Background
Dr. Arash Karimi Pour is a licensed Professional Engineer in the United States (U.S.), providing forensic engineering consulting services. His expertise includes design and condition assessment of buildings and structures, strengthening and failure and investigations, settlement and cracking in slabs and foundations, and soil/structures interaction. He has designed and evaluated residential and commercial structures, deep and shallow foundations, retaining walls, and tunnels, as well as assessed structural damage due to wind, fire, ground settlement, water intrusion, excessive vibration, and material aging and degradation. He has led a diverse range of projects across various sectors in the U.S., including steel, concrete, masonry, and wood design and retrofit. Additionally, he has overseen building projects from the first stages of conceptual design to design development and construction drawings.
In addition to the roles and responsibilities as a Professional Engineer during various phases of demolition and construction, Dr. Karimi Pour offers expert support in projects involving structural failure, damage and investigation, service issues, disputes over construction defects, and cost overruns and delays associated with design and construction modifications. For a variety of building and structure types, Dr. Karimi Pour has carried out several on-site inspections to look at performance concerns with the frame, foundation, roofing, building enclosure, soil erosion, flood, and slope stability. He has addressed problems associated with design, construction materials, construction methods, construction failures, the application of codes and standards, repair methodologies, and the cost of repairs.
Dr. Karimi Pour is also skilled in utilizing non-destructive tests and advanced finite element method simulation to detect and analyze the failure and structure’s stability in various structural systems. He conducted small- and in-field experimental evaluations, performed advanced finite element method analysis, developed a new formulation for concrete mixture design, and designed rigid concrete slabs and risk analysis to assess the potential failure modes, safety margins, and the long-term durability of rigid concrete slabs under varying environmental conditions and loads. As a part of his doctoral research, he worked on various geotechnical research projects for TXDOT and NASA’s Johnson Space Center to develop innovative foundation design methods and improve soil-structure interaction models for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications.
Education and Certifications
- Civil Engineering, Ph.D.: University of Texas at El Paso (2023)
- Civil Engineering, M.Sc.: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2017)
- Civil Engineering, B.S.: Ilam University (2015)
- Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.): Maine, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): Member
- Certified Risk Management: International Business Management Institute (2025)
- Certified Project Management: International Business Management Institute (2025)
- Certified Sustainable Development: International Business Management Institute (2025)
Publications
- Ashtiani, J. Baca, J. Wessel, and A. Karimi Pour. (2022) “Path Planning Granular Mechanics of JSC-1 Mars Regolith Simulants”, Proceedings Earth and Space. ASCE.
- Karimi Pour, R. Ashtiani, and J. Baca (2022) “Path Planning and Landing Simulation of Soil Performance on Planetary Surfaces”, Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium. EL Paso, TX, USA.
- Karimi Pour, M. Ghalehnovi, J. de Brito (2021) “New Model for the Lap-Splice Length of Tensile Reinforcement in Concrete Elements”, Journal of Structural Engineering. ASCE, 12, 147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0003177.
- Ghalehnovi, M. Yousefi, A. Karimi Pour, J. de Brito, and M. Norooziyan (2020) “Investigation of the Behaviour of Steel-Concrete-Steel Sandwich Slabs with Bi-Directional Corrugated-Strip Connectors”, Applied Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10238647.
- Rezaiee-Pajand, A. Karimi Pour, and Mehdi Ameli Basiri (2020) “Study on the seismic behavior of steel shear plates”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Structures and Buildings. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1680/jstbu.20.00019.
- Ghalehnovi, A. Karimi Pour, J. de Brito, and H.R. Chaboki (2020) “Crack Width and Propagation in Recycled Coarse Aggregate Concrete Beams Reinforced with Steel Fibres”, Applied Sciences. 10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10217587.
- Ghalehnovi, A. Karimi Pour, and J Azad Darmian (2020) “Studying on the effect of friction rotational damper, viscoelastic and TADAS on the structures seismic behaviour”, Modelling in Civil Engineering Journal. 18, 57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22075/jme.2019.14484.1433.
- Rezaiee-Pajand, and A. Karimi Pour (2019) “Three stress-based triangular elements”, Engineering with Computers. 36-4, 1325-1345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-019-00765-6.