International Journal of Composite Materials

The International Journal of Composite Materials is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal covers all scientific and technological aspects of composite materials and their structures, including physical, chemical, artificial, mechanical, and other properties of Composite Materials as well as microscopic to macroscopic behavior studied both experimentally and theoretically.

Ala Tabiei

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Composite Materials

Associate Professor, College of Engineering, The University Of Cincinnati, USA

Research Areas

Impact dynamics. Isotropic and anisotropic material modeling for extreme deformation, high rate of loading, and harsh environment. Material strength and experimental evaluation. Computational mechanics. 3-D nonlinear FE code development

Education

1994Ph.D.Aerospace & Engineering Mechanics, Dept. of Aerospace Eng. & Eng. Mechanics, University of Cincinnati. OH
1992M.S.Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati. OH
1988M.S.Aeronautical Engineering, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, Wichita State University. KS
1985B.S.Mechanical Structural Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Experience

PresentAssociate Professor, School Of Advance Structures, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
September 2001-2010Associate Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Eng. & Eng. Mechanics, College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
September 2003-January 2004Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
April 1996-September 2001Assistant Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Eng. & Eng. Mechanics, College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Academic Achievement

On the editorial board of two international journal.
Nominated for the Discover Award by Discovery magazine, which is presented at the national level (made it up to semifinalist), 2000.
Nominated for the Young Researcher Award, College of Engineering, 2000.
MARQUIS WHO is WHO in America 2000
MARQUIS WHO is WHO in Science and Technology 2000
MARQUIS WHO is WHO in the World 2001
Faculty Honor-Roll for teaching, 1997-1998, 1999-2000
The R. T. Davis Award for aptitude in computational mechanics, University of Cincinnati, 1993.
The Dwight Eisenhower Grant for Research fellowship Award, (national competition) US Dept. of Transportation, 1993.
The best paper award, The 24th AIAA Science Symposium, Dayton, OH, April 9, 1999, Survivability and Vulnerability Session.
Awarded the US residency based on a status of scientist of extraordinary ability and national interest (Supported by the US DOT,1994).
Certificate of appreciation, SPI Composite Institute, 1995.
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (full member), member of (AIAA), and (ASME).
Certificate of appreciation, US Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, 1994.

