Hamid Saffari

Associate Professor

Update: 2026-09-19

Hamid Saffari

Civil ,Water and Environmental Engineering / Structural & Earthquake Engineering

Journal Paper

  1. "Evaluation of Performance and Ranking of Local, Regional, and Global Attenuation Relations Based on Strong-Motion Datasets Recorded in Seismotectonic Provinces of Iran"
    Amirhosein Rostami, Hamid Saffari
    PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 182, pp.2393-2414, 2025
  2. "Recurrence Time Distributions of Large Earthquakes along Doruneh Fault System (NE Iran): Assessment Using Virtual Quake Simulator"
    Mohammadhosein Tahriri, Hamid Saffari
    JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY, Vol. 29, pp.1379-1394, 2025
  3. "Spatial and temporal variation of seismic b-values across the West Tehran"
    Mehrzad Azizi, Hamid Saffari
    JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY, Vol. 28, pp.477-489, 2024
  4. "Relationships for Evaluating the Seismic Resilience Index of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Built Up with FRP Lying on Different Soil Types under Near-Field Earthquakes"
    Hooman Barjouie Roshan Pour, Hamid Saffari
    Iranian Journal of Science and Technology-Transactions of Civil Engineering, Vol. 48, pp.4215-4231, 2024
  5. "Simulation of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes Using the Finite Element Method with Concentrated Friction"
    Majid Koolivand, Reza Rasti Ardakani, Abbas Mahdavian, Hamid Saffari
    KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 27, pp.3824-3835, 2023
  6. "New Empirical Equations for Determination of Fourier Amplitude Spectrum of Acceleration"
    Ali Akbar Meimandi Parizi, Abbas Mahdavian, Hamid Saffari
    JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, Vol. 27, pp.2775-2795, 2023
  7. "Investigation of adequacy of adjacent building seismic joints in Tehran City corresponding to seismic hazard analysis, site effects and nonlinear dynamic analysis"
    Hamid Saffari, Mohammad Hosein Pouladvand
    journal of rehabilitation in civil engineering, Vol. 10, pp.101-125, 2022
  8. "An Empirical Model for significant Duration of The Ground Motions Containing Velocity Pulses"
    Masoud Daryoushi, Hamid Saffari, Abbas Mahdavian
    IZVESTIYA-PHYSICS OF THE SOLID EARTH, Vol. 57, pp.950-964, 2021
  9. "Investigating the Effect of Earthquake Duration on Concrete Structures by Analyzing the Frequency Content of Acceleration Time History"
    Amirhossein Emami Koupaei, Hamid Saffari, Reza Rasti Ardakani
    journal of rehabilitation in civil engineering, Vol. 9, pp.21-40, 2021
  10. "Investigation of Earthquake Significant Duration on the Seismic Performance of Adjacent Steel Structures in Near-Source"
    Mansoore Rezayimanesh, Somayeh Fattahi, Hamid Saffari
    journal of rehabilitation in civil engineering, Vol. 9, pp.84-101, 2021
  11. "Seismic hazard analysis of Tehran"
    Hamid Saffari
    Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineerin, Vol. -, pp.1-26, 2021
  12. "New Equations for Determination of Shaping Window in Stochastic Method of Simulating Ground Motion"
    Ali Akbar Meimandi Parizi, Abbas Mahdavian, Hamid Saffari
    JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, Vol. 25, pp.1-17, 2020
  13. "Empirical equations for the prediction of the bracketed and uniform duration of earthquake ground motion using the Iran database"
    Mansoore Rezayimanesh, Hamid Saffari
    SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, Vol. 137, 2020
  14. "Ground-Motion Models for the Prediction of Significant Duration Using Strong-Motion Data from Iran"
    Ali Akbar Meimandi Parizi, Masoud Daryoushi, Abbas Mahdavian, Hamid Saffari
    BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Vol. 110, pp.319-330, 2020
  15. "Stochastic Finite Fault Modeling and Simulation of Strong Ground Motion of Mosha Fault in Iran"
    Hamid Saffari, ALI REZA ROOHAFZAYAN, Abbas Mahdavian, Morteza Yari
    Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 20, pp.63-71, 2020
  16. "Spectral Decay Parameter (k) of Western Iran Using Accelerograms Recorded up to 2018"
    Ali Alibazi, Hamid Saffari
    PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Vol. 176, pp.4847-4860, 2019
  17. "Comparative analysis of seismic behavior of RC buildings with Shape Memory Alloy rebar in regular, torsional irregularity and extreme torsional irregularity cases"
