Massoud Palassi

Associate Professor

Update: 2024-12-28

Massoud Palassi

College of Engineering / Civil Engineering

Journal Paper

  1. "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
  2. "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
  3. "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
  4. "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
  5. "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
  6. "Effect of sand and clay fouling on the shear strength of railway ballast for different ballast gradations"
    Akbar Danesh, Massoud Palassi, Ali Asghar Mir Ghasemi
    GRANULAR MATTER, Vol. 20, No 3, pp.150-165, 2018
  7. "Evaluating the influence of ballast degradation on its shear behaviour"
    Akbar Danesh, Massoud Palassi, Ali Asghar Mir Ghasemi
    International Journal of Rail Transportation, Vol. 6, No 3, pp.145-162, 2018
  8. "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
  9. "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
  10. "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
  11. "Evaluation of morphological properties of railway ballast particles by image processing method"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 12, pp.15-25, 2017
  12. "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
  13. "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
  14. "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
  15. "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
  16. "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
  17. "Effect of carbon nanotube on the rheological properties of bitumen"
    Saeed Sadeghpour Galooyak, Massoud Palassi, Hossein Zanjirani Farahani, Ahmad Goli
    petroleum and coal, Vol. 57, No 5, pp.556-564, 2015
  18. "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
  19. "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
  20. "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
  21. "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
  22. "Axially confined point load testing"
    Massoud Palassi
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES, Vol. 48, No 2, pp.311-315, 2011
  23. "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
  24. "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
  25. "Tunnex : An Export system for tunnelling through rock"
    Massoud Palassi, John Franklin
    Tunnelling Association of canada(TAC)News, 1998
  26. "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
  27. "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
  28. "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
  29. "Study on the Behaviour of Maroon Dam in 2nd Phase of Impoundment"
    Massoud Palassi, Behnam Salehi
    Civil Engineering Infrastructures Journal-CEIJ, Vol. 45, No 7, pp.763-773, 2011

Conference Paper

  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. "Numerical Modelling of Tunnelling by EPB Machine"
    Massoud Palassi, Amin Bahmani Yeganeh
    69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2017), 2016
  6. "Evaluation of strength of single railway ballast particles using various statistical distributions"
    Mehdi Koohmishi, Massoud Palassi
    69th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoVancouver 2016), 2016
  7. "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
  8. "Investigation on the Behavior of Rockfall Flexible Barriers by Numerical Simulation"
    Massoud Palassi, Sajjad Askar
    Geo Quebec 2015, 2015
  9. "Numerical modelling of pressuremeter test"
    Massoud Palassi, Mojtaba Pirpanahi
    66th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoMontreal), 2013
  10. "Numerical Modelling of Diametral Point Load Test"
    Massoud Palassi, Mojtaba Pirpanahi
    65th Canadian Geotechnical Conference (GeoManitoba, 2012
  11. "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
  12. "Approaches for the Design of Rotary Intersections"
    محمد نوروزی شویر, Massoud Palassi
    9th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Seismic Engineering, 2024
  13. "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
  14. "Investigation on the influence of water absorption on the results of impact test"
    Amirhossein Nejabat, Massoud Palassi
    1th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
  15. "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
  16. "Applications of Steel Slag in Different Types of Pavements"
    Ali Amani, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi
    11th International Congress on Civil Engineering, 2018
  17. "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
  18. "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
  19. "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
  20. "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
  21. "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
  22. "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
  23. "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
  24. "Evaluation of superstructures loads on the efficacy of tunnel forepoling"
    Ali Morovvardar, Massoud Palassi
    5th International Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics Conference, 2016
  25. "Comparison between Deformation Modulus"
    Mohammad Ali Kaseb, Massoud Palassi
    Ninth Iranian Civil Engineering Conference, 2016
  26. "tonal"
    Massoud Palassi, Ali Morovvardar
    9th confrance, 2016
  27. "Review"
    Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Massoud Palassi, Milad Aghili Lotf
    First, 2015
  28. "Concrete Recycled Aggregate"
    Massoud Palassi, Amir Mohammad Ramezanianpour, Milad Aghili Lotf, Reza Zarei
    First National, 2015
  29. "A coorelation between Nail Penetration and Unconfined Compressive Strength"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad hosein Hariri
    Second Iranian Geotechnical Conference, 2014
  30. "Use of Edge Load strength for Indirect Estimation of UCS"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Rezaei
    Second Iranian National Conf., 2014
  31. "Estmating Point Load Strength Index Using the New Edge Load Strength Test"
    Massoud Palassi, Milad Rezaei
    Second Iranian Geotechnical Conference, 2014
  32. "Estimation of PLT from NPT"
    Massoud Palassi, Mohammad hosein Hariri
    Second Iranian National Geotechnical Conf., 2014
  33. "Investigation on the correlation between Los Angeles and Impact Tests"
    Massoud Palassi, Akbar Danesh
    First Iranian Geotechnical Conference, 2013