CURRICULUM VITAE of Alex H. Barbat

UPC
UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de
Caminos Canales y Puertos de Barcelona
CURRICULUM VITAE of Alex H. Barbat
Name:
Position:
Alex H. Barbat.
Professor of Structural Mechanics, Structural Mechanics Department, Civil Engineering
School, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
Office address: Edificio C1, Campus Norte UPC, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Telephone:
+34-934016496, Fax: +34-934011048, e-mail: [email protected]
Personal page: http://barbat.rmee.upc.edu/
Other details in: http://scholar.google.es/citations?user=O3L7tDkAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao
EDUCATION
Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 1989.
Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 1986.
Doctor in Engineering, Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 1978.
Civil engineer, Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 1970.
Bachelor, Brasov, Romania, 1965.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
a) Academic
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, Full Professor, since 1999.
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, Associate Professor, 1996-1999.
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, Research Professor, 1986-1996.
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, Researcher, 1980-1985.
Technical University of Iasi, Romania, Lecturer (Şef de lucrǎri), September 1978-August 1979.
Technical University of Iasi, Romania, Assistant Professor (Asistent), September 1970-August 1978.
b) Professional
International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain, since 1987.
ESPES, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, Earthquake Engineering Consultant, January 1982- December 1985.
D.P.I., S.A., Barcelona, Spain, Earthquake Engineering Consultant, May 1980-December 1981.
INDUS, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, Earthquake Engineering Consultant, October, 1979-April 1980.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Asociación Española de Ingeniería Sísmica (AEIS), since 1982, president since 2004.
Sociedad Española de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (SEMNI), since 1988.
International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), since 1988.
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), California, USA, since 1989.
European Comunity of Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, (ECCOMAS), since 1993.
Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos Canales y Puertos, España, since 2000.
American Romanian Academy, ARA, since 2000.
Asociación Científico-técnica del Hormigón Estructural (ACHE), España, since 2000.
DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA
Doctor Honoris Causa by the “Ovidius” University, Constantza, Romania, March 2011
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University “Gh. Asachi” of Iasi, Romania, November 2011
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 2013
CURRENT RESEARCH LINES
Analysis and design of structures subjected to seismic actions
Evaluation of damage in reinforced concrete and masonry buildings
Active and passive control of structures under dynamic loads
Evaluation of seismic vulnerability and risk of structures
Seismic risk evaluation at national, sub-national and local level
SUMMARY OF THE COLLABORATION IN RELEVANT PROJECTS
Collaboration in 62 research projects, 12 of them funded by the European Commission and 50 by national
institutions. Collaboration in numerous consultancy activities at international and Spanish level.
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Evaluation of the seismic behaviour of elevated water tanks. Various projects funded by the Ministry
of Public Works, Romania, 1974-1978.
Vulnerability to dynamic loads of liquid natural gas tanks. Funded by AUXINI, S.A. and Dragados y
Construcciones, S. A., Spain, 1981-1982.
Evaluation of the failure pressure of the Vandellós II (Spain) Nuclear Power Plant. Funded by
Asociación Nuclear Vandellós, Spain, 1993-1994.
Seismologic study of the planed housing area of Managua, Nicaragua. Funded by the European
Commission across Agroconsulting Europe S.A., Brussels, Belgium, 1995.
Seismic vulnerability of buildings. Application to Barcelona, Spain. Funded by the Generalitat de
Cataluña (Local government of Cataluña, Spain), 1990-1994.
Seismic risk evaluation through Integrated use of Geographical Information System and Artificial
Intelligence (SERGISAI). Funded by the European Commission, 1996-1998.
Advanced Methods for Assessing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Motorway Bridges (VAB).
Funded by the European Commission, 1998-2000.
An advanced approach to earthquake risk scenarios with application to different European towns
(RISK-UE). Funded by the European Commission, 2001-2004.
Development and application of advanced procedures for the seismic vulnerability and risk
evaluation of structures (EVASIS). Funded by the Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, 20022005.
Rapid inspection and rapid classification of the safety level for buildings hit by an earthquake
[Inspección y clasificación rápida del estado de seguridad de edificios afectados por un terremoto],
Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas, CEDEX, Madrid, 2004.
