Gian Michele Calvi is a professor at the IUSS of Pavia and Adjunct Professor at the North Carolina State University. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD from the Milan Polytechnic and an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Cujo, Mendoza, Argentina.
He was the founder of the Eucentre Foundation and the ROSE School, and is currently one of the Directors of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering. He is the author of hundreds of publications, including two internationally renowned volumes: Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges (with MJN Priestley and F. Seible, 1996) and Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures (with MJN Priestley and MJ Kowalsky, 2007).
He has been a consultant or test planner for hundreds of structural projects, including the cable-stayed bridge Rion-Antirion (2883 m, in Greece), the Bolu viaduct (119 bays, in Turkey) and the housing system built in L’Aquila after the earthquake of 2009.
He has always worked to innovate seismic design, focusing initially on masonry structures and bridges, isolation and design based on displacement in the last twenty years.
O'Reilly, Gerard; Calvi, Gian Michele (2020). Quantifying seismic risk in structures via simplified demand–intensity models. BULLETIN OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING. doi: 10.1007/s10518-019-00776-0
Calvi, Gian Michele; Moratti, Matteo; O'Reilly, Gerard J.; Scattarreggia, Nicola; Monteiro, Ricardo; Malomo, Daniele; Martino Calvi, Paolo; SILVA MOURA PINHO, RUI JORGE; O'Reilly, Gerard (2019). Once upon a Time in Italy: The Tale of the Morandi Bridge. STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, 29, 198-217. doi: 10.1080/10168664.2018.1558033
Moratti, Matteo; Gaia, Federica; Martini, Sara; Tsioli, Chrysanthi; Grecchi, Giulia; Casotto, Chiara; Calvi, Gian Michele; Hertog, Dick Den; Calvi, Paolo Martino; Proestos, Giorgio Talotti (2019). A methodology for the seismic multilevel assessment of unreinforced masonry church inventories in the Groningen area. BULLETIN OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 17, 4625-4650. doi: 10.1007/s10518-019-00575-7
CALVI, G. M. (2019). On the correction of spectra by a displacement reduction factor in displacement-based seismic design and assessment. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 48, 678-685. doi: 10.1002/eqe.3159
Calvi, Gian Michele; Andreotti, Guido (2019). Effects of Local Soil, Magnitude and Distance on Empirical Response Spectra for Design. JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 1-28. doi: 10.1080/13632469.2019.1703847
O'Reilly, Gerard; Abarca, Andres; Monteiro, Ricardo; Borzi, Barbara; Calvi, Gian Michele (2019). Towards Regional Safety Assessment of Bridge Infrastructure. doi: 10.22725/ICASP13.377
O'Reilly, Gerard; Calvi, Gian Michele (2019). Conceptual seismic design in performance-based earthquake engineering. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 48, 389-411. doi: 10.1002/eqe.3141
PM Calvi; Calvi G (2018). Historical development of friction-based seismic isolation systems. SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 106, 14-30
Filiatrault, Andre; Perrone, Daniele; Merino, Roberto Javier; Calvi, Gian Michele (2018). Performance-Based Seismic Design of Nonstructural Building Elements. JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, 1-33. doi: 10.1080/13632469.2018.1512910
Macchi, G.; Calvi, G; Sullivan, T. J. (2018). Structural Strengthening and Retrofit; Motivations, Concepts and Approaches, 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5858-5_1