Iranian Scientists Develop Smart Software for Post-Earthquake Risk Assessment
“This software is a tool for analyzing the hazards, risks, and resilience of the society in case of an earthquake. In other words, RTX software is a computer program for analyzing reliability, risk, and resilience with a library of probabilistic models,” said Hamidreza Nourbala, a researcher of the company.
Noting that the software has been developed by the INSURER under the supervision of Mojtaba Mahsouli, he said, “This software models and selects the factors responsible for recovery, and how each of these factors should behave so that recovery after an earthquake can take place faster.”
“The infrastructures considered in this software include urban building infrastructure, electricity infrastructure, water supply infrastructure, communication network, gas distribution, transportation network, healthcare system, and businesses,” Nourbala said.
In a relevant development in 2023, Iranian researchers had also managed to obtain a formula that determines the condition of structures for reuse after an earthquake.
“In the project, titled ‘determining the intensity index in the assessment of the risk of seismic collapse of structures by considering the aftershocks’, we managed to provide an assessment process by which the probability of the collapse of structures by aftershocks can be determined as a numerical value,” said Fatemeh Soleiman Meygouni, a PhD student at Amirkabir University of Technology.
“Considering that in quake-prone countries, including Iran, there is a need to check the condition of structures after an earthquake to determine whether they are habitable or not, in this project we achieved a formula that can be used to examine the condition of structures after an earthquake,” she added.
“By using the results of the project, we can minimize the loss of life and prevent the wastage of financial resources,” Soleiman Meygouni said, adding that among the features of this plan, mention can be made of applicability in investigating the situation of real buildings because the methods proposed by previous researchers did not provide such a possibility.
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