Rtx

Lead Developer

Mojtaba Mahsuli

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Developed Rt from 2007 to 2012 and has been spearheading the development of Rtx since 2013

Contributors

Rassa Ghavami

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2013-2016): Dual-degree BSc student of Civil and Computer Engineering

Contributions: Creating the parallel processing module and optimizing the code for opening of large input files

Hossein Rahimi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2013-2014): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, including the implementation of ground motion prediction models

Fariborz Mirzaie

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2013-2014): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Creating the soil-structure interaction model

Hesam Talebiyan

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2014-2015): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing reliability sensitivity analysis using sampling and masonry damage and retrofit cost models

Farid Khosravikia

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2014-2015): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Extending the soil-structure interaction model with code assessment capability

Mohammad Reza Yazdi-Samadi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2014-2015): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing bridge and transportation network risk models

Mohammad Aghababaei

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2015-2016): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing models for detailed risk analysis of building, including the implementation of an artificial ground motion model and the development of component damage, repair cost, downtime, casualty, and fatality models

Shaghayegh Abtahi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2015-2016): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Extending the soil-structure interaction model with MDOF capability

Mohsen Houshang

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2015-2016): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Creating help documents

Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Mortazavi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2015-2016): BSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Implementing ground motion prediction models and a host of new probability distributions

Hossein Nasrazadani

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2016-2018): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Inception of resilience analysis by developing the discrete event sampling analysis and event models; implementing a library of basic models for community resilience analysis, including damage and functionality models for electric power stations and water stations, time and cost models for injury treatment, search and rescue, damage inspection, and repair mobilization, and number of injuries and casualties

Siavash Yousefi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2016-2018): BSc student of Civil Engineering

Creating a GitLab server for group development, developing SORM, migrating to Qt 5, migrating to QCustomPlot, and optimizing the code

Davood Zarei

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2016): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Enhancing help documents

Ali Shahrouz Sotoodeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2016-2017): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Enhancing help documents

Sina Biazar

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2017-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing electric power network models and implementing building response, damage, and direct and indirect loss models for community resilience analysis; creating the resilience analysis input file generator; major role in developing the virtual test bed, entitled “INSURER City”

Mahdi Naderi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2017-2018): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Implementing the genetic algorithm for optimizing the emergency response in community resilience analysis

Mehdi Taghizadeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing ground failure, transportation network, search-and-rescue, socioeconomic loss, and environmental loss models as well as block-level building models for community resilience analysis

Maral Doctor Arastoo

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing random field models; inception of Bayesian networks for emergency response, including the generation of prior probabilities using Rtx

Mohammad Askari

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Major overhaul of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis models, including the implementation of new fault and area source models and ground motion prediction models, the development of rupture area model; creating the hazard analysis input file generator; revising Bayesian model inference

Kooshan Amini

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing post-traumatic stress disorder and indirect social cost models for community resilience analysis

Razieh Salarifard

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2019): PhD candidate of Computer Engineering

Contributions: Debugging, upgrading the map to Google Maps API 3, enhancing help documents, and developing the initial version of Rtx website

Soheil Mahmoudkalayeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2018-2019): MSc in Civil Engineering

Contributions: Assisting with the website content and logo design

Hesam Alinejad

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019–2025): PhD candidate in Civil Engineering and Senior Software Developer

Contributions: Principal developer of the Rtx; major contributions by optimizing performance to achieve runtime reduction by several orders of magnitude, implementing rich visual effects, debugged and resolved stability and memory-leak issues; implementing Recorder, Tabulator, and post-processing analyzer, managing the central code repository and mentored team members; designing and integrating advanced models for analysis of buildings and power networks

Kamyar Khayambashi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing potable water network models for community resilience analysis

Mohammad Nadery

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing telecommunication network models for community resilience analysis

Yasin Zibaei

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Creating a real-world case study for Rtx by developing the risk and resilience model of the City of Golpayegan

Amin Baratian

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing natural gas network models for community resilience analysis under the supervision of Dr. Hamed Kashani

S. Saeid Hosseini Varzandeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2023): PhD candidate of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Introduced a framework for modeling regular and irregular individual buildings based on seismic design codes of Iran; developed user-defined random variables to receive cumulative density functions

Hossein Sheikhi Darani

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019): BSc in Computer Engineering

Contributions: Debugging and code optimization for speeding up the opening of input files and analyses through CPU profiling

Nastaran Nasiri

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-2021): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing the hydraulic water network analysis model for community resilience analysis under the supervision of Dr. Ammar Safaie

Mohammad Asadi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2019-Present): MSc student of Civil Engineering and research assistant

Contributions: Developing the seismic performance tool, individual building response and damage models, and subblock models for community seismic risk analysis; validating and debugging models

Sadjad Gharehbaghi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2020-2025): PhD candidate of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing probabilistic models for seismic risk analysis of process plants of oil and gas infrastructure

HamidReza Noorbala

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2020-2025): MSc student and PhD candidate of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Revising and developing transportation system and earthquake hazard models; developing Plotter and Input Manager; editing help documents; debugging

Sina Sepehri

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2021-2025): MSc student and PhD student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Analyzing the INSURER City test bed comprising all major infrastructures; developing power station models; editing other models and help documents

Ali Lesani

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2020-2022): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Implementing Special Building models for community risk and resilience analysis; Debugging and integrating various infrastructure models; Developing the “INSURER City” test bed

Borhan Gerami

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2021-2023): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Developing the text reader model to use the samples from an external source of Bayesian Network and feed them into the community resilience analysis

Mohammad Javad Kamali Shakib

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2022-2025): MSc student of Civil Engineering and research assistant

Contributions: Implementing risk models for risk analysis of process plant; editing and debugging various infrastructure models include building, water, and gas for community risk analysis

Shaghayegh Vaseghiamiri

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2022 - 2023): Postdoctoral fellow

Contributions: Implementing the capacity spectrum model for response prediction of building structures; developing metamodels for regional risk and resilience analysis

Mojtaba Jalili

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2022–2024): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Major contributions by developing Rtx Markup Language (RML), a domain-specific language for automated modeling within Rtx, and developing Mappers, a tool for geographic data visualization comprising contours, ployshapes, and bubbles

Mohammad Aghamohammadi

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2023-2025): MSc student of Civil Engineering and research assistant

Contributions: Developing flood hazard and risk models; implementing hydrological analysis of “INSURER City” by processing DEM data to map terrain and drainage patterns, and estimating Manning’s coefficients based on land use to improve flow modeling accuracy

Nikta Tokazabani

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2023-2024): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Probabilistic modeling of the hospital network performance in resilience analysis; developing hospital power and water utility, serviceability, capacity, demand, and network models; editing and debugging various models; editing and creating help documents

Hesam Zanganeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2024-2025): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Editing help documents

Sogol Sadoughi Shabestari

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2024-2025): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Editing help documents for the water and natural gas models; developing the water network model

Amirhossein Ranjbarzadeh

Affiliation over the collaboration period (2024-2025): MSc student of Civil Engineering

Contributions: Refining ground motion prediction models; enhancing fragility and building models; developing Multimapper and improving Mappers