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6. November 2023.

Dr. sc. Ljupko Perić Held a lecture in comparrison of different engineering approaches used for seismic analysis of structures,  on 15.12.2023, in 17h at Sv. Duh 129, Zagreb.

Recording of the lecture is available on this site

6. November 2023.

Associate Professor Dimitrios Vamvatsikos will visit Zagreb at the end of November 2023. Prof. Dimitrios will give a lecture on “Earthquakes, accidents, collapses, and three little pigs: How is safety defined in the era of the Eurocodes?” on 28.1 1. 2023, starting at 19:30, in the lecture hall VP at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Pierottijeva 6, p.p. 390.

There will be a live online stream on vimeo, embedded in this post.

6. November 2023.

Members of the research group attended the Spring School,  15.5.-20.5.2023. organized as a part of the ITN URBANIS-EU project.

6. November 2023.

Members of the research group attended the SAHC2023 – The International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions 2023, September 12 – 150, 2023. organised by Development of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu-university,

6. November 2023.

Members of the research group attended the 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (12-14 June 2023, Athens, Greece)  

 

4. January 2023.

Prof. Paolo Bazzuro and his associates will visit Zagreb at the end of January 2023. Prof. Bazzurro will give a lecture on “Development of fragility curves for risk assessment of specific buildings with focus on ground motion selection techniques: dos and don’ts.” on 25. 1. 2023, starting at 10:15, in the lecture hall VP at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb, Kačićeva 26.

There will be a live online stream on vimeo, embedded in this post.

4. October 2022.

Members of the research group attended the 10th ICCSM International Congress of. Croatian Society of Mechanics Pula, Croatia, September 28 – 30, 2022. organised by Croatian Society of Mechanics.

14. September 2022.

3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology was held from 4th – 9th September 2022 in Bucharest, Romania.

Prof. Mario Uroš gave a lecture at the conference on Damage to masonry buildings after Petrinja Mw 6.4 Earthquake in 2020 that shook large parts of central Croatia and caused significant damage to buildings in the area.

6. September 2022.

PhD candidates Romano Jevtić Rundek and Ante Pilipović have presented the work they have done during their first year of doctoral studies at the 8th Doctoral Symposium in Civil Engineering held at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb from 5th – 6th September 2022 as part of their doctoral studies curriculum at the same faculty.

Both works are important milestones in developing the methodology for derivation of fragility and vulnerability curves of typical buildings involved in the 2BESAFE project.

29. July 2022.

At the international symposium 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆, which will take place in hybrid form on 14. July 2022 in Protugal, Professor 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗨𝗿𝗼𝘀̌ will talk about structural damage to buildings after the 2020 earthquakes that shook large parts of central Croatia.

24. June 2022.

Research team member Ante Pilipović participated at the METIS Summer School on Seismic Hazard Analysis in Pavia, Italy, held from 20th – 23th June 2022.

10. June 2022.

Research team members Romano Jevtić Rundek and Ante Pilipović participated at the METIS Summer School on Seismic Fragility Analysis in Athens, Greece, held from 8th – 9th June 2022.

19. May 2022.

The project proposal is one of the results of a continuous collaboration between scientists from the Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Department of Engineering Mechanics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Zagreb.

16. May 2022.

Scientists from the Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Department of Engineering Mechanics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Zagreb presented a project proposal for the Zagreb project at the Ministry of Culture and Media.

24. February 2022.

The annual meeting of the 2BeSafe research group was held on February 22. The meeting was attended by project leader Mario Uroš, researchers Senad Medić, Marta Šavor Novak and Marija Demšić, and project PhD students Ante Pilipović and Romano Jevtić Rundek.

4. January 2022.

We are pleased to announce that Assoc. Prof. Vitora Silva will give a lecture on “Earthquake Risk Assessment: Are We Doing Enough?” on January 18, 2022 (Tuesday) starting at 14:00 in the lecture hall VP at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Kačićeva 26, Zagreb.
Covid certificate is required to attend the lecture. In addition to the live presentation, the lecture will be accessible remotely via a link:

12. December 2021.

From 8 to 12 December, the team members visited EPFL, where they toured the structural testing laboratories, gave presentations on current research activities and held discussions on possible collaboration.

 

3. November 2021.

Invited lecture of Assoc. prof. Mario Uroš on the international scientific conference on earthquake engineering and geotechnical aspects of civil engineering.

1. November 2021.

Romano Jevtić Rundek has joined our research team as a PhD student within the Young Researchers’ Career Development Project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.

We warmly welcome Romano!