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Tiziana Rossetto | ||
MEng MSc PhD DIC |
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| Lecturer in Earthquake Engineering and Geohazards | |||
| email: | t.rossetto(at)ucl.ac.uk | ||
| phone: | 44 (0) 20 7679 4488 | ||
| post: | Room GM16a | ||
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MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management More Details |
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Earthquake engineer Tiziana Rossetto has lectured at UCL since 2004, before which she spent eight months in the infrastructures group of the civil engineering consultancy High-Point Rendel. The main focus of her research, including her PhD thesis from Imperial College, has been the development of empirical and analytical methodologies for the derivation of vulnerability curves, which can be used to predict the probable damage in structures during an earthquake. In 2007, she presented the BA Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award lecture, ‘Why earthquakes become disasters and what are engineers doing about it?’ at the BA Festival of Science in York. Tiziana has undertaken a number of field missions to assess damage to buildings and infrastructure in earthquake zones including the Kashmir Earthquake of October 2005, the Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami of 26 December 2004, and the Bhuj Earthquake of January 2001 in Gujurat, India. | |||
Teaching | |||
Current Teaching • Director of new MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management • Fourth Year Elective CIVLG007- Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering • Seismic Design CIVLG020 • Seismic Assessment CIVLG022 • Earthquake Loss Mitigation CIVLG024 • PhD supervision. | |||
Research | |||
Current research • EPICENTRE: Earthquake and People Interaction Centre 2007-2012. Bringing together earthquake engineers, social scientists, coastal engineers and statisticians to provide decision makers with better guidance for where and how to invest to mitigate earthquake losses. Focusing on violent flow (tsunami) loss prediction, human loss estimation in earthquakes and building seismic damage assessment. | |||
Other Activities | |||
Books • Rossetto,T. ‘ Construction Design, Building Standards and Site Selection’. Chapter 12 in Benson,C., Twigg,J. (ed.) ‘Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organisations’. Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/the ProVention Consortium, 2007 • Rossetto,T., Pomonis,A., Wilkinson,S.M., Koo,R. ‘Thailand’. Chapter 3 in ‘The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004: Mission Findings in Sri Lanka and Thailand’. Field report by EEFIT series. London: EEFIT, 2006 • Pomonis,A., Rossetto,T. ‘Overview of the 26 December 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami and its Effects’. Chapter 1 in ‘The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004: Mission Findings in Sri Lanka and Thailand.’ A Field Report by EEFIT series. London: EEFIT, 2006. Recent journals • Rossetto,T., Peiris,N., Pomonis,A., Wilkinson,S.M., Del Re,D., Koo,R., Gallocher,S. ‘The Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004: Observations in Sri Lanka and Thailand’. Natural Hazards 42 (1), 2007 • Rossetto T., Free, M. and Hill, M. ‘Report on Building Damage from the 28th April 2007 Kent (Folkestone) Earthquake and Intensity Evaluation’. The Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) Newsletter, 20(3), 2007 • Rossetto,T. ‘Reducing Disaster Risk through Construction Design, Building Standards and Land-Use Planning’. TRIALOG 91 (Journal for Planning and Building in the Third World, special issue on Building on Disasters, 2006 • Rossetto T, A.S.Elnashai. ‘A New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Displacement-based Vulnerability Curves for Populations of RC Structures’. Engineering Structures Vol.27, No.3, 2005 • Rossetto T. ‘Tsunami Damage Assessed in Sri Lanka and Thailand’. Alert, the Newsletter of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre. 4 (16), 2005 • Rossetto,T., Browitt, C. ‘Indian Ocean Tsunami’. BMS International NewsletterSilver Jubilee Edition 2-3, 2005 • Rossetto T, A.S.Elnashai. ‘Derivation of Vulnerability Functions for European-type RC Structures based on Observational Data’. Engineering Structures Vol.25, No.10, 2003 Recent conference proceedings • Rossetto,T. ‘Validation of a New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Displacement-based Vulnerability Curve’s. First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, Istanbul, Turkey. European Association for Earthquake Engineering and European Seismological Commission, 2006 • Rossetto T. ‘New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Vulnerability Curves for use in Displacement-based Assessments of Structure Populations’. 29th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, Potsdam. September 2004. | |||
Recently supervised Phd's | |||
Currently supervising: Marc Paul Hill (ucesmhi@ucl.ac.uk) Ingrid Charvet (i.charvet@ucl.ac.uk) and am second supervising: Christian Solberg, RA (c.solberg@ucl.ac.uk) Shadi Dalaimani (s.dalaimani@ucl.ac.uk) If you are interested in a PhD in earthquake engineering send an e-mail to t.rossetto@ucl.ac.uk | |||
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Selected Publications Rossetto,T.,Peiris,N.,Pomonis,A.,Wilkinson,S.M.,Del Re,D.,Koo,R.,Gallocher,S. (2007). The Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004: Observations in Sri Lanka and Thailand Natural Hazards 41(1), 105-124 Peiris,N.,Rossetto,T.,Burton,P.,Mahmood,S. (2006), EEFIT Mission: October 8, 2005 Kashmir Earthquake,; EEFIT ISBN: . Pomonis,A.,Rossetto,T. (2006). Overview of the 26 December 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami and its Effects. Chapter 1 in (ed.) The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004: Mission Findings in Sri Lanka and Thailand. London: EEFIT, 22-31;ISBN: 0 901297 40 2. Rossetto,T. (2006). Validation of a New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Displacement-based Vulnerability Curves First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, Istanbul, Turkey:European Association for Earthquake Engineering and European Seismological Commission, - Pomonis,A.,Rossetto,T.,Wilkinson,S.M.,Del Re,D.,Peiris,N.,Koo,R.,Manlapig,R.,Gallocher,S. (2005), The Indian Ocean Tsunami 26th December 2004: EEFIT Preliminary Field Mission Report,; ISBN: . Rossetto,T.,Elnashai,A.S. (2005). A New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Displacement-based Vulnerability Curves for Populations of RC Structures Engineering Structures 27(3), 397-409 Rossetto,T.,Elnashai,A.S. (2003). Derivation of Vulnerability Functions for European-type RC Structures based on Observational Data Engineering Structures 25(10), 1241-1263 Rossetto,T. (2002). Vulnerability Assessment of Indian Reinforced Concrete Buildings Affected by the Bhuj Earthquake 2001 Concrete India 17(2), - Rossetto,T. (2002). Prediction of Deformation Capacity of Non-Seismically Designed Reinforced Concrete Members 7th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston, USA:Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, - |
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