Pedram Zohrevand – Scholarly Contributions and Memberships

In professional terms, Pedram Zohrevand is serving as the Director at CES4 and is responsible for the management of all structural engineering projects. He is also a research scholar and has more than 20 scholarly papers published in many reviewed journals. 

Being a research scholar, Pedram developed the first steel-free concrete structure system (using fiber-reinforced polymers) for high seismic regions and the first constitutive model for confined Ultra-High Performance Concrete.

In addition to this, he has secured several research grants (more than $500,000) from national and state grant agencies.

Pedram Zohrevand’s other scholarly contributions -

He is the reviewer of many journals including -
  • ACI Structural Journal
  • Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE
  • Journal of Composites for Construction, ASCE
  • Journal of Materials and Structures, Springer, (RILEM)
  • Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites
  • Materials (Journal), MDPI
  • Computers and Concrete, An international Journal
Pedram was also the Coordinator of “Workshop on Ultra-High Performance Concrete”, a technical workshop for South Florida universities and FDOT offices, Florida International University, 2011, Miami, FL.

Pedram Zohrevand is the member of many societies -
  • Member of Chi Epsilon, the National Civil Engineering Honor Society.
  • Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
  • Member of American Concrete Institute (ACI).
  • Member of ACI Committee 440 (FRP Reinforcement), Subcommittee 440J (FRP Stay-in-Place Forms), and Committee 239 (Ultra-High Performance Concrete).
  • Member of The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
  • Member of the Structural Engineers Association of South California (SEASC).
Pedram Zohrevand’s education -

He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Florida International University in 2012. His PhD dissertation was part of a multi-university research project funded ($2,000,000) by National Science Foundation (NSF)-Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR).

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