Publications: Journals

[1]  Jeffrey T. Somers, John W. Melvin, Ala Tabiei, Charles Lawrence, Robert Ploutz-Snyder, Bradley Granderson, Alan Feiveson, Michael Gernhardt, John Patalak, “Development of Head Injury Assessment Reference Values Based on NASA Injury Modeling”, STAPP Journal, Vol 55, November 2011.
[2]  Ala Tabiei and Subramani Sockalingam, “Multi-physics Coupled Fluid/Thermal/Structural Simulation for Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles”, ASCE J. of Aerospace Engineering, posted ahead of print 12 August 2011.
[3]  Ala Tabiei and Gaurav Nilakantan, ”Dry woven fabric material model with elastic crimped fibers for ballistic impact simulations”. IJ Vehicle Structures & Systems, Vol 3, issue 2, pp 74-79, 2011.
[4]  Ala Tabiei, Mostafiz R. Chowdhury, N. Aquelet, M. Souli, “Transient Response of a Projectile in Gun Launch Simulation Using Lagrangian and ALE Methods”, IJ Multi Physics, pp 151-173, Volume 4, Number 2 / July 2010
[5]  Tabiei, Yi, and Palazotto, “A Constitutive Viscoplastic Temperature Dependent Material Model For Explicit Finite Element Simulation”, Volume 43 No. 1 of the Far East Journal of Applied mathematics, pp. 65-79, 2010.
[6]  Subramani Sockalingam and Ala Tabiei , “Fluid/Thermal/Chemical Non-equilibrium Simulation of Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles”, IJ of Multi-physics, Vol 3, No 3, pp 293-306, 2009.
[7]  Lawrence, Charles; Littell, Justin D.; Fasanella, Edwin L.; Tabiei, Ala, “Orion Crew Member Injury Predictions during Land and Water Landings”, J. of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, July 2009.
[8]  S Babu Aminjikarai and Ala Tabiei, “Propagating Crack Procedure for Dynamic Fracture of Brick Finite Elements for Explicit Time Integration”., Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol 32, NO. 4, PP. 357-377, 2009.
[9]  G. Nilakantan and A. Tabiei, “Computational Assessment of Occupant Injury Caused by Mine Blasts Underneath Infantry Vehicles”, IJ Vehicle Structures & Systems, Vol 1, No 1-3, pp 50-58, 2009.
[10]  Ala Tabiei and Gaurav Nilakantan, Tube Axial Crush For Reduction of Acceleration Induced from Mine Blasts under Infantry Vehicles, IJ Impact Engineering, Vol. 36, pp. 729-736, 2009.
[11]  Ala Tabiei and S Babu Aminjikarai, “A Strain-Rate Dependent Micro-mechanical Model with Progressive Post-Failure Behavior for Predicting Impact response of Unidirectional Composite Laminates”, Composite Structures, Vol. 88 Issue 1, p65-82, March 2009.
[12]  Tabiei, A. and Nilakaltan, G., “Ballistic Impact of Dry Woven Fabric Composites; A Review”, Applied Mechanics Review, January 2008, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p10801.
[13]  Sung-Cheon Han and Ala Tabiei, "Geometrically nonlinear analysis of laminated composite thin shells using the modified first-order shear deformable element based Lagrangian shell element", Composite Structures, Vol. 82, No. 3, 2007.
[14]  Aminjikarai SB, Tabiei, A, “Automated Dynamic Fracture Procedure for Explicit Time Integration Brick Finite Elements”, IJ Multi-Physics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007.
[15]  Tabiei, A. and Ivanov I, “Micro-mechanical strain-rate dependent viscoplastic model with damage for impact simulations of woven fabric composites”, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Volume 14, Issue 5 June 2007 , pages 365 - 377
[16]  Aminjikarai SB, Tabiei, A, “A STRAIN-RATE DEPENDENT 3-D MICROMECHANICAL MODEL FOR FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS OF PLAIN WEAVE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES”, Composite Structures, Vol. 81, Issue: 3, December, 2007. pp. 407-418
[17]  Romil Tanov and Ala Tabiei, “Adding Transverse Normal Stress Treatment To First and Higher Order Shear Deformable Elements For Layered Shells”, Composite Structures, Vol. 76, pp. 338-344, December 2006.
[18]  Tabiei A, Yi WT, and R. Goldberg, “Nonlinear Strain Rate Dependent Micro-Mechanical Composite Material Model for Finite Element Impact Simulation”, IJ of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp 957-970, 2005.
[19]  Ivanov I. and Tabiei A.,” Loosely Woven Fabric Model With Viscoelastic Crimped Fibers for Ballistic Impact Simulations”, IJ of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 57, November, 2004.
[20]  Tabiei A, Ivanov I, ”Materially & Geometrically Nonlinear Woven Composite Micro-mechanical Model with Failure for Finite Element Simulations”, IJ of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 39, pp 175-188, 2004.
