Mahdi Ghalibafian
Iranian engineer (1935–2007)
Mehdi Ghalibafian (Persian: مهدی قالیبافیان, 1935 — 12 June 2007) was an Iranian civil engineer and university professor. He is credited as introducing reinforced concrete in Iran.
Career
After ending elementary education, he finished his first two years of junior high school in Ferdosi High School in his birthplace Tabriz. He then moved to Tehran and completed his recent school-time in Sharaf High School. Afterwards, Ghalibafian graduated in the field of structure in civil engineering department of University of Tehran in 1959. He worked as the director of the first part of Avaj- Pahlavi road in technic corporation from November 1959 till September 1960. Succeeding that, he proceeded to design and analyze some buildings in a computational team from SANO Structural Engineers. Some of these buildings which were engineered in one and a half years consist of Philips Structure located in Enghelab Street near the Ferdowsi Square and several clinics of Social Insurances in Tehran. Philips building is the first concrete structure designed based on seismic methods in Iran.
Mahdi Ghalibafian has been considered as the father of Iranian concrete science.
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