Hamed. O.

Ghaffari
Contact
Information

Earth and Environmental Sciences

The University of Texas at Arlington
Geoscience Building, 500 Yates St.

Tel:+18173071550
E-mail: h.o.ghaffari@gmail.com
hamed.ghaffari@uta.edu

Date and place of birth:

Sept 1983, Azerbaijan (Iran)
Research
Interests

Rock Physics, Friction/Fracture Mechanisms, Laboratory Earthquakes, Acoustic

Excitations (and induced seismicity), Condensed matter physics and Complex Networks

Education
The University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

January 2015

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Prof.W.A.Griffith s Group

The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Rock Physics/Geophysics)

December 2014

Thesis Title:
Micro-Scale Damages with focus on Laboratory Earthquakes
Advisor: Prof.R.Paul Young
Area of Study: Fractures in Micron and Sub-micron Scales, Friction, Rock Physics , Deep
focus earthquakes (HP-HT) , Complex Networks and Phase transitions ,Topological Defects
Transferred from M.Sc. to Ph.D.

Sept. 2010

The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

R.A, Dept. Civil Engineering

April. 2009

Area of Study:
Modeling of Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Deep
Geological Repository (DGR)
Advisor: Prof.E.Evgin
The University of Tehran Polytechnique, Tehran, Iran
M.sc in Rock Mechanics,
Thesis Title:
Complexity analysis of Hydro-Mechanical Coupling Behavior of a Single
Rock Joint evolution under Normal and Shear Loads
Advisor: Prof.M.Sharifzadeh, Prof. K.Shahriar
Area of Study: F l u i d f l o w i n Fractures ,
Transferred from B.Sc. to M.sc.

Sept. 2006

Publications
(Journal)

Possible Implications of KZM and Anti-KZM on Friction-Velocity Relations, Ghaffari,

H.O., Benson, P.; in preparation ,2015.

Dynamic Evolution of Microscopic Wet Cracking Noises, Ghaffari, H.O., Benson, P.; in
submission ,2015.
Transition to Ductility in -Quakes: KZM in microscopic Defects, Ghaffari,H.O.,
P.Benson, K.Xia and R.Paul Young ; in revision Nature Communication ,2014.
Complex Networks and Waveforms from Acoustic Emissions in Laboratory
Earthquakes. Ghaffari, H. O., B.D.Thompson and R. P. Young. " Nonlin. Processes
Geophys., 21, 763-775, 2014.
Faulting of rocks at three-dimensional stress field by micro-anticracks. Ghaffari, H.
O., Nasseri, M. H. B., & Young, R. P. (2014). Natures Scientific Reports.
4:5011. doi: 10.1038/srep05011.

(This paper includes 45 pages SI and Analysis of Laboratory Deep-focus earthquakes)

(Highlighted in U of T news, Engineering a new kind of rock music)
Acoustic-Friction Networks and the Evolution of Precursor Rupture Fronts in
Laboratory Earthquakes. Ghaffari, H. O., and R. P. Young. Natures Scientific
Reports 8. doi: 10.1038/srep01799 (Highlighted in Great News! Newsletter, U of
Toronto)
NetworkConfigurations of Dynamic Friction Patterns, Ghaffari H.O., and Young
R.P, Euro Phys. Lett. 98 48003 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/98/48003(2012).
Complexity of Frictional Interfaces; Ghaffari H.O., M.Sharifzadeh, E.Evgin and
Young, Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International
Journal; DOI:10.1080/17486025.2012.727036 (2012).
(In the list of Most read articles of the journal from 2012)
Topological complexity of frictional interfaces: friction networks; Ghaffari H.O., and
Young R.P, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 19, (2012),215-225.
Complex Aperture Networks; H.O. Ghaffari, M.Sharifzdeh and R.P. Young,
Physica A; http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2012.11.001
(This paper has remained in the list of the Top 25 publications of this journal since
January 2013).
Analysis of Aperture Evolution in a Rock Joint Using a Complex Network
Approach; H.O.Ghaffari ,M.Sharifzadeh & M.Fall; International Journal of
Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2010,
Pages 17-29. (This paper has remained in the list of the Top 25 publications of this
journal since January 2010)
Application of Soft Granulation Theory to Permeability Analysis ,
H.O.Ghaffari, M.Sharifzadeh ,K.Shahriar & W. Pedrycz, International Journal
of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 3, April 2009,
Pages 577-589

Phase Transition in SONFIS&SORST; H.O.Ghaffari; M.Sharifzadeh & W. Pedrycz;

