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Lestuzzi Pierino

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Lestuzzi Pierino

Scholar-in-Residence, Civil Engineering

  • Master in Civil Engineering: EPFL, 1988
  • Additional Education: UNI-Lausanne, Physic Institute, 1991
  • PhD: ETH-Zürich, 2000

Email: pierino.l -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: AB 5/318


  • Selected Publications

    1. Experimental investigations of a new highly ductile hold-down with adaptive stiffness for timber seismic bracing walls, 2023

    2. Could building replacements significantly contribute to seismic vulnerability mitigation at urban scale? Case studies of two typical swiss cities, 2022.

    3. Improved Urban Seismic Vulnerability Assessment Using Typological Curves and Accurate Displacement Demand Prediction, 2021.

    4. Development and validation of simplified mechanics-based capacity curves for scenario-based risk assessment of school buildings in Basel, 2020.

    5. Evaluation of the seismic retrofitting of an unreinforced masonry building using numerical modeling and ambient vibration measurements, 2018.

  • Work Experience

    • Lecturer and senior researcher, EPFL-ENAC-IIC-IMAC (2000 - Present)
    • Doctoral student and assistant, ETHZ-IBK (1995 – 2000)
    • Assistant, EPFL-IMAC, (1989 – 1992)

  • Awards

    • Student prize 2004 concerning teaching at the ENAC faculty.
    • Munro prize 2007 for the best paper published in Engineering Structures, Elsevier.
    • Student prize 2008 concerning teaching at the ENAC faculty.

Research Interests

  • ● Earthquake engineering
  • ● Structural dynamics