Boback Bob Torkian

-Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL- Graduate Research Assistant, January 2008-Present

• Hurricane Modeling and Damage Estimation on Residential Buildings, part of Engineering team of Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model; working under supervision of Dr. Pinelli on Single Family Residential Model to estimate the damage.

- Classification of Current Building Stock according to their Structural Characteristics
- Defining the Model Characteristics for Hurricane
- Making the Model
- Generating Vulnerabilities Matrices
- Apply new possible mitigation techniques to increase the strength
- Combine Insurance portfolios and Vulnerability Matrices
- Calculate the Benefit and Cost over period of times
- Making recommendations for damage and cost reduction         

 

 

-Computer Skills

• MATLAB, Promodel, Ansys and Nastran, AutoCAD, SAP, Excel, Access, SQL.