Summary

A Civil Engineer with geotechnics qualification and experience in laboratory, field and numerical modelling in contact with railway track topics. With more than 5 years’ experience in different parts of railway projects such as execution, Q.C., consultant and design of railway and subway tracks. My main research interests include FEM and DEM modelling of the components of railway tracks, slope stability of railway embankments, stabilization of soft soils by Deep Soil Mixing technique and utilization of Geosynthetics, maintenance of railway tracks, monitoring and analyzing of noise and vibration in railway tracks

Education and qualification

Ph.D. student, University of Gyor, Gyor, Hungary, Geotechnics Engineering

M.Sc. Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Railway Track Engineering

Publications

Journal papers

1.     Masoud Fathali, Jafar Chalabii, Farshad Astaraki, Morteza Esmaeili, A new degradation model for life cycle assessment of railway ballast materials, Construction and Building Materials, 2020, 121437, ISSN 0950-0618,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.121437

2.     Morteza Esmaeili, Farshad Astaraki & Hamid Khajehei “ Laboratory investigation on the effect of microsilica additive on mechanical properties of deep soil mixing columns in loose sandy soils”, European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering (2017): 1-15, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19648189.2017.1382394

3.     Astaraki, Farshad, and Morteza Esmaeili. "Slope stabilisation of railway embankments over loose subgrades using deep-mixed columns." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Ground Improvement (2021): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgrim.20.00049

4.     Esmaeili, M., Astaraki, F., Yaghouti, H., & Rad, M. M. (2021). Laboratory Investigation on the Effect of Microsilica Additive on the Mechanical Behavior of Deep Soil Mixing Columns in Saline Dry Sand. Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.3311/PPci.18126.

5.     Farshad Astaraki, Morteza Esmaeili & Mohammad Reza Roozbini (2020) Influence of geocell on bearing capacity and settlement of railway embankments: an experimental study, Geomechanics and Geoengineering, DOI: 10.1080/17486025.2020.1827168

6.       Milad Kazemian, Farshad Astaraki, M.M.Rad and Ali Taheri, (2021) “Condition Monitoring of Vibration at Weak Parts of Rail for Ballasted Railway Tracks in Iran.”  Journal of the Korean Society for Railway, DOI: 10.7782/JKSR.2021.24.6.544

7.      Morteza Esmaeili, Hamid Khajehei & Farshad Astaraki, “The Effectiveness of Deep Soil Mixing on Enhanced Bearing Capacity and Reduction of Settlement on Loose Sandy Soils” IJRARE. 2017; 4 (2) :33-40, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22068/IJRARE.4.2.33

8.     Gharouni Nik M, Esfandiari Mehni R, Astaraki F, Hadizadeh Raisi E. Optimal Selection of Underground Parking Lines Arrangement: A Case Study of Tehran Subway Line 7. IJRARE. 2018; 5 (1) :19-25, DOI: 10.22068/IJRARE.5.1.19

9.     Farshad Astaraki, Morteza Esmaeili & Mohammad Reza Roozbini, “Investigating the Slope Stability of Geocell-Reinforced Railway Embankments” Acta Polytechnica Hungarica (Accepted)

10.  Jun Wang, Mohammad Siahkouhi, Farshad Astaraki, Sashka Uuganbayar, Guoqing Jing, Majid Movahedi Rad, “Modification of concrete railway sleeper mix design using a hybrid application of steel fibers” Acta Polytechnica Hungarica (Accepted)

11.  Mohammad Siahkouhi, Chunchao Li, Farshad Astaraki, Majid Movahedi Rad, Szabolcs Fischer and Guoqing Jing “A comparison study between mechanical behavior of a concrete railway sleeper mix design incorparated with waste rubber and glass materials” Acta Polytechnica Hungarica (Accepted)

12.  Milad Kazemi, Farshad Astaraki,Majid Movahedi Rad, Ahmad Mohammadi doost,Szabolcs Fischer, “Effects of wheel surface defect on ground borne vibration” Acta Polytechnica Hungarica (Accepted)

Conference papers

13.  Astaraki F, Roozbini M R, Esmaeili M, Chalabii J. Investigation on Mechanical Behavior of Embedded Geocell in Geocell-Reinforced Railway Embankment. IJRARE. 2019; 6 (2) :95-102, DOI:10.22068/IJRARE.6.2.95

14.  Peyman Aela, Farshad Astaraki, Xinyu Wang, Guoqing Jing and Majid Movahedi Rad, “The influence of height of ballast crib on the longitudinal resistance of sleepers in ballasted railway tracks”, 2021 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (Accepted)

15.  Morteza Esmaeili, Farshad Astaraki, “Laboratory investigation of mechanical properties of used rubber tires as under-sleeper pad in railway tracks”, Canadian and Cold Regions Conference 2021 (CCRC 2021), (Accepted)

Awards

Awarded a Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship (SHE-14942-004/2020)

Research Interests and Experiences

1.     DEM modeling of granular materials using PFC3D

2.     FEM modeling of Geocell and DSM-reinforced railway embankments using ABAQUS and PLAXIS

3.     Railway Tracks Maintenance

4.     Shake down analysis of road and railway sections

5.     LCC and RAMS in railway tracks

6.     Noise and vibration (work as an railway expert on the field noise and vibration tests in Tehran Metro, Line 7)

7.     Deep Soil Mixing Technology

8.     Railway Tracks Geotechnics

9.     Railway Embankment Slope Stability

10.  Ground Improvement Techniques

11.  Laboratory tests on soil and rock

12.  Numerical modeling

Computer Skills

1.     Abaqus

2.     PFC 3D

3.     Plaxis

4.     Sap2000

5.     Safe & Etabs

6.     Auto Desk Civil 3D & AutoCAD

7.     Xlstat (Statistical software & data analysis)

8.     Phase2

9.     Microsoft Power Point, Excel, Word

Language

Persian: Native

English: Fluent

German: A2