Education
The George
Washington University, Washington, DC
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.),
Structural Engineering, May 1992.
Master of Science (M.S.),
Structural Engineering, February 1985.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.),
Civil Engineering, September 1982.
- Teaching
Experience
The University of Toledo,
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Toledo, OH, August
2000-present.
The University of Toledo,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Toledo, OH, January
1994-August 2000.
The George Washington
University, Instructor and Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Washington, DC, January 1983-May 1992.
- Professional
Experience
DMI Engineering Inc.,
Project Engineer, Vienna, VA, November 1992-December 1993.
Engineering Consulting
Service, Ltd., Project Engineer, Chantilly, VA, August-November
1993.
SEAS Material Laboratory,
Research Advisor, Washington, DC, September-December 1992.
- Selected
Publications and Presentations
Parvin, A., and Granata, P.,
"Numerical Study of Structural Joints Reinforced with
Composite Fabrics", the Sixth International Conference on
Computer Methods in Composite Materials (under review).
Parvin, A., and Granata, P.,
"Use of FRP Overlays at Beam-Column Connections", Second
International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure, Tucson,
Arizona, January 1998.
Parvin, A., and Serpen, S.,
"Optimization Problems in Structural Engineering and a
Real-Time Neural Solution Strategy," Journal of
Microcomputers in Civil Engineering (in press).
Parvin, A., "Seismic
Design of Bridges Using Spring Viscous Damper Isolation
System," Fourth National Workshop on Bridge Research in
Progress, Buffalo, New York, June 1996.
Nims, D.K., Ramkumar, G.,
Parvin, A. and Aktan, A. E., "The Role of Elastomeric
Bearings in an Intelligent Bridge System," Fourth World
Congress on Joint Sealing and Bearing Systems for Concrete
Structures, Sacramento, California, September 1996.
Serpen, G. and Parvin, A.,
"On the Performance of Hopfield Network for Graph Search
Problem," Neurocomputing, May 1996.
Nims,
D.K., Subramaniam, K., Parvin, A. and Aktan, A. E., "The
Potential for the Use of Elastomeric Bearings in an Intelligent
Bridge System," Transportation Research Board 75th Annual
Meeting, Washington, DC, January 1996.
Serpen, G.,
Livingston, D. L. and Parvin, A., "Determination of
Parameters in Relaxation-Search Neural Networks for Optimization
Problems," International Conference on Neural Networks, June
1997.
Parvin, A.,
and T. G. Toridis, "Rotating Crack Model and Fracture in a
Reinforced Concrete Medium," Proceedings of the First
Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 2, pp.
1944-1950, Washington, DC, June 1994.
Parvin, A.,
and T. G. Toridis, "Comparative Study of Interior and
Exterior Wall-Floor Connections," Computing Systems in
Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 681-689, December 1992.
Parvin, A., and T.
G. Toridis, "Implementation of Rotating Crack Model for the
Study of Fracture
Phenomena in a
Reinforced Concrete Medium," Second U.S. Congress on
Computational Mechanics, Washington, DC, August 1993.
Parvin, A., and T. G.
Toridis, "Numerical Modeling of Structural Member
Connections," Symposium on High-Performance Computing for
Flight Vehicles, Arlington, Virginia, December 1992.
Parvin, A.,
"Research Projects for NSF-Civil and Mechanical Systems
Workshop," NSF-CMS Workshop Proceedings, Arlington, VA,
September 1997.
Research
Interest
Dr. Parvin is a structural
engineer with research interests in static and dynamic analysis
and design of structures such as reinforced concrete. She is
currently working on research topics related to precast and
reinforced concrete beam-column connections using finite element
methods. She is also involved in laboratory testing of spring and
elastomeric bridge bearings.
