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My usefull links
Clik on the category names for a full list of sites, since in this page under each section only the most relevant sites are listed, according to my browsing needs.

Customary => SI Unit Conversion Tables

Structural Engineering related Sites

Links for Bridges

Good starting point for searching software and codes on line.

Earthquake Engineering
Journals and Bulletins

A comprehensive resource for scientifically relevant Journals in Earthquake Engineering (either with full text on line or not). 
The most frequently checked by me are listed below: 
MCEER Review of Selected Journals, (Monthly Content);
NISEE Earthquake Engineering Abstracts 
NISEE Earthquake Engineering Reports ,
ASCE Civil Engineering Database,
Web of Science , Citation Database
NIST - Building and Fire Research Laboratory

PEER Seismic Performance Database
PEER Strong Motion Database
COSMOS Virtual Data Center
Science Direct

Building Standards Online 
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 
Civil Engineering [ASCE]
Civil Engineering 
Computers & Structures 
Engineering Geology 
Engineering Structures 
EQE Review 
Int. Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 
Journal of Earthquake Engineering 
Journal of Seismology 
Journal of Structural Engineering 
Natural Hazards 
Seismological Research Letters 
Tectonophysic 

Scientific Books and Publishers

Prentice Hall
Elsevier
McGraw-Hill
Wiley
Arnold
Springer
CRC Press
Balkema
National Accademic Press
Publisher Links
Libweb
UC Berkeley Libraries
California Digital Library

My Accademic Links

Prof. Edoardo Cosenza
Prof. Mario De Stefano
Prof. Ezio Faccioli
Prof. Daniele Veneziano
Prof. Gian Michele Calvi
Prof. Filip C. Filippou
Prof. Jonh B. Mander
Prof. Armen Der Kiureghian
Prof. Allin C. Cornell
Dr. Paolo Bazzurro

Universities and Accademic Agencies

M.U.R.S.T, Italy
C.N.R., Italy
Accademia dei Lincei, Italy
Universita' di Napoli, Italy 
Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Universita' di Pavia, Italy 
World Accademies
World Universities
U.S. Universities
University Rankings
University Rankings - USN&WR
U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A. 
U.C. Berkeley Registrar, U.S.A. 
University of California, U.S.A. 
Imperial College, London, U.K.
Royal Society, U.K.
ETH - Zurich, Switzerland
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Aalborg University, Denmark

News Agencies

la Repubblica
l'Espresso
Daily Telegraph
The Times
Int'l Herald Tribune
Financial Times
The Economist
US Newspaper Links
Washington Post
New York Times
USA Today
Newsweek
San Francisco chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
RadioEmporium
SF Radios
KRON - San Francisco
KQED - San Francisco
NPR [88.5]
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KOIT [96.5]
Alice [97.3]
ABC
BBC
Broadcast.com (BBC)
CBS
NBC
CNN
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Busines Week
Naked News
RM
Berkeley Engineering News
Berkeleyan
Daily Californian

Miscelaneus

International House Berkeley
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Library of Congress
U.S. Census Bureau
NIST WWW
America's Job Bank
Currency Exchange Calculator
U.S. ZIP+4 Code Lookup
Maps
Global Telecom
Global Times
Movie Database
Movie Fone
Movies in Berkeley
MTV
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Bank of America

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ALESSANDRO RASULO
 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale 
 Politecnico di Milano
 P.le Leonardo da Vinci 32 
 I-20133 Milano (Italy) 
 

rasulo@stru.polimi.it



    My curriculum vitae (soon available!) 

  My pictures


Education 

1997:   Graduated in Civil Engineering at University of Naples (I) (5 years program equivalent to EngB + MSc ) 

1998-2001: PhD Student in Earthquake Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (I) 

2000-2001: Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley (USA) 


Affiliations

ACI - American Concrete Institute
(Student Member and 445 Committee Shear and Torsion Associate Member) 

ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers
(Associate Member) 

EERI - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
(Student Member) 

SSA - Seismological Society of America
(Student Member) 


Areas of Research

Earthquake Engineering; Structural Engineering


Research Projects

SAFERR: Safety Assessment for Earthquake Risk Reduction

VIA: Reduction of Seismic Vulnerability of Infrastructural Systems and Physical Environment


Schoolarships

Ministry of University Schoolarship for PhD Student


Courses

June 2000 Lab at the International Seminar "Evaluation of Seismic Risk and Reduction of Vulnerability of Historical Structures" at the European School for Advanced Studies - University of Pavia (I).

July 2001 Teaching Assistanship at the European School of Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE)

2nd Semester 2002 Teaching Assistanship at Universita' di Roma Tre
Slab Analysis with SAP
Concrete Design Example (I)
Concrete Design Example (II)

since September 2002 Teaching Assistanship at Universita' di Cassino in Earthquake Engineering
Commentario ANIDIS-SSN .
EC2 Sofware by Prof. Aurelio Ghersi.
Italian Seismic Design Code [DM'96].
New Italian Seismic Design Code [OPCM 3274 & 3316].
Drafted Italian Seismic Design Code [CSLP].
Limit State Design .
*.doc *.mcd Moment Curvature Program.
Degtra95 Strong Motion Analyzer by Prof. M. Ordaz et al. (UNAM, Mexico).
SeismoStruct Seismic Analisys Program by Seismosoft (S. Antoniou and R. Pinho)
setup manual earthquakes NonLin - Inelastic SDOF Dynamic Analysis (FEMA)
setup manual Moment Curvature Analysis Program (SEQUAD)
setup01 setup02 manual Edu-SHAKE (EduPro Civil Systems, Inc.)

since June 2002 Teaching Assistanship at Universita' di Cassino in Computer Aided Structural Analysis and Design
Sap Manual





















Publications
 
1. Calvi, G.M.; Pavese, A., Rasulo, A. (2000) "Experimental Studies on Hollow RC Bridge Piers" 3-rd Japan-Uk Workshop: Implications of Recent Earthquakes on Seismic Risk, 6-7 April 2000, Imperial College (London). [Elnashai, A. S./Antoniou, S. (Edts)]

2. Rasulo, A.; Faccioli, E.; Pessina, V. (2000) "Studi sulla pericolosita sismica della citta' di Catania"

3. Rasulo, A.; Faccioli, E. (2001) "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Scenarios " Proceedings of the IABSE International Conference on Safety, Risk and Reliability - Trends in Engineering, Malta, March 21/23, 2001

4. Rasulo, A. (2001) "The Application of a Hybrid Recurrence Model to the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the city of Catania" Accepted for publication on Proceedings of 8-th ICOSAR, Newport Beach (CA) USA - June 17/22, 2001

5. Rasulo, A. (2002) ""

6. Rasulo, A. (2002) "Seismic Fragility of Existing RC Bridge Piers" Abstract submitted to 5-th ACI International Conference

7. Calvi, G.M.; Pavese, A., Rasulo, A. (s.d.) "Experimental and numerical studies on the response of hollow bridge piers" Paper submitted to Int. Jour. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics


Affiliations

ACI - American Concrete Institute
(Student Member and 445 Committee Shear and Torsion Associate Member) 

ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers
(Associate Member) 

EERI - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
(Student Member) 


 


Research Activities

Cornell Risk Analysis for the City of Catania
(In collaboration with Prof. E. Faccioli - Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Experimental Studies on Hollow Bridge Piers  -  soon available !!! 
 (In collaboration with Prof. G. M. Calvi and Dr. A. Pavese - Universita' di Pavia, Italy)

Numerical Modeling of Shear Critical Bridge Piers   -  soon available !!! 
 (In collaboration with Prof. F. C. Filippou and  A. Saritas - University of California, Berkeley)

Seismic Fragility of Existent Bridge Piers   -  proposed topic !!! 
 (In discussion with Prof. A. Der Kiureghian and  P. Gardoni - University of California, Berkeley)

FRP Retrofitting of Seismically Inadeguate RC Bridge Piers
 (In collaboration with Prof. G.M. Calvi, Dr. A. Pavese and  Ing. D. Bolognini - Universita' di Pavia, Italy)
 


 


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