[21]  Tabiei, A. and Wu J., “DEVELOPMENT OF THE DYNA3D SIMULATION CODE WITH AUTOMATED FRACTURE PROCEDURE FOR 3-D BRICK ELEMENTS”, Int. J. of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol 57, No. 13. 2003.
[22]  Tabiei A, Ivanov I, ”Fiber Reorientation in Laminated and Woven Composites for Finite Element Simulations”, J THERMOPLAST COMPOS, Sep 2003; 16: 457 - 474.
[23]  Tabiei A, Song G, Jiang Y, “Strength simulation of woven fabric composite materials with material nonlinearity using micromechanics based model”, J THERMOPLAST COMPOS 16: (1) 5-20 JAN 2003.
[24]  Ivanov I, Tabiei A, “Collapsible shell finite element for composite materials”, FINITE ELEM ANAL DES 39: (4) 343-354 FEB 2003.
[25]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov, “SANDWICH SHELL FINITE ELEMENT FOR DYNAMIC EXPLICIT ANALYSIS, Int. J. of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 54: (5) 763-787 JUN 20 2002.
[26]  Tabiei A, Yi WT, “Comparative study of predictive methods for woven fabric composite elastic properties”, COMPOS STRUCT 58: (1) 149-164 OCT 2002.
[27]  Tabiei A, Ivanov I,” Computational micro-mechanical model of flexible woven fabric for finite element impact simulation”, INT J NUMER METH ENG 53: (6) 1259-1276, FEB 28, 2002.
[28]  Ivanov I, Tabiei A, “Flexible woven fabric micromechanical material model with fiber reorientation”, MECH ADV MATL STRUCT 9: (1) 37-51 JAN 1 2002.
[29]  Ivanov I, Tabiei A,” Three-dimensional computational micro-mechanical model for woven fabric composites”, COMPOS STRUCT 54: (4) 489-496 DEC 2001.
[30]  Romil Tanov and Ala Tabiei, “COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT MICROMECHANICAL WOVEN FABRIC COMPOSITE CONSTITUTIVE MODELS”, J. of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 553-560, July 2001.
[31]  Tabiei, A. and Chen, Q., “Micromechanics Composite Material Model for Crashworthiness Applications”, J. of Thermoplastics Composites, 14: (4) pp. 264-289 JUL 2001.
[32]  Ala Tabiei and Jin Wu, “THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR ORTHOTROPIC FINITE ELEMENT MATERIAL MODLE FOR WOOD”, Composite Structures, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 143-149, 2000.
[33]  Romil R. Tanov and Ala Tabiei, “FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW SANDWICH HOMOGENIZATION PROCEDURE”, Composite Structures, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 49-58, 2000.
[34]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov, “A NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION SHELL ELEMENT FOR DYNAMIC EXPLICIT ANALYSIS: PART I. FORMULATION AND FINITE ELEMENT EQUATIONS”, Finite Elements In Analysis & Design, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 17-37, 2000.
[35]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov “A NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION SHELL ELEMENT FOR DYNAMIC EXPLICIT ANALYSIS: PART II. VERIFICATION EXAMPLES”, Finite Elements In Analysis & Design, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 39-50, 2000.
[36]  A. Tabiei, Y. Jiang, W. Yi, “A Novel Micromechanics-Based Plain Weave Fabric Composite Constitutive Model With Material Nonlinear Behavior”, AIAA J, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 2000.
[37]  Tabiei, A., and J. Wu, “Validated Crash Simulation of the Most Common Guardrail System in the USA”, Int. J. of Crashworthiness, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 153-168, 2000.
[38]  Romil Tanov and Ala Tabiei, “A Simple Correction to The First Order Shear Deformation Shell Finite Element Formulation”, Finite Elements In Analysis & Design, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 189-197, May 2000.
[39]  Ala Tabiei and Jianmin Sun, “Analytical Simulation of Strength Size Effect in Composite Materials, Composites Engineering-Part B, vol. 31, pp. 133-139, 2000.
[40]  Tabiei, A., and J. Wu, “Roadmap For Crashworthiness Finite Element Simulation Of Roadside Safety Structures”, Int. J. Finite Element in Analysis and Design, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 145-157, 2000.
[41]  Yiwei Jiang, Ala Tabiei, and George J. Simitses, “A Novel Micromechanics-Based Plain Weave Fabric Composite Constitutive Equations for Local/Global Analysis”, Composite Science and Technology, Vol. 60, No. 9, pp. 1825-1833, 2000.
[42]  Tanov, R. and Tabiei, A., “A Note on Finite Element Implementation of Sandwich Shell Homogenization”, Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 467–473, May 2000.
