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Prof. Ing. GIAN MICHELE CALVI

Professor of Structural Engineering Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale Università degli Studi di Pavia www.unipv.it Principal, Studio Calvi s.r.l. Director European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk I.U.S.S., Pavia www.roseschool.it www.meees.org President European Centre for Research and Training in Earthquake Engineering Pavia www.eucentre.it

Education

1981	Laurea in Ingegneria Civile Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
1985	Master of Science in Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
1987	Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria delle Strutture (Ph. D.) Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Academic Experience

1987 – 1989	Researcher (tenure track) Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
1990 – 1992	Researcher (tenure) Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
1990	Visiting Professor University of California, San Diego
1992 – 1999	Associate Professor Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
1996 – 2000	Faculty member Doctoral School in Seismic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
1997 – 2003	Head of the Structural Laboratory Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
2000 –	Professor Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
2000 –	Director European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, I.U.S.S. Pavia
2000 –	Director Doctoral School in Seismic Engineering, Università di Pavia
2002 – 2004	Director Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale, Università di Pavia
2003 –	Director and President European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Pavia

Awards

1979	ILAUD (International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design) Research Scholarship for the 4th Residential Course
1984 – 1986	Italian Government, Ministry of Education Scholarship for Doctoral Studies
1985	Foundation Stiftelsen Blanceflor Boncompagni Ludovisi fodd Bildt (Stockholm) Research Scholarship
1984 – 1985	Commission for Cultural Exchanges between U.S.A. and Italy Fulbright - Hays Fellowship
1987 – 1988	ISMES (Bergamo, Italy) Research Scholarship

Professional Experience

·	Reinforced concrete buildings (more than 400,000 m3)
·	Silos, tanks, wharves, retaining structures, isolation systems (including the preliminary design of the isolation system for the Reactor Jules Horowitz, France)
·	Bridges (including the assessment, re-design and strengthening of the 119 spans Bolu viaduct, Turkey, heavily damaged by the Duzce earthquake, 1999)
·	Check and pier review of structural design (more than 100 cases, including the Rion Antirion 2,883 m cable stayed bridge, Greece)
·	Ancient bell towers (assessment of more than 10 cases)
·	Assessment and strengthening of buildings (more than 70,000 m3)

Research Experience (selected)

1993 – 1997	Coordinator of the project: "Prenormative Research in Support of Eurocode 8" (PREC8), funded by the CEC within the HCM Program
1993 – 1997	Member of the coordinating panel of the project: "European Consortium of European Shaking Tables" (ECOEST), funded by the CEC within the HCM and TMR Programs
1992 – 1996	Responsible of the Research Unit of the University of Pavia in the project: "Development of Reinforced Masonry Building Systems" (DREMAB), funded by the CEC within the Brite-Euram Program
1992 – 1997	Responsible of the project: "Testing and Analysis of the Seismic Response of an Unreinforced Masonry Building Prototype", funded by the National Group for the Defense against Earthquakes (GNDT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)
1994 – 1996	Coordinator of the project: "Seismic Response of Masonry Infilled Frames", funded by the CEC
1997 – 1999	Responsible of the Research Unit of the University of Pavia in the project: "Innovative design concepts for new and existing structures" (ICONS), funded by the CEC within the TMR Program
1998 – 2000	Responsible of the Research Unit of the University of Pavia in the project: "Novel displacement-based approaches for seismic structural assessment" (NODISASTR), funded by the CEC within the Environment Program
2000 – 2003	Responsible of the Research Unit of the University of Pavia in the project: "Safety Assessment for Earthquake Risk Reduction" (SAFERR), funded by the CEC within the Research Training Network Program
2000 – 2003	Coordinator of the project: “Reduction of Seismic Vulnerability of Infrastructural Systems and Physical Environment” (VIA), Funded by the Italian Government
2000 – 2004	Responsible of the Research Unit of the University of Pavia in the project: “Seismic Performance Assessment and Rehabilitation” (SPEAR), funded by the CEC within the programme Grow 2000
2004 –	Coordinator of the project: “Risk Mitigation for Earthquakes and Landslides” (Lessloss), Integrated project funded by the CEC within the FP6
2004 – 2008	Coordinator of the project: “Master in Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Seismology” (MEEES), funded by the CEC within the programme Erasmus Mundus

Selection of Publications

(complete list exceeds 170 papers)

1	Calvi G.M., M. Ciampoli and P.E. Pinto, Guidelines for Seismic Design of Bridges - Background Studies: Part 1, European Earthquake Engineering, N. 2/1989, 1989, 3-16
2	Salvaneschi P., M. Cadei, G.M. Calvi and P. Rossi, Towards a KBS for Building Seismic Assessment, Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, Vol. 5, 1990, 29-41
3	Calvi G.M. and M.J.N. Priestley, Investigations of the Collapse of a Medieval Masonry Tower, The TMS Journal, Vol. 9, 1990, 51-59
4	Priestley M.J.N. and G.M. Calvi, Towards a Capacity Design Assessment Procedure for Reinforced Concrete Frames, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 7, N. 3, 1991, 413-437
5	Pinto P.E. and G.M. Calvi, Seismic design of reinforced concrete frames, a European perspective, in Recent Developments in Lateral Force Transfer in Buildings, ACI SP - 157, Detroit, 1995, 191-210
6	Calvi G.M., G.R. Kingsley, Displacement based design of multi-degree-of-freedom bridge structures, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 24, 1995, 1247-1266
7	Calvi G.M., Seismic design of bridges in Europe, invited keynote lecture, Proc. of the SECED Conference, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1995, 35-42
8	Priestley M.J.N., F. Seible and G.M. Calvi, Seismic design and retrofit of bridges, John Wiley and Sons, 1996, (686 pp.)
9	Calvi G.M. and G. Ballio, Effects of confinement on the behaviour of masonry structures, The TMS Journal, 1996
10	Calvi G.M., G.R. Kingsley and G. Magenes, Testing of masonry structures for seismic assessment, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1996, 145-162
11	Calvi G.M. and G.R. Kingsley, Problems and certainties in the experimental simulations of the seismic response of MDOF structures, Engineering Structures, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1996, 213-226
12	Calvi G.M., G. Via and E. Vintzeleou, Reinforced concrete infilled frames, in: RC frames under earthquake loading, CEB Bulletin 231, T. Telford, 1996, 231-284
13	Calvi G.M. and P.E. Pinto (editors), Experimental and numerical investigations on the seismic response of bridges and recommendations for code provisions, Ecoest-Prec8 Report No. 4, LNEC, Lisbon, 1996
14	Magenes, G, and Calvi G.M., In-plane seismic response of brick masonry walls, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 26, 1997, 1091-1112
15	Calvi G.M. and A. Pavese, Conceptual design of isolation systems for bridge structures, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997, 193-218
16	Calvi G.M. and M. J.N. Priestley, Assessment of existing buidings, in: Seismic design of RC structures for controlled inelastic response, CEB Bulletin 236, Lausanne, 1997, 159-204
17	Calvi G.M., Seismic performance of RC bridges, Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997, 50-56
18	Calvi G.M., European advances in seismic design and assessment of bridges, invited keynote lecture, National Seismic Conf. on Bridges and Highways, Sacramento, CA, 1997
19	Calvi G. M., Performance-based approaches for seismic assessment of existing structures, invited keynote lecture, XI ECEE, Paris, 1998
20	Faccioli E., Pessina V., Calvi G.M. and Borzi B., Studies on building damage scenarios, Journal of Seismology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1999
21	Calvi G.M., A displacement-based approach for vulnerability evaluation of classes of buildings, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1999
22	Borzi B., G.M. Calvi, A. S. Elnashai, E. Faccioli and J. J. Bommer, Inelastic spectra for displacement-based seismic design, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 21, 2001, 47-61
23	Calvi G.M. and D. Bolognini, Seismic response of reinforced concrete frames infilled with weak reinforced masonry panels, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 2, 2001, 153-186
24	Calvi G.M., G. Magenes and S. Pampanin, Relevance of beam-column joints damage and collapse in R.C. frame assessment, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, SP1, Vol. 6, 2002
25	Priestley M.J.N. and G.M. Calvi, Strategies for repair ad seismic upgrading of Bolu Viaduct 1, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, SP1, Vol. 6, 2002
26	Sullivan T.J., Calvi G.M., M.J.N. Priestley and M. J. Kowalsky, The limitations and performances of different displacement based design methods, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, SP1, Vol. 7, 2003, 201-241
27	Calvi G.M. (Editor), Displacement-based Seismic Design of RC Buildings, fib Bulletin 25, fib, Lausanne, 2003
28	Calvi G.M., P. Ceresa, D. Bolognini, C. Casarotti and F. Auricchio, effects of axial force variation in the seismic response of bridges isolated with friction pendulum systems, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, SP1, Vol. 8, 2004, 187-224
29	Calvi G.M., Recent experience and innovative approaches in design and assessment of bridges, invited keynote lecture, 13 WCEE, Vancouver, 2004

Editorial Activities (selected)

1983 –	Author of more than 150 publications on seismic design and assessment of different kinds of structures
1987 –	Reviewer for several International Journals related to structural and seismic engineering
1990	Organizer and Editor (with M.J.N. Priestley) of the International Workshop Seismic design and retrofitting of reinforced concrete bridges (Bormio, Italy)
1993	Organizer and Editor (with D.P. Abrams) of the US-Italy Workshop on Seismic evaluation and rehabilitation of unreinforced masonry buildings, (Pavia, Italy)
1994	Responsible of the European Team at the 2nd International Workshop on Seismic design and retrofitting of reinforced concrete bridges (Queenstown, New Zealand)
1996	Co-author of the book Seismic design and retrofit of bridges, John Wiley and Sons
1996	Organizer and Editor (with D.P. Abrams) of the US-Italy Workshop on Seismic evaluation and retrofit of building structures, (New York)
1997 –	Associate Editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (JEE), IC Press (World Scientific)
1998	Organizer (with P.E. Pinto, M. Constantinou and I. Friedland) of the US-Italy Workshop on Bridge Protection Systems (New York)
1998	Invited keynote speaker at the XI European Conference on Earthquake Engineering
2001 –	Organizer of the International Rose Seminars (yearly)
2004	Invited keynote speaker at the XIII World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Memberships and Committees

· Italian Society of Civil Engineers

· American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

· Italian Society for Earthquake Engineering (ANIDIS)

· Federation International du Beton (fib): member of Commission “Seismic design” and chairman of WG7.4

(“Seismic design of bridges”)

· Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

· Commission for the Application of Seismic Provisions, Regione Lombardia, Italy

· Commission for the revision of Italian Codes related to seismic design

· Scientific Board of the National Group for Defense against Earthquake (GNDT, Italy)

· Commission for the definition of the research programs to be funded by the Ministry of Civil Protection, Italy

· Project team for the transformation of EC8/2 (Bridges) from ENV to EN (CEN)

· Project team to draft the part of EC8 related to base isolation

· Commission to draft the Seismic Code for the Association of Caribbean States

· Chair of the Commission to draft the Italian Seismic Code

· Chair of the Italian National Commission for Prevention of Great Risks – Seismic Section

Key Achievements

The book Seismic design and retrofit of bridges (co-authored with M.J.N. Priestley and F. Seible, John Wiley and Sons, 1996) has been translated into Chinese and Japanese and sold in more than 10,000 copies, becoming the world reference text on the subject

The European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School, www.roseschool.it, founded in the year 2000) is now counting on more than 50 graduate students in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, with applications from more than 60 different countries, therefore becoming one of the world recognized centre of excellence in the field

The European Centre for Research and Training in Earthquake Engineering (Eucentre, www.eucentre.it, founded in the year 2003) is now endowed with the most powerful testing system in Europe, with a 5.4 x 7.0 m shake table (payload 30 t, amax 1.8 g at full load, vmax 1.5 m/s, dmax 1 m) and a tri – dimensional large capacity reaction system

The introduction of a new seismic code in Italy, after 30 year without significant innovation, has been deeply innovating the profession, with more than 25,000 engineers following courses over the past two years, and a consequent real reduction of the seismic risk, due to the improved professional competence

G.M. Calvi has been one, among many, of the proposers and developers of the displacement – based design philosophy for seismic design of structures, which is increasing in consensus and popularity and may become a kind of standard in the near future

G.M. Calvi has participated, as designer, consultant or checker in some world – famous construction challenge, such as the assessment, repair and retrofit of the Bolu viaduct after the 1999 Duzce earthquake in Turkey and the design and construction of the Rion – Antirion cable stayed bridge in Greece

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