    Pedram Omidian, Hamid Saffari
    Journal of Building Engineering, Vol. 20, pp.723-735, 2018
  18. "Site amplification of Iran s major seismic zones using attenuation relationship"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Abbas Mahdavian
    JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, Vol. 22, pp.1918-1935, 2018
  19. "Updated PGA PGV and Spectral Acceleration Attenuation Relations for Iran"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada, Abbas Mahdavian
    EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, Vol. 28, pp.257-276, 2012
  20. "PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS CONSISTING OF PGA PGV AND"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada
    Memoirs of Construction Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 52, pp.101-112, 2010
  21. "SPECTRAL ACCELERATION ATTENUATION FOR IRAN"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada
    Memoirs of Construction Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 51, pp.131-142, 2009
  22. "PROPOSAL OF SITE SPECIFIC DESIGN SPECTRA FOR LIFELINES UNDER CONSIDERATION OF REGIONAL SEISMICITY AT ALL CITIES IN HYOGO PREFECTURE"
    Yasushi Takuma, Shiro Takada, Yasuko Kuwata, Hamid Saffari
    Memoirs of Construction Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 50, pp.165-182, 2008
  23. "Ranking of Attenuation Relations for Seismic Hazard Analysis in the Alborz-Azerbaijan Seismotectonic Province"
    Amirhosein Rostami, Hamid Saffari
    Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, Vol. 12, pp.62-86, 2026
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    Hosiyn Zangeneh, Hamid Saffari
    Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, Vol. 12, pp.134-162, 2026
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    Hooman Barjouie Roshan Pour, Hamid Saffari, Kazerounian Seyed Alireza
    Vol. 11, pp.1-21, 2025
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    Mohammad Hosein Tahriri, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 11, pp.127-145, 2024
  27. "Temporal and spatial changes in the seismicity parameters along Doruneh fault system"
    Mohammadhosein Tahriri, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 33, pp.85-96, 2023
  28. "Relationships Between Significant, Bracketed And Uniform Durations With Earthquake Indices And Site Conditions Using Iranian Seismic Data"
    Mansoore Rezayimanesh, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 2, pp.1-18, 2021
  29. "Investigation of Combined Steel-Concrete Structures with Inter-Story Seismic Isolator in Near-Fault Field"
    Ali Asghar Mortazavi, Pouria Maleki, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 7, pp.148-164, 2020
  30. "Fragility curves for seismic assessment of reinforced concrete buildings with shape memory alloy in regular, torsional irregularity and extreme torsional irregularity"
    Pedram Omidian, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 6, pp.125-146, 2020
  31. "Soil longitudinal variation effects on seismic behavior of buried pipelines"
    Farnaz Fadaei, Nemat Hassani, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 6, pp.23-37, 2020
  32. "The Effect of Earthquake Duration on vulnerability"
    Leila Mojtahedi, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 8, pp.5-16, 2019
  33. "A Physical Rehabilitation Model for Disabled, Elderly and Injured in Emergency Situations (earthquake)"
    Faranak Lashani, Nemat Hassani, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 9, pp.167-178, 2019
  34. "destructive effects on structures and distribution of accelerated seismic durability of Iran"
    Mansoore Rezayimanesh, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 9, pp.253-266, 2019
  35. "Seismic vulnerability of continuous concrete bridges on different types of soil using fragility curves"
    Pedram Omidian, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 6, pp.175-192, 2019
  36. "Seismic vulnerability assessment of regular and irregular concrete structures using fragility curves"
    Pedram Omidian, Hamid Saffari
    Vol. 5, pp.124-144, 2018
  37. "Seismic Microzonation of Tehran based on deterministic seismic hazard analysis and seismic indexes around faults"
    Hamid Saffari, Mohammad Hosein Pouladvand
    Vol. 4, pp.109-128, 2017

Conference Paper

  1. "EVALUATION OF SOURCE, PATH AND SITE EFFECTS IN STOCHASTIC METHOD OF SIMULATING STRONG GROUND MOTION FOR SARPOL-E ZAHAB, IRAN EARTHQUAKE OF 2017"
    Ali Akbar Meimandi Parizi, Abbas Mahdavian, Hamid Saffari, Mohammad Shahvar
    8th international conference on seismology & Earthquake Engineering, 2019
  2. "PREDICTION EQUATION FOR ARRIVAL TIMES OF NEAR-SOURCE STRONG GROUND MOTIONS VELOCITY PULSES USING PULSE-LIKE RECORDS"
    Masoud Daryoushi, Hamid Saffari, Abbas Mahdavian
    8th international conference on seismology & Earthquake Engineering, 2019
  3. "Investigating the seismic vulnerability of bridges and roads with a case study of Urmia city"
    Hamid Saffari
    International conference on civil engineering architecture urban cityscape, 2016
  4. "Methods and Provisions for Seismic Analysis and Performance Assessment of Tall Buildings"
    Mona Mirzakhani, Hamid Saffari, Abbas Mahdavian
    3th International Conference on Building Science Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2016
  5. "The effect of major parameters changes on seismic behavior of buried pipelines"
    Parham Kazemi, Hamid Saffari
    3th International Conference on Building Science Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2016
  6. "UPDATED PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS CONSISTING OF PGA PGV AND SPECTRAL ACCELERATION FOR IRAN"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Abbas Mahdavian, Shiro Takada
    Sixth International Conference of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 2011
  7. "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis Consisting PGA PGV and Acceleration Spectra for Southern Iran"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada
    14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2010, 2010
  8. "SPECTRAL ACCELERATION ATTENUATION FOR SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS IN IRAN"
    Hamid Saffari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada, Abbas Mahdavian
    9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineerin, 2010
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    Amirhosein Rostami, Hamid Saffari
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    FAEZEH SHEIKHI MEHRABADI, Hamid Saffari
    Ninth International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE 9), 2024
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    Amir Shamgani, Hamid Saffari
    Ninth International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE 9), 2024
  12. "INVESTIGATING PULSE-LIKE EARTHQUAKES IN IRAN USING WAVELET TRANSFORM METHOD"
    Hosiyn Zangeneh, Hamid Saffari
    Ninth International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE 9), 2024
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    Hamid Saffari
    National Congress of Urban Regeneration; Safety and crisis management, 2023
  14. "New methods of simulating earthquakes to improve the site specific design spectra"
    Mohammadhosein Tahriri, Hamid Saffari
    , pp.1-9, 2022
  15. "Different types of seismic magnitudes and their conversion relations to moment magnitude for Iran plateau"
    NIMA FARAHANI, Hamid Saffari
    , 2022
  16. "Multi effects of duration, material and height on building seismic damages"
    Amirhossein Emami Koupaei, Hamid Saffari
    7th International Congress On Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban Development, pp.1-16, 2021
  17. "Seismic rehabilitation of steel building with continuous beam to column connections using reinforced concrete shear wall a case study"
    Hamid Saffari, Omid Forghani
    Civil engineering Architecture and Urban Development of Contemporary Iran, 2017
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    Hamid Saffari, Mohammad Safi
    4th International congress on Civil Engineering Architecture Urban Development, 2016
  19. "Investigating the seismic vulnerability of power plants, distribution substations and components of the power supply network with a case study of Urmia city"
    Hamid Saffari
    4th International congress on Civil Engineering Architecture Urban Development, 2016
  20. "Investigating the effect of dimensions on the dynamic response of rectangular water reservoirs"
    HamidReza Mohammadi, Mohammad Safi, Hamid Saffari
    , 2016
  21. "The effect of wall flexibility on the dynamic response of rectangular water reservoirs"
    HamidReza Mohammadi, Mohammad Safi, Hamid Saffari
    International Conference On Civil Engineering, 2016
  22. "Seismic Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures Using of ACM Bracing"
    Mozhde Rezania, Nemat Hassani, Hamid Saffari
    3rd national 1st International Conference on Applied Researches in Civil Engineering Architecture and Urban Planning, No 1 , pp.1-13, 2016
  23. "Seismic vulnerability assessment of water supply system with case study of Urmia City"
    Hamid Saffari
    3rd International Congress On Civil Engineering Architecture Urban Development, pp.1-14, 2015
  24. "FINITE FAULT MODELING OF FUTURE LARGE EARTHQUAKE FROM NORTH TEHRAN FAULT IN KARAJ IRAN"
    Meghdad Samaei, Masakatsu Miyajima, Hamid Saffari, Masato Tsurugi
    31st Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2011
  25. "Strong Ground Motion Prediction for Large Earthquake Based on Finite Fault Modeling in Karaj Iran"
    Meghdad Samaei, Masakatsu Miyajima, Hamid Saffari, Masato Tsurugi, Abdolhossein Fallahi
    1ST International Conference on Urban Construction in the Vicinity of Active Faults, 2011
  26. "Seismic vulnerability assessment of power substations and recommendations for seismic rehabilitation and seismic design of new substations"
    Hamid Saffari, Amir Mahmoud Zadeh, Ahmad Reza Mahboubi Ardakani
    4th International Conference on Disaster Management Civil Defense for National Resiliency, 2009