Research Publications

• [B7]    Bhattacharya S, Demirci HE, Nikitas G, Prakhya GKV, Lombardi D, Alexander NA, Aleem M, Amani S, Mylonakis M, 'Modelling in Geotechnical Engineering, Chapter 11 - Physical modelling of interaction problems in geotechnical engineering', Academic Press, Pages 205-256 , (2021), [pdf]

• [B6]  Jonathan P Stewart, Giuseppe Lanzo, Stefano Aversa, Francesca Bozzoni, Shideh Dashti, Luigi Di Sarno, Maria Giovanna Durante, Armando L Simonelli, Augusto Penna, Sebastiano Foti, Filiberto Chiabrando, Nives Grasso, Vincenzo Di Pietra, Kevin Franke, Brandon Reimschiissel, Fabrizio Galadini, Emauela Falcucci, Stefano Gori, Robert E Kayen, Tadahiro Kishida, Alessandro Pagliaroli, Silvia Giallini, Panagiotis Pelekis, Ioannis Psycharis, Elisavet Vintzilaiou, Michalis Fragiadakis, Giuseppe Scasserra, Filippo Santucci de Magistris, Massimina Castiglia, Tony Fierro, Luciano Mignelli, Anastasios Sextos, Nicholas Alexander, Raffaele De Risi, Stefania Sica, Michele Mucciacciaro, Francesco Silvestri, Anna d’Onofrio, Anna Chiaradonna, Filomena De Silva, Paolo Tommasi, Giuseppe Tropeano, Paolo Zimmaro,  'Engineering Reconnaissance of the 24 August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake. Version 2', Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association Report No. GEER-050, 22 November 2016

• [B5]  Bhattacharya, S., Alexander, NA. Ghosh S, & Lombardi, D. ‘Fundamentals of Engineering Mathematics’, ICE Publishing, 2015 

• [B4]  Chanerley AA, Alexander NA, Chapter ‘Wavelet Domain Seismic Correction’, in Encyclopaedia of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, 2015. 

• [B3]  Alexander, NA, Chanerley, AA, Chapter "The State of the Art in Processing Ground Motion Timeseries", in Computational Technology Reviews, vol. 8, pp. 93-124, 2013. doi:10.4203/ctr.8.4

• [B2]  Alexander NA. ‘Seismic Analysis’, Lulu publishing, 2010.

• {B1]  Alexander  NA, PhD Thesis, UCL, "Computational algorithm for the global stability analysis of driven oscillators", 1990 [pdf]

2021

• [C74] Rory E White, Nicholas A Alexander, John HG Macdonald, 'System identification of human leg stiffness during rhythmic jumping on a perceptibly oscillating surface' , European Conferences on Structural Dynamics , 2021, [pdf]

2020

• [C73] Manandhar V, Shrestha H , Marasini NP , Prajapati R , Guragain R , Chaulagain R , Sextos A, Alexander NA, De Luca F, Giordano, N. ‘Experimental investigation of low cost steel wire mesh retrofit for stone masonry in mud mortar’ 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2020

2019

• [C72] Cross, T., Lombardi, L., De Luca, F., De Risi, R., Beardsley, J., de Podesta, M., Clark, R., Rushton, J., Alexander, N. A. & Sextos, A., 23 Jun 2019, 'Performance comparison of lead rubber bearing and friction pendulum isolation systems on a school in Kathmandu'. National Technical University of Athens, 2019

• [C71]  Ge, X, Alexander, NA and Kashani MM. , Experimental investigation of seismic behaviour of corroded RC bridge piers. Frangopol, Dan M., Caspeele, Robby and Taerwe, Luc (eds.) In Life-Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision - Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE 2018. CRC Press / Balkema. pp. 2775-2782 , 2019

• [C70] Tsiavos, A., Alexander, N. & Sextos, A.,  'Numerical Investigation of the Sliding Response of Flexible Structures Founded on a Deformable Granular Layer'. 2nd International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Post Disaster Reconstruction Planning (ICEE-PDRP 2019) 25-27 April, Bhaktapur, Nepal. 2019,

2018

• [C69] Kibriya LT ,  Málaga-Chuquitaype C , Kashani MA  and Alexander NA 'Finite element investigation of multi-story post-tensioned rocking frames' Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Integrating Science, Engineering & Policy June 25-29,Los Angeles, California, 2018

• [C68]  Kibriya L, Málaga-Chuquitaype C, Kashani MM, Alexander NA, 'Numerical Investigation on the Non-linear Dynamic Response of Self-Centring Rocking Steel Frames' , 16th European conference on earthquake engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018

• [C67]   Ge X, Alexander NA, Kashani MM, 'Experimental Evaluation of Confinement and Ground Motion Characteristics Effects on RC Bridge Piers', 16th European conference on earthquake engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018

• [C66]   Vicencio F, Alexander NA, 'Discrete Model for SSSI between Critical Structures under Strong Ground Motion',  16th European conference on earthquake engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018

• [C65]   Demirci, HE, Bhattacharya S, Karamitros D, Alexander NA, Singh RM,'Finite Element Model of Buried Pipelines Crossing Strike-Slip Faults by ABAQUS/EXPLICIT',  16th European conference on earthquake engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018

• [C64]   Karamitros D, Nicolaidou E, Alexander N, 'Seismic Settlements Of Shallow Foundations: A Sliding Block Approach', 16th European conference on earthquake engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018

2017

• [C63]  J.P. Stewart, G. Lanzo, N. Alexander, S. Aversa, F. Bozzoni, M. Castiglia, F. Chiabrando, A. Chiaradonna, A. D’Onofrio, S. Dashti, R. De Risi, F. De Silva, V. Di Pietra, L. Di Sarno, M.G. Durante, E. Falcucci , S. Foti, M. Fragiadakis, K. Franke, F. Galadini, S. Giallini, S. Gori, N. Grasso, E. Katsiveli, R.E. Kayen, T. Kishida, M. Mucciacciaro, G. Mylonakis, A. Pagliaroli , A. Penna, I. Psycharis, B. Reimschiissel, F. Santucci de Magistris, G. Scasserra, A. Sextos, S. Sica, F. Silvestri, A.L. Simonelli, P. Tommasi, E. Vintzilaiou, and P. Zimmaro, 'Engineering reconnaissance following the august 24, 2016M6.0 central italy earthquake', 16th world conference of Earthquake Engineering, Chile, 2017

• [C62]  A. Tombari, M. Garcia Espinosa,  L. D’Amico , N.A. Alexander , P. Cacciola, ‘Vibration control of a cluster of buildings through the vibrating barrier’ 16th world conference of Earthquake Engineering, Chile, 2017 

• [C61] Kashani, M., Málaga-Chuquitaype, C., Yang, S., Alexander, N., Crewe, A. ‘Impact of material cyclic degradation on nonlinear dynamic response of RC bridge piers’ 16th world conference of Earthquake Engineering, Chile, 2017 

2015

• [C60]  Alexander, NA, Chanerley, AA, Crewe, AJ & Bhattacharya, S, 'A novel approach to producing spectrum compatible ground motions using Volterra series'. Proceedings of SECED Conference - Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World. Cambridge, UK, 6-9 July. 2015. [pdf]

• [C59]  Kashani, M, Crewe, A, Alexander, NA & Lowes, LN.  'Reliably predicting the nonlinear cyclic response of RC bridge piers up to complete collapse'. Proceedings of SECED Conference - Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World, Cambridge, UK, 6-9 July, 2015, [pdf]

• [C58] Chanerley, AA & Alexander, NA 2015, 'The double-time integration of acceleration time histories after processing with the wavelet transform and low-frequency mad denoising with results from the Nepal 2015 and Chi-Chi 1999 events'. Proceedings of SECED Conference - Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World, Cambridge, UK, 6-9 July. 2015

• [C57]  Kashani, M, Crewe, A, Alexander, NA & Lowes, LN, 'Nonlinear behaviour of corroded RC columns under cyclic loading'. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Iran, 2015

