ALIDAD HASHEMI, PHD, SE

EXPERTISE

Structural engineering: finite element analysis, seismic evaluation, fragility analysis, and design peer review
Geotechnical earthquake engineering: soil profile simulation, site response analysis
Soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis
Seismic probabilistic risk assessment (SPRA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alidad co-founded HE3 in January 2019. Since inception he has been involved as structural engineer, peer reviewer, and structural analyst in several structural design and evaluation projects and comprehensive seismic risk analyses. His experiences include commercial buildings, nuclear structures, high-rise buildings, and educational campuses.

Between 2013 and 2020, as a lecturer, Alidad taught a number of graduate courses in UC Berkeley, civil engineering department, SEMM group including the Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures, Stochastic Structural Dynamics, and Finite Element Analysis.

Before founding HE3, Alidad was at Bechtel's San Francisco office for 12 years where he was responsible for developing the technical approach and methodology and performing structural and geotechnical analyses, developing formal calculations, reports, and licensing documents, and making professional presentations for client and regulatory bodies and peer review committees. Alidad's previous projects include:

Site response and SSI analysis of a deeply embedded nuclear SMR (BWRX-300)
Seismic risk analysis for buildings, concrete dams, hydro and gas power stations, and educational campuses
SPRA for new and existing nuclear power plants including North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2
Structural and SSI analysis and equipment response evaluations for new and existing nuclear structures
Licensing permit applications for several nuclear power plants including North Anna Unit 3

EDUCATION

Ph.D. UC Berkeley- Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007

Major Structural Engineering
Minors Statistics and Mechanical Engineering (Controls)
Thesis Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Including Effects of Masonry Infill Walls

M.Sc. UC Berkeley - Structural Mechanics and Materials (SEMM), 2002

B.Sc. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran – Civil Engineering, 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T. and Gregor, N. “Explicit Incorporation of Uncertainties in Determination of Safe Shutdown Earthquake for Nuclear Facilities”, Submitted for the 25th Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT25), Charlotte, North Carolina, August 2019.
Electric Power Research Institute, “Advanced Nuclear Technology: High-Frequency Seismic Loading Evaluation for Standard Nuclear Power Plants” EPRI, Palo Alto, CA:2017. 3002009429.
Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T. and Ostadan, F. “Effects of Structural Nonlinearity and Foundation Sliding on Probabilistic Response of a Nuclear Structure Nuclear Engineering and Design” Nuclear Engineering and Design, v.295, pp.887-900, 2015.
Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T., and Ostadan, F. “Uncertainty Propagation in Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment – Case Study”, Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 23), Manchester, United Kingdom, August 10-14, 2015.
Elkhoraibi, T., Hashemi, A. and Ostadan, F. “Probabilistic and deterministic soil structure interaction analysis including ground motion incoherency effects” Nuclear Engineering and Design, v.269, pp.250-255, 2014.
Hashemi, A., Malushte, S., Saini, J., and Moreschi, L. “Improved Two-Step Method for Seismic Analysis of Structures”, Tenth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Alaska, USA, July 2014.
Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T., and Ostadan, F. “Probabilistic Nonlinear Analysis of a RC Shear Wall Structure including Soil-Structure Interaction,” 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), Lisbon, Portugal, September 24‑28, 2012.
Hashemi, A. and Mosalam, K.M. “Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Including Effects of Masonry Infill Walls”, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, PEER report 2007/100.
Hashemi, A. and Mosalam, K.M. “Shake-table Experiment on Reinforced Concrete Structure Containing Masonry Infill Walls”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Volume 35, Issue 14, pp 1827-1852, 2006.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND SOCIETIES

S.E. Registered Structural Engineer in the State of California - License No. S5765
P.E. Registered Professional Civil Engineer in the State of California, License No. C73613
ASCE Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, currently serving on the ASCE Dynamic Analysis of Nuclear Structures (DANS) committee pertaining to ASCE-1, ASCE-4, and ASCE-43 Standards.