Didactics
A.Y. 2011/2012
Course: Mechanics of Solids
Lecturer: Prof. F.Casciati, Dept. of Structural Mechanics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
No. of Ph.D. students: 15
A.Y. 2010/2011
Course: Structure like shape, shape like structure
Lecturer: Prof. E.Valeriani, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
No. of Ph.D. students: -
A.Y. 2009/2010
Autumn 2010
Course: Experimental methods for solid and fluid mechanics
Lecturer: Prof. R. Sala, Dept. of Hydraulics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. (http://ingegneria.unipv.it/servizi/scheda.php?mat=000849)
Lecturer: Prof. F. Casciati, Dept. of Structural Mechanics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. (http://ingegneria.unipv.it/servizi/scheda.php?mat=000205)
No. of Ph.D. students: 11
October 2010
Course: Process Control
Lecturer: Prof. A. Kovaleva, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. (http://www.iki.rssi.ru/eng/)
No. of Ph.D. students: -
May - June 2010
Course: The structural design process
Lecturer: Prof. A. E. Del Grosso, Dept. Of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (DICAT), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. (http://www.dicat.unige.it/ita/info/staff/persone/AndreaDelGrosso.php)
No. of Ph.D. students: -
April 2010
Course: Earthquake hazard and risk assessment
Topics: Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE), Lifelines, Acceptable risk, Fragility functions, Damage Probability Matrices.
Lecturer: Prof. A. S. Kiremidjian, Dept. Of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. (http://engineering.stanford.edu/research/layout.php?sunetid=ask)
No. of Ph.D. students: 13
January 2010
Course: Numerical methods for solid and fluid mechanics
Topics: Tensorial representations of physical states, and linear and nonlinear laws governing them, concerning the mechanics of deformable continuous, PDE integration by means of finite differences and finite volumes.
Lecturer: Prof. S. Sibilla, Dept. of Hydraulics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Lecturer: Prof. A. Gobetti, Dept. of Structural Mechanics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
No. of Ph.D. students: 15
A.Y. 2008/2009
March 2009
Course: Structural control
Topic: Structural control, applications in the field of Civil Engineering.
Lecturer: Prof. T.T. Soong, Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, U.S.A.
No. of Ph.D. students: 10
December 2008 - January 2009
Course: Robustness and Integrity of structures
Topic: Structural "life-cycle" evaluation, examples of civil infrastructure risk and safety evaluation.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. M. H. Faber, Institute of Structural Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Lecturer: Ing. T. Messervey, research and innovation, D’Appolonia S.p.A, Genoa, Italy.
No. of Ph.D. students: 10
December 2008
Course: Wave propagation
Topic: Theory of waves, identification and measurement of seismic waves.
Lecturer: Prof. A. Marcellini, Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali (IDPA) of CNR in Milan, Milan, Italy.
No. of Ph.D. students: 11
