Dr. Barzegar is a registered professional engineer providing a broad range of services in civil/structural engineering to insurance companies, law firms, utilities, hi-tech and mining industries, governmental and educational institutions, engineering and architectural firms, as well as individuals. With over 20 years of experience in consulting, design, construction project management, university teaching and research, Dr. Barzegar has provided clients with structural analysis and design, engineering forensic investigations, failure simulation & reconstruction using finite element stress & thermal analysis, expert testimony, and research and development support.
Projects have included analysis of buildings, bridges, power plant cooling towers and offshore platforms subjected to earthquakes and extreme winds, floor vibrations, damage investigations of single and multi-family residential buildings, retaining walls, foundations, storage tanks and underground water conduits, grain silos, blast in underground coal mines and chemical plants, effect of pile driving on adjacent buildings, distress in pavements and evaluation of construction materials, slip, trip & fall injuries, flooding damage to historic buildings, construction defects and failures during construction.
Dr. Barzegar was on the faculty of the Structural Engineering Department at the University of New South Wales (Sydney-Australia) and the Civil Engineering Department at Louisiana State University. He has also held positions at Zolman Construction & Development, Struct-Tech Group (design-build company), Rutherford & Chekene Consulting Engineers, and Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in California. He received his B.S. (High Honors, 1981), M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a charter member of Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and a member of Forensic Expert Witness Association, American Concrete Institute, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, American Institute of Steel Construction, International Code Council, California Preservation Foundation, and The Institution of Engineers-Australia.
Dr. Barzegar has published extensively in various professional journals and has received a prestigious award for a published paper. He served as an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, and is currently a reviewer for a number of technical journals.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Expert Witness; Insurance Claims (Analysis, Preparation); Peer Reviews
• Civil & Structural Engineering; Residential, Commercial & Institutional Building
Design & Construction; Historic Buildings
• Condition Assessment of Bridges, Foundations, Sanitary Structures, Retaining
Walls, Conduits & Pipelines, Roads, Slabs, Pavements, Concrete & Repair Materials
• Construction Defects & Accidents; Repair & Retrofit; Standards of Care
• Code Compliance; Seismic Resistant Design; Errors & Omissions
• Concrete, Steel, Wood, Masonry & Adobe Structures; Diagnostic & Failure Analysis
• Vibration, Blast, Impact, Earthquake, Wind, Fire, Hurricane & Flood Damage
• Effect of Pile Driving on Existing Facilities; Cracking & Settlement Damage
• Due Diligence & Forensic Investigations
• Slip, Trip & Fall Injuries
• Finite Element Dynamic, Stress & Thermal Analysis (Linear & Nonlinear); Product
Design; Failure Reconstruction
• Intellectual Property & Patent Infringement
