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Intellectual Contributions

Dr. Fawad Niazi
Associate Professor of Construction Management


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Book Chapter 

  • Afzal, M.F. Ud Din, Javed, A., Rasool, A.M., and Niazi, F.S. (2023). Utilization of waste plastic bags to improve bitumen properties. ASCE Infrastructure Innovation & Adaption for a Sustainable & Resilient World (INSPIRE) 2023 (ISBN: 9780784485163): 450–458.  

 

Design Manual 

  • Niazi, F.S. (2021), "Volume 1: CPT Interpretation – Estimation of Soil Properties," Indiana Department of Transportation, Joint Transportation Research Program Pub. No. FHWA/IN/JTRP-2021/22. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.  

 

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles 

  • Irfan, M., Rasool, A.M., Aziz, M., Ali, U., Niazi, F.S. and Uchimura, T. (2024). Development of wetting-drying curves from elastic wave velocities using a novel triaxial test apparatus. Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica, 46(2): 111 – 124: https://doi.org/10.2478/sgem-2024-0006 
  • Qazi, A., Ali Rasool, M., Ahmad, I. Ali, M. and Niazi, F.S. (2024). Investigating the long-term behavior of creep and drying shrinkage of ambient-cured geopolymer concrete. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 89(4): 335-347: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2024.89.4.335 
  • Rasool, A.M., Niazi, F.S., Ahmed, T. and Aziz, M. (2023). A parametric investigation on effect of supporting arrangements on earth retention system. Geomechanics and Engineering, 33(5): 507–518: https://doi.org/10.12989/gae.2023.33.5.507 
  • Ihsan, S., Saqib, S., Rashid, H.M.A., Niazi, F.S. and Qureshi, M.U. (2023). Predicting blast induced ground vibrations at limestone quarry from artificial neural network optimized by randomized and grid search cross validation, and comparative analyses with blast vibration predictor models. Geomechanics and Engineering, 35(2): 121–133:  
  • Niazi, F.S., Piñán-Llamas, A. and Fekadu, F. (2021). Investigating impact of chemical weathering on microstructures and mechanical properties of karstic limestone. Géotechnique Letters, 11(4): 1–33.  
  • Niazi, F.S. and Palmegiani, M. Investigating the uncertainties in the pile capacity from load tests database. Themed issue on the innovative design and construction of pile foundations, ICE Geotech. Eng. (under submission). 
  • Niazi, F.S., Becker, P. and Zaheer, M. The chronicles and state-of-the-art of the CPT-based soil behavior type classification, Geotech. Geol. Eng. (under submission). 
  • Niazi, F.S., Piñán-Llamas, A., and Akhtar, K. Lessons from the case history of a massive landslide dam. Special Issue: The role and impact of geofluids in geohazards 2020, Geofluids, Vol. 2020,  
  • Niazi, F.S. and Wangensten-Oeye, K. (2020). Stacked pile solution for axial load-settlement analysis of driven piles in multi-layered soils, Can. Geotech. J., 57(6): 851–870.  

 

Specialty Publications and Refereed Conference Proceedings 

  • Pinan-Llamas, A. and Niazi, F.S. (2024) Evaluating the degradability of non-argillaceous porous rock, 17th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVII PCSMGE). 
  • Niazi, F. S. and Pinan-Llamas, A. Fall Cone Device for Liquid Limit Determination: An Experimental Study, 15th Int. Conf. on Geotechnique, Construction Materials & Environment (GEOMATE 2025) (under submission). 
  • Niazi, F. S., Pinan-Llamas, A. and Sulaman, B. (2022). Revisiting the liquid limit determinations using the Casagrande percussion cup vs. the fall cone devices. ASCE Annual GeoCongress 2022  
  • Pinan-Llamas, A., Niazi, F.S., Amstutz, C. and Brown, Z. (2020). Characterization of the microstructural components and corrosion-induced changes in the mechanical properties of oolitic limestone, 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2020), E3S Web of Conferences 205 (2020), (Article No. 03011), (Section: Hydraulic Fracturing and Unconventional Hydrocarbons), 7p: