Journal Papers

1. "A Numerical Investigation on a Novel Approach for Designing Semi-Rigid Barriers for Rockfall Protection Based on Spider Web Geometry"
   Okba Kerhali, Massoud Palassi, Amir Reza Ghiami Azad
   Iranian Journal of Science and Technology-Transactions of Civil Engineering, Vol. -, 2024
2. "Assessing Risk Factors Associated with Motorcycle Crash Severity in Mashhad, Iran"
   Nasser Parishad, Seyed Kayvan Aghabayk Eagely, Massoud Palassi
   International Journal of Transportation Engineering (IJTE), Vol. 10, No 2, pp.1041-1054, 2022
3. "Estimation of SPT N Values from the Results of DCPT Counts After Elimination of the Soil Friction Effect"
   Arash Gholami, Massoud Palassi, Ali Fakher
   Indian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 1, No 1, 2022
4. "Mechanical Properties of Clayey Soil Reinforced with PET Considering the Influence of Lime-Stabilization"
   Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
   Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 33, No 1, 2022
5. "Investigation on the sustainable use of electric arc furnace slag aggregates in eco-friendly alkali-activated low fineness slag concrete as a green construction composite"
   Ali Amani, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, Vol. 307, No 127257, 2021
6. "Selection of asphalt mix with optimal fracture properties at intermediate temperature using Taguchi method for design of experiment"
   Mohammad Hoseinpour-Lonbar, Mohammad Zia Alavi, Massoud Palassi
   CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, Vol. 262, No 120301, 2020
7. "Effect of pipe characteristics in umbrella arch method on controlling tunneling-induced settlements in soft grounds"
   Ali Morovatdar, Massoud Palassi, Reza Ashtiani
   Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 12, No 5, pp.984-1000, 2020
8. "Evaluation of particle shape on direct shear mechanical behavior of ballast assembly using discrete element method (DEM)"
   Akbar Danesh, Ali Asghar Mirghasemi, Massoud Palassi
   Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 23, No 100357, 2020
9. "Mechanical and durability assessment of unconfined recycled concrete aggregates and natural aggregates used in road constructions"
   Milad Aghili Lotf, Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
   International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 11, No 12, pp.1-13, 2019
10. "Assessment of the Effect of Skin Friction on the Results of Dynamic Penetration Testing in Cohesionless Soil"
    Arash Gholami, Massoud Palassi, Ali Fakher
    Iranian Journal of Science and Technology-Transactions of Civil Engineering, Vol. 3, No 2, 2019
11. "Effect of sand and clay fouling on the shear strength of railway ballast for different ballast gradations"
    Akbar Danesh, Massoud Palassi, Ali Asghar Mirghasemi
    GRANULAR MATTER, Vol. 20, No 3, pp.150-165, 2018
12. "Evaluating the influence of ballast degradation on its shear behaviour"
    Akbar Danesh, Massoud Palassi, Ali Asghar Mirghasemi
    International Journal of Rail Transportation, Vol. 6, No 3, pp.145-162, 2018
13. "Evaluating the Frost Resistance of Recycled Concrete Aggregate by Various Standards"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, Vol. 30, No 6, 2018
14. "Effect of gradation of aggregate and size of fouling materials on hydraulic conductivity of sand-fouled railway ballast"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, Vol. 167, No 1, pp.514-523, 2018
15. "Degradation of railway ballast under compressive loads considering particles rearrangement"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 11, No 11, pp.1-13, 2018
16. "Rheology investigation of waste LDPE and crumb rubber modified bitumen"
    Hossein Zanjirani Farahani, Massoud Palassi, Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak
    Engineering Solid Mechanics, Vol. 27, No 38, pp.27-38, 2018
17. "Evaluating The Characteristics of Waste Modified Asphalt Mixture"
    Hossein Zanjirani Farahani, Massoud Palassi, Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak
    petroleum and coal, Vol. 59, No 5, pp.730-735, 2017
18. "Evaluation of morphological properties of railway ballast particles by image processing method"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 12, pp.15-25, 2017
19. "Evaluating the effect of waste material on viscoelastic characteristics of bitumen"
    Hossein Zanjirani Farahani, Massoud Palassi, Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak
    PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 35, No 15, pp.1601-1606, 2017
20. "Thermal analysis of bitumen modified with LDPE and CR"
    Hossein Zanjirani Farahani, Massoud Palassi, Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak
    PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 35, No 15, pp.1570-1575, 2017
21. "Effect of particle size distribution and subgrade condition on degradation of railway ballast under impact loads"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    GRANULAR MATTER, Vol. 19, pp.1-12, 2017
22. "Evaluation of the Strength of Railway Ballast Using Point Load Test for Various Size Fractions and Particle Shapes"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING, Vol. 49, No 7, pp.2655-2664, 2016
23. "Performance evaluation of nano-silica modified bitumen"
    Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak, Massoud Palassi, Ahmad Goli, Hossein Zanjirani Farahani
    International Journal of Transportation Engineering (IJTE), Vol. 3, No 1, 2015
24. "Relationships Between Abrasion/Degradation of Aggregate Evaluated from Various Tests and the Effect of Saturation"
    Massoud Palassi, Akbar Danesh
    ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING, Vol. 49, pp.2937-2943, 2015
25. "Evaluation of Application of Thin HMA Overlay on the Existing Flexible Pavement for High-Traffic-Volume Rural Highways"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    Periodica Polytechnica-Civil Engineering, Vol. 59, No 1, pp.65-75, 2015
26. "A New Nail Penetration Test for Estmataion of Rock Strength"
    Massoud Palassi, Vahid Emami
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, Vol. 64, No 66, pp.124-127, 2013
27. "Edge load strength test for indirect estimation of unconfined compressive strength"
    Massoud Palassi, Mojtaba Pirpanahi
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, Vol. 61, No 61, pp.111-117, 2013
28. "Response of orange trees to deficit irrigation strategies in the north of Iran"
    Mehrdad Shahabian , Seyed Mahmood Samar , Ali Reza Talaei, Mohammad Reza Emdad , Hashem Aghazadeh, Massoud Palassi
    Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, Vol. 58, No 3, pp.267-276, 2012
29. "Axially confined point load testing"
    Massoud Palassi
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, Vol. 48, No 2, pp.311-315, 2011
30. "Design of Lining of Tunnels Excavated in Soil and Soft Rock"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad Mehdi Mohebbi
    Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 13, pp.1-15, 2008
31. "Tunnel design using continuum and discontinuum approaches and the effect of joint orientation on the design"
    Massoud Palassi, Pooyan Asadollahi
    Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. -, 2007
32. "Safety Performance Evaluation of two-waves and three-waves W-Beam Guardrails Using Finite Element Simulation"
    MOHAMMAD SAFARI, Massoud Palassi
    Journal of Transportation Research, Vol. 21, No 78, pp.293-310, 2024
33. "Evaluating the Utilization of Recycled Concrete Aggregate for Road Applications"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
    Journal of Transportation Research, Vol. 4, No 77, pp.343-352, 2023
34. "Evaluation of the mechanical properties and deicer salt scaling resistance of recycled aggregate concrete"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    Sharif Journal Civil Engineering, Vol. 35.2, No 4, pp.21-31, 2020
35. "Investigating the effect of different types of recycled concrete aggregate on the engineering properties of concrete"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    Structural Engineering, Vol. 48, No 8, pp.1-16, 2018
36. "Evaluating the durability of natural aggregates and recycled concrete aggregates against freeze-thaw cycles"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
    JTIE, Vol. 3, No 12, 2018
37. "Application of zeolite in recycled aggregate concrete"
    Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi, Milad Aghili Lotf
    asas, Vol. 18, No 45, 2017
38. "Effect of joint roughness"
    علی کارگر , Massoud Palassi
    Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal-CEIJ, Vol. 45, No 7, pp.763-773, 2012
39. "Monitoring of Gavoshan Tunnel Using Instrumentation Data"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad Hossein Arash
    Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal-CEIJ, Vol. 45, No 4, pp.401-410, 2011
40. "Estimation of"
    جبارعلی ذاکری , Saeed Mohammad Zadeh, Mohammad Voria Khordebinan, Massoud Palassi
    Quarterly Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 1, No 2, pp.51-60, 2010

Conference Papers

1. "Tunnel Reinforcement in Soft Grounds Using Umbrella Arch Method"
   Ali Morovatdar, Massoud Palassi, Kambiz Behniya
   GeoChina 2021 (SIXTH GEOCHINA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021), 2021
2. "Evaluation of the efficiency of the umbrella arch method in urban tunneling subjected to adjacent surcharge loads"
   Ali Morovatdar, Massoud Palassi, Mahsa Beizaei
   Geo-Congress 2020, 2020
3. "Indirect estimation of railway ballast strength by conducting point load test on rock cores and irregular-shaped particles"
   Massoud Palassi, Mehdi Koohmishi
   71st Canadian Geotechnical Conference (Geo Edmonton 2018), 2018
4. "Effect of fouling and degradation on permeability of railway ballast"
   Massoud Palassi, Mehdi Koohmishi
   70th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (Geo Ottawa 2017), 2017
5. "The effect of in situ stresses on the results of plate load test"
   Mohammad Ali Kaseb, Massoud Palassi
   69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2016), 2016
6. "Effect of freezing and chemical grouting on the shear behaviour of rock joints"
   Massoud Palassi, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Imam, Majid Mohaqqeqi
   69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2016), 2016
7. "Numerical Modelling of Tunnelling by EPB Machine"
   Massoud Palassi, Amin Bahmani Yeganeh
   69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2017), 2016
8. "Evaluation of strength of single railway ballast particles using various statistical distributions"
   Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
   69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2016), 2016
9. "Investigation on the Behavior of Rockfall Flexible Barriers by Numerical Simulation"
   Massoud Palassi, Sajjad Askar
   Geo Quebec 2015, 2015
10. "Numerical modelling of pressuremeter test"
    Massoud Palassi, Mojtaba Pirpanahi
