Phd in STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

email: fabrizio.mollaioli@uniroma1.it
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He was schooled at the Sapienza University of Rome in Structural Engineering. For a short period (1990) after the University Degree he cooperated with the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome on a research on the calibration of behaviour factor for reinforced concrete frames according to Eurocode 8 methodologies. From 1990 to 1999 he was a researcher of the Italian National Group for Earthquake Loss Reduction (GNDT) of the National Research Council (CNR). During that period he obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering (1996). Then he moved to the School of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Rome as Assistant Professor in Structural Mechanics (2000-2006). He was Associate Professor in Structural Mechanics (from 2007 to 2013), Associate Professor in Structural Design and now Full Professor of Structural Deign at the Sapienza University of Rome and teacher of Laboratory of Structural Design and Retrofitting.
He has years of experience in conducting multi-component research and consulting as a practitioner. He is registered P.E. in Rome and maintains an active consulting practice to assist engineering firms and government agencies with problems in earthquake engineering and vulnerability assessment and survey. He was active member and contributor of numerous research and professional organizations including Italian National Group of Earthquake Loss Reduction and National Seismic Survey.
The research activity was mainly oriented to the earthquake engineering, developing arguments also connected to the field of seismology and seismic hazard. Specifically, the main research themes have focused on issues relating to: the modeling and analysis of the dynamic response of linear and nonlinear systems with one or more degrees of freedom, the response analysis of frame structures in terms of floor acceleration for the estimation of the storey seismic demand, characterization of ground motion in the near-fault, the definition of attenuation relationships, the study of recent seismic events, the study of the seismic behavior of masonry structures.
In particular, more recently, the research was oriented to the fields of: structural engineering, earthquake engineering, evaluation and vulnerability assessment of existing buildings, evaluation of damage potential of earthquake ground motion, seismic vulnerability; modeling, analysis and seismic protection with innovative structural systems; seismic isolation. Responsible and participant in numerous national and international research projects since 1993.
Another important activity was the participation in earthquake surveys as a result of seismic events such as: South Eastern Sicily (1990), Potenza (1991) Kobe, Japan (1995), Umbria-Marche (1997), Molise (2002 ), L'Aquila (2009). Particularly, with regard to the Umbria-Marche earthquake sequence of 1997 he collaborated with the Italian civil protection as a coordinator of post-earthquake safety assessment of public and historical building stock, including public strategic buildings (special structural and equipment characteristics; e.g. hospitals), and as member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Umbria region, affected by the 1997-1998 earthquake sequence in charge of support local authorities he was involved in seismic vulnerability assessment, post-earthquake reconstruction activities and in preparing and writing regulations for seismic reduction programs.

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