Assoc ProfessorAbdollah Malekjafarian
Lecturer / Assistant Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0003-1358-1943 (opens in a new tab)
- Lecturer / Assistant ProfessorSchool of Civil Engineering
- 01 716 3207
- University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering, Richview Newstead Belfield Dublin 4
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am currently working on two main areas;
(i) Transport infrastructure: I am currently developing a robust and low-cost approach called “indirect” or “drive-by” for monitoring of critical structures in motorway and railway networks. The idea is to use an instrumented vehicle (a truck or train) which travels through the system and monitors roads and highway bridges or rails and railway bridges.
(ii) Offshore wind turbines: A significant challenge to reduce the cost of offshore wind development is the design of efficient and reliable substructures for turbines. I am currently working on numerical modelling of dynamic soil-structure to investigate the soil damping effects for various turbine geometries, seabed conditions, and loading effects in an effort to provide more accurate soil damping values. The objective of this work is to provide more efficient and reliable designs for offshore wind turbines and their substructures which may cause significant cost saving.
(i) Transport infrastructure: I am currently developing a robust and low-cost approach called “indirect” or “drive-by” for monitoring of critical structures in motorway and railway networks. The idea is to use an instrumented vehicle (a truck or train) which travels through the system and monitors roads and highway bridges or rails and railway bridges.
(ii) Offshore wind turbines: A significant challenge to reduce the cost of offshore wind development is the design of efficient and reliable substructures for turbines. I am currently working on numerical modelling of dynamic soil-structure to investigate the soil damping effects for various turbine geometries, seabed conditions, and loading effects in an effort to provide more accurate soil damping values. The objective of this work is to provide more efficient and reliable designs for offshore wind turbines and their substructures which may cause significant cost saving.
GRANTS
- PROJECT GRANTFloating Offshore Wind Dynamic Cables (FlOWDyn)Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)1 Jun 2024 - 31 May 2027People funded by this grant:
- Pakrashi V,
- Nolan K,
- Celikin M,
- Malekjafarian A,
- Rounak A
- PROJECT GRANTDesign Flexibility in Offshore Renewable Energy Development, Global Best Practice and recommendations for Irish MarketMarine Institute31 Mar 2024 - 30 Nov 2025People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A,
- Pakrashi V,
- Salauddin M
- GRANTA novel combination of Tuned Mass Dampers and sloped wall Tuned Liquid Dampers for vibration control of offshore wind turbines (Damp-Wind)Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2024People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTAugmenting and Evaluating the Physical and Digital Infrastructure for CCAM deployment (AUGMENTED CCAM)Horizon Europe1 Sep 2022 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A,
- Golpayegani F
- GRANTA comprehensive decision support tool for end-of-life wind turbines of Ireland; Lifetime Extension Decommissioning Repowering Repurposing [WindLEDeRR]Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)1 Jan 2022 - 31 Aug 2025People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A,
- Pakrashi V
- GRANTRemote and autonomous inspection and maintenance of onshore and offshore wind turbines (REMOTE-WIND)Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Pakrashi V,
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTAutomated and Rapid Fault Diagnosis of Railway Tracks using In-service Train MeasurementsScience Foundation Ireland (SFI)1 Dec 2021 - 28 Feb 2026People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTDevelopment of Lifetime Fatigue Models for Offshore Wind Turbine Monopiles with Automated Statistical LearningIrish Research Council (IRC)1 Sep 2021 - 31 Aug 2024People funded by this grant:
- Pakrashi V,
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTCrowd-sensing Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure using Moving Vehicles; Support for ERC StG ApplicationUniversity College Dublin (UCD)5 Apr 2021 - 30 Mar 2023People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTTravel grant for organising a special session at the 9th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES 2021)University College Dublin (UCD)5 Apr 2021 - 30 Mar 2023People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTDynamic Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines using Fully Integrated Load SimulationsIrish Research Council (IRC)1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2023People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTSmart condition assessment of transport infrastructure using a network of moving sensors (SCAN)Enterprise Ireland (EI)4 Aug 2020 - 3 Aug 2021People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTFleet Monitoring of StructuresEnterprise Ireland (EI)12 Feb 2020 - 11 Nov 2020People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTTransport Research Arena TRA 2020Enterprise Ireland (EI)3 Jan 2020 - 2 Jul 2020
- GRANTSupervision of PhD StudentUniversity College Dublin (UCD)1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTStructural Health Monitoring of Transport Infrastructure: Knowledge Exchange and Exposure (SHM-Infra)Irish Research Council (IRC)15 Apr 2019 - 30 Dec 2019People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTDynamic soil-structure interaction modelling for the optimisation of offshore wind turbinesScience Foundation Ireland (SFI)1 Sep 2018 - 1 Jun 2019People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A
- GRANTTravel grant for organizing a mini-symposium in the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017)University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2017 - 30 Sep 2018People funded by this grant:
- Malekjafarian A