Iranian Specialist Designs Advanced Engineering Services for Seismic Assessment

“The progress of structural design principles in the context of probabilities and the accelerated development of its theories at the world level, show that in the near future, the current methods of assessment and designing of structures will give way to the developed principles,” Ramin Ketabforoush Badri, a Ph.D. graduate in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering) at Islamic Azad University’s Science and Research branch, told ANA.

“The main purpose of presenting the current plan is to prepare a test bed for providing more advanced engineering services in the field of seismic design and assessment,” he added.

Ketabforoush Badri explained that the current plan is a virtual laboratory to control designs in construction projects, noting that it is able to review the completed designs with new functional assessment methods and help engineers to improve their designs.

Noting that similar plans also exist in the world, he explained that they lack the required integrity in different sections from the design and control stage to the review and assessment of designs.

Initial Seismic Assessment (ISA) provides a broad indication of the likely level of seismic performance of a building.

In some cases, an ISA will be followed by a more comprehensive Detailed Seismic Assessment (DSA).

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