Iranian Experts Design Software to Improve Safety of Structures against Earthquake

With its capabilities, this software allows engineers to overcome the challenges in the ETABS software and achieve a more accurate analysis of the behavior of structures against earthquakes.

Davoud Ali Jamshidi, a faculty member of Islamic Azad University and a structural engineer, succeeded in designing an Iran-made software called ‘Modeling and Loading of Types of Skeletons and Foundations with the Possibility of Designing Control, Optimization, and Measurement’, which is the first time that an all-Iranian software has been designed and developed.

Noting that the existing software in this field was all foreign, and they have major weaknesses, he said, “Due to the lack of compliance with the country's regulations, Iran's seismic conditions, and the materials used, I thought about designing and producing a home-made software which enjoys a better graphical environment than software like ETABS.”

In a relevant development in January, Iranian researchers at Infrastructure Sustainability and Resilience Research Center (INSURER) of Sharif University of Technology had also developed a smart software for the analysis of post-earthquake risk and resilience.

 “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.

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