Structural Engineer, PhD
Resume:
Paruyr M. Zadoyan, PhD
E-mail: *********@*******.***
Phone: +8-916-***-**** (Moscow)
Senior Specialist at “PNIIIS” JSC, Moscow.
Summary of Qualifications: Siting and Seismic Design of Conventional and Nuclear Related Structures. Over 20 years of experience in Civil, Structural and Earthquake Engineering, PhD.
Applications in Practice: Seismic Analysis, Performance Based Seismic Design, Stress Analysis, Dynamic and Static Nonlinear (pushover) Analyses, Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis, Design Ground Motion Development, Foundation Engineering, Seismic and Geotechnical Hazard Assessment, Thin Walled Structure Buckling, Fatigue and Ageing Assessment, Structure and Material Testing, Plasticity and Creep Theories Application, Base Isolation of Building Structures.
Standards Application in Practice: US Regulatory Codes (ASCE, NUREG, US DoE, ASME, UBC, ACI, FEMA, ATC40/65), IAEA, Eurocode-8, Russian (НП, СП, РД), Japanese Seismic Codes.
Education:
1998 Aseismic Design Courses, Tokyo, Japan.
1995 Design, Testing and Installation of Laminated Rubber Bearings as Base Isolators, MRPRA, Hertford, U.K.
1984-1989 Degree, Ph.D. Central Research Institute of Structures after Kucherenko, Thesis: “Stability of Viscoelastic Thin-walled Structures”, Moscow.
1973-1978 Construction Engineer, Diploma. Industrial and Civil Construction Department, Polytechnic Institute, Yerevan.
Employment:
2015-present Chief Specialist on Seismic Impact, “PNIIIS” JSC. Siting and Seismic Assessment of Safety Related Installations, Moscow.
2012-present Freelance Expert at Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center of Nuclear Regulatory Authority (Technical Support Center of Rosatomnadzor), Moscow.
2012-2015 Chief Specialist on Seismic Impact, “Energyprojecttechnology” LTD. Siting and Seismic Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants, Moscow.
2001-2012 Senior Specialist, Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center. Analysis and Assessment of Safety Related Structures, Systems and Components, Expertise and Review of Licensee Reports, Yerevan.
1998-2001 State Inspector, Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Regulation on Seismic Safety Areas, Yerevan.
1992-2000 Head of Building Structures Seismic Protection Department of National Survey for Seismic Protection (NSSP), Yerevan, Armenia.
1981-1983 Officer-Senior Engineer on Rocket Division Construction Site, Soviet Army Survey, Siberian Military District, Novosibirsk, Barnaul-Altay.
1978-1992 Testing Engineer, Researcher, Design Drawing, Post Graduated Researches. Civil Construction and Architecture Research Institute, Yerevan.
Professional activities:
2016 “PNIIIS” JSC, Moscow. Space station (Cosmodrom) Siting and Seismic Design Ground Motion Development, Development of Seismic Design Regulation for Existing Building Structures Concept in Russia.
2012-2015 “Energoprojecttechnology” LTD, Moscow. Seismic Impact and Design Ground Motion Development at 10 NPPs sites in the Russia, Belarus NPP (Belarus), Ninh-Thuan 1 NPP (Viet Nam), at Various Nuclear Related Sites. Seismic Impact Margin Assessment for Specific Sites.
2012-2016 Review and Expertize of Seismic Related Issues of Safety Analysis Reports for Various Nuclear Related Structures and Facilities.
2000-2010 Medzamor NPP Seismic Safety Re-evaluation and Upgrading Program Implementation, Seismic and Capacity Analysis of Safety-Related Structures and Systems, Site and Structure Response Analyses, Soil-Structure Interaction Effects, Design and Beyond Design Accident Conditions, Extreme External Impact Assessment (Wind, Snow), Seismic and Geothechnical Hazard Assessment, Seismic Safety Assessment of Radioactive Waste Disposal.
2002-2009 International Benchmark Studies on Earthquake Engineering, 1. Significance of Near Field Earthquake Impact and Performance Based Approaches in Seismic Design. 2. SMART2008 (Confinement Inelastic Seismic Behavior witrsional effects). 3.KARISMA (Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP response Assessment on Chuetsu-Oki Japan Earthquake).
1996-2002 Design Regulation and Seismic Analysis of New EPYGI Labs Office Park Building, New Office Building of US Embassy in Yerevan, Design and Supervision of Air Cargo Terminal Construction, Consultancy Foreign Companies.
1995-2006 Structure Damage Identification, Anamnesis, Diagnosis, Preservation, Rehabilitation of Historical Monuments, Site and Structure Capacity Evaluation, NSSP-ETHZ-Zurich Project. Collaboration with Studio of Armenian Architecture Study of Milano Polytechnic Institute (Arch. G. Caznati, prof. V. Petrini), Ministry of Culture Republic of Armenia.
1992-1995 Design, Testing and Installation of Asesimic Base Isolators for Building Foundation in Earthquake Zone Cities (Spitak and Vanadzor), Supervision and QC.
1988-1996 Post Earthquake Activities, Macroseismic Investigations, Damage Identification, Design and Upgrade Design of Building Structures, QC of Implementations, Seismic Protection of Building Structures.
Numerical Analysis Software: Stardyne (Analysis Package), ACS_SASSI, STAAD-Pro, FEMAP, ADINA, ANSYS, DYNA3D, SAP2000N, ProShake, IDARC, SeismoStruct, SeismoSignal, SeismoSpectra, Lira etc.
Computer skills: MS Office: Package (Word, Excel, PPt, Access etc), etc.
Graphics: Visual Basic, AutoCAD, CorelDraw, Photoshop.
Languages: English, Armenian, Russian.
Awards: Government Award “Earthquake Zone Building Construction and Rehabilitation”, 1996.
Membership:
Scientific Committee of “Seismology and Seismic Design” of Russian Academy of Construction and Architecture.
GeoHazards International (GHI), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute;
IAEA International Seismic Safety Centre’s EBP (ISSC-EBP 2007-2011);
Armenian Association of Seismology and Physics of Earth;
Nuclear Engineering Association of Armenia.
Int. Workshops and Conferences on: Seismic Evaluation of Safety Related Structures: IAEA workshops and scientific visits, USA-Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stanford University, Germany-Siemens, Italy-EnelHydro, SMiRT, ICONE.
Participation in the creation of IAEA documents:
IAEA Safety Report Series, 66, Earthquake Preparedness and Response for Nuclear Power Plant, Вена, Австрия, 2011;
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/TE_1655_web.pdf
TECDOC МАГАТЭ IAEA-TECDOC-1655 “Non-linear Response to a Type of Seismic Input Motion” (Отклик АЭС на особый тип движения грунта), Vienna, 2011.
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1473_web.pdf
Safety Reports Series No. JDS, Methodologies for Seismic Safety Evaluation of Existing Nuclear Installations. Complements to IAEA Safety Standard NS-G-2.13
https://issc.iaea.org/show_Document.php?id=1912
Some Scientific Publications:
Zadoyan P., Seismic Wave Incoherency Impact on Seismic Response (under preparation).
Zadoyan P., Application of FEMA Approaches on Typical Building Sructures. Report Moscow Construction Engineer University, Dec., 2016, Moscow (in Russian)
Zadoyan P., Modern approaches in seismic assessment of existing buildings. Report on Seismic Committee of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction, Dec., 2015, Moscow (in Russian)
Zadoyan P., Kanetsyan G., Performance Level Identification for Typical Building Structures. Bulletin of Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction, 2/2009, Yerevan, May 2009 (in Russian).
Zadoyan P. Seismic Response with Accounting Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction Effect. Transactions of Geophysics and Seismology, On 100-anniversary of academician A.G.Nazarov, IGES, Gyumri 2008 (in Russian). .
Zadoyan P., Non-linear seismic response of R/C building structure. Selected problems of Elasticity and Plasticity. On 75-anniversary of academician M.A. Zadoyan, Transactions of National Academy of Science, Yerevan, 2006.
Zadoyan P., Geotechnical Uncertainties in Response Analyses. Fifth General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission, 18-21 October 2004, Yerevan.
Zadoyan P., On Capacity Spectrum Method in Vulnerability Assessment. Fifth General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission, 18-21 October 2004, Yerevan.
Zadoyan P. and others, Assessment of Spatial Property Variability of the Subsurface in Soil-Structure Interaction Studies of the Armenian NPP. Proceedings of ICONE12, 12th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering April 25-29, 2004, Arlington, Virginia USA.
Zadoyan P., Shear Wall Behaviour under the Near Field Earthquakes. IAEA Coordinated Research Project on Safety Significance of Near Field Earthquakes, 2nd Research Coordinated Meeting. Trieste, March 8-12, 2004.
Zadoyan P., Nersesyan V., Seismic Re-evaluation and Upgrading Program Implementation Status for the Armenian NPP. IAEA International Symposium on Seismic Evaluation of Existing Nuclear Facilities. Vienna, Austria, August 25-29, 2003.
Zadoyan P., Simos N., Seismic Analysis of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant. Transactions of the 17th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 17) Prague, Czech Republic, August 17 –22, 2003.
Shahinian S. and Zadoyan P., Structure Behaviour and Seismic Stability of Hovhannes-Garabed Monastic Complex. 4th International Conference of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, May 12-14, 2003.
Zadoyan P., Simos N., Seismic Safety Assessment of the Armenian NPP-2. Caucasus-US Joint Scientific Workshop.Yerevan, October 7-8, 2002.
Zadoyan P., Seismic Safety Re-evaluation for ANPP Unit-2. Collection of Scientific Work of the conference, Dedicated to the 40th foundation of academician Nazarov A. IGES NAS RA. Giumri, 2002 (in Armenian).
Zadoyan P., Simos N., Seismic Re-evaluation of the Armenian NPP Unit-2 Issues and Engineering Approach. 10th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Arlington, VA, USA, April 14-18, 2002.
Zadoyan P., On Site Conditions and Response Problem. Collection of Scientific Works of the conference, Dedicated to 40th foundation of IGES NAS RA after academician Nazarov A., Gumri, 2002 (in Armenian).
Zadoyan P., On Site Conditions and Response Problem. Collection of Scientific Works of the conference, Dedicated to 40th foundation of academician Nazarov A., IGES NAS RA, Gumri, 2002 (in Armenian).
Zadoyan P., Seismic Re-evaluation Program Implementation for the ANPP Unit-2. IAEA Workgroup materials, Sofia, 2000.
Zadoyan P., Viscoelastic Thin-Walled Structure Analysis Taking into Account a Geometrical Non-linearity. Proceedings of Kucherenko Central Institute of Structures, Moscow, 1987 (in Russian).
Zadoyan P., Stress Analyses of Beams with Non-symmetric Cross-section. Proceedings of Kucherenko Central Institute of Structures, Moscow, 1988 (in Russian)..
Zadoyan P. and etc. Research and Development of Laminated Rubber Bearings for Base Isolation of Buildings. Proceedings of the Int.Conf. "Continental Collision Zone Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard Reduction", 1996, IASPEI/IDNDR, Berkeley, UCB.
Zadoyan P., On a Modeling of Base Isolation Devices. Second International Conference On Seismic Hazard and Seismic Risk Mitigation, National Survey for Seismic Protection, Yerevan, 1998.
Zadoyan P., Design and Analysis of Laminated Rubber Bearings. INTAS Conference, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, 1996.
Zadoyan P. and others. Design, Manufacturing, Testing and First Application of seismic Isolation Bearings in Armenia. Proceedings of the 4th Int. Conference on Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,1997.
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Nick Simos
PhD, PE. Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA, 631-***-****
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Christophe Martin
Manager, PhD. Geoter International (France) 0890 Route Nationale 96
13360 Roquevaire
France, 033 (0-442******
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Marin Kostov
Dr, Executive member of the Board of Directors. Risk Engineering Ltd., 10 Vihren Str, Pavlovo, Sofia 1618, Bulgaria, +359-********
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Asadur Hadjian
Nuclear Defense Authority, DC Columbia
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Alejandro Asfura
APA Consulting
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Aybars Guerpinar
International Expert, Consultant
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Pierre LABBÉ
EDF - DPI/DIN 1, place Pleyel
93282 Saint-Denis, France
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