[43]  Ala Tabiei and Jianmin Sun, “Statistical Aspects of Strength Size Effect of Laminated Composite Materials”, Composite Structures, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 209-216, 1999.
[44]  Tabiei, A., Tanov, R., and GJ. Simitses, “Numerical Simulation of Cylindrical Laminated Shells Under Impulsive Lateral Pressure”, AIAA J. Vol. 37, number 5, pp. 629-633, 1999.
[45]  Tanov, R., Tabiei, A., and GJ. Simitses, “Effect of Static Preloading on The Dynamic Buckling of Laminated Cylinders Under Sudden Pressure”, Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 195-206, 1999.
[46]  Tabiei, A., and Jiang, Y., “Woven Fabric Composite Material Model With Material Nonlinearity For the Finite Element Simulation”, Int. J. of Solids and Structures, Vol. 36, No. 18, pp. 2757-2771, 1999.
[47]  Tabiei, A., Svenson, A., Hargrave, M., and Bank, L., “Impact performance of pultruded beams for highway safety applications'', Composite Structures, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 231-237, 1998.
[48]  Tabiei, A., and Jiang, Y., “Stability of Laminated Cylindrical Shells with Material Nonlinear Effect”, Int. J. of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 33, No 3, pp. 407-415, 1998.
[49]  Tabiei, A., Jiang, Y., and Simitses, G. J., “Compressive Behavior of Moderately Thick Plates With Progressive Damage”, Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, Vol. 4, pp. 281-295, 1997.
[50]  Tabiei, A., Sun, J., and Simitses. G., J., ”On The Scaling Laws of Cylindrical Shells Under Lateral Pressure”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 1669-1671, 1997.
[51]  Tabiei, A., "Dyna3d Finite Element Simulation Of A Guard Rail Impact", Civil Engineering Practice, No. 2, Fall/Winter, pp. 39-48, 1997.
[52]  Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., ''Imperfection Sensitivity of Shear Deformable Moderately Thick, Composite Shells'', Computers and Structures, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 165-174, 1997.
[53]  Tabiei, A., and Simitses, G. J., ''Torsional Instability of Moderately Thick Composite Cylindrical Shells, by Various Shell Theories'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 1243-1246, 1997.
[54]  Huyan, X., Simitses, G. J., and Tabiei, A., “Nonlinear Analysis of Imperfect Metallic and Lminated Cylindres Under Bending Loads”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 2406-2413, 1996.
[55]  Tabiei, A., Svenson, A., and Hargrave, M.,"Impact Behavior of Pultruded Composite Box-Beams", Composites Structures, Vol. 36, issue 1-2, pp. 155-160, 1996.
[56]  Tabiei, A., ''Buckling of Moderately Thick, Composite Shells Under Destabilizing Loads'', Journal of Thermoplastics Composite Materials, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 365-374, 1995.
[57]  Anastasiadis, J. S., Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., ''Instability of Moderately Thick, Laminated Cylindrical Shells Under Combined Axial Compression and Pressure'', Composites Structures, Vol. 27, pp. 367-378, 1994.
[58]  Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., ''Buckling of Moderately Thick, Laminated Cylindrical Shells Under Torsion'', AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3 pp. 639-647, 1994.
[59]  Simitses, G. J., Tabiei, A., Anastasiadis, J. S., ''Buckling of Moderately Thick, Laminated Cylindrical Shells Under Lateral Pressure'', Composites Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 409-417, 1993.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  Jeffrey T. Somers, Bradley Granderson, John W. Melvin, Ala Tabiei Charles Lawrence, Alan Feiveson, Michael Gernhardt, and Robert Ploutz-Snyder, John Patalak, “Development of Head Injury Assessment Reference Values Based on NASA Injury Modeling”, STAPP Car Crash Conference, Detroit, MI, November 2011.
[2]  Tabiei, A. and Lawrence, C., “Orion Space Craft Water and Land Landing System Simulation; An Injury Case Study”, 8th European LS-DYNA Conference, France, Strasbourg, May, 2011.
[3]  Tabiei, A. “Validation of Finite Element Crash Test Dummy Models for Predicting Orion Crew Member Injuries During a Simulated Vehicle Landing”, “10th International LS-DYNA Users Conference - Detroit, MI, June 8-10, 2008.
[4]  Lawrence, C., Littell, J.D., Fasanella, E.L., Tabiei, A., “ Orion crew member injury predictions during land and water landing” , Earth and Space Conference 2008: Proceedings of the 11th Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments
