Mahshid Zeighami Moghaddam

 

Bio

Mahshid completed her Advanced Master in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) at the University of Padova and University of Minho, with a dissertation on Nonlinear Numerical Modelling of Timber-framed Masonry Walls. Under supervision of Professor Monica Gulmini, and supported by the team of Professor AM Margherita Ferrero, and the team of Tech4Culture, she conducted the research project ‘’Identification of Rammed earth Fracture Parameters‘’, on scientific and technological aspects of conservation of earthen heritage, with the sole purpose of translating practical and laboratory observations and experience into a usable form for conservative practices on inherently complex rammed earth architectural heritage buildings.
This research makes several distinctive contributions. To address key challenges for conservation of cultural heritage, which lies at the intersection of many different disciplines, this study makes an attempt to portray many gaps in relation to the intersection between practical science of conservation of rammed earth heritage and interdisciplinary engineering knowledge. Through a multidisciplinary approach incorporating combined use of experimental, theoretical and analytical tools, this research establishes a well-defined framework with powerful adaptability that can provide a possibility to make use of monitored information to conceptualize the behaviour of a rammed earth media. This research investigates the potential role, utilization and development of distinctive rigorous destructive and non-destructive methods, modelling and digital tools, leading in introducing a set of advanced analytical tools and theoretical rules particularly helpful for characterization, analysis and modelling of earthen materials. These methodologies have been further used in this research to characterize and interpret the underlying fundamental processes and mechanisms responsible for observed behaviour of rammed earth material, which carries with it clues to the state of soil structure and important information useful to describe earlier events in the structure of material and to provide an idea about possible subsequent mechanisms of behaviour of material, contributing to the development of the limited knowledge and enhanced understanding on rammed earth for advancement of research in this field.

Research Project: Identification of Rammed earth Fracture Parameters

Research Proposal Acronym: IREF

 

Publication

Moghaddam, M.Z.; Umili, G.; Messina, V.; Bonetto, S.; Ferrero, A.M.; Bollini, G.; Gandreau, D. An SVM-based Scheme for Automatic Identification of Architectural Line Features and Cracks. Appl. Sci.2020, 10, 5077.

Tech4Culture Fellow – Call 1 (2018)

Supervisor: Monica Gulmini, Department of Chemistry, UniTO