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  1. An Ensemble Learning-Based Approach to Quantify Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery of a Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Inventory

    Article • Infrastructures, June 2026, MDPI AG

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  2. Making the Black Box Transparent: State of the Art in Explainable Machine Learning for Structural Design and Assessment

    Article • Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2026, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  3. Evaluating the Performance of Concrete Barriers in Protecting Bridge Piers under Vehicular Impact in Space-Constrained Settings

    Article • Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, April 2026, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  4. Towards using explainable data-driven surrogate models for treating performance-based seismic design as an inverse engineering problem

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  5. Impact of modeling decisions on seismic loss and fragility assessment of steel buildings

    Article • Earthquake Spectra, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  6. Making the Black Box Transparent: State of the Art in Explainable Machine Learning for Structural Design and Assessment

    Article • August 2025, Open Engineering Inc

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  7. Beyond Development: Challenges in Deploying Machine-Learning Models for Structural Engineering Applications

    Article • Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2025, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  8. Insights into susceptibility of underground infrastructure to geohazards due to subsurface urban heat Island

    Article • Sustainable Cities and Society, May 2025, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  9. A Numerical Investigation of the Performance of Damaged Concrete Barriers Under Sequential Vehicular Impacts

    Article • Buildings, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  10. Efficiency and explainability of design‐oriented machine learning models to estimate seismic response, fragility, and loss of a steel building inventory

    Article • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, November 2024, Wiley

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  11. Evaluating fire resistance of timber columns using explainable machine learning models

    Article • Engineering Structures, December 2023, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati, Dr Thomas Gernay

  12. Evaluating the impact of higher-mode and inelastic dynamic responses of concrete frames on the performance of seismic intensity measures

    Article • Structures, October 2023, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  13. Do all roads lead to Rome? A comparison of knowledge-based, data-driven, and physics-based surrogate models for performance-based early design

    Article • Engineering Structures, July 2023, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  14. Leveraging machine learning techniques to support a holistic performance-based seismic design

    Article • November 2022, Open Engineering Inc

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  15. A Holistic Review of GM/IM Selection Methods from a Structural Performance-Based Perspective

    Article • Sustainability, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  16. A Data-Driven Approach to Evaluate Site Amplification of Ground-Motion Models Using Vector Proxies Derived from Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratios

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, September 2022, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  17. Estimating seismic demand models of a building inventory from nonlinear static analysis using deep learning methods

    Article • Engineering Structures, September 2022, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  18. Sustainable early design exploration of mid-rise office buildings with different subsystems using comparative life cycle assessment

    Article • Journal of Building Engineering, May 2022, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  19. A relational database to support post-earthquake building damage and recovery assessment

    Article • Earthquake Spectra, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  20. Sustainable early design exploration of mid-rise office buildings with different subsystems using comparative life cycle assessment

    Article • December 2021, Open Engineering Inc

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  21. The Impact of Hazard-Consistent Ground Motion Scenarios Selection on Structural Seismic Risk Estimation

    Article • November 2021, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  22. Developing data-driven surrogate models for holistic performance-based assessment of mid-rise RC frame buildings at early design

    Article • Engineering Structures, October 2021, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  23. Probabilistic seismic performance and loss evaluation of a multi-story steel building equipped with butterfly-shaped fuses

    Article • Journal of Constructional Steel Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  24. INSSEPT: An open-source relational database of seismic performance estimation to aid with early design of buildings

    Article • Earthquake Spectra, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  25. Probabilistic seismic assessment of non-ductile RC buildings retrofitted using pre-tensioned aramid fiber reinforced polymer belts

    Article • Composite Structures, January 2019, Elsevier

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  26. The effect of design drift limit on the seismic performance of concrete tall buildings

    Article • The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, March 2018, Wiley

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati

  27. Evaluation of sulfate damages in a tunnel concrete segments

    Article • September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati