Mehrdad Sasani in the Press
Fortune
An earthquake crumpled Morocco’s mud brick houses, but this isn’t the end of adobe
According to Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, conventional adobe houses also lack the kind of reinforcing components that would give a building structural integrity and prevent, say, the roof from collapsing under lateral loads.
How can residents in Morocco guard against the next deadly earthquake?
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, about construction concerns in Morocco’s earthquake zone.
Morocco earthquake: death toll passes 2,800 as foreign aid teams fly in
Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in the US, said the cheaper mud-brick houses that predominated throughout the villages increased the risk of fatalities during an earthquake.
An earthquake crumpled Morocco’s mud brick houses, but this isn’t the end of adobe
According to Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, conventional adobe houses also lack the kind of reinforcing components that would give a building structural integrity and prevent, say, the roof from collapsing under lateral loads.
CBS Boston
Concern about parking garage safety in Mass. in wake of deadly collapse in New York City
Northeastern University Professor of Structural Engineering Mehrdad Sasani told WBZ there is a possibility something similar could happen right in our backyard.
Middle East Eye
‘Very simple things’: Earthquake engineers on what went wrong in Turkey
Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, said that from what he observed, the most likely cause of newer buildings falling was bad construction and poor enforcement of codes and standards.
‘They Were Bullies’: Inside the Turbulent Origins of the Collapsed Florida Condo
The added weight brought by the penthouse had the potential to exacerbate a failure and contribute to the progressive collapse that killed 98 people this year, said Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University who reviewed the building’s design plans. He also said the decision to add a new floor […]
‘They Were Bullies’: Inside the Turbulent Origins of the Collapsed Florida Condo
The added weight brought by the penthouse had the potential to exacerbate a failure and contribute to the progressive collapse that killed 98 people this year, said Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University who reviewed the building’s design plans. He also said the decision to add a new floor […]
MarketWatch
After the Surfside building collapse, how to find out whether your condo is safe
Different methods of construction will display structural problems in different ways, said Mehrdad Sasani, an engineering professor at Northeastern University whose expertise is in concrete structures. “Steel structures do not have the type of cracks that concrete structures have,” Sasani said.
Engineers evaluate demolition options to prevent ‘mess of immense proportion’ in Surfside
Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, said he suspects officials would choose to demolish the building by implosion given its height and size – a process that involves the strategic placement of charges to direct the way the buildings falls.
