Rate My Professor Fatemeh Azhari

Dr. Fatemeh Azhari is a Lecturer in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Monash University. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, in 2010, and her M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering from the same university in 2012. Between 2013 and 2014, she worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at George Washington University and the National Crash Analysis Centre in the United States. Azhari completed her PhD in Structural Engineering at Monash University in August 2018. Following her doctorate, she served as a Research Fellow at Monash University for 10 months and then as a joint Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales for 2.5 years, contributing to an integrated computational materials engineering project funded by the Defence Science and Technology Group. Her teaching portfolio includes CIV2206 Structural Mechanics, CIV2235 Structural Materials, CIV5136 Structural Analysis, and units delivered at Charles Sturt University in China, such as Bridge Design and Assessment and Building Structures and Technology.

Azhari's research centers on developing multi-scale computational tools for advanced materials and structures. Her investigations include mechanical testing and multi-scale finite element modelling of pseudo-ductile composites under static and impact loads, CFRP-reinforced steel columns under static and dynamic loads, GFRP composite columns under eccentric compression, dental implants, mid-rise lightweight cold-formed steel buildings under extreme events, ultra-high performance geopolymer concrete for energy infrastructure, and multi-scale crystal plasticity finite element modelling of selective laser melted Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloys. Notable publications are 'Predicting the complete tensile properties of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V by integrating three-dimensional microstructure statistics with a crystal plasticity model' (2022, International Journal of Plasticity), 'Dynamic stability of hybrid fiber/nanocomposite-reinforced toroidal shells subjected to the periodic axial and pressure loadings' (2023, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures), 'Bending analysis of functionally graded sandwich plates using the refined finite strip method' (2022, Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials), 'Application of modified couple-stress theory to stability and free vibration analysis of single and multi-layered graphene sheets' (2020, Aerospace Science and Technology), and 'Application of Carrera unified formulation in conjunction with finite strip method in static and stability analysis of functionally graded plates' (2022, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures). She has earned the Best Research Paper Award from Monash University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2018, the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award at the 5th Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics in 2021, the 2023 Advancing Women’s Success Grant, the 2023 ECA Seed Program, and a research grant from the Defence Science and Technology Group in 2020.