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SUMMARY:Ductility through weakness: computational assessment of the residu
 al capacity of damaged masonry structures - Antonino Iannuzzo\, University
  of Sannio
DTSTART:20241122T150000Z
DTEND:20241122T160000Z
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CONTACT:Sam Cocking
DESCRIPTION:Unreinforced Masonry (URM) structures represent an ancient and
  sustainable housing technique intertwined with our artistic cultural heri
 tage. Fostering their preservation and promoting their adaptive reuse not 
 only raises awareness about our cultural heritage but also contributes to 
 reducing the construction industry's ecological footprint while mitigating
  land consumption. Due to their negligible tensile strength\, URM structur
 es adapt to external environmental changes\, such as seismic events\, land
 slides\, or subsidence caused by tunnelling\, reaching equilibrium in a de
 formed and fractured configuration.\n\nBy developing new computational met
 hods and using modern technologies\, it is nowadays possible to achieve hi
 ghly accurate and quick (large-scale) assessments\, meeting the time and b
 udget constraints that engineers and architects face daily. This way\, des
 igning more targeted and less conservative interventions is possible\, avo
 iding unnecessary work. This seminar will provide an overview of methods d
 eveloped by the speaker and his colleagues in recent years for assessing U
 RM structures\, starting from the theoretical basis\, going to computation
 al approaches and concluding with a perspective on the integration of arti
 ficial intelligence and vision-based systems for real-time assessment of m
 asonry constructions.\n\nSPEAKER BIO:\n\nAntonino Iannuzzo is an Assistant
  Professor in Solid and Structural Mechanics at the University of Sannio\,
  appointed through the international Rita Levi Montalcini Programme\, whic
 h funds his project\, “A computational inverse-analysis framework to cor
 relate pathologies in unreinforced masonry structures to complex boundary 
 changes and assess their residual stability.” His research focuses on co
 mputational mechanics\, particularly unilateral structures\, energy-based 
 methods\, crack pattern identification\, and the application of artificial
  intelligence in structural assessment.\n\nIn 2017\, he earned his PhD in 
 Structural Mechanics from the University of Naples Federico II\, where he 
 developed novel methods for modelling crack patterns in historic masonry s
 tructures. Following his PhD\, he joined the P.LIN.I.V.S. Centre in Naples
 \, applying these methods to large-scale seismic assessments of historic b
 uildings. Later\, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich within the Bl
 ock Research Group\, he coordinated research for an SNSF-funded project on
  masonry structures and contributed to developing open-source tools for CO
 MPAS Masonry—a framework for assessing historic and designing new masonr
 y structures. In 2022\, he served as a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne Univer
 sity\, Melbourne\, advancing no-tension design methods. Since 2019\, he ha
 s also been an invited teacher at the International Summer School on Histo
 ric Masonry Structures (HIMASS).
LOCATION:CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building)
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