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SUMMARY:CESS Seminar: Earthquake vulnerability assessment of soil - founda
 tion - structure systems
DTSTART:20190510T121500
DTEND:20190510T130000
DTSTAMP:20260916T064949Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dimitris Pitilakis\, Associate Professor\, Department o
 f Civil Engineering\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece\nAbst
 ract\nEarthquake vulnerability is a major contributor to seismic risk\, wh
 ile vulnerability assessment is an essential tool for the identification a
 nd mitigation of earthquake losses. Over the last years\, significant rese
 arch work has been made towards the development of a comprehensive methodo
 logy regarding the estimation of the expected earthquake losses and the re
 silience of man-made structures\, while researchers have developed analyti
 cal\, empirical\, judgment-based and hybrid fragility curves covering a wi
 de variety of structural typologies. To date\, fragility curves are derive
 d assuming fixed-base conditions\, ignoring soil-structure interaction (SS
 I) and local site effects\, yet these effects may play either a beneficial
  or a detrimental role to the seismic response of the structures. In this 
 context\, the influence of (i) SSI and (ii) nonlinear soil behavior on ear
 thquake vulnerability assessment of structures needs further investigation
 . This lecture is built upon this scientific shortage\, discussing efficie
 nt approaches to tackle the ever-emerging problem of the earthquake vulner
 ability assessment of civil engineering soil - foundation - structure syst
 ems.\n\nBio\nDimitris Pitilakis is Associate Professor in the Department o
 f Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece (
 M.Sc. University of California\, Berkeley\, Ph.D. in earthquake engineerin
 g from Ecole Centrale Paris\, France). He is an expert in geotechnical ear
 thquake engineering\, with emphasis on soil – foundation – structure i
 nteraction\, dynamics of foundations and performance-based design. Lately\
 , he has been working on the earthquake vulnerability assessment of soil-f
 oundation-structure systems\, in local and in city scale. He is a member o
 f national and international scientific societies on Earthquake Engineerin
 g and reviewer of international scientific journals. He has developed soft
 ware for the simulation of the soil- foundation- structure interaction\, w
 ith emphasis on nonlinear soil behavior\, as well as software for foundati
 on design and analysis. He has significant experience in experimental soil
 -foundation-structure interaction in small-scale (shaking table and centri
 fuge) and full-scale (EuroProteas in Euroseistest http://euroseisdb.civil.
 auth.gr/sfsis) facilities. He is currently in charge of the shaking table 
 facility of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, and of the full-sca
 le EuroProteas facility.\n 
LOCATION:GC B3 30 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GCB330
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