NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA

NUACA Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs Manuk Barseghyan, Advisor of the International Department Armen Minassian and Associate Professor of the Chair of Production Construction Materials, Items and Structures Avetik Arzumanyan paid a visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to implement memorandums signed between National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia and Sharif University of Technology, University of Tabriz, Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council and International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

During their visit to the Nanotechnology Initiative Council, they participated in the 13th International Nanotechnology Festival of Iran, where manufacturers, university students and schoolchildren demonstrated their nanotechnology experiments and products. An agreement was reached with the Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council to create a Nanotechnology Civil Engineering Laboratory at the University, which will be replenished with equipment produced by the Iranian “Tavana” company, which produces nanotechnology equipment.

Then a tour was conducted around Sharif University of Technology, which plans to organise a training course for specialists, postgraduate students and senior students in the field of “Nanotechnology Civil Engineering” upon our proposal. Upon completion of the course, participants will be awarded with a graduation certificate by Sharif University of Technology. They also visited the University of Tabriz, where they discussed ways of bilateral cooperation to carry out scientific-research activities in the fields of water supply and geodesy.

A meeting was held in Tehran with the management staff of the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology of Iran. They got acquainted with the seismic laboratory, where tests are carried out on a real building.

The importance of the visit was conditioned by the fact that the University came up with a set of clear proposals, which included the proposals by “Territorial Seismic Protection Service” SNCO and the Institute of Geophysics and Engineering Seismology after A. Nazarov.