Structural Retrofitting and Reconstruction Research Group

The key activities of this research group, consist of qualitative and quantitative vulnerability assessment, proposing reinforcement and rehabilitation plans for structures and lifelines, engineering and laboratory services, damage assessment of buildings and infrastructures and their reconstruction methods following disasters.

Consulting and providing engineering services in all aspects of structural retrofitting and reconstruction, proposing pragmatic recommendations and solutions, assisting in their implementation for disaster risk mitigation, and conducting theoretical and laboratory studies in these areas, are the main objectives of this Group.

The main activities include:

• Investigating the vulnerability of structures to possible future earthquakes;
• Assessing the vulnerability of distinctive structures and providing safety methods and reducing their risk;
• Assessing the vulnerability of lifelines and providing methods for their improvement and risk reduction;
• Providing methods and implementation guidelines for retrofitting and improving the conventional structures;
• Assessing damaged structures following the occurrence of natural hazards and providing solutions for their repair, strengthening and improvement;
• Studying the reconstruction of affected areas after natural hazards;
• Proposing managerial solutions and reducing the seismic risk of structures;
• Performing systematic and laboratory studies to identify the seismic behaviour of structures;
• Detecting the dynamic characteristics of structures by vibration environmental testing method; and
• Identifying and determining the strength of materials by performing non-destructive and destructive tests.

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Head of the research group: 

Mohammadreza Soqrat

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Scientific Members:

Yousef Nikzad	Mohammadreza Soqrat

 

طرح‌های پژوهشی گروه:

Year	Research title	No
2019	Qualitative assessment of the seismic vulnerability of 41 bridges in Tehran Metro Line 5	1
2019	Develop a model for damage assessment of buildings after the flood	2
2019	Modular temporary settlement expandable to permanent accommodation	3
2019	Directing the seismic geotechnical construction study plan of Aq-Qala and Gomishan and a number of villages in Golestan	4
2019	The comprehensive study of damage and loss estimation models caused by seismic vulnerability of buildings with masonry material	5
2019	Feasibility study of using textured concrete in the construction of temporary and permanent housing structures	6
	Develop a model for rapid assessment of conventional rural buildings after the earthquake	7
2018	Evaluation of methods for identification of problematic soils with the approach of providing solutions for stabilization and improvement of different soil types	8