Usama Zafar
Assist. Prof. Usama Zafar, Ph.D.
Room 415, 1st Bldg. Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng.
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✉  usama[a]mail.saitama-u.ac.jp
 
Research Interests
 
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Soil-structure interaction
  • Pile foundations
  • Structural analysis
  • Finite element modelling

Publications

Zafar U, Goit CS, Saitoh M, Fukuda R (2023) Vertical impedance functions of pile groups under low-to-high loading amplitudes: numerical simulations and experimental validation. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol. 22, pp. 647-666 [Link].

Zafar U, Goit CS, and Saitoh M (2022) Influence of nonlinearities on the vertical kinematic interaction of piles. In the Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'22), April 10-12, Virtual (Online) [Link].

Zafar U, Goit CS, and Saitoh M (2021) Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Vertical Dynamic Pile-to-Pile Interactions Considering Soil and Interface Nonlinearities. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s10518-021-01186-x [Link].