IAU’s Urumiyeh Branch Launches Research Center for Seismic Monitoring, Resilience of Key Infrastructures

“With the mission of applied research, skill training, and providing scientific solutions to reduce the vulnerability of critical infrastructures to earthquakes, this center will take an important step in linking science with industry and society,” Mohammad Reza Valilou told ANA.

“By producing vulnerability maps, combining artificial intelligence and crisis management in seismic monitoring and control of infrastructures, this center will provide the requirements of the technical and engineering system for the civil engineering community and will act as a driving force for change in Western Iran,” he added.

“Implementation of technological and applied research, completing the science, research, and technology circle with effective skills training, producing seismic pathology maps, training the civil engineering community for crisis management and infrastructure resilience, developing and applying seismic knowledge, holding skill training courses, guiding theses and dissertations for postgraduate studies with an approach to meeting the needs of society and industry, cooperating with domestic executive and research institutions and scientific centers in neighboring countries, and setting up a specialized seismic laboratory and publishing specialized scientific journals are among the most important missions and plans of the center,” Valilou said.

In a relevant development in January, an Iranian expert designed advanced engineering services in the field of seismic assessment to prepare a platform for engineering services in civil projects.

“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.

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