[5]  Tabiei, A., “Reduction of Occupant Injury Caused by Mine Blasts Underneath Infantry Vehicles“, 6th European LS-DYNA Conference Gothenburg, Sweden May 29th & 30th, 2007.
[6]  Tabiei, A. and Chowdhury, “TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF HONEYCOMB IN AIRGUN LAUNCH SIMULATION USING LAGRANGIAN AND ALE METHODS”, The 8Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2004.
[7]  Chowdhury, M., Tabiei, A., “TRANSIENT RESPONSE OF PROJECTILE IN GUNLAUNCH SIMULATION USING CRASHABLE Al HONEYCOMB MITIGATOR”, Seventh US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, USNCCM7, July 27 – 31, 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[8]  Ala Tabiei and Ivelin Ivanov, “Computational Micro-Mechanical Model of Composite & Flexible WOVEN Fabric WITH FIBER REORIENTATION”, ASME IMECE' 2001, NY, NY, November 5-10, 2001.
[9]  Tabiei and R. Tanov, and V. Birman, University of Missouri-Rolla, “Sandwich Shell Finite Element for Dynamic Explicit Analysis”, ASME IMECE'2000, World Disney World (WDW), Orlando, Florida, November 5-10, 2000.
[10]  Tabiei and R. Tanov, "Sandwich Shell Model with Woven Fabric Facings for Nonlinear Finite Element Simulation”, ASME IMECE'2000, World Disney World (WDW), Orlando, Florida, November 5-10, 2000.
[11]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov, “A SIMPLE CORRECTION TO THE SHELL FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS FOR METAL FORMING SIMULATION”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[12]  Ala Tabiei and Jin Wu , “Validated Crash Simulation of The Most Common Guardrail System in The USA”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[13]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov, “NEW FORMULATION FOR COMPOSITE SANDWICH SHELL FINITE ELEMENT”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[14]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov, “NEW NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION SHELL ELEMENT FOR METAL FORMING AND CRAHWORTHINESS ANALYSIS: PART I. FORMULATION AND FINITE ELEMENT EQUATIONS”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[15]  Ala Tabiei and Romil Tanov “NEW NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION SHELL ELEMENT FOR METAL FORMING AND CRAHWORTHINESS ANALYSIS:PART II. VERIFICATION EXAMPLES”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[16]  Ala Tabiei and Qing Chen, “Micromechanics Based Composite Material Model for Crashworthiness Explicit Finite Element Simulation”, The 6Th International LSDYNA Users Conference, Detroit, MI, April 2000.
[17]  Tabiei, A. “Micromechanics Composite Material Model for Crashworthiness and Impact Applications”, Proceeding of The ASC, Edited by J. Whitney, Sept, 1999, pp. 317-332.
[18]  Romil Tanov, and Ala Tabiei, “FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF SANDWICH SHELL HOMOGENIZATION”, Proceeding of The ASC, Edited by J. Whitney, Sept, 1999, pp. 693-703.
[19]  Tabiei, A. and Y. Jiang, “Woven Fabric Composite Material Model With Material Nonlinearity For Nonlinear Finite Element Simulation”, proceedings of the PACAM V, Rio, Brazil, Jan. 1999.
[20]  Ala Tabiei and Romil R. Tanov, “A Local/Global Sandwich Homogenization Procedure For Finite Element Simulation”, Proceedings of the Symposium of Recent Advances in Mechanics of Aerospace Structures and Materials, AD-Vol. 56, pp. 219-235, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 1998.
[21]  Tabiei, A., Tanov, R., Static and Dynamic Stability of Composite Laminated Shells Under Impulsive Loading”, LSDYNA Users Conference, Southfield MI, Sept. 1998.
[22]  Tabiei, A., Wu, J., “Roadmap For Crashworthiness Finite Element Simulation Of Roadside Safety Structures”, LSDYNA Users Conference, Southfield MI, Sept. 1998.
[23]  Tabiei, A., Tizauer, D., “Seismic Analysis of The NIF Bottom Loading Canister-Transporter System”, ASME/JSME Joint Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP July 1998, San Diego CA.
[24]  Tabiei, A., Tanov, R., and Simitses, G. J., “Numerical Simulation of Cylindrical Laminated Shells Under Impulsive Lateral Pressure”, AIAA paper 98-1762, Proceedings of AIAA/ ASME/ ASCE/ AHS/ ASC 39th SDM Conference, April, 1998.
[25]  Tanov, R., Tabiei, A., and Simitses, G. J., “Effect of Static Preloading on The Dynamic Buckling of Laminated Cylinders Under Sudden Pressure”, AIAA paper 98-1989, Proceedings of AIAA/ ASME/ ASCE/ AHS/ ASC 39th SDM Conference, April, 1998.
[26]  Tabiei, A., and Simitses. G., J.,”Imperfection Sensitive Scaled Down Composite Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression and Lateral Pressure”, NASA/CP-1998-206280, pp 349-356.
