Problem Solver

Amir Shirkhani

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:

  1. environmental ‎impacts
  2. reinforced concrete
  3. endurance time method
  4. seismic rehabilitation
  5. ‎seismic retrofit
  6. cost-benefit ‎analysis
  7. seismic loss ‎assessment
  8. performance-based earthquake engineering
  9. innovative structural systems
  10. seismic ‎hazard levels
  11. structural optimization
  12. energy dissipation systems
  13. structural vibration control
  14. SAP2000
  15. OpenSees
  16. ANNs

Amir Shirkhani's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. I developed a new method for the optimal design of different dampers at multiple seismic hazard levels.