Areas Amir Shirkhani is Knowledgeable in:
Amir's current research interests are Seismic Loss Assessment of Structures, Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Rehabilitation & Retrofitting of Structures, Structural Vibration Control, Endurance Time Method, Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks, and Optimization.
Amir Shirkhani's Problem Solving Skills:
- environmental impacts
- reinforced concrete
- endurance time method
- seismic rehabilitation
- seismic retrofit
- cost-benefit analysis
- seismic loss assessment
- performance-based earthquake engineering
- innovative structural systems
- seismic hazard levels
- structural optimization
- energy dissipation systems
- structural vibration control
- SAP2000
- OpenSees
- ANNs
Amir Shirkhani's Problem Solving Experience:
- I developed a new method for the optimal design of different dampers at multiple seismic hazard levels.