DICATDipartimento di Ingegneria delle Costruzioni, dell’Ambiente e del TerritorioUniversità degli Studi di Genova

Via Montallegro 1 - 16145 Genova – www.dicat.unige.it

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Founded in 2007 by the civil, environmental, building and architectural researchers

of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova

DICAT consists of 49 faculty members

24 technicians and administrative staff16 contract researchers

19 post-doctoral researchers 25 PhD students

The teaching activity of the DICAT faculty members covers degrees in:o Civil Engineering o Environmental Engineering o Building Engineering and Architectureand fundamental courses for other Engineering degrees

DICAT is the centre of the doctoral courses in Fluid Dynamics and Environmental Engineering Processes and Structural and Geotechnical Engineering in the Doctoral School of Science and Technologies for Engineering

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Morphodynamics

Conservation and Earthquake Engineering

Fluid and Bio-fluid MechanicsGeotechnical

Engineering Building Technology

MaterialEngineering

Energy and Process Engineering

Hydrology

Environment Architectural Design

Port and Coastal Engineering

Mechanics of Solids and Materials

Wind Engineering and Dynamics

Design and Construction of

Marine Structures

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A research team of DICAT works in the field of morphodynamics, which is the study of the evolution

of landscapes and seascapes in response to the erosion and deposition of sediment.  The main interests of the group are in

morphodynamics associated with rivers, coasts and estuaries.

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Fluid and Bio-fluid Mechanics

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Coastal Morphodynamics

Utrecht University - Granada University - HR Wallingford – UPC Barcelona - Twente University – Delft University of Technology - Cambridge University – Naval Postgraduate School Monterey – M.I.T – Politecnico di Bari – Oxford University - Technical University of Denmark - University of Nottingham – University of Ancona

River and Estuarine Morphodynamics

People: Prof. P. Blondeaux – Prof. G. Vittori – Dr. G. Besio - Dr. N. Tambroni

Collaborations:

University of Firenze – University of Padova – University of Trento –University of Urbana-Champain - University of Minnesota - Imperial College - University of Bristol - Florida State University - University of Tokyo - University of Kyoto – University of l’Aquila

People: Prof. G. Seminara – Prof. M. Colombini – Dr. A. Stocchino - Dr. M. Bolla PittalugaDr. V. Garotta – Dr. N. Tambroni – Dr. J. Costa

Collaborations:

Fluid and Bio-fluid Mechanics

University of Toulouse – University of Salerno – University of Nancy – Imperial College - CERFACS

People: Prof. A. Bottaro – Prof. P. Blondeaux – Prof G. Seminara – Prof. M. Colombini – Prof G. Vittori - Dr. A. Stocchino – Dr. D. Biau – Dr. H. Wedin – Dr. J. Favier – Dr. A. Dauptain

Collaborations:

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Hydrologic measurements

Hydrology

Hydrologic requirements for hydropower design

People:

P.Bartolini E.CarcanoE.Cordano

Rainfall-runoff modelling

Collaborations:

Colorado State University.The University of Arizona.

Topics:

Rainfall-runoff transformation.ARMA and Neural Network modelling of hydrologic time-series.Hydrology and Hydroelectric Power Plants.Water Resources management.Soil-water relationships.Hydrologic measurements.

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Hydrological processes in natural and urban watershedTopics: analysis and modeling of extreme hydrological events, geo-morpho-climatic

characterization of the hydrological response of natural drainage network, space-time structure of intermittent rain field, error estimation in tipping bucket rain gauges, metals partitioning and speciation in rainfall-runoff process, storm water runoff pollution monitoring and modelling, sustainable urban drainage systems…

Collaborations & highlights of group work:Hydrology 2006 “Correlation Patterns and information flows in rainfall field”; Urb. Wat. 2007 “Hydrologic influence on stormwater pollution…”; Hydrol. Proc. 2004 “The impact of TBRs measurement errors on design rainfall for urban-scale applications,,

WMO Laboratory Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity gauges

People:

P. La Barbera L.G. Lanza

A. MoliniC. BerrettaI. GneccoA. Palla

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Port and Coastal Engineering

People:Prof. L. Rebaudengo LandòProf. S. SturaDr. R. Gentile

Collaborations:University of Lecce.University of Padova.University of Roma.Ligurian Region.European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering.

Topics:Port and maritime structures.Specification of design wave for maritime structures.Seismic vulnerability of port structures.Devices for energy production from wave motion.