2014

• [C56]   Chanerley, AA & Alexander, NA  'Some fling results for Koeceli 1999' Proceedings of 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul, Turkey. 2014

• [C55]   Mohamed Nazri, F & Alexander, NA, 'A new simplified collapse load expression for earthquake excited structures', Proceedings of  2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014

• [C54]   Kashani, MM, Lowes, LN, Crewe, AJ, Alexander NA ‘Implementation of corrosion damage models in nonlinear fibre beam-column element’ Proceedings of 10th US National conference on earthquake engineering: frontiers of Earthquake Engineering, Anchorage USA, EERI, 2014

• [C53]  Kashani, MM, Crewe, AJ, Alexander, NA & Lowes, LN, 'Modelling nonlinear behaviour of corrosion damaged RC bridge piers subject to cyclic loading'. Proceedings of Life-Cycle of Structural Systems: Design, Assessment, Maintenance and Management. vol. 1, 283, CRC Press, 2014

• [C52]  Ni Choine, M, Kashani, MM, Lowes, LN, Connor, AO, Crewe, AJ, Alexander, NA & Padgett, JE, 'Nonlinear Dynamic Response of a Multi-Span Integral Bridge with Corrosion Damaged RC Piers' Proceedings of Life-Cycle of Structural Systems: Design, Assessment, Maintenance and Management. vol. 1, 304, CRC Press, 2014

<2013

• [C51]  Alexander, NA, & Chanerley, AA ‘The state of the art in processing ground motion timeseries’ Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing. Cagliari, Italy, 2013

• [C50]  Kashani, MM, Crewe AJ, Alexander NA, Lowes LN, & Eberhard MO, ‘Experimental Investigation and Computational Modelling of Corrosion Induced Mechanical-Geometrical Degradation of Reinforcing Bars’, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Columbia University, New York, 2013

• [C49]  Aldaikh H, Alexander NA & Ibraim E, 'Discrete Model for Dynamic Structure-Soil-Structure, Proceedings of 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon 2012,

• [C48]  Kashani MM, Crewe AJ & Alexander NA, 'Durability Considerations in Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Deteriorated RC Bridges'. Proceedings of 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, Paper No 59, 2012

• [C47] Oddbjornsson O, Alexander NA, Taylor CA & Sigbjornsson R 'Numerical and experimental exploration of the fundamental nonlinear dynamics of self-centring damage resistant structures under seismic excitation'. Proceedings of 15th world conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

• [C46]  Mohamed Nazri F, & Alexander NA, 'Predicting the Collapse Potential of Structures'. Proceedings of 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012

• [C45]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Recovering displacements and transients from digital strong motion records using the wavelet transform'. Proceedings of 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal,  2012

• [C44] Kashani MM, Crewe AJ & Alexander NA, 'Stress-Strain Response of Corroded Reinforcing Bars under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading'. Proceedings of 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon,  Portugal Paper No 590, 2012

• [C43] Dihoru, L, Alexander, NA, Taylor, CA, Grumbar, H, Newton, E & Taylor, C, 'A Neural Network Approach for Detection of Damage in a Vibrating Beam'. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering (ICCMSE), Greece, 29-4 October, 2012. [pdf]

• [C42]  Kashani, MM, Crewe, AJ & Alexander, NA, 'Seismic Performance Evaluation of RC Bridge Piers Subject to Combined Earthquake Loading and Material Deterioration in Aggressive Environment'. Proceedings of the 9th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering. KIT Scientific Publishing, pp. 201-207, 2012.

• [C41]  Alexander NA, Ibraim E & Aldaikh H, 'Exploration of structure-soil-structure interaction dynamics'. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference On Civil, Structural And Environmental Engineering Computing, Crete, Greece. 2011

• [C40] Alexander NA & Bhattacharya S, 'The dynamics of monopile-supported Wind Turbines in nonlinear soil'. Proceedings of Eurodyn, 8th International Conference On Structural Dynamics, Leuven, Belgium, 2011

• [C39]  Berrill J, Avery H, Dewe MB, Chanerley AA, Alexander NA, Dyer C & Holden C, 'The Canterbury Accelerograph Network (CanNet) and some Results from the September 2010, M7.1 Darfield Earthquake'. Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Building an Earthquake-Resilient Society, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011.

