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Evening Technical Meeting
At the
Institution of Civil Engineers
One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA
Wednesday12thMarch 2014 at 6.00pm
(Refreshments available from 5.30pm in the Brasserie)
Wind-Induced Fatigues Issues
Speaker
Dr Maria Pia Repetto
Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering
University of Genova (Italy)
The meeting will include an overview of examples of wind-induced fatigue, including damage and collapses of real structures; a review of existing wind-induced fatigue analysis techniques; strengths and weakness of the tools currently available, and; proposed analytical model for calculating wind-induced fatigue of structures and examples.
Dr. Repetto is an ASCE and IAWE award winning researcher from one of Italy’s leading Wind Engineering Research laboratories.
Chairman:
John Kilpatrick
Please note there is no charge and non-members of the Society are always welcome to attend.
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biography – dr maria pia repetto
Maria Pia is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Genova (Italy), where she took her PhD in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering in 2003.
From the beginning of her scientific activities, Maria Pia has carried out studies on wind engineering, with particular interest in the wind-induced fatigue on slender structures.
She also worked in the fields of climatology and wind forecast, of structural dynamics and response, and on the reliability analysis of structures and infrastructures.
Maria Pia is member of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (ANIV), and she is the co-chairman of the International Conference IN-VENTO 2014, to be held in Genova in June 2014.
In 2011 she organized and chaired the Special Technical Session “Wind – induced Fatigue” at the 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Amsterdam, July 10-15.
From 2009 to present she co-ordinates the scientific activities of the European Projects “Wind and Ports” (2009-2012) and “ Wind, Ports and Sea” (2013-2015), financed by the European Program of border cooperation Italy/France Maritime 2007–2013.
In 2014 the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of ASCE awarded Maria Pia with the 2014 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for the paper "Closed-Form Prediction of the Alongwind-Induced Fatigue of Structures," as published in the September 2012 issue of Journal of Structural Engineering.
In 2011 the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE) awarded Maria Pia with the IAWE Junior Award for her outstanding achievements to the modelling of wind induced fatigue.