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Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari

Associate Professor

Update: 2026-05-22

Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari

Civil Engineering / Earthquake Engineering

Journal Paper

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    Atefe Darzi, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
  2. "Optimized seismic risk mitigation in pipeline routing using a metaheuristic GIS based approach"
    Sayyed Hadi Alavi, Mohammadreza Mashekhi, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, pp.1-21, 2025
  3. "Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea"
    S.Mahya Hoseini, Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, Vol. 40, pp.1-26, 2024
  4. "Incorporating seismic risk assessment into the determination of the optimal route for gas pipelines"
    Sayyed Hadi Alavi, Mohammadreza Mashekhi, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, pp.1-22, 2024
  5. "Optimizing Interpolation Methods and Point Distances for Accurate Earthquake Hazard Mapping"
    Sayyed Hadi Alavi, Alireza Bahrami, Mohammadreza Mashekhi, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Buildings, Vol. 14, 2024
  6. "Projected changes in Caspian sea level under CMIP6 climate change scenarios: probabilistic and deterministic approaches"
    S.Mahya Hoseini, Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Vol. 63, 2024
  7. "Probabilistic estimates of future changes in evaporation from the Caspian Sea based on multimodel ensembles of CMIP6 projections"
    S.Mahya Hoseini, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Mohsen Soltanpour
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, Vol. 43, pp.5830-5844, 2023
  8. "Projected changes in precipitation and air temperature over the Volga River Basin from bias-corrected CMIP6 outputs"
    S.Mahya Hoseini, Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, Vol. 2, pp.36-47, 2023
  9. "A prediction model for vertical-to-horizontal ratios of PGA, PGV, and 5%-damped response spectra (0.01-10 s) for Iran"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Atefe Darzi
    JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY, Vol. 25, 2019
  10. "An Automatic Procedure to Determine the Fundamental Site Resonance: Application to the Iranian Strong Motion Network"
    Atefe Darzi, Marco Pilz, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Donat F?h
    PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 56, 2019
  11. "An Empirical Ground-Motion Model for Horizontal PGV, PGA, and 5% Damped Elastic Response Spectra (0.01-10 s) in Iran"
    Atefe Darzi, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Carlo Cauzzi, Donat F?h
    BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Vol. 109, pp.1041-1057, 2019
  12. "Ground-motion models for predicting vertical components of PGA, PGV and 5%-damped spectral acceleration (0.01-10 s) in Iran"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Atefe Darzi
    Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 17, pp.3615-3635, 2019
  13. "Seismic fragility analysis of jacket type offshore platforms considering soil-pile-structure interaction"
    A. Ajamy, Behrooz Asgarian, C.E. Ventura, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, Vol. 174, pp.198-211, 2018
  14. "A GIS-based time-dependent seismic source modeling of Northern Iran"
    Mahdi Hashemi, Alesheikh ALi Asghar, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, Vol. 16, pp.33-45, 2017
  15. "Prediction of peak ground acceleration of Iran s tectonic regions using a hybrid soft computing technique"
    Mostafa Gandomi, Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Amir Hossein Gandomi
    Geoscience Frontiers, Vol. 7, pp.75-82, 2016
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    Elnaz Peyghaleh, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    pp.17-38, 2015
  17. "A simplified method in comparison with comprehensive interaction incremental dynamic analysis to assess seismic performance of jacket-type offshore platforms"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Azadeh Ajamy, Behrooz Asgarian
    International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering, Vol. 4, 2015
  18. "A Comprehensive collapse fragility assessment of moment resisting steel frames considering various sources of uncertainties"
    Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, , Mohammad Noori, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, Vol. 43, 2015
  19. "Development of optimization-based probabilistic earthquake scenarios for the city of Tehran"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh
    COMPUTERS and GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 86, pp.129-145, 2015
  20. "Uncertainty analysis using fuzzy randomness method towards development of fragility curves for moment-resisting steel structures"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Ehsan Khojastehfar
    Scientia Iranica, Vol. 22, pp.131-143, 2015
  21. "Implementation of Equity in Resource Allocation for Regional Earthquake Risk Mitigation Using Two-Stage Stochastic Programming"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh
    RISK ANALYSIS, Vol. 35, pp.434-458, 2015
  22. "Development of a synthetically generated earthquake catalogue towards assessment of probabilistic seismic hazard for Tehran"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    NATURAL HAZARDS, Vol. 76, pp.497-514, 2015
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    Ehsan Khojastehfar, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Korosh Nasrollahzadeh Nashli, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Vol. 4, pp.25-34, 2014
  24. "Probabilistic seismic analysis of offshore platforms incorporating uncertainty in soil pile structure interactions"
    Azadeh Ajamy, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Behrooz Asgarian, C. E Ventura
    JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTIONAL STEEL RESEARCH, Vol. 101, pp.265-279, 2014
  25. "Considering effects of modeling uncertainties on collapse fragility curve by artificial neural networks"
    Ehsan Khojastehfar, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Korosh Nasrollahzadeh Nashli, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    2014
  26. "Collapse fragility curve development using Monte Carlo simulation and artificial neural network"
    Ehsan Khojastehfar, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Korosh Nasrollahzadeh Nashli
    Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability, pp.1-12, 2014
  27. "اختصاص منابع اقتصادي جهت كاهش ريسك لرزه اي منطقه اي با استفاده از مدل بهينه ساز ي تصادفي و يقيني مطالعه ي موردي شهر تهران"
    Elnaz Peyghaleh, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    pp.77-94, 2014
  28. "Hydraulic performance of post-earthquake water distribution networks based on head driven simulation method"
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    WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 13, pp.1281-1288, 2013
  29. "DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF REAL TIME SEISMIC DAMAGE AND CASUALTY ESTIMATION TOOLS TOWARDS URBAN DISASTER MANAGEMENT"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Vol. 1, pp.209-220, 2013
  30. "A spatio-temporal model for probabilistic seismic hazard zonation of Tehran"
    Mahdi Hashemi, Alesheikh ALi Asghar, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    COMPUTERS and GEOSCIENCES, Vol. 58, pp.8-18, 2013
  31. "An Optimization Model for Financial Resource Allocation Towards Seismic Risk Reduction"
    Elnaz Peyghaleh, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, p vaziri
    Journal of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics, Vol. 2, 2012
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Vol. 4, pp.61-73, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh
    Vol. 42, 2010
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    pp.5-14, 2009
  35. "Use of Raster-Based Date Layers to Model Spatial Variation of Seismotectonic Data in Probabilistic"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    COMPUTERS and GEOSCIENCES, pp.1460-1469, 2009
  36. "Application of catastrophe loss modeling to promote property catastrophe insurance in developing co"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    2009
  37. "Geodetic deformation vs seismic strain deduced by historical earthquakes across the Alborz Mountain"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY, pp.647-663, 2009
  38. "Fire Following Earthquake Intra-Structure Ignition Modelling"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    JOURNAL OF FIRE SCIENCES, pp.45-79, 2009
  39. "Real-Time Generation of Arias Intensity and Seismic Landslides Hazards Maps Using GIS"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    pp.81-89, 2008
  40. "Developing Seismic Fragility Function of Strutures by Stochastic Approach"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Asian Journal of Civil Engineering (Building and Housing, pp.183-200, 2008
  41. "Developing Seismic Fragility Function of Strutures by Stochastic Approach"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED SCIENCES, pp.975-983, 2008

