Ricerc@Sapienza

The research isparticularly oriented on: Seismic Vulnerability Assessment, Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, Assessment and Retrofitting of Existing Buildings, Damage Potential of Earthquake Ground Motion, Modeling, analysis and protection of structural systems under seismic excitations, Loss Assessment, Seismic Isolation, Engineering Seismology. Recently, his research is focussed on: Analysis of the response of structures to damaging pulse-type ground motions, Computational strategies for the seismic behavior of infilled frames, Improved characterization of earthquake ground motions, Development and application of nonlinear structural analysis methods and performance-based design criteria, Seismic response of asymmetric RC frames subjected to bi-directional ground motions, Floor acceleration demand in reinforced concrete frames, Ground motion selections methods for nonlinear analysis of structural systems, Seismic isolation of critical facilities, Tall Buildings.

Recently, the main interest is devoted to Energy-Based Seismic Engineering