Assistant Professor, Civil And Environmental Engin

shahrzad.roshankhah@utah.edu

Professional Membership

• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Member, American Chemical Society, 02/14/2023

Publications

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Roshankhah, S. & Mohammadi, K. (2022). Pre-Failure to Post-Failure behavioral spectrum of jointed rock slopes. ASCE, GeoCongress., 12/01/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Mohammadi, K. & Roshankhah, S; Dvory, N.; McCormack, K. (2022). Seismic Behavior of Naturally Fractured Rocks involved in Deep Geo-energy Applications. OnePetro, The 3rd International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media., 10/01/2022
• ENERGY: Roshankhah, S. & McLennan, J. (2022). Hydraulic Fractures in Reservoirs Bounded by Layers of Other Rocks. OnePetro, The 56th US Rock Mechanics and Geomechanics Symposium., 04/29/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Roshankhah, S. & Mohammadi, K. (2022). The whole behavioral spectrum of jointed rock slopes. GSA, The Penrose Conference: Progressive Rock Failure. 1-11., 03/31/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Roshankhah, S. & Teimuri, K; Mohammadi, K. (2021). Thermo-Mechanical Response of Layered Rocks upon Single-Mode Microwave Treatment. OnePetro, The ARMA/DGS/SEG 2nd International Geomechanics Symposium., 09/30/2021
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Garcia, A; Santamarina, C. (2021). Thermal Conductivity of Sand-Silt Mixtures. ASCE., 01/01/2021
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. (2020). Characteristics of Hydraulic Fractures in Terms of the Matrix Permeability and the Natural Fracture Density. OnePetro, The ARMA/DGS/SEG 1st International Geomechanics Symposium. 1-10., 11/09/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & K-Nejad, A., Mohammadi, K., and Teran, O. (2020). Behavior of Pre-fractured Rocks subjected to Hydraulic Fracturing with Respect to the Permeability of the Rock Matrix. ASCE, The 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics. 1-10., 05/15/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Mohammadi, K. (2020). Fabric-dependent Hydro- Mechanical Behavior of Pre-fractured Rocks. ASCE, GeoCongress. 1-11., 02/28/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Temizel, C. & Canbaz, C.H., Roshankhah, S., Palabiyik, Y., and Zheng, W. (2020). A Thorough Review and Latest Advances in Shale Oil Reservoirs: Seismic to Surveillance. SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering. 1-22., 02/05/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Rubino, V., Marshall, J.P., Tengattini, A., Ando, E.C.G., Rosakis, A.J., Viggiani, G., and Andrade, J.E. (2019). Monitoring Laboratory Hydraulic Fractures in Pre-fractured Shale using High-resolution Optical and Neutron Imaging Techniques. OnePetro, The 53th US Rock Mechanics and Geomechanics Symposium. 1-10., 06/28/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. (2019). Relative Orientations Matter: Gas Shale Reservoir Behavior with Various Orientations of Wellbore-Bedding Planes-Principal Stresses. OnePetro, The 53th US Rock Mechanics and Geomechanics Symposium. 1-10., 06/28/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Cruz, L.G., Shin, H., Lizcano, A. and Santamarina, J.C. (2019). Kinematic Dilation During the Hydraulic Stimulation of Pre-fractured Rocks. Geotechnique Letters. Vol. 9, 1-10., 02/28/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Bachus, R. & Roshankhah, S., Santamarina, J.C., et al. (2019). Characterization and Engineering Properties of Dry and Ponded Class-F Fly Ash. The Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Vol. 145, 1-11., 02/01/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Angulo-Ruiz, A & Roshankhah, S. and Hunt, M.L. (2019). Elasto-plastic Surface Deformation and Rebound for Normal Particle-Wall Collisions in Various Fluids. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Vol. 871, 1044-1066., 01/01/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Rosakis, A.J., Viggiani, G., Andrade, J.E., et al. (2018). Neutron Imaging: A New Possibility for Laboratory Observation of Hydraulic Fractures in Shale?. Geotechnique Letters. Vol. 8, 316-323., 11/19/2018
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. (2018). The Hydro-Mechanical Response of Pre-Structured Reservoirs Subjected to Hydraulic Fracture. ASCE, The 1st International Conference on Energy Geotechnics. 1-10., 09/28/2018
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Roshankhah, S. & Santamarina, J.C. (2014). ineered Granular Materials for Heat Conduction and Load Transfer in Energy Geotechnology. Geotechnique Letters. Vol. 4, 1-10., 02/03/2014

