Carlo Pellegrino - carlo.pellegrino@dicea.unipd.it
Flora Faleschini – flora.faleschini@dicea.unipd.it
Mariano Angelo Zanini – marianoangelo.zanini@dicea.unipd.it
Lorenzo Hofer – lorenzo.hofer@dicea.unipd.it
Jaime Gonzalez – jaime.gonzalez@dicea.unipd.it
Paolo Zampieri – paolo.zampieri@dicea.unipd.it
Michele Frizzarin – michele.frizzarin@dicea.unipd.it
Klajdi Toska – klajdi.toska@dicea.unipd.it
Nicola Fabris – nicola.fabris@dicea.unipd.it
Cyrille Tetougueni - cyrille.tetougueni@dicea.unipd.it
Nicolò Simoncello – nicolo.simoncello@dicea.unipd.it
Filippo Andreose – filippo.andreose@dicea.unipd.it
Daniele Tamiazzo – daniele.tamiazzo@dicea.unipd.it
Simone Perboni – simone.perboni@dicea.unipd.it
Lorenzo Mancassola – lorenzo.mancassola@dicea.unipd.it
Elisa De Stefani – elisa.destefani@dicea.unipd.it

WEB site: https://www.dicea.unipd.it/en/carlo-pellegrino

Research areas:
The Structural Analysis and Design Research Group of the ICEA Department develops research activities in three main areas: the study of reinforced concrete construction techniques, the seismic risk assessment of existing structures and the structural analysis of bridges.

1. Study of reinforced concrete construction techniques
As part of the first topic, studies and research were conducted on ordinary and prestressed reinforced concrete structures, examining aspects relating to static and seismic response, durability and structural deterioration, structural reinforcement also through the use of composite materials, on the development of sustainable concretes through the use of construction and demolition waste and steel slag to replace natural aggregates, on the study of the adherence phenomena and degradation and the consequent loss of prestressing in the prestressed reinforced concrete structures.
The Group actively participates at national and international level in the main reference associations (Italian Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Association - AICAP, College of Building Industrialization Technicians - CTE, American Concrete Institute - Italy Chapter - ACI, International Federation for Structural Concrete - fib, RILEM - International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures) and has been involved in various research conventions with public and private bodies and in some research projects such as "European Network for Durable Reinforcement and Rehabilitation Solutions - endure", call: FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN and "EU Training Network for Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining - NEW-MINE", call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016.

2. Seismic risk assessment of existing structures
As part of the second research topic, the methods for the seismic risk analysis for single structures and systems distributed on the territorial scale are studied, deepening the aspects related to the evaluation of seismic hazard through PSHA and DSHA approach, the use of seismogenic models able to represent the processes of recharge of the seismic faults, the impact of the selection of the accelerograms in the evaluation of the seismic fragility of structural systems, the influence of epistemic uncertainties on seismic risk estimates, the development of new approaches based on dynamic non-linear analysis for the evaluation of seismic fragility, the seismic reliability of existing and newly designed structures, the seismic risk analysis on the territorial scale, the construction of seismic risk maps, the seismic risk assessment for industrial plants, the estimate of business interruption losses and the Seismic risk assessment for infrastructure networks.
The Group actively participates at national and international level in the main reference associations (Italian National Association of Earthquake Engineering - ANIDIS, European Association for Earthquake Engineering - EAEE) and has been involved in various research conventions with public and private bodies and in some projects research including the INTERREG Italy-Slovenia project entitled "CROSSIT-SAFER - Cross-border Cooperation between Slovenia and Italy for a safer region".

3. Structural analysis of bridges
As part of the third research topic, studies and researches are carried out on issues concerning the structural analysis of bridges, deepening - with a close connection to the first two research topics of the Group - the aspects relating to the degradation phenomena to which existing bridges with reinforced and prestressed concrete supporting structure are subjected, with the aim of carrying out numerical simulations oriented to the estimation of the service life and more generally to the temporal variation of the structural reliability characteristics for a better planning of maintenance interventions, the interaction between structural deterioration and seismic response to estimate the increase in seismic fragility in the context of risk analysis, the development of Bridge Management systems (BMS), the dynamic characterization of existing bridges by carrying out tests aimed at identifying the main modal shapes, the study of the masonry bridges and their static and seismic response and the study of fatigue problems in metal structures.
The Group actively participates at national and international level in the main reference associations (Italian Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Association - AICAP, College of Steel Technicians - CTA, European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures - EUROSTRUCT, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering - IABSE, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - IABMAS) and was involved in various research conventions with public and private bodies and in some research projects including the Relevant National Interest Project - PRIN "Optimum allocation of resources for the seismic adaptation of bridges within transport networks ", the special research project" Distribution and utility networks "within the DPC Project (Department of Civil Protection) - ReLUIS (Network of University Laboratories of Earthquake Engineering) ), the Uni-Impresa project, "Developing of SMART and s ustainable approaches for management and improvement of infrastructures and transportation NETworks "and the COST Action TU1406" Quality specifications for roadway bridges, standardization at a European level ".

Keywords: Reinforced Concrete Structures, Seismic Risk Analysis, Bridge Engineering