[27]  Tabiei, A., and Wu, J., “Vehicle Crashworthiness Simulation for Highway Safety Structures”, Proceedings of The Crashworthiness Symposium, ASME, AMD, Vol. 225, pp. 165-173, Dallas, TX, 1997.
[28]  Tabiei, A. and Sun, J., “Numerical Simulation of Strength size Effect of laminated Composite Materials”, Proceedings of Structural Similitude and Size Effect Symposium, ASME, Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 1997.
[29]  Tabiei, A., and Jiang, Y., “Woven Fabric Composite Material Model With Material Nonlinearity For the Finite Element Simulation”, Proceedings of The Crashworthiness Symposium, ASME, Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, 1997.
[30]  Tabiei, A., and Simitses. G., J., ”Imperfection Sensitive Scaled Down Composite Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression and Lateral Pressure”, AIAA paper 97-1250, Proceedings of AIAA/ ASME/ ASCE/ AHS/ ASC 38th SDM Conference, April, 1997.
[31]  Simitses, G. J., Tabiei, A., “Dynamic Stability of Cylindrical Shells”, AIAA paper 97-1244, Proceedings of AIAA/ ASME/ ASCE/ AHS/ ASC 38th SDM Conference, April, 1997.
[32]  Rezaeepazhand, J., Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., “Imperfection Sensitivity of Scaled Down Laminated Cylindrical Shells”, AIAA paper 96-1474, April, 1996, Salt Lake City, UT.
[33]  Tabiei, A., "Effect of Velocity on The Impact Behavior of Vinylester Pultruded Box-Beams", Second International Conference on Composite Eng., New Orleans, LA, Auq. 21-24, 1995, pp. 733-734.
[34]  Tabiei, A., Svenson, A., and Hargrave, M., ''Impact Behavior of Pultruded Box-Beams for Road Side Safety Structures'', Proceedings of the Composite Institute's 50th Annual conference, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 1995, 10-D, pp. 1-7.
[35]  Svenson, A., Hargrave, M., Tabiei, A., and Bank, L., ''Design of Pultruded Beams for Optimization of Impact Performance'', Proceedings of the Composite Institute's 50th Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 1995, 10-E, pp. 1-7.
[36]  Tabiei, A., "Impact Simulation of 850-Kg Pendulum Into A Guard Rail Test Fixture", Symposium on Numerical Implementation and Application of Constitutive Models in the Finite Element Method, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, S.F., CA, Nov., 1995, AMD-Vol. 213/MD-Vol. 63, pp. 67-78.
[37]  Simitses, G. J., Tabiei, A., ''On Buckling and Postbuckling Analyses of Moderately Thick, Laminated Shells'', Society of Engineering Science 31st Annual Technical Meeting, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oct. 1994, pp. 375-376.
[38]  Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., ''Imperfection Sensitivity of Axialy-Loaded Moderately Thick, Composite Shells'', Proceedings of the Symposium on Composite Materials and Structures, ASME Winter Annual Meeting AMD-Vol. 196, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1994, pp. 173-186.
[39]  Tabiei, A., Simitses, G. J., ''Buckling of Moderately Thick, Laminated Cylindrical Shells Under Torsion'', Proceedings of the AIAA/ ASME/ ASCE/ AHS/ ASC 34th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. La Jolla, CA, April 1993, pp. 312-322.
[40]  Simitses, G. J., Tabiei, A., Anastasiadis, J. S., ''Instability of Moderately Thick, Laminated Cylindrical Shells-Axial Compression and Pressure'', Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM). Madrid, Spain, July 1993, pp. 426-433.
[41]  Simitses, G. J., Tabiei, A., ''Torsional Instability of Moderately Thick Composite Cylindrical Shells, by Various Shell Theories'', Proceedings of the Symposium on Composite Materials and Structures, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, AD-Vol. 37 AMD-Vol. 179, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 1993, pp. 149-162.
[42]  Tabiei, A., "Buckling of Moderately Thick, Composite Shells Under Destabilizing loads", Proceedings of the 8th Technical Conference on Composite Materials, American Society for Composites. Cleveland, OH, October 1993, pp. 987-993.
[43]  Simitses, G. J., Anastasiadis, J. S., Tabiei, A., ''Buckling of Laminated Cylindrical Shells'', Proceedings of the 3rd National Congress on Mechanics. Athens, Greece, June 1992, pp. 427-435.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  Simulation of Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-8443-8571-7, 2011.
[2]  Chapter: “Nonlinear Strain Rate Dependent Micro-Mechanical Composite Material Model for Impact and Crashworthiness Simulation”