Conference Paper

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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Shima Mahboubi
    Estimation of financial loss for buildings before and after seismic retrofitting,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    The Attenuation of Aria Intensity n Alborz and Central Iran,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    تاثير عدم قطعيتها در شبيه سازي جنبشهاي شديد زمين با استفاده از روش توابع تجربي گرين,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Probabilistic Holistic Seismic risk Assessment Methodology for Industrial Facilities,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    تهيه بانك اطلاعاتي گسلهاي فعال ايران و اصلاح موقعيت جغرافيايي گسها با استفاده از داده هاي DEM,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    پيشنهاد مدل آتش سوزي پس از زلزله براي شهر تهران,
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Recent Earthquakes in Iran,
  8. "38th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE)"
    S.Mahya Hoseini, Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Ioan Nistor
    PROJECTING FUTURE CASPIAN SEA LEVEL CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, 2024
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    نقش بيمه در ايمني شهري در برابر آتش سوزي و سوانح طبيعي, 2018
  10. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Atefe Darzi
    DEVELOPMENT OF GIS-BASED DATABASE OF ACTIVE FAULTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AREA, 2015
  11. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    ehsan khojastehfar, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    تاثير پارامتر كيفيت ساخت بر عملكرد فروريزش در سازه هاي فولادي خمشي, 2015
  12. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    Elnaz Peyghaleh, Emad Masrour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    توليد كاتالوگ زلزله كاهش يافته براي تخمين ريسك در شريان هاي حياتي, 2015
  13. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    تاثير پارامتر كيفيت ساخت بر عملكرد فروريزش در سازه هاي فولادي خمشي, 2015
  14. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, SEYEDMOHSEN GHAYAHGHESHLAGHI
    ESTIMATING SHAKEING INDUCED CASUALY BASED ON BUILDING DAMAGE PATTERN CASE STUDY A DISTRICT OF TEHRAN, 2015
  15. "7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE7)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Sina Naeimi
    Application of optimization approach in catastrophe loss modelling towards earthquake insurance portfolio management, 2015
  16. "11th International Conferences on Coasts Ports and Marine Structures (ICOPMAS2014)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Mohsen Soltanpour, Saman Lali, mostafa gandomi
    Tsunami run-up modeling using equivalent roughness model, 2014
  17. "11th International Conferences on Coasts Ports and Marine Structures (ICOPMAS2014)"
    Mohsen Soltanpour, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, mostafa gandomi, Saman Lali
    Probabilistic tsunami hazard assesment at Beris and Pasabandar Ports with logic-tree approach, 2014
  18. "2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Atefe Darzi
    DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A GIS-BASED SEISMOTECTONIC SOURCE MODEL FOR IRAN, 2014
  19. "The 4th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2013)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Tehran Earthquake Damage Estimation System A Real-Time Seismic Damage and Casualty Estimation Tool, 2013
  20. "Comprehensive International Conference of Earthquake"
    Ehsan Khojastehfar, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Avval, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    تحليل عدم قطعيت در تعيين منحني شكنندگي فروريزش سازه هاي فولادي با استفاده از روش فازي-تصادفي, 2013
  21. "Urban Earthquake Engineering U.S.-Iran Seismic Workshop"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Design and Development of Real Time Seismic Damage and Casualty Estimation Tools towards Urban Disaster management, 2012
  22. "15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari,
    Development of Seismic Fragility Curves For Hospital equipment, 2012
  23. "15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Probabilistic Seismic Damage Assessment for UrbanTransportation Network, 2012
  24. "15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Shima Mahboubi, Elnaz Peyghaleh
    Estimation of Financial Added Value for Retrofitted Buildings, 2012
  25. "World Congress on Risk"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK TRANSFER MECHANISM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES USING CATASTROPHE RISK models, 2012
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari,
    توسعه منحني هاي تردي براي سازه هاي بتني قالب تونلي با استفاده از تحليل IDA, 2012
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari,
