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D-Index
38
Citations
7515
World Ranking
7937
National Ranking
193

Alex H. Barbat publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex H. Barbat sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 318 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Alex H. Barbat D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex H. Barbat sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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

  • Monte Carlo techniques in computational stochastic mechanics

    J. E. Hurtado;A. H. Barbat

  • Urban Seismic Risk Evaluation: A Holistