Amin, Saghafi M.H., Naghdi V., “A Comparison of High-Tech & Traditional Methods on Rehabilitation of Masonry Structural”. Payam Mohandesi Journal, No. 11, 2008. (In Persian)

22. Amin Ghafooripour, M. Hosseini, A. Kia, S. Salimi, “Evaluation of performance of the Reinforced Concrete Frames Using the Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis”. ICI Journal, No. 35, 2008. (In Persian)

23. Ghafooripour Amin, Sayadizadeh H., Soltani A., “A New Idea of Effect of Day Lighting on Architectural Design in the 3rd Millennium”. Payam Sakhteman&Tasisat Journal, No. 78, 2008. (In Persian)

24. Ghafooripour Amin, BahramiKh. Talebi D., “Passive Control of Buildings”. Rah-Sakhteman Journal, ISSN 1728-6166, Dec. 2008. (In Persian)

25. Ghafooripour Amin, Haeri A., Khoshroo H., “New Methods for Decreasing the Seismic Effects on Concrete Structures”. ICI Journal, ISSN 1026-3098 No. 33, 2008.

26. Ghafooripour Amin, Kaveh A.H., “Effect of Building Shape on Energy Saving”, Oil Gas &Petro-Chemistry, No. 61, 2008. (In Persian)

27. Ghafooripour Amin, Saghafi H., Rezapoor M.R., “Full-Scale Tests of Floor using cold From Chanel CT100”. GostareshSakhteman journal, No. 14, 2007. (In Persian)

28. Ghafooripour Amin, Sorami R., “Evaluation of Methods for Earthquake Prediction”. Computer &Sakhteman Journal, No. 22, 2007.

29. Ghafooripour Amin, Mehrdadi A.A., Rafii M.H., “Steel Silos & Their Functions”, Rah-Sakhteman Journal, ISSN 1728-6166, No. 42, Sep.2006. (In Persian)

30. Ghafooripour Amin, Kabiri A.R., Khoshroo H., “Drywall System As A Gateway to the Economic & Safe Buildings”. Rah-Sakhteman journal, ISSN 1728-6166, No. 42, 2006. (In Persian)

31. Ghafooripour Amin, Ashtari Nastaran, “Port Evaluation History in the Great Civilization, Part 1”, Gostaresh-Sakhteman Journal, No 7, 2006. (In Persian)

32. Ghafooripour Amin, Ashtari Nastaran, “Port Evaluation History in the Great Civilization, Part 2”. Gostaresh-Sakhteman .Journal, No. 8, 2006. (In Persian)

33. Ghafooripour Amin, Esmaeili M., FatehiPooladi H., “Automatic Building Construction”. Rah-Sakhteman Journal, ISSN 1728-6166 No. 30, 2005. (In Persian)

34. Ghafooripour Amin, Ashtari Nastaran, “A New Idea on Structural Engineering Design Approach for the Esfahan City Monument”, Farhang&MemariJournal, No. 6, fall 1999. (In Persian)

35. Simonian Wahak, Ghafooripour Amin, “Nonlinear Analysis of Pile Soil Water Interaction Due To Seismic & Wave Effects”, Tabriz University Journal, ISSN 1029-8568winter 1995. (In Persian)

36. Simonian Wahak, Ghafooripour Amin, “Pile Soil Water Interaction in Jetties”. IIEES Journal, ISSN 1669-1735 Nov. 1995. (In Persian)

Conference papers and contributions:

37. Amin Ghafooripour, O. Ogwuda, S. Sh. Jafari, “A Comparison of different Nonlinear Numerical Models for Pier Shaft interaction analysis for thestudy of the seismic performance of Bridges”, International conference on civil engineering, architecture, &sustainable urban development, Tabriz, Iran, Dec. 18-19, 2013.

38. Ghafooripour, Amin, Nezamifar E., Ogwuda, O., Sun, M., “An investigation into the effectiveness of Sustainable floating buildings using ranking analysis method based on existing experiences in the Gulf Region-(Middle East)”, 8th international conference on Urban regeneration and sustainability, Putrajaya, Malaysia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK, Dec. 3-5, 2013.

39. Ghafooripour Amin, Presta, F., Shahidi, M., “Numerical and Experimental Seismic Performance Evaluation of the new concept of Precast Concrete Connections”, SMIRT-22, San Francisco, California, USA, August 18-23, 2013.