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Topics: Ceramic Material sintering and stress analysis. (Instron, Dynamic Laser Young Modulus) Porous Material, Polymer Composites, Ceramic Functionalized Biomedical Cements Powder Engineering, Surface Area (BET) Wetting and Interfaces analysis at Macro-Micro size (Static, Dynamic Wilhelmy, Viscosimetry)

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People:Marco CapurroLuigi BarcoFabrizio BarberisPaolo Cirillo

Collaborations:• University of California, Berkeley CNR• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – LBNL ENEA• National Institute of Standard and Technologies – NIST ANSALDO

Material Engineering and Interfaces

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Process Engineering Research Team - PERT

Energy production from fuel cell systems and CO2 capture

Gas-liquid interaction in high-temperature metallic systems

Green hydrogen and syngas from biomass or sludge

Water treatment(desalination and conditioning)

Topics: Chemical and electrochemical heterogeneous kinetics, chemical and electrochemical reactors, steady-state and dynamic simulation of process engineering systems, programming and accomplishment of experimental tests, data analysis and identification problems, equipment scale-up and dimensioning, environmental themes, …

People: Elisabetta Arato Barbara BosioPaolo Greppi Nicola Di GiulioMichela MazzoccoliDaniele BernoccoZaida Chavez RomeroDaniela Pellegrini

Collaborations:Univ. Politecnica de Valencia Univ Catolica S.to Toribio de MongrovejoUniversità di Trento CIRPS ABB CNRAnsaldo Fuel Cells ENEAAnsaldo Ricerche ERGA.M.I.A.S. FISIACESI Paul WURTH

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Architectural Urban DesignTopics:

Projects of revaluation and compatible reuse of industrially interesting buildings.

Reintegration with new technologies and materials, environmental sustainability.

Collaborations :A.I.PA.I. (Associazione Italiana per il Patrimonio Archeologico Industriale),

T.IC.C.I.H. (The International Commitee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage)

Regione Liguria

Soprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali e Architettonici della Liguria

Direzione Regionale per i Beni e le Attività Culturali della Liguria

Fondazione Ansaldo

People:ARCH_IN Industrial Archaeology Laboratory

(responsible S. De Maestri)

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Survey and knowledge for the historical architecture Topics:

The scientific activity turns to the assertion of the drawing, not only regarded as an instrument of communication but, principally as an indispensable instrument for the analysis of the environment and the existing historical manufactured based on thematic of: survey, architecture  city drawing representation, as well as on the typological characters. The principal study-thematics are: buildings and public squares, materials and constructive techniques, for the conservation of the cultural properties besides for the cataloguing and the reclaiming of monuments.

Collaborations : U.I.D. (Unione Italiana per il Disegno)CRUIE (Centro di Ricerca in Urbanistica e Ingegneria Ecologica),Regione LiguriaSoprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali e Architettonicidella Liguria

People: G. GuidanoM.C. CigoliniM.R. CroceE. Merello

G. Pellegri

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Natural Risks and Territorial Safeguard, Town Requalification and social and economic Revitalisation, Mobility and Infrastructural and harbour planning, Environmental Sustainability at different scales (neighborhood, territorial and urban planning, urban design), Strategic Environmental Evaluation

Topics: Urban and territorial planning

People: Collaborations:P. Ugolini (Director CRUIE)A. Chirico

F. Conelli, F. Cumbo,I. Delponte, F. Pirlone, R. Rovida, I. Spadaro, P. Tirelli

Regione Liguria, Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Savona, Provincia di Cuneo, Comune di Genova, Dip. DICATA Brescia, ESRI/Galileian Plus, CSTB (FR), BRGM (FR)

Sustainability Map

Infrastructural planning

Mobility AnalisysRisk scenarios

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Group of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering

●Mechanics of Solids and Materials

●Soil and Rock Mechanics - Geotechnical Engineering

●Seismic safety and Preservation

●Building Technology

●Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Laboratory for Material Testing (established in 1904, enacted in 1936):

Experimental research and tests for a third party on material characterization, diagnosis of existing structures and damage; analysis of structural and geotechnical systems; …

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Mechanics of Solids and Materials

People:

L. Gambarotta, R. Massabò, I. Monetto, R. Sburlati, A. Cavicchi, G.M. Andrews, A. Bacigalupo, A. Brencich

Topics: analytical and computational mechanics, elasticity, fracture and damage mechanics, contact mechanics, constitutive modeling, composites, interfaces,

biomechanics, masonry mechanics.

Collaborations & highlights of group work: - Scienza delle Costruzioni, McGraw-Hill,

2003.- Nonlinear models for nonmetallic materials, Kluwer, 1999.

- Publications in: JMPS, IJSS, J. Biomechanics, Int. J. Fracture, Int. J. Engrg. Science, J. Elasticity, J. Applied mechanics, Eur. J. Mech.