Presentations

• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Pre-Failure to Post-Failure behavioral spectrum of jointed rock slopes GeoCongress 2023, 03/29/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tailoring Fracture Network Evolution and Response of Civil, Energy, and Environmental Geosystems, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign , 03/10/2023
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tailoring Fracture Network Evolution and Response of Civil, Energy, and Environmental Geosystems, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 03/08/2023
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tailoring Fracture Network Evolution and Response of Civil, Energy, and Environmental Geosystems, ARMA Future Leader Lecture Series, 02/10/2023
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Fracture Network Evolution and Response of Civil, Energy, and Environmental Geosystems, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Utah , 01/30/2023
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Seismic Behavior of Naturally Fractured Rocks involved in Deep Geo-energy Applications The 3rd International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media, 11/15/2022
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Hydraulic Fractures in Homogeneous Reservoirs Bounded by Layers of Other Rocks The 56th US Rock Mechanics and Geomechanics Symposium, 06/29/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: The whole behavioral spectrum of jointed rock slopes The PRF Penrose Conference: Progressive Rock Failure, 06/24/2022
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Behavior of Pre-fractured Rocks subjected to Hydraulic Fracturing with Respect to the Permeability of the Rock Matrix using Finite-Discrete Element Modeling The 2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics, 04/13/2022
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Thermo-Mechanical Response of Layered Rocks upon Single-Mode Microwave Treatment The 2nd International Geomechanics Symposium, ARMA/DGS/SEG, 11/05/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, University of Utah, 03/30/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, Auburn University, 02/19/2021
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, University of Houston, 01/12/2021
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Characteristics of Hydraulic Fractures in Terms of the Matrix Permeability and the Natural Fracture Density The 1st International Geomechanics Symposium, ARMA/DGS/SEG, 11/06/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, Stony Brook University, 03/18/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Fabric-dependent Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Pre-fractured Rocks GeoCongress 2020, 02/27/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, Rutgers University, 02/05/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-engineering for Modern Energy Geo-systems CEE, North Carolina State University, 01/29/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: High-Resolution Monitoring and Modeling of Hydraulic Fractures in Rocks Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX, 05/20/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Laboratory and Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fractures in Shale Geophysical Society of Houston, 05/02/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tailoring the Behavior of Geomaterials to Design Sustainable Geo-Energy Infrastructure CEE, University of Akron, 03/19/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Designing Sustainable Geo-Energy Infrastructure CEE, Drexel University, 03/13/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Tailoring the Behavior of geomaterials to Design Sustainable Geo-Energy Infrastructure CEE, University of California, Irvine, 11/28/2018
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Geo-Engineering for Sustainable Energy Infrastructure CEE, University of California Los Angeles, 05/29/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Numerical Methods to Simulate Thermal, Hydraulic, and Mechanical Behavior of Materials in Engineering Problems CEE, California State University Fullerton, 11/27/2017
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Engineered Geosystems for Sustainable Energy and the Environment CEE, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, 03/03/2016

Professional Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Development sessions and reviewed papers, American Rock Mechanics Association, 02/01/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Rock mechanics Committee, Geo-Institute (GI of ASCE), 02/04/2022
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Reviewed abstracts and full papers , ARMA, 10/15/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Reviewed articles, Geo-Institute (GI of ASCE), 04/16/2018
• ENERGY: Student Research Competition for 2023 Symposium, American Rock Mechanics Association, 11/01/2022-12/23/2022
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Underground Storage and Utilization Committee, American Rock Mechanics Association, 06/28/2022
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Development sessions and reviewed papers, American Rock Mechanics Association, 11/01/2019-06/30/2020
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Developed a technical session and reviewed 15+ papers , International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT), 05/15/2019
• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Developed a technical session and reviewed abstracts, Engineering Mechanics Institiute (EMI of ASCE), 06/19/2017

Awards

• ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: Faculty Affiliate, The Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, 01/10/2022