40. Amin Ghafooripour, M.S. Rohanimanesh, A. Sharifi، Performance analysis of LRB and HDRB base isolators for low-rise and mid- rise steel frames, International Symposiumon Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM),Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, Paper No. P069, pp (401-406), Aug. 2012.

41. Ghafooripour Amin, M. Sartipi, J. AsgariMarnani, ”Renovation of Seismic Behavior in Semi-Covered Steel Plate Shear Wall”, 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15th WCEE), 24-28 September 2012, Lisbon, Portugal.

42. Ghafooripour Amin, N. Gharashi, J. AsgariMarnani, ”Seismic behavior studies of welded flange plate in steel structure connection”, 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15th WCEE), 24-28September 2012, Lisbon, Portugal.

43. Ghafooripour, Amin, Ogwuda, O., Rezaei,Samaneh, An Efficient-Cost Analysis of Monorail in the Middle East Using Statistics of existing Monorail & Metro Models, Urban Transport Conference XVIII, La Corunna-Spain, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK, May2012.

44. Ghafooripour, A &Laleh Majin, ‘Study of Ercholit as astructural system’. 4th National Conference on concrete, Iranian Concrete Institute- ICI. 1st ed., R 2012, vol. 1, Tehran, Iran.

45. Ghafooripour Amin, Mamaghani, H., “Pre-stressed Light steel framing to minimize the steel demand’, 2nd National Conference on steel and structures, Tehran, Iran, Jan 2012.

46. Ghafooripour Amin, N. Gharashi, AsgariMarnani, Development Study of Welded Flange Plate Connections for Earthquake –Resistant Design (4th International Conference on Seismic Retrofitting),2-4 May 2012 –Tabriz, Iran

47. Ghafooripour Amin, AsgariMarnan, M. Sartipi, Effect Of The Girder – Supported Steel Plate On Stiffened and UnstiffenedSPSWS seismic behavior, (4th International Conference on Seismic Retrofitting), 2-4May 2012-Tabriz,Iran

48. Amin. Ghafooripour, JafarAsgariMarnani, MarziyeSartipi, Effect of the Girder – Supported Steel Plate on SPSW, s Seismic Behavior- 9th International Congress on Civil Engineering May 8-10, 2012 -, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan. Iran.

49. Ghafooripour Amin, Delkhah Akbari S., “Evaluation of Finite element model and experimental results for the Deflection of post tension slabs for bonded and unbonded models’,9th National Conference on Civil Engineering, Esfahan, Iran, 2012.

50. Ghafooripour Amin, Delkhah Akbari S., “Deflection of post tension slabs for bonded and unbonded models using full-scale test’, 3th National Conference on concrete, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 2011.

51. Ghafooripour Amin, Mivechi M., Karimi A., “The effect of crossed strike-slip fault movement on Buried penstocks”, 1st National conference on seismic risk management, lifelines, and infrastructures, 20-22 May 2011, Tehran, Iran (In Persian)

52. Ghafooripour Amin, Mivechi M., Karimi A., “Seismic Analysis of Buried penstocks”, 1st National conference on seismic risk management, lifelines, and infrastructures, 20-22 May 2011, Tehran, Iran (In Persian)

53. Ghafooripour Amin, Ramesht M.H., Delkhah Akbari S., “Crack in Post Tension Slabs”, 6th National Conference of Civil Engineering, 2011. (In Persian)

54. Ghafooripour Amin, Razavi Sh., Ahangari K., “Prediction of Soil Layers Using Neural Network Method between different boreholes”. 6th Conference on Structure, Earthquake, Geotechnical Engineering, Nov. 2010

55. Ghafooripour Amin, Ghoroghdardoost, V., Usefirad, M., “Investigation of compacted clay soils for the expansion/shrinkage behaviors”, 2nd National Conference on Geotechnical engineering and irrigation systems, May 13-15, 2010, Tehran, Iran (In Persian)

56. Ghafooripour Amin, Dehghan H.R., “Optimization of Rural Building Based on Green Design Aspects”, Tehran, First International Conference on Rural Buildings. 2009. (In Persian)

57. Ghafooripour Amin, Saghafi M.H., Naghdi V., “Performance Lead & Strengthening of Masonry Buildings, First National Conference on Rural Building Evaluation Zahedan”, Oct. 2008. (In Persian)

58. Hosseini M., Ghafooripour Amin, Karimiyan S., Jabbarzadeh MJ., “The Seismic Reliability of Offshore Structures Based on Nonlinear Time History Analyses, Seismic Engineering Conference,Reggio Calabria Italy”. 2008 – Pp (963-970).

