EESD at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering

At the 16th ECEE in Thessaloniki, Greece (June 18-21, 2018), seven EESD members presented their work. With regard to EESD’s work on concrete structures, Angelica Rosso, João Almeida and Danilo Tarquini presented their contributions. Angelica introduced a novel mechanical model to assess the out-of-plane instability of thin reinforced concrete boundary elements, which are common in Central and South America. Danilo showed the latest experimental results of uniaxial tension-compression tests on boundary elements with lap splices, while João presented a parametric study highlighting the effect of damping models on the simulation of seismic axial forces in a reinforced concrete bridge pier.

Amir Rezaie, Michele Godio, Francesco Vanin and Bastian Wilding presented papers related to unreinforced masonry structures. Amir introduced an approach for assessing the stiffness loss in damaged masonry walls from crack patterns based on fractal and complexity dimensions. Michele presented a novel tri-linear model based on analytical considerations for the out-of-plane assessment of unreinforced masonry walls. A paper on the consideration of epistemic uncertainties in material properties and wall capacities in the assessment of a masonry building was presented by Francesco. He, furthermore, took part in a blind prediction contest organized by Dr. Serena Cattari (University of Genova) as part of a special session on masonry structures. Bastian presented a paper on the prediction of stiffness, strength and displacement capacities of unreinforced masonry walls by means of mechanical models.

All papers are available on Infoscience: http://eesd.epfl.ch/publications