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SUMMARY:Civil Engineering Lab Seminar : Use of Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses 
 for EMS-98-Consistent Damage Level Assessment and Fragility Curve Derivati
 on
DTSTART:20251202T113000
DTEND:20251202T121500
DTSTAMP:20260923T093357Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Serena Cattari \nAbstract\nAlthough damage levels consi
 stent with the EMS-98 scale represent a concept that is well established a
 nd intuitive in engineering practice\, ensuring a coherent correspondence 
 across the different approaches used to derive fragility curves (i.e.\, em
 pirical\, mechanical-analytical\, and mechanical-numerical) is far from st
 raightforward. This is due to the variety of variables that may be adopted
  (e.g.\, damage data from post-earthquake survey forms\, interstorey- drif
 t\, roof drift\, damage variables from constitutive laws\, etc.) as well a
 s the different conversion criteria employed. Such variability can lead to
  significant impacts on the results. In the seminar\, this issue is addres
 sed\, with particular insights provided from the use of nonlinear dynamic 
 analyses (NLDA) for masonry structures.  Specifically\, a multi-scale app
 roach is proposed to fully exploit the large amount of data generated by N
 LDA. The method is inherently self-consistent and do not require the suppo
 rt of nonlinear static analyses for interpretation\, as is commonly done i
 n the literature.\n\nShort bio\nSerena Cattari is Full Professor of Struct
 ural Engineering at the Department of Civil\, Chemical and Environmental E
 ngineering. Her main research area deal with Earthquake Engineering\, Maso
 nry Structures and Risk studies. SC is the Coordinator of the PhD Program 
 in Security\, Risk and Vulnerability and to date supervised 18 PhD Student
 s. SC is Associate Editor of Earthquake Spectra. She is co-author of more 
 than 230 scientific contributions\, of which 96 papers on international jo
 urnals indexed in SCOPUS.  She served as local responsible of the researc
 h unit of UniGe in several national projects funded by MUR (e.g. PRIN 2017
  DETECT-AGING - "Degradation Effects on sTructural safEty of Cultural heri
 TAGe constructions through simulation and health monitoring"\; PNRR RAISE)
  and ReLUIS-DPC programs (e.g. WP4 MARS - "Seismic Risk Maps and damage sc
 enario"\; WP10 - "URM nonlinear modelling - Benchmark Project").\n\nSandwi
 ches are offered at the end of the seminar.
LOCATION:GC B1 10 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GC%20B1%2010
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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