Professional Backgrounds
- Head, USC Department of Civil Engineering, 2010-2012
- Supervisor, Earthquake Engineering Subdiscipline, University of Science and Culture, 2012-Present
- Supervisor, Structural Engineering Subdiscipline, University of Science and Culture, 2014-Present
- Supervisor, Structural Engineering Subdiscipline (Doctorate Program), University of Science and Culture, 2014-Present
Education
- Bachelor's Degree , 2000 , Civil Engineering , Isfahan University of Technology
- Master's Degree , 2002 , Structural Engineering , Sharif University of Technology
- Ph.D. , 2008 , Structural Engineering , Sharif University of Technology
Journal Papers
- Nikkhoo, A. & Rahimzadeh Rofooei, F. & Shadnam, M. (2007). Dynamic behavior and modal control of beams under moving mass. Journal of Sound and Vibration. ,306 (3-5) ,712-724. Elsevier. cite
- Kiani, K. & Nikkhoo, A. & Mehri, B. (2009). Prediction capabilities of classical and shear deformable beam models excited by a moving mass. Journal of Sound and Vibration. ,320 (3) ,632-648. Elsevier. cite
- Rahimzadeh Rofooei, F. & Nikkhoo, A. (2009). Application of active piezoelectric patches in controlling the dynamic response of a thin rectangular plate under a moving mass. International Journal of Solids and structures. ,46 (11-12) ,2429-2443. Elsevier. cite
- Kiani, K. & Nikkhoo, A. & Mehri, B. (2009). Parametric analyses of multispan viscoelastic shear deformable beams under excitation of a moving mass. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. ,131 (5) ASME. cite
- Kiani, K. & Nikkhoo, A. & Mehri, B. (2010). Assessing dynamic response of multispan viscoelastic thin beams under a moving mass via generalized moving least square method. Acta Mechanica Sinica. ,26 (5) ,721-733. Springer. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Rahimzadeh Rofooei, F. (2012). Parametric study of the dynamic response of thin rectangular plates traversed by a moving mass. Acta Mechanica. ,223 (1) ,15-27. Springer. cite
- Kiani, K. & Nikkhoo, A. (2012). On the limitations of linear beams for the problems of moving mass-beam interaction using a meshfree method . Acta Mechanica Sinica. ,28 (1) ,164-179. Springer. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Kananipour, H. & Chavoshi, H. & Zarfam, R. (2012). Application of differential quadrature method to investigate dynamics of a curved beam structure acted upon by a moving concentrated load. Indian Journal of Science and Technology. ,5 (8) ,3085-3089. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Amankhani, M. (2012). Dynamic Behavior of Functionally Graded Beams Traversed by a Moving Random Load. Indian Journal of Science and Technology. ,5 (12) ,3727-3731. cite
- Vaseghi Amiri, J. & Nikkhoo, A. & Davoodi, M. & Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. (2013). Vibration analysis of a Mindlin elastic plate under a moving mass excitation by eigenfunction expansion method. Thin-Walled Structures. ,62 ,53-64. Elsevier. cite
- Zarfam, R. & Khaloo, A. & Nikkhoo, A. (2013). On the response spectrum of Euler–Bernoulli beams with a moving mass and horizontal support excitation. Mechanics Research Communications. ,47 ,77-83. Elsevier. cite
- Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. & Nikkhoo, A. & Vaseghi Amiri, J. & Mehri, B. (2013). A new Orthonormal Polynomial Series Expansion Method in vibration analysis of thin beams with non-uniform thickness. Applied Mathematical Modelling. ,37 (18-19) ,8543-8556. Elsevier. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Amankhani, M. & Ghafari, H. (2014). Vibration Suppression in Smart Thin Beams with Piezoelectric Actuators under a moving Load/Mass Accounting for Large Deflections of the Base Structure. Indian Journal of Science and Technology. ,7 (2) ,211-220. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. & Eftekhar Azam, S. & Vaseghi Amiri, J. (2014). Vibration of a thin rectangular plate subjected to series of moving inertial loads. Mechanics Research Communications. ,55 ,105-113. Elsevier. cite
- Ahmadi, M. & Nikkhoo, A. (2014). Utilization of characteristic polynomials in vibration analysis of non-uniform beams under a moving mass excitation. Applied Mathematical Modelling. ,38 (7) ,2130-2140. Elsevier. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. (2014). Investigating the behavior of smart thin beams with piezoelectric actuators under dynamic loads. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. ,45 (2) ,513-530. Elsevier. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Kananipour, H. (2014). Numerical solution for dynamic analysis of semicircular curved beams acted upon by moving loads. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. ,228 (13) ,2314-2322. SAGE. cite
- Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. & Khajeh Ahmad Attari, N. & Nikkhoo, A. & Baranadan, M. (2015). An optimum modal superposition approach in the computation of moving mass induced vibrations of a distributed parameter system. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. ,229 (6) ,1015-1028. SAGE. cite
- Niaz, M. & Nikkhoo, A. (2015). Inspection of a rectangular plate dynamics under a moving mass with varying velocity utilizing BCOPs. Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures. ,12 (2) ,317-332. Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Farazandeh, A. & Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. & Mariani, S. (2015). Simplified modeling of beam vibrations induced by a moving mass by regression analysis. Acta Mechanica. ,226 (7) ,2147-2157. Springer. cite
- Ghazvini, T. & Nikkhoo, A. & Allahyari, H. & Zalpuli, M. (2016). Dynamic response analysis of a thin rectangular plate of varying thickness to a traveling inertial load. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. ,38 (2) ,403-411. Springer. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Farazandeh, A. & Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. (2016). On the computation of moving mass/beam interaction utilizing a semi-analytical method. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. ,38 (3) ,761-771. Springer. cite
- Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi, M. & Khajeh Ahmad Attari, N. & Nikkhoo, A. & Mariani, S. (2016). Resonance of a rectangular plate influenced by sequential moving masses. Coupled systems mechanics. ,5 (1) ,87-100. Techno-Press. cite
- Rahimzadeh Rofooei, F. & Enshaeian, A. & Nikkhoo, A. (2017). Dynamic response of geometrically nonlinear, elastic rectangular plates under a moving mass loading by inclusion of all inertial components. Journal of Sound and Vibration. ,394 ,497-514. Elsevier. cite
- Nikkhoo, A. & Zolfaghar, S. & Kiani, K. (2017). A simplified-nonlocal model for transverse vibration of nanotubes acted upon by a moving nanoparticle. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. , (DOI 10.1007/s40430-017-0892-8) ,1-13. SPRINGER. cite