Risk Mitigation for Earthquakes and Landslides (LESSLOSS). Funded by the European
Commission, 2004-2007.
Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management. Application to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, México, Perú, Republica Dominicana, Trinidad y
Tobago. International adviser of this “Project of the Americas” funded by the Inter-American
Development Bank, 2003-2005.
Desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías en materiales y procesos de fabricación de componentes
orientados a su integración en edificios (HABITAT 2030), Funded by the Ministry of Education and
Science, Spain, 2005-2008.
Safety and Durability of Constructions (SEDUREC), Funded by the Ministry of Education and
Science, Spain, 2006-2011.
Country specific risk evaluation (Bolivia, Guatemala, Jamaica and Peru), Inter-American
Development Bank, 2008-2009.
Application and update of risk and risk management indicators for Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia,
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, México, Panamá, Perú, Republica Dominicana, Trinidad y
Tobago, Inter-American Development Bank, 2008-2009.
Central America Probabilistic Risk Assessment, CAPRA, for Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Funded by
the World Bank, 2008-2010.
Central America Probabilistic Risk Assessment, CAPRA, for Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala,
World Bank / Inter-American Development Bank, 2008-2010.
Central America Probabilistic Risk Assessment, CAPRA, for Nicaragua, Inter-American
Development Bank, 2008-2010.
Methods for the Improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe – MOVE. Funded by the
European Commission, 2008-2011.
Implementation of a Risk Assessment methodology at a global level using probabilistic models,
GAR 2011 ISDR GLOBAL ASSESSMENT. Funded by the United Nations Office for Project Services
UNOPS, 2010-2011.
More details on the collaboration in projects can be found in http://www.cimne.com/vpage/2/1151/home
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
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27 directed PhD thesis
8 books
96 articles published in journals included in Web of Science and Scopus
68 peer reviewed articles in other journals
28 chapters of books
32 monographs
275 papers in conference proceedings
60 research reports published in universities or research centers
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
A. H. Barbat, Cálculo sísmico de estructuras, Editores Técnicos Asociados, Barcelona, 1982.
A. H. Barbat and J. Miquel Canet, Structural Response Computations in Earthquake Engineering, Pineridge,
Swansea, U.K., 1989.
A. H. Barbat and J. Miquel Canet, Estructuras sometidas a acciones sísmicas, second edition, Centro
Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería, CIMNE, Barcelona, 1994.
A. H. Barbat, El riesgo sísmico en el diseño de edificios, Calidad Siderúrgica, Madrid, 1998.
A. H. Barbat and L. Bozzo, Diseño sísmico de edificios, Técnicas convencionales y avanzadas, Editorial
Reverté, S.A., Barcelona, 2000.
Chapters of books
A. H. Barbat, “Seismic soil-structure-fluid interaction analysis”, in Numerical Methods in Coupled Systems,
R.W. Lewis, P. Bettess and E. Hinton, editors, 353-386, John Wiley and Sons, 1984.
A. H. Barbat y M. Paz, “Seismic code of Spain”, in International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering, M.
Paz, editor, 431-446, Chapman & Hall, New York, 1994.
A. H. Barbat, S. Oller, P. Mata y J. C. Vielma, “Computational simulation of the seismic response of
buildings with energy dissipating devices”, in Computational Structural Dynamics and Earthquake
Engineering, M. Papadrakakis, D. C. Charmpis, Y. Tsompanakis, N. D. Lagaros and D. Frangopol,
editors, 255-274, Taylor and Francis, 2008.
OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO JOURNAL EDITION
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Associated editor of Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en
Ingeniería (Journal included in the ISI Web of Knowledge), since 2010.
Editor of Revista Internacional de Ingeniería de Estructuras, Quito, Ecuador, since 1996.
Editor for Europe of the Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura
Civil, Puerto Rico, since 2001.
Editor of Monograph Series in Earthquake Engineering, Centro Internacional de Métodos
Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE), Barcelona, since 1993
http://www.cimne.com/tiendacimne/monotema.asp?id_tema=10
Member of the editorial board of Hormigón y Acero, Spain, since 2002
More details on the research activity can be found in
ResearcherID:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/M-6206-2013
Scopus author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003592728
ORCID:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3649-8053