Visiting activity

One month spent (July 2017) in Orléans, France, at the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), Risks and Prevention Division, for a collaboration with Dr Pierre Gehl: 

• Bayesian Networks applied to the probabilistic performance assessment of civil infrastructure systems: computational and methodological challenges.

Three months spent (January-April 2016) in Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Gardoni:

• Risk assessment of infrastructures: model calibration via Bayesian approach, based on observations of damage due to a generic hazard.

Three months spent (September-December 2014) in Christchurch, New Zealand, at the University of Canterbury, Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, under the supervision of Dr Sonia Giovinazzi:

• Seismic reliability and resilience of lifelines (storm water, wastewater, electric power network).

• Increased Flooding Hazard (IFH) caused by the earthquake-induced damage to the pipeline storm water network.

• Extension of a probabilistic tool for civil infrastructures, namely Object-Oriented Framework for Infrastructure Modelling and Simulation (OOFIMS), recently developed in Rome by myself and other contributors, to the probabilistic assessment of the earthquake-altered flooding risk on the built environment.

Eight months spent (in the years 2008-2009) in New York, at Columbia University, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, under the supervision of Prof. Raimondo Betti:

• System identification and vibration-based damage detection of civil infrastructures.

• Experimental testing campaign on a steel frame, with the aim of structural identification and damage detection.

• Dynamic identification and damage detection of the CEED (Civil and Environmental Engineering Department) building at NCHU in Taichung, Taiwan, based on the Chi–Chi Earthquake strong motion data.