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Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany

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Mohsen GHAFORY-ASHTIANY

Present Occupation: Distinguished Professor
                                       Founder of IIEES: 3 Dec. 1989
                                       Past President: 3 Dec. 1989 - 3 Dec. 2006
E-mail: ashtiany@iiees.ac.ir
Tel: +98 21 2229 4050
Fax: +98 21 2229 9479

 Joined IIEES on 3 Dec. 1989

 

Education Research/Teaching & Memberships Professional Experience Selected Publications


Education

  • Ph.D.: Earthquake Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (VPI & SU), USA, 1983

  • M.Sc.: Structural Dynamic, VPI&SU, USA, 1981

  • B.Sc.: Civil Engineering, VPI&SU, USA, 1979

  • B.Sc.: Nuclear Engineering, VPI&SU, USA, 1979

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Research/Teaching & Memberships

Research Interests

  • Earthquake Risk management

  • Seismic hazard assessment

  • Random Vibration

  • Seismic Isolation

  • Equipment–structure interaction

Active Projects

  • A study on the behaviour of structural isolators with fiber reinforcement.

  • Seismic vulnerability evaluation of elevated water tanks and proposing some solutions for increasing their seismic safety

  • Analytical and experimental study on floor isolation in seismic design of buildings.

  • Developing intelligent software for damage detection of steel structures.

  • Vulnerability evaluation of industrial equipment by considering their interaction effects.

Recent Accomplished Projects

  • Experimental study on common steel structures in Iran

  • Multi-support Excitation study of large span bridges.

  • Risk Analysis of the mega-city of Tehran

  • Evaluation of damages occurred by an earthquake using the recorded accelerograms of the buildings.

  • Vulnerability Reduction Project of Tehran.

Teaching

  • Random Vibration in Ph.D. Level at IIEES

  • Earthquake Engineering in Master Level at IIEES

  • Earthquake Risk Analysis in Master and Ph.D. Level at IIEES

Membership

  • Scientific member of Disaster Prevention and Management Headquarter. (Highest decision making and implementation body on Natural Disaster in Iran)

  • Committee on Strengthening of existing public building and infrastructure

  • Director, Executive Committee of International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE)

  • Member of the Founders, Inspector of Iranian Earthquake Engineering Association (4th and 5th Terms).

  • Iran’s Risk Reduction Council.

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Professional Experience

Engineering

  • Faculty Member of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran , Booshehr Nuclear Plant – Research Center, Apr. 1985 – Dec. 1989, Iran

  • Professional designer of nuclear plants, Bektel Company, Jan. 1984 – Feb. 1985, U.S.A.

Administration

  • Founder of President of IIEES: 3 Dec. 1989-2006

  • Chairman of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th International Conf. on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 90-2003

  • Coordinator of National Data Centers of the CTBT members, WGB-CTBTO, 2002-Present

  • "UNESCO-UNDP-UN/ISDR-IIEES Alliance for Earth Risk Reduction in Developing Countries" manager

  • Editor-in-chief of Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, JSEE

  • Editor-in-chief of IIEES Research Bulletin.

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Selected Publications

  • “Identification of Modal Parameters of Classically Damped Linear Structures under Multi-Component Earthquake Loading”, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, M. Mahmood-Abadi, JSEE, Vol. 6, No.4, Fall 2004.

  • “New Approaches for Non-classically Damped System Eigenanalysis” M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, K. Khanlari, Accepted for publication in EESD.

  • “ Seismological Constraints on the Crustal structure beneath the Zagros Mountain Belt (Iran)”, D. Hatzfeld, M. Tatar, K. Priestly and M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 155, page 403-410, October 2003.

  • “The Crustal Velocity Structure Beneath the Zagros Mountain Belt (Iran)”, D. Hatzfeld, M. Tatar, K. Priestly, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany. JSEE. Vol. 3, No. 3, Dec. 2002.

  • “Tectonics of the Central Zagros (IRAN) Deduced From Microearthquake Seismicity”, M. Tatar, D. Hatzfeld, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany”. Submitted to Geophysic International Journal. Dec. 2002.

  • “Contemporary Crustal deformation and plate Kinematics in Middle East Constrained by GPS Measurements in Iran and Northern Oman”, Ph. Vernant, F. Nilforoushan, D. Hatzfeld, M. Abbassi, C. Vigny, F. Masson, H. Nankali, J. Martinod, M. Gh. Ashtiany, R. Bayer, F. Tavakoli, J. Chéry., Geophysica Journal International, 2002

  • “Floor Response Spectra for Multicomponent Earthquake Input”, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, A. Fiouz, Journal of Esteghlal, Vol. 21, No. 1, September 2002.

  • “The Effect of Random Mass, Stiffness and Eccentricity Parameters on Seismic Response of Torsional System, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 25, No.1, Winter 2001.

  • “ Damage Assessment Using Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm”, K. Saberi-Haghighi, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany and C. Lucas; Journal of Seismology and earthquake Engineering (JSEE); Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2000.

  • “Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Achievement in Iran”, M. Ghafory-Ashtiany, M.K. Jafari, and M. Tehranizadeh, Proceeding of the 12th world Conference on Earthquake Engineering (12WCEE); Paper No. 2380, Auckland, New Zealand, January 2000

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