Yashar_Azam

Yashar Eftekhar Azam

Assistant Professor
Phone: (603) 862-0276
Office: UNH Civil & Environmental Engineering, Kingsbury Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:
Pronouns: He/him/his

Courses Taught

  • CEE 680: Classical Structural Analysis
  • CEE 780/880: Matrix Structural Analys&Model
  • CEE 781/881: Dynamics of Structures
  • CEE 799H: Senior Honors Thesis

Education

  • Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano
  • M.S., Sharif University
  • B.S., University of Tehran

Selected Publications

  • Taze, I. E., Hoda, M. A., Miquelez, I., Maddaloni, P., & Eftekhar Azam, S. (2025). A Review of Digital Twinning Applications for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Insights, Innovations, and Implementation. Energies, 18(13), 3369. doi:10.3390/en18133369

  • Gadiraju, D. S., Azam, S. E., & Khazanchi, D. (2025). SHM-Traffic: DRL and Transfer Learning Based UAV Control for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges With Traffic. IEEE Access, 13, 6166-6179. doi:10.1109/access.2025.3526193

  • Duran, B., Emory, D., Eftekhar Azam, Y., & Linzell, D. G. (2025). A novel CNN architecture for robust structural damage identification via strain measurements and its validation via full-scale experiments. Measurement, 239, 115393. doi:10.1016/j.measurement.2024.115393

  • Duran, B., Eftekhar Azam, S., & Sanayei, M. (2024). Leveraging Deep Learning for Robust Structural Damage Detection and Classification: A Transfer Learning Approach via CNN. Infrastructures, 9(12), 229. doi:10.3390/infrastructures9120229

  • Mishra, A., Gangisetti, G., Eftekhar Azam, Y., & Khazanchi, D. (2024). Weakly supervised crack segmentation using crack attention networks on concrete structures. Structural Health Monitoring, 23(6), 3748-3777. doi:10.1177/14759217241228150

  • Azam, S. E., Rageh, A., & Linzell, D. (2019). Damage detection in structural systems utilizing artificial neural networks and proper orthogonal decomposition. STRUCTURAL CONTROL & HEALTH MONITORING, 26(2). doi:10.1002/stc.2288

  • Azam, S. E., Chatzi, E., Papadimitriou, C., & Smyth, A. (2017). Experimental validation of the Kalman-type filters for online and real-time state and input estimation. JOURNAL OF VIBRATION AND CONTROL, 23(15), 2494-2519. doi:10.1177/1077546315617672

  • Azam, S. E., Chatzi, E., & Papadimitriou, C. (2015). A dual Kalman filter approach for state estimation via output-only acceleration measurements. MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 60-61, 866-886. doi:10.1016/j.ymssp.2015.02.001

  • Nikkhoo, A., Hassanabadi, M. E., Azam, S. E., & Amiri, J. V. (2014). Vibration of a thin rectangular plate subjected to series of moving inertial loads. MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, 55, 105-113. doi:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.10.009

  • Azam, S. E., Mofid, M., & Khoraskani, R. A. (2013). Dynamic response of Timoshenko beam under moving mass. SCIENTIA IRANICA, 20(1), 50-56. doi:10.1016/j.scient.2012.11.003

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