In RSCTC 2008, C.-C. Chan, J.W. Grzymala-Busse, W.P. Ziarko (Eds.) LNAI
5306, ISBN 978-3-540-88423-1, pp. 339 348-DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88425,2008
The problems on measuring the velocity of Rain-drops ; Ghaffari, H., Rahe-hOlympiad (Persian Physics-Mathematic Journal)-in Farsi (1999).
Conference
Ghaffari H, P M Benson; Dynamic Evolution of Microscopic Hybrid Events; In AGU
Fall Meeting Abstracts (2014, December).
Ghaffari, H. O., M. H. B. Nasseri, and R. Paul Young. "Listening to Anticracks in
Laboratory Earthquakes under the True Triaxial 3D Remote Stress Field and High
pressure High Temperature ." Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2014).
Ghaffari, H., Xia, K., & Young, R. Acoustic Emission Patterns and the Transition to
Ductility in Sub-Micron Scale Laboratory Earthquakes. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
(Vol. 1, p. 2239). (2013, December).
Ghaffari, H. O., and R. P. Young. "Acoustic-Friction Networks and the Evolution of
Shear Ruptures in Laboratory Earthquakes." APS Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2013.
Ghaffari, H. O., and R. P. Young. "Network Theory, Cracking and Frictional Sliding."
arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5198 (2012); ARMA 2012.
Ghaffari, H., and R. P. Young. "Friction Networks: Network-Configurations of Dynamic
Friction Patterns." EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vol. 14. 2012.
Ghaffari, H., B. D. Thompson, and R. Young. "Dynamic Topology and Spatio-Temporal
Complexity of Stick-Slip Events in Natural Faulted Westerly Granite." AGU Fall
Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2011.
Ghaffari, H., et al. "Fluid flow analysis in a rough fracture (type II) using lattice
Boltzmann method." arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1124 ( PanAm-CGS,Toronto, 2011).
Ghaffari, H. "Fluid Flow complexity in a Rough Fracture Using a Complex Aperture
Network." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 1. 2010.
Fall, M., Ghaffari H.O., Nguyen S, Evgin E.,. (2010). Transferability of GeoData from
European to Canadian Sedimentary rocks to study gas transport from nuclear waste
repositories. International Conference Clays in Natural & Engineered barriers for
radioactive waste confinement. Nantes, France.
Ghaffari H O, M.Fall ; Hydro-mechanical Modeling of Carbon Sequestration in
Sedimentary Rocks; 9th annual Advances in Earth Science Research Conference ;
University of Ottawa, Ontario, March 26th-28th 2010.
Ghaffari, H O., and W. Pedrycz. "Modeling of Social Transitions Using Intelligent
Systems." Complexity and Intelligence of the Artificial and Natural Complex Systems,
Medical Applications of the Complex Systems, Biomedical Computing, 2008. CANS'08.
First International Conference on. IEEE, 2008.
Ghaffari H O, M.Fall , E.Evgin & M.Sharifzadeh ;Complex Networks on a Rock Joint;
3rd Canada-US Rock Mechanics symposium -RockEng09 -in Toronto, May, 9-15, 2009

Ghaffari H O., Hadi.Shakeri and Mostafa.Sharifzadeh Developing of New Facets of

Indirect Modeling in the Geosciences;; International Conference on Rock Joints and
Jointed Rock Masses, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2009
Ghaffari, H., "Contact State Analysis using NFIS & SOM." Computational Mechanics
(2009): 396-396.
Ghaffari, H., K. Shahriar, and GH R. Saeedi. "Assessment of Effective Parameters
on Dilution Using Approximate Reasoning Methods In Longwall Mining Method,
Iran Coal Mines." Gospodarka Surowcami Mineralnymi 24 (2008).
Ghaffari, H.,, Majid Ejtemaei, and Mehdi Irannajad. "Analysis of Hydrocyclone
Performance Based on Information Granulation Theory." 8th. World Congress on
Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) 5th. European Congress on Computational Methods in
Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008) 2008 Venice, Italy.
Ghffari H.O. ; K.Shahriar &W. Pedrycz; Graphical Estimation of Permeability Using
RST&NFIS ; The 27th Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society (NAFIPS'08) -New York, NY, USA, May 19-22, 2008
Ghaffari, H., M.Sharifzadeh ,K.Shahriar & E.Bakhtavar Rock Mechanics Modeling Based
on Soft Granulation Theory; 42nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium 2nd U.S.-Canada
Rock Mechanics Symposium, CD-ROM, 2008
Ghaffari, H., H.Aghababaei Back Analysis Based on SOM-RST System;; Proceedings of
the 10th Internatinoal Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, 30 June 4 July
2008, Xi'an, China ;Editor(s) -Zu-yu Chen, Jian-Min Zhang, Ken Ho, Fa-Quan Wu, ZhognKui Li
K. Shahriar & H.O.Ghffari ; Analysis of Permeability Using BPF, ANFIS & SOM; 1st
Canada-U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium -Rock Mechanics: Meeting Society's Challenges
and Demands, Vancouver, Canada, 27-31 May 2007 ; Editors : Erik Eberhardt ,Doug Stead
&Tom Morrison pp.303-7, 2007
Ghaffari, H.,, Y. Pourrahimian and A. Majdi, (2006), " Application of ANNs to
permeability
analysis
Shivashan
Dam,
Iran.",
Asian
Rock
Mechanics Symposium(ARMS-2006),Singapore.
Unpublished

Ghaffari, H. O., Mamdou Fall, and Erman Evgin. "Complexity Analysis of

Unsaturated Flow in Heterogeneous Media." (2009).
Ghaffari, H. O. "Fracture Networks: Analysis with Graph Theory, LBM and FEM." arXiv
preprint arXiv:1107.4918 (2011).
Ghaffari, H. O. "Toward Fuzzy block theory." arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2308 (2008).