59. Ghafooripour Amin, Shadloo F., Emad K., Jalalian K., Najm K., “Bridge Soundness Ranking Due to System Identification & Instrumentation Data Acquisition, 3rd International Conference on Bridges”, Paper, No. 401, June 2007. (In Persian)

60. Ghafooripour Amin, Usefirad M., Aghakhani N., “Nonlinear Pushover Analysis of Pile-Soil Interaction in Layered Soils, 7th ICOPMAS Conference, Tehran”, Fall 2006. (In Persian)

61. Ghafooripour Amin, Salimikia M., “Guyed Jacket Platform Vibrations, 7th ICOPMAS Conference”. Tehran, Nov. 2005. (In Persian)

62. Ghafooripour Amin, Asgari M., “Prediction of Soil Specifications from Existing Boreholes Data Using Neural Network Method. First National Conference of Earthquake & Lightweight Buildings, Qom University”, Oct. 2004. (In Persian)

63. Aghakouchak A.A., Ghafooripour Amin, “Structural Damage Detection Within Complete Measurements of Offshore Using Dynamic Residual Method with Partial Stationary Concept for Ambient Ion Tests”. Proceedings of 6th Int. Conf. on Coasts, Ports & Marine Structures (ICOPMAS 2004). Tehran, Iran, 2004.

64. Ghafooripour A., Aghakouchak A.A., “Evaluation of Dynamic Behavior of an Offshore Structure Using NonStationary Spectral Analysis with Bessel-Kaiser Window Function”. Proceedings of 4th International on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE4), Tehran, May. 2003.

65. Aghakouchak A.A., Ghafooripour A., Kiamehr H., “Structural Health Monitoring of Offshore Platforms in the Persian Gulf Using “SIjacket©” Computer Program for Ambient Vibration Tests”, Proceedings of 5th Int. Conf. on Coasts, Ports & Marine Structures (ICOPMAS 2002),Ramsar, Iran, 2002.

66. Aghakouchak A.A., Ghafooripour A., Kiamehr H., “An Overview of System Identification Methods And Applications, Part I: Methods of System Identification and Dynamic Tests” Proceedings of 4th Int. Conf. on Coasts, Ports & Marine Structures (ICOPMAS 2000), Bandar Abbas, Iran, Nov. 2000.

67. Aghakouchak A.A., Ghafooripour A., Kiamehr H., “An Overview of System Identification Methods and Applications, Part II: Theory, Type of Tested Structures, History, and Prospective of System Identification” Proceedings of 4th Int. Conf. on Coasts, Ports & Marine Structures (ICOPMAS 2000), Bandar Abbas, Iran, Nov 2000.

68. Ghafooripour Amin, Kiamehr Hossein, “Digital Filter Applications in Engineering, 1st IEEE Conference”. Islamic Azad University, June 2000.

69. Simonian Wahak, Ghafooripour Amin, “A Method for Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Pile-Soil-Water Interaction in Marine Structures”, Proceeding of 3rd Int. Conf. on Coasts, Ports & Marine Structures (ICOPMAS 98), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 1998.

70. Rahaei Alireza, Ghafooripour Amin, “An Investigation of the Effect of Earthquake on Bridges”, Proceeding of 10th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain, 1992.

Guest Lecturer &Oral Presentations (Does Not Include Conferences)

Guest Lecturer, Patten University, Oakland, CA, 2014
Guest Presenter – Monthly Seminar Series, Structural Damage Management of Structures for the Effect of Earthquake, Institute of Structural Engineering (UK), Dubai Branch, 2012

Guest Lecturer, Advanced Structural Systems, I. Azad University, Dubai branch, UAE, 2010
Introduction to Offshore Engineering, I. Azad University, Tehran Branch, Iran, 2009
Organizer/Leader, 12 yearly civil engineering conferences, I. Azad University – Tehran, Iran, 1998-2011