Phd in STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Ms. Alessandra Paoloni is a PhD student with scholarship of the XXXVI cycle in the Structural and Geotechnical Department (DISG) of Sapienza University.
She prepared her dissertation at University College of London (UCL) thanks to “Tesi all’Estero” scholarship, under the supervision of prof. Stefano Pampanin in Rome and prof. Carmine Galasso and Dot. Roberto Gentile in London. She graduated in July 2019 (mark: 110/110 cum laude) with the thesis “Impact of Cumulative Damage on the Performance Loss of Simple Structures”, in which she developed a simplified procedure to evaluate the residual capacity of RC SDOF structures. From November 2019 to October 2020, she worked as a junior researcher in the Structural and Geotechnical Department of Sapienza University with a scholarship for ReLUIS Project 2018 “LINEA: ANALISI DATI POST SISMA RS4”: “Metodologia Analitica Semplificata ed Analisi Costi-Prestazioni di Interventi di Riparazione e Retrofit Sismico” “, under the supervision of prof. Stefano Pampanin.
The main research interests of Ms. Paoloni refer to the seismic behaviour of masonry historical buildings and elements and to retrofit intervention modelling under the supervision of prof. Domenico Liberatore and Prof. Daniela Addessi. She is also currently interested in studying hysteretic cycles capable of describing the degrading behaviour of this type of structures and in Finite Element Methods applied to equivalent frame models.