Research Areas: Civil Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Education Background: • PhD, 2006, Civil Engineering - Rutgers University
• MSc, 2003, Civil Engineering - Rutgers University
• BSc, 2000, Civil Engineering - Sharif University of Technology
About:
Shokouhi is an associate professor of engineering science and mechanics. She began at Penn State in 2014. She holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Rutgers University. Her interests lie in stress wave propagation in fractured media, nondestructive evaluation (linear and nonlinear ultrasonic testing), structural health monitoring (acoustic emission), machine learning and data analytics, and seismic metamaterials. Her honors and awards include an American Society for Nondestructive Testing Fellowship Award; an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; and an Outstanding Performance in Securing External Funding from The University of Texas at El Paso, among others.
Research Interests:
• Stress wave propagation in fractured media
• Nondestructive evaluation (linear and nonlinear ultrasonic testing)
• Structural health monitoring (acoustic emission)
• Machine learning and data analytics
• Elastic metamaterials
Memberships & Committees:
• Member of TRB - Transportation Research Board - Committees AFD80 andAFF40.
• Member of ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineering.
• Member of ASNT - American Society of Nondestructive Testing
Honors & Awards:
• Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship, AvH Foundation, Germany 2008
• Outstanding performance award 2007-2008, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2008
• Doctoral research fellowship, CAIT, Rutgers University, 2005
• UTC Outstanding students of the year award, USDOT, 2004
Teaching:
• CE340 Structural Analysis
• CE597E Non-Destructive Evaluation and Site Characterization
Wood, C., C.-Y. Ke, J. Rivière, D. Elsworth, C. Marone, and P. Shokouhi, (2023). Decoupling the poromechanics of particle remobilization and interface stiffness of dynamically stressed tensile fractured rock, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-17555, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17555, 2023.
Gao, L., P. Shokouhi, and J. Rivière, (2022). Effect of relative humidity on the nonlinear elastic response of granular media, Journal of Applied Physics, v. 131 (5), pp. 055101.
Tawfik, M. S., A. S. Adishesha, Y. Hsi, P. Porswani, R. T. Johns, P. Shokouhi, X. Huang, and Z. Karpyn, (2022). Comparative Study of Traditional and Deep-Learning Denoising Approaches for Image-Based Petrophysical Characterization of Porous Media, Frontiers in Water, v. 3, [800369], doi: 10.3389/frwa.
Williams, C., C. Borigo, J. Rivière, C. J. Lissenden, and P. Shokouhi, (2022). Nondestructive Evaluation of Fracture Toughness in 4130 Steel Using Nonlinear Ultrasonic Testing, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, v. 41 (1), pp. 1-12.
Wood, C., C.-Y. Ke, A. Rathbun, J. Rivière, D. Elsworth, C. Marone, and P. Shokouhi, (2022). Probing the micromechanical features of a fracture interface using a multi-physics approach: A numerical investigation relating asperity deformation with fluid flow, EGU General Assembly 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6760.
Bozek, E., S. McGuigan, Z. Snow, E. W. Reutzel, J. Rivière, and P. Shokouhi, (2021). Nonlinear resonance ultrasonic spectroscopy (NRUS) for the quality control of additively manufactured samples, NDT and E International, v. 123, [102495], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2021.102495.
Giraldo-Guzman, D., C. Lissenden, P. Shokouhi, and M. Frecker, (2021). Topology optimization design of structures based on eigenfrequency matching, Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, v. 3B-2021, https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2021-69498.
Guha, A., M. Aynardi, P. Shokouhi, and C. J. Lissenden, (2021). Identification of closed fatigue fractures in synthetic human tibia using vibro-acoustic nonlinear technique: An experimental investigation, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS. https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS52206.2021.9593712.
Guha, A., M. Aynardi, P. Shokouhi, and C. J. Lissenden, (2021). Identification of long-range ultrasonic guided wave characteristics in cortical bone by modelling, Ultrasonics, v. 114, [106407], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultras.2021.106407.
Jin, J. and P. Shokouhi, (2021). Nonlinear Resonant Ultrasonic Spectroscopy (NRUS) for Monitoring Fatigue Crack Growth in Aluminum, Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09349847.2021.2017530
