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SUMMARY:Building damage caused by devastating earthquakes in Croatia in 20
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mario Uroš\, Associate Professor\, University of Zagreb
 \, Croatia\nThe paper will present the basic characteristics of the earthq
 uakes that hit Croatia in 2020 from a structural engineering point of view
 . Characteristic damage to typical buildings in the affected regions will 
 be shown depending on the magnitude of the earthquake. Numerous examples w
 ill provide an overview of the causes of damage to structural and non-stru
 ctural elements. The impact of earthquakes of different magnitudes on the 
 response of buildings will be compared.\nIn the paper\, the mechanisms of 
 collapse of masonry buildings depending on the existence of diaphragms and
  their connection to the walls will be described. Also\, observed extensio
 n of damage will be compared to that expected damage level for earthquakes
  of this magnitude.\nFinally\, conclusions will be given about the causes 
 of the damage and the measures that need to be taken to prevent them in th
 e future. Special attention will be given to the load bearing capacity and
  ductility of masonry buildings\, their ability to dissipate energy and th
 e failure mechanisms that are crucial for damage of buildings.\nShort Bio 
 :\nMario Uroš was born in 1982 in Dubrovnik. He studied at the Faculty of
  Civil Engineering in Zagreb\, where he graduated in 2006 in the field of 
 structural engineering. Now\, he works at the Faculty of Civil Engineering
 \, University of Zagreb as an Associate Professor at the Department of Eng
 ineering Mechanics\, Chair for Statics\, Dynamics and Stability of Structu
 res. He is actively involved in teaching of the university undergraduate a
 nd graduate programs at the in courses Mechanics II and Theory of Stabilit
 y.\nIn his scientific work he works in the wider field of numerical modeli
 ng\, dynamics and stability of structures and earthquake engineering. He p
 articipates in the many scientific project in his field of research as a p
 articipant or leader. He is a member of the organizing and scientific comm
 ittee of several scientific and professional international conferences and
  author of many relevant scientific and professional papers.\nHe was invol
 ved in the implementation of European projects MATILDA for damage assessme
 nt and emergency measures after earthquakes and Interreg READINESS project
  in which he performs numerical calculations for buildings of strategic in
 terest in the City of Dubrovnik and Split-Dalmatia County in case of a pos
 sible earthquake\, in cooperation with the Faculty of Civil Engineering an
 d the Faculty of Science. As a member of the working group of the Faculty 
 of Civil Engineering\, which was the main contractor in cooperation with D
 UZS and MGIPU during 2018\, he worked on the preparation of the Updated Di
 saster Risk Assessment for the Republic of Croatia - earthquake risk asses
 sment. He is a member of the team for the preparation of the Earthquake Re
 mediation Study\, which has been conducted for the City of Zagreb since 20
 12\, and in 2018 he was the leader of the team. He was a member of the Cro
 atian team for post-earthquake damage assessment\, mobilized through Civil
  Protection of the Ministry of the Interior\, on the mission in Albania af
 ter the earthquake in 2019. He is currently the head of the Establishment 
 Research Project of the Croatian Science Foundation "New vulnerability mod
 els of typical buildings in urban areas: applications in seismic risk asse
 ssment and target retrofit methodology"\nHe is a member of the subcommitte
 e HZN/TO 548/PO 8\, Construction Eurocodes\; Eurocode 8\, Design of seismi
 c resistance of structures in the Croatian Standards Institute. He is a me
 mber of the editorial board of the scientific journal Građevinar and is a
  reviewer for several scientific journals. Since 2011 he has been a member
  of the Croatian Chamber of Civil Engineers. He has been one of the coordi
 nators of rapid damage assessments of buildings by civil engineers after t
 he earthquakes in Zagreb in March 2020 and Petrinja in December 2020 and a
  series of necessary community relief activities. He has won several award
 s\, including the Medal of the City of Zagreb and the award of the Croatia
 n Chamber of Civil Engineers "Kolos" in 2020 for his contribution to post-
 earthquake activities.
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