Dr. Paolo Gardoni, associate professor in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, will present a seminar Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. in Room 203 of the Zachry Engineering Center.

In the seminar, “Seismic Fragility Estimates for Pristine and Deteriorating Bridges and Bridge Networks,” Gardoni will discuss how seismic structural capacity is defined using unbiased probabilistic models for the drift and shear force capacity. Probabilistic demand models are developed to estimate the drift and shear force demands on RC columns for given values of the earthquake intensity, expressed in terms of the spectral acceleration at the fundamental period of the bridge.

Gardoni is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, where he serves on the Probabilistic Methods Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division; the American Association of Railroads; the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association; and the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability.

His research interests are in performance assessment of deteriorating systems, structural reliability, risk and life cycle analysis, modeling, development and implementation of LRFD, probability and stochastic methods, modeling and simulation of natural phenomena, and forecasting.

Contact: Paolo Gardoni at pgardoni@civil.tamu.edu, or Lauren Kern at laurenkern@tees.tamus.edu

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