• [C38]  Mohamed Nazri F & Alexander NA, 'Estimates the Damage Indices for a Moment Resisting Steel Frame', Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Macedonia, 2010

• [C37] Chanerley AA, Alexander NA, Halldorsson B, Sigbjornsson R & Perryman R, 'Baseline correction made easier using an automated method'. Proceedings of 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders. Paper 358. 2010

• [C36] Halldórsson B, Sigbjörnsson R, Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Near-fault strong-motion array recordings of the mw6.3 ölfus'. Proceedings of 9th US national and 10th Canadian conference on earthquake engineering: reaching beyond borders, Toronto, Canada, 2010

• [C35] Bhattacharya S, Alexander, NA & Adhikari S, 'An approach to study dynamic stability of pile-supported structures in liquefiable soils'. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 2009

• [C34] Dihoru L, Alexander NA, Taylor CA, Grumbar H & Newton E, 'A neural network approach for detection of damage in a vibrating beam'. Proceedings of ICCMSE, Advanced Computational Modelling Methods in Science and Engineering, Corfu, Greece, 2009

• [C33] Chanerley AA, Alexander NA & Halldorsson B, 'On Fling and Baseline Correction using Quadrature Mirror Filters'. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Madeira, Portugal. Paper 177, 2009.

• [C32]  Chanerley, A, Alexander, NA & Halldórsson, B, 'Recovering ground displacement and velocity time series using wavelet decomposition'. ISSEE2009 International Symposium on Strong-motion Earthquake Effects, Reykjavik, Iceland, 29 May. 2009

• [C31]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Automated Baseline Correction, Fling and Displacement Estimates from the Chi-Chi Earthquake using the Wavelet Transform', Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology Athens, Greece. Paper 197, 2008

• [C30]  Taylor CA , Adom-Asamoah M ,  Alexander NA,  'A Potential well framework for nonlinear seismic performance' Proceedings of 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China,  2008

• [C29]  Oddbjornsson O, Alexander NA, Taylor CA & Sigbjornsson R, 'Shake table testing of nonlinear elastic moment resisting frames'. Proceedings of 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China.  Paper 11, 2008

• [C28]  Dihoru L, Taylor CA, Crewe AJ & Alexander NA, 'A Neural Network Approach for Dynamics Identification of Reinforced Masonry Structures', Proceedings of 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, 2008

• [C27]  Oddbjornsson O, Alexander NA, Taylor CA & Sigbjornsson R, 'Computational analysis of precast concrete frames with post-tensioned tendons', Proceedings of The Eleventh International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Malta, 2007

• [C26]  Chanerley AA, Nabijou H, Alexander NA & Sigbjornsson R, 'Modelling Non-Linear Effects in Seismic Data from Estimates of Bispectra using Linear Prediction and Volterra Kernels', Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Malta, 2007

• [C25]  Chanerley, AA & Alexander, NA, 'A brief review of instrument de-convolution of seismic data'. Proceedings of Advances in Computing and Technology. (AC&T) The School of Computing and Technology 1st Annual Conference. University of East London, 1st Annual Conference, United Kingdom, 20 June, 2006

• [C24]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Deconvolution of Seismic data using partial total least squares', Proceedings of First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 Sept, 2006

• [C23]  Alexander NA, Norman JAP, Virden DW, Crewe AJ, Wagg DJ & Chanerley AA, 'Effects of orientation to the epicentre on the response of long span bridges subject to multiple support excitation using SMART-1 array data and corroborative experimental results', Proceedings of 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, USA. 2006

• [C22]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Lp deconvolution of seismic data using the iterative re-weighted least squares method'. Proceedings of the eighth international conference on computational structures technology, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2006

• [C21]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Revisiting the SMART-1 array using modern inverse system identification methods', Proceedings of 8th US National Conference on earthquake engineering, San Francisco, USA, 2006

• [C20]  Alexander NA, 'Incoherent ground motion in multi-support dynamics of bridges'. Proceedings of The Tenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, computing, Rome, Italy, 2005

• [C19]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Using the method of Total Least Squares for Seismic Correction'. Proceedings of The Tenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Rome, Italy.  vol. 1(217), 2005

• [C18]  Alexander NA, Potter R & Pozzessere F ‘Increasing the lifetime of ferrule strap connections on PVC-U pipes'. Proceedings of Plastics Pipes XII Conference, Milan, Italy, 2004

• [C17]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'Novel seismic correction approaches without instrument data, using adaptive methods and de-noising.’ Proceedings of 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada. pp. 2664, 2004

• [C16]  Alexander NA, 'The influence of amplitude and phase differences in bi-directional ground motion on the behaviour of irregular structures'. Proceedings of 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 207, 2004

• [C15]  Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'An alternative approach to Seismic correction using Recursive Least squares and Wavelet denoising'. Proceedings of 9th International conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, The Netherlands. vol. 21, 2003

• [C14] Pozzessere F, Alexander NA & Potter R, 'Modelling of Ferrule strap connections to uPVC pipes'. Proceedings of 9th International conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, The Netherlands. vol. 9. 2003

• [C13] Chanerley AA & Alexander NA, 'an approach to seismic correction that includes wavelet de-noising'. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Prague. vol. 10, 2002

• [C12]  Alexander NA & Goorvadoo N, 'Inelastic models and ductility demand of asymmetric buildings'. Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Earthquake engineering, London. vol. 3. 2002

• [C11]  Alexander NA, Goorvadoo N & Noor FA, 'A comparative study of a storey vs. element hysteretic nonlinear model for seismic analysis of buildings'.  Proceedings of the SEMC conference, South Africa. vol. 2, pp. 919 – 926, 2001

• [C10]  Alexander NA, Goorvadoo N & Chanerley AA, 'A review of procedures used for the correction of seismic data'. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering, Vienna. vol. 7, 2001

• [C9]  Alexander NA, Goorvadoo N, Noor FA, & Chanerley AA, 'A new parametric storey non-linearity including hysteresis behaviour in the dynamic analysis of buildings under bi-directional seismic action'. Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Leuven, Belgium, 2000

• [C8]  Noor FA, Alexander NA & Cox WJ, 'Non-linear modelling of reinforced Micro-concrete frames'. Proceedings of the 25th Conference on our world in Concrete and Structures, Singapore, 2000

• [C7]  Noor FA, Alexander NA & Cox WJ, 'Non-linear RC Portal frames'. Proceedings of the 10th British Cement Association Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK , 2000

• [C6]  Cox WJ, Noor FA & Alexander NA, 'Non-linear analysis of reinforced concrete frames'. Proceedings of the 9th British Cement Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 1999 

• [C5] Alexander NA, Javed K, Noor FA & Goorvadoo N, 'Parametric Study of Torsional Response to Phased Accelerograms'. Proceedings of the 8th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Vancouver, Canada, 1999

• [C4]  Alexander NA, Javed K & Noor FA, 'Phase difference spectra and asymmetric structures'. Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Association of Structural Dynamics , Prague, 1999

• [C3] Alexander NA, Noor FA & Javed K, 'Response of Asymmetric Buildings to ground motion phase component'. Proceedings of the sixth SECED conference on seismic design practice, into the next century, Oxford, UK, 1998

• [C2]  Alexander NA, 'Recursive boundary enhancement (RBE) an algorithm for computational portraits of basins of attraction in non-linear dynamic systems'. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, Cambridge, UK, 1995

• [C1]  Alexander NA & Falconer RE, 'Dynamic Behaviour of Railway viaducts'. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on New Dimensions in Bridges and Flyovers, Singapore, 1994