    66th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoMontreal), 2013
11. "Numerical Modelling of Diametral Point Load Test"
    Massoud Palassi, Mojtaba Pirpanahi
    65th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoManitoba, 2012
12. "Approaches for the Design of Rotary Intersections"
    محمد نوروزی شویر, Massoud Palassi
    9th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Seismic Engineering, 2024
13. "Investigation on the Performance of Middle and Side Barriers in Response to Collision of Single Axle Truck"
    محمد نوروزی شویر, Massoud Palassi
    9th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Seismic Engineering, 2024
14. "Effect o Granular Material Shape on the Shear Strength"
    اکبر دانش, Ali Asghar Mirghasemi, Massoud Palassi
    6th. National Congress on Civil Engineering , Architecture and Urban Development, 2019
15. "Numerical Simulation of Direct Shear Test with Considering Real Particle Shape"
    اکبر دانش, Ali Asghar Mirghasemi, Massoud Palassi
    6 th .National Congress on Civil Engineering , Architecture and Urban Development, 2019
16. "Design of superior fatigue resistant asphalt mix using Taghuchi method"
    Mohammad Hoseinpour-Lonbar, Mohammad Zia Alavi, Massoud Palassi
    11th Bitumen, Asphalt and Machiery Conference and Exhibition, 2019
17. "Investigation on the influence of water absorption on the results of impact test"
    Amirhossein Nejabat, Massoud Palassi
    1th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
18. "Applications of Steel Slag in Different Types of Pavements"
    Ali Amani, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    11th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
19. "invesigation on the effect of number of frost and defrost in AASHTO for the aggregate used in the roads"
    Amirhossein Nejabat, Massoud Palassi
    11th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
20. "Industrial Applications of Geopolymer Concrete & Specifications of These Eco-Friendly Concretes"
    Ali Amani, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    11th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
21. "Determination of the polished stone value for gggregates"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Aghili Lotf, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
    Third International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017
22. "Aggregate Abrasion Test Using Micro-Deval Apparatus"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Aghili Lotf, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
    Third International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017
23. "Comparison between the various methods for the assessing the soundness of aggregates"
    Milad Aghili Lotf, Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour
    Third International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2017
24. "Evaluation of superstructures loads on the efficacy of tunnel forepoling"
    Ali Morovvardar, Massoud Palassi
    5th International Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics Conference, 2016
25. "Application of subgrade soil on the crushing of ballast aggregate under impact loads"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    5th International Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics Conference, 2016
26. "Application of dynamic penetration test to the quality control of subgrade and pavement layers"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad Hadi Biglari, Arash Gholami
    5th International Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics Conference, 2016
27. "Development of Dynamic Dynamic Penetration Test on Sand Facing"
    Massoud Palassi, Ali Fakher, Arash Gholami
    5th International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, 2016
28. "Investigation on the effect of plate diameter and gallery dimensions on the results of jacking test in numerical modelling by 3DEC"
    Mohammad Ali Kaseb, Massoud Palassi
    5th International Geotechnics and soil Mechanics Conference, 2016
29. "tonal"
    Massoud Palassi, Ali Morovvardar
    9th confrance, 2016
30. "Comparison between Deformation Modulus"
    Mohammad Ali Kaseb, Massoud Palassi
    Ninth Iranian Civil Engineering Conference, 2016
31. "Concrete Recycled Aggregate"
    Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Milad Aghili Lotf, Reza Zarei
    First National, 2015
32. "Review"
    Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi, Milad Aghili Lotf
    First, 2015
33. "Estmating Point Load Strength Index Using the New Edge Load Strength Test"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Rezaei
    Second Iranian Geotechnical Conference, 2014
34. "Estimation of PLT from NPT"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad hosein Hariri
    Second Iranian National Geotechnical Conf., 2014
35. "Use of Edge Load strength for Indirect Estimation of UCS"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Rezaei
    Second Iranian National Conf., 2014
36. "A coorelation between Nail Penetration and Unconfined Compressive Strength"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad hosein Hariri
    Second Iranian Geotechnical Conference, 2014
37. "Investigation on the Relationship between Physical Properties and Durability Index of Aggregate"
    Hamed Azami, Massoud Palassi
    15th Students Civil Engineering Conf., 2014
38. "Assessment of Durability of Aggregate Using Various Durability Indices"
    Hamed Azami, Massoud Palassi
    15th Students Civil Engineering Conf., 2014