2026 Alex H. Barbat: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	38	7935	7652	193	190	318	7515

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Engineering and Technology

7935

7652

193

190

318

7515

Engineering and Technology

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Citations

7515

World Ranking

7935

National Ranking

193

Overview

Alex H. Barbat is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research spans primarily the field of Engineering, with a focused specialization in Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their work explores several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. The broad scope reflects an interdisciplinary approach within engineering and related scientific disciplines.

Barbat's research topics cover diverse areas, with a concentration on:

Seismic Performance and Analysis
Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis
Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
Disaster Management and Resilience
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

The scientist has frequently published in several notable venues, including:

Engineering Structures
Safety Science
Journal of Building Engineering
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
International Journal of Architectural Heritage

Recent papers by Alex H. Barbat include:

"Evaluating risk from a holistic perspective to improve resilience: The United Nations evaluation at global level" (2020) in Safety Science
"Failure pressure analysis of a nuclear reactor prestressed concrete containment building" (2021) in Engineering Structures
"Traditional High-rise Unreinforced Masonry Buildings: Modeling and Influence of Floor System Stiffening on Their Overall Seismic Response" (2020) in International Journal of Architectural Heritage
"Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses of Costa Rican reinforced concrete masonry structures" (2021) in Engineering Structures
"Probabilistic seismic assessment of a high-rise URM building" (2021) in Journal of Building Engineering

Barbat collaborates regularly with several coauthors, the most frequent being:

Lluís Pujades Beneit
Yeudy Felipe Vargas Alzate
Fernando Rastellini
José Manuel González
Cuauhtémoc Escudero

Best Publications

Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework

J. Birkmann;J. Birkmann;O. D. Cardona;M. L. Carreño;A. H. Barbat

1200
Citations
Monte Carlo techniques in computational stochastic mechanics

J. E. Hurtado;A. H. Barbat

382
Citations
Urban Seismic Risk Evaluation: A Holistic Approach

Martha-Liliana Carreño;Omar D. Cardona;Alex H. Barbat

380
Citations
A Disaster Risk Management Performance Index

Martha Liliana Carreño;Omar Darío Cardona;Alex H. Barbat

324
Citations
Seismic damage evaluation in urban areas using the capacity spectrum method: Application to Barcelona

Alex H. Barbat;Luis G. Pujades;Nieves Lantada

315
Citations
Seismic vulnerability and risk evaluation methods for urban areas. A review with application to a pilot area

Alex H. Barbat;Martha L. Carreño;Lluis G. Pujades;Nieves Lantada

259
Citations
Vulnerability index and capacity spectrum based methods for urban seismic risk evaluation. A comparison

Nieves Lantada;Luis G. Pujades;Alex H. Barbat

238
Citations
Damage Scenarios Simulation for Seismic Risk Assessment in Urban Zones

Alex H. Barbat;Fabricio Ye´pez Moya;Jose´A. Canas

221
Citations
Seismic hazard and risk scenarios for Barcelona, Spain, using the Risk-UE vulnerability index method

N. Lantada;J. Irizarry;Alex Barbat;X. Goula

212
Citations
Performance of Buildings under Earthquakes in Barcelona, Spain

Alex H. Barbat;Luis G. Pujades;Nieves Lantada

147
Citations
New methodology for urban seismic risk assessment from a holistic perspective

Martha L. Carreño;Omar D. Cardona;Alex H. Barbat

138
Citations
A finite element methodology for local/global damage evaluation in civil engineering structures

Alex D. Hanganu;Eugenio Oñate;Alex H. Barbat

125
Citations
Predictive Control of Structures

José Rodellar;Alex H. Barbat;Juan M. Martín‐Sánchez

111
Citations
Active Control of Nonlinear Base-Isolated Buildings

Alex Barbat;J. Rodellar;E. P. Ryan;N. Molinares

106
Citations
Probabilistic earthquake risk assessment using CAPRA: application to the city of Barcelona, Spain

Mabel C. Marulanda;Martha L. Carreño;Omar D. Cardona;Mario G. Ordaz

106
Citations
Static analysis of beam structures under nonlinear geometric and constitutive behavior

P. Mata;S. Oller;Alex Barbat

105
Citations
Equivalent linearization of the Bouc-Wen hysteretic model

Jorge E Hurtado;Alex H Barbat

103
Citations
A numerical procedure simulating RC structures reinforced with FRP using the serial/parallel mixing theory

Xavier Martinez;Sergio Oller;Fernando Rastellini;Alex H. Barbat

103
Citations
Capacity, fragility and damage in reinforced concrete buildings: a probabilistic approach

Yeudy F. Vargas;Luis G. Pujades;Alex H. Barbat;Jorge E. Hurtado

98
Citations
Viscous damage model for timoshenko beam structures

Alex Barbat;S. Oller;E. Oñate;A. Hanganu

90
Citations