- Northwestern Univ., IL, Univ. Of California at Santa Barbara, CA, Univ. Of Arizona at Tucson, AZ, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, USA; Rockwell Scientific, CA, USA.

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Biaxial Strength of brittle materials – project for the Italian MIUR

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Soil and Rock Mechanics - Geotechnical Engineering

People:

R.Berardi, G.Dalerci

R.Passalacqua, R.Bovolenta

A.Baretto, G.Mercurio

Topics: Mechanics of saturated and unsaturated soils; mechanics of rocks and rock masses; soil-structure interaction; foundation engineering; slope stability and risk assessment; soil reinforcement techniques; physical model testing.

Collaborations & highlights of group work: Papers published on international

Journals (Geotechnique; J. Geotech. Eng. (ASCE);ASCE GSP; Proc. of ICE; Soils & Foundations; etc..)

Technical Univ. of Turin and Milan; City Univ. of London; Italian Geotech. Society; Int. Technical Committee ITC18 of ISSMGE; Industry; etc..

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Earthquake Engineering Conservation Engineering

Collaborations & highlights of group work: Research collaboration with ReLUIS, INGV, Eucentre (Pavia), UPC Barcelona (Spain), UNAM (Mexico City), BRGM (France), Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage.

S. Lagomarsino served in the drafting panel of the “Guidelines for evaluation and mitigation of seismic risk to cultural heritage” (GU n. 24, 29/1/2008) and the Italian seismic code (OPCM 3431/05 – NTC 2008).

Papers published on International Journals (Earthquake Spectra, ASCE, JEE, EESD, IJAH )

Development of a software for the seismic analysis of masonry buildings (TREMURI)

Classificazione geologicasemplificata

A - RockB - StiffC - Soft

Chiese analizzate

Edifici vincolati

Edifici civili

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Monitoring and Diagnosis

Seismic Damage Assessment

Retrofitting

Seismic analysis

Risk Analysis

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People: S.Lagomarsino S.Podestà C.Calderini S.Cattari E.Curti S.Parodi S.Resemini

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Group of Structural Health Monitoring

A team of DICAT is active on Structural Health Monitoring research. Research topics include: application of innovative

sensor technologies (fiber optics), data analysis and interpretation for damage identification from static and

dynamic monitoring, diagnostics and decision support tools.

Main applications on bridge, heritage and maritime structures

Team members: A. Del Grosso, F. Lanata

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Building Technology

People:

E. Dassori

R. Morbiducci

Topics: building materials and technology, experimental characterization, sustainability of constructions, …

Collaborations & highlights of group work:

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Collaboration with: Magnetti Building, Italy; Quality Building, Italy; …

E. Dassori, reviewer for European Standard, Precast Concrete Products – Wall Elements: Product Properties and Performances (CENTG229/WG1/TG8 – N.349).

R. Morbiducci, member of European Commission COST, Action C25, Sustainability of Constructions

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Sustainability of Constructions

Arup & Parteners

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Wind Engineering and Structural DynamicsPeople:

G. Solari

G. Piccardo

L.C. Pagnini

L. Carassale

M.P. Repetto

F. Tubino

A. Freda

Collaborations & Key Positions:

Wind & Structures. An International Journal

Centre of Excellence on Wind Effects on Buildings and Urban Areas, Tokyo

IAWE International Association for Wind Engineering

Master in Wind Engineering, Genoa-Milan

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Design and Construction of Marine StructuresPeople:

Enrico Rizzuto

Topics Loads and responses of marine structuresStructural reliability of marine structuresRisk based design of marine structuresStructure-borne noise propagation, acoustical planning on board ships Noise emissions from shipsUnconventional materials and joints for marine applications

Present memberships International Ship 6 Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC) 1998-2012 Committees: Extreme Hull Girder Loading, Fatigue Loading, Risk Based Design, Design Principles &Criteria International Forum on Engineering Decision Making (IFED) Advisory council Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS) Off-shore, Marine & Artic Engineer.Conf.(OMAE) Symp. Org: Structures,Safety & Reliability

Ongoing projects MARSTRUCT Network of Excellence in Marine Structures (2004-2010) E.U. COSTAction TU601-Robustness of Structures (2007-2011) Manag.Comm.&WorkG1 SILENV-Ships oriented Innovative soLutions to rEduce Noise&Vibrations (2009-12) VII FP

Co-operations RINA,CETENA, FINCANTIERI, D’Appolonia, IST-Lisbon, DNV-Oslo, NTNU-Trondheim DTU-Copenhagen, ETH–Zurich, Univ. of Strathclyde-Glasgow, Newcastle Univ.,........