Seminar Speaker
Dr. Reza Moradi
Seminar Date
Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020 - 1:00 pm
Sponsored By
Professor Chia-Ming Uang
Seminar Location - Room
Center Hall, Room 216
Speaker Bio
Dr. Reza Moradi has 16 years of industrial and academic experience in structural engineering. He received his BS and MS degree in Civil Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and Sharif University respectively. He moved to the US in 2007 and continued his education to receive his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before moving to San Diego, he was working as a faculty member at Old Dominion University and University of Guam for six years. In 2017, Dr. Moradi joined KPFF where he has been working on various new construction and seismic evaluation and retrofitting of existing building projects. Some of his recent projects include Manchester Pacific Gateway, Tesla Giga Factory Onsite Warehouse, San Diego Zoo Bridge, Seismic Evaluation of Some of the UCSD Buildings, Seismic Retrofit of Sharp Coronado Hospital, Seismic Evaluation of UCLA School of Law.
ASCE41-17 is a current US standard for seismic evaluation and retrofitting of existing buildings. Performance based method is used in ASCE 41 which is different in a number of ways from prescriptive method used in ASCE 7. In this presentation, the main differences between performance bases and prescriptive methods are discussed. Also, an overview of ASCE 41-17 including the specification in its three tiers and methodologies in its linear and nonlinear analysis approach is presented.