Reports

Referee
Experience
in Journals

Ghaffari H.O., and Young R.P, Motifs of Networks from Frictional Interfaces;
http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5078
Fall, M., Ghaffari H.O., Evgin E. (2009). Mechanical, Geochemical, Hydraulic and
Thermal Data on Sedimentary Rock Formations in Ontario and Europe: Review,
Comparison and Analysis- Research Report for CNSC contract. 96p.
Guest Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering , PLOS one , Physics Letters A,
International Journal of Applied Intelligence, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the
Environment, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Journal of Rock
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

Research
Experience
Frictional Interfaces and Fracture mechanisms

May. 2008 to present

Coupled Hydro-mechanical FDM/FEM codes.

Developed novel algorithms for Aperture evolution/Roughness
Artificial Neural Networks ,Fuzzy logic and Rough Set theory
DDA : Discontinuous Deformation Analysis :Coding in MATLAB and coupled
algorithm with Fuzzy Inference Systems (Machine Learning Schema)
The University of Ottawa,
Department of Civil Engineering

April. 2009 to Sep.2010

Utilized FEM code to study Multi-phase flow and coupled process in Porous materials
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Process
Study of Gas flow and developing damage with COMSOL.

April. 2009 to present

Complex Networks and Crackling noises

Oct. 2010 to present

Theories for acoustic crackling noises

Condensed matter Physics
Computational Physics ,The University of Ottawa,
Department of Physics

Oct. 2009 to Dec2010

Monte carlo simulation

Stochastic finite different methods
Dynamic Fracture Research Group , The University of
Toronto,
Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar(SHPB) and Shock waves in Prof. K.Xias Laboratory
Oct. 2013 to present

Rock Fracture and Acoustic Emission Research Group,

The University o f Toronto, Civil Engineering Department

Sept.2010 to present

Acoustic Emission and Physical Properties of Minerals

High Pressure-High Temperature and Deep/intermediate Earthquakes
Laboratory Earthquakes and Studies on mico-crack
True Stress Field and THMC in Laboratory
Stress state and Faulting mechanism
Phase Field model and Phase transition in sub-micron moving cracks (based on ZKM); studies on
condensed matters (super-fluids and super-solids)
Academic
Experience

The University of Toronto ,Toronto, Canada

Graduate Student
Ph.D. research.

Sept.2010 to Dec.2014

 Completed comprehensive examination.

Course work (Graduate level Rock Mechanics, Dynamic Rock Fracture Lattice
Boltzmann Method, Geophysics, Nonlinear Physics, Computational Physics, Inverse
Problems in Geophysics, Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Continuous Media and Elasticity,
Numerical Methods/modeling)
Teaching Assistant (Rock Mechanics, Engineering Mathematics, Geology and
Geosystems, Engineering Geotechniques)
Sept.2010 to May.2014
The University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Azerbaijan ,Iran
Undergraduate Student

Dec. 2002 to Sep2006.

Laboratory experience
Sep2010- 2014:
Experimental series performed on the Tri-X /true triaxial cell at U of T Toronto, Working
with ASC acoustic acquisition systems and Insite; Measurements of Permeability and
Acoustic properties of rocks. Working with Split Hopkison Pressure Bar (SHPB)
Analysis of Multi-anvil tests with focus on Acoustic Excitation patterns
Micro-tomography and Analysis of X-ray patterns using a developed Toolbox for Matlab
Sep2009- 2010: Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Laboratory in U of Ottawa
Sep2006- 2009: Analysis of Permeability and hydraulic conductivity of interfaces
Sep2005- 2006: Rock Mechanic/Soil Mechanic Laboratory including all main tests (Tabriz
University)

References
Prof.R Paul Young
Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: +1 (416) 978-5252
Fax: +1 (416) 978-4820
Email: paul.young@utoronto.ca

Prof.E.Evgin
Department of Civil Engineering , University of Ottawa ,Ottawa, Canada
Phone : (613) 562-5800 ext. 6141
FAX: (613) 562-5173
Email: Erman.Evgin@uottawa.ca

Prof.Mosatfa Sharifzadeh
Curtin University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Western Australian School of Mine, Dept of Mining Eng & Metallurgical Engineering
Email: M.Sharifzadeh@curtin.edu.au
PHONE 890886199

FAX

890886151

.Prof. Ze'ev Reches

GeoStructure group
School of Geology and Geophysics, U of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
405-321-3157 (office), 405-325-4730 (lab)
email: reches@ou.edu web-page: earthquakes.ou.edu/reches/
Prof.K.Xia
Professor Kaiwen Xia, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Toronto, Room GB 314A
35 St. George Street
Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4, Canada
Telephone: 416-978-5942
Fax: 416-978-6813
Email: kaiwen@ecf.utoronto.ca