    تعيين ضريب رفتار سازه هاي بتني قالب تونلي, 2012
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh,
    FINANCIAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND OPTIMIZATION TOWARDS REGIONAL SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION, 2011
  29. "6th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE6)"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    TEHRAN EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ESTIMATION SYSTEM A REAL TIME SEISMIC DAMAGE AND CASUALTY ESTIMATION tool, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari,
    مدلسازي توابع آسيب پذيري لرزه اي تجهيزات متعارف بيمارستاني, 2011
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    Elnaz Peyghaleh, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مديريت ريسك لرزه اي در ايران و چالشهاي اختصاص منابع اقتصادي بهينه, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    جايگاه بيمه در مديريت ريسك ناشي از خطرات طبيعي و بشري تهديد كننده خطوط لوله, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    DEVELOPMENT OF SEISMIC FRAGILITY CURVES FOR HOSPITAL CONTENTS, 2011
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مديريت ريسك خطوط لوله از طريق مكانيزم كاهش آسيب پذيري و انتقال ريسك, 2010
  36. "14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh,
    Modeling the Effect of Earthquake Induced Damage to Urban Water Network on Intra-Structure Ignition Following Earthquake, 2010
  37. "14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    G chavez-lopez, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Natural Catastrophe Loss modeling The value of knowing how little you know, 2010
  38. "14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Definition of new Seismogenic Sources to Model Probabilistic Seismic Hazard for the city of Tehran, 2010
  39. "14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering"
    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari, Elnaz Peyghaleh
    Probabilistic Earthquake Scenarios for the City of Tehran, 2010
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Effect of Fire Following Earthquake on Steel Moment Resisting Fire-Proved Structures, 2010
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Design and Development of a Real Time Seismic Damage and Casualty Estimation Sysem The City of Tehran, 2010
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    جايگاه بانك اطلاعاتي ملي دارايي هاي صنعت نفت و گاز در مديريت هوشمندانه ريسك و نيازهاي بيمه اي اين ص, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مدل هاي رايانه اي تحليل ريسك سوانح طبيعي و نقش آنها درتعيين نرخ بيمه اي و طراحي مكانيزم انتقال ريسك, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مديريت ريسك سوانح طبيعي در تاسيسات نفت وگاز خليج مگزيك (امريكا), 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    پهنه بندي ريسك لرزه اي شبكه هاي آبرساني شهري، مطالعه موردي بخشي ار تهران, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مدل سازي احتمالي اشتعالهاي پس از زلزله ناشي از تخريبهاي شبكه توزيع گاز و برق شهري, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    A New Insurance Loss Model to Promote Catastrophe Insurance Market in India and Pakistan, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Fire Following Earthquake Modeling Probabilistic Ignition Model for Building Stock, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Catastrophe Risk Modelling and Insurance Penetration in Developing Countries, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Probabilistic Seismic Damage Assessment of Water Supply Network Following Earthquake, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    GPS-Measured Slip Rates vs Seismic Moment Released by Past Seismicity Along Alborz Mountain Range i, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مدل تخمين احتمالي پهنه بندي زمان بي آبي ناشي از خسارات زلزله در شبكه هاي آبرساني شهري, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مدل سازي خطرات ثاونيه زلزله و كاربرد آن در مديريتب بحران و امداد رساني, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    بررسي ضرورت انجام مقاوم سازي تجهيزات و تاسيسات بيمارستانها در برابر زلزله, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    سامانه تخمين خسارات و تلفات پس از زلزله و قابليتهاي آن در مديريت بحران و امداد رساني, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Urban Utility Ignition Model A Probabilistic Approach for Modeling Fire Following Earthquake, 2009
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    مدلسازي اشتعالهاي پس از آتش سوزي براي مناطق مسكوني, 2008
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    شبيه سازي جنبشهاي شديد زمين با استفاده از روش احتمالي توابع تجربي گرين توسعه ابزار منايب در محيط GI, 2007
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    Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
    Probabilistic Holistic Seismic Risk Assessment Methodology for Industrial Facilities, 2007