Associate Professor
Armin Mehrabi, Ph.D., PE, MBA, F.ASCE
Director of FIU NDT Lab,
Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994
Civil Engineering
(305) 348-3653 EC 3602
AMehrabi@FIU.edu
Dr. Armin Mehrabi joined the Civil and Environmental Department of the College of Engineering and Computing in January of 2017 as Associate Professor.
Dr. Mehrabi comes from Bridge Engineering Solutions (BES) where he served as the President and Principal Engineer for 12 years. He specializes in inspection, evaluation, risk assessment, application of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP), health monitoring, and rehabilitation of cable-supported bridges. He has developed non-destructive evaluation and inspection methods for bridge structures, and has been involved in inspection, evaluation, monitoring, life-cycle-cost analysis, and/or rehabilitation design for bridges including more than 25 major cable-supported bridges in the US and abroad. He is very successful in turning research results into practice. This includes co-inventing a Laser-Based Cable Monitoring System developed with the support of US Federal Highway Administration, for which he was awarded as “One of Top 25 Newsmakers of the Year, 1997, By ENR.” Dr. Mehrabi has developed several guides for NDT inspection of bridges and elements including a recent guide for inspection of FRP Reinforced/Strengthened Concrete Elements FRP RSC Guide. He has 6 US patents, 5 since joining FIU, and filed for 5 more in areas of bridge damage detection tools and concrete and steel connections. Before establishing BES firm, he worked and managed the largest privately owned structural laboratory in the US at CTLGroup.
Dr. Mehrabi’s Dissertation on Seismic Behavior of Masonry Infilled RC Frames won the Most Outstanding Thesis Award by The Masonry Society in 1997. He has served as Consultant for Construction Support Services, QC/QA and as Complex Bridge Specialist for bridges. His research interests are in the areas of Non-Destructive Evaluation of Bridges, Structural Health Monitoring, FRP Applications, Field and Laboratory Testing, Bridge Rehabilitation and Corrosion Mitigation, Cable-Supported Bridges as well as Analysis and Modeling of Masonry and R/C Frames subject to Lateral/Seismic Loading.
Dr. Mehrabi holds an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, an MBA from Niagara University, NY, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1994. He is a registered professional engineer in several states. Dr. Mehrabi has carried out several research studies in Structural Engineering field and has published more than 125 papers and articles on the subject of inspection and evaluation of bridges, non-destructive testing, FRP applications, and laboratory testing and seismic analysis of masonry and infilled frames in Professional Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Professional Magazines. Dr. Mehrabi has published two books on ABC Options for Short Span Bridges and NDT for Inspection of Bridges and Buildings,and edited another book on Structural Health Monitoring and Performance of Structures. In 2024, he was elevated to ASCE Fellow status, and in 2025, he received the FIU’s Top Scholar Award for his research and creative activities and was selected as Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUnWLFoAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID: Mehrabi, Armin 0000-0003-4736-850X