Publications by Pierino Lestuzzi

The Earthquake Risk Model of Switzerland, ERM-CH23

Understanding seismic risk at both the national and sub-national level is essential for devising effective strategies and interventions aimed at its mitigation. The Earthquake Risk Model of Switzerland (ERM-CH23), released in early 2023, is the culmination ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2024

Simplified out-of-plane seismic behavior assessment of non-structural rocking walls

Pierino Lestuzzi

This paper provides a simplified tool for preliminary seismic assessment of the out-of-plane behavior of non-structural walls, such as unreinforced masonry partition walls, based on non-linear time-history analyses. The studies are performed using equivale ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Building typological classification in Switzerland using deep learning methods for seismic assessment

Pierino Lestuzzi, Alireza Khodaverdian

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, have always represented a danger to human life. Seismic risk assessment consists of the evaluation of existing buildings and their expected response in case of an earthquake; the exposure model of buildings plays a k ...

Elsevier2023

Experimental investigations of a new highly ductile hold-down with adaptive stiffness for timber seismic bracing walls

Pierino Lestuzzi

An efficient implementation of the capacity design requires high ductility combined with a low overstrength of the critical regions. Conventional timber connections do not generally offer such ideal combination, resulting in modest behaviour and relatively ...

SPRINGER2023

Shaking table tests for seismic stability of stacked concrete blocks used for radiation shielding

Pierino Lestuzzi

This paper describes the shaking table tests carried out at the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) to investigate the seismic behaviour of four configurations of stacked concrete blocks, commonly used at the Euro ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Could building replacements significantly contribute to seismic vulnerability mitigation at urban scale? Case studies of two typical swiss cities

Pierino Lestuzzi

This paper contains an investigation on the potential decrease of seismic vulnerability related to building replacements for the cities of Sion and Martigny in Switzerland. Those two cities were identified for the present research based on the accuracy of ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Improved urban seismic vulnerability assessment using typological curves and acurate displacement demand prediction

Pierino Lestuzzi, Stefano Podesta, Lorenzo Diana

2021

Development and validation of simplified mechanics-based capacity curves for scenario-based risk assessment of school buildings in Basel

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel, Pia Hannewald

2020

Seismic response of RC buildings subjected to fling-step in the near-fault region

Pierino Lestuzzi, Amin Karbassi

Fling-step and forward directivity are the major consequences of near-fault ground motions as they can impose unexpected seismic demands on structures located in the vicinity of the fault. The pernicious effect of forward directivity on the seismic behavio ...

2020

Probabilistische Schadens-szenarien für den Kanton Basel-Stadt

Pierino Lestuzzi, Christine Tobler, Clotaire Michel

Dieser Beitrag präsentiert die Berechnung und Ergebnisse von drei Schadensszenarien für den Kanton Basel-Stadt. Bei der Berechnung wurden vorhandene Modelle für die Analyse der Bodenbewegungen und der Gebäudeverletzbarkeit mit einem probabilistischen Ansat ...

2019

Comparison of linear and non-linear methods for the seismic justification of the Chancy-Pougny Dam

Pierino Lestuzzi

Le barrage de Chancy-Pougny situé sur le Rhône franco-suisse à une vingtaine de kilomètres en aval de Genève a fait l’objet d’études et de travaux de confortement parasismique de 2007 à 2017 à l’occasion du renouvellement de la concession octroyée en 2003 ...

Comité Français des Barrages et Réservoirs - CFBR2019

Seismic vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings through BIM

Pierino Lestuzzi, Stefano Podesta, Lorenzo Diana, Elisa Ambrassa, Alice Comune

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering ( IABSE )2019

A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Recent earthquake events throughout the world have once again exposed the vulnerability of buildings with respect to earthquakes. It is unlikely and unsustainable to design and - especially in regions with low-to-moderate seismic hazard – to retrofit all b ...

2019

Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings in Ranau Township: Methodological Design

Pierino Lestuzzi, Noor Sheena Herayani Harith

Structural damage usually happens during earthquake events. This had caused damage of properties and even worse, loss of lives. Usually, the greatest losses were not caused by the quake specifically, but rather because of the fall of the structures. The vu ...

UKM PRESS2019

Seismic displacement demand prediction in non-linear domain: Optimization of the N2 method

Pierino Lestuzzi, Lorenzo Diana

In Europe, computation of displacement demand for seismic assessment of existing buildings is essentially based on a simplified formulation of the N2 method as prescribed by Eurocode 8 (EC8). However, a lack of accuracy of the N2 method in certain conditio ...

2019

Using data interpretation to enhance post-seismic decision making at urban scale

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

2019

Measurement-based support for post-earthquake assessment of buildings

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

After a damaging earthquake, assessment of the residual seismic capacity is required for large parts of the building stock. Increased vulnerability of structures together with the threat of immediate aftershocks call for rapid and objective decision making ...

2019

An engineering approach to model-class selection for measurement-supported post-earthquake assessment

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

2019

Accuracy Assessment of Nonlinear Seismic Displacement Demand Predicted by Simplified Methods for the Plateau Range of Design Response Spectra

Pierino Lestuzzi, Lorenzo Diana

The non-linear seismic displacement demand prediction for low-period structures, i.e. with an initial fundamental period situated in the plateau of design response spectra is studied. In Eurocode 8, the computation of seismic displacement demands is essent ...

2019

A Framework to Evaluate the Benefit of Seismic Upgrading

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel

The framework to evaluate the benefit of seismic upgrading of Galanis et al. (2018) is compared to that present in the Swiss seismic code for existing buildings since 2004, updated in 2017. To illustrate the comparison, the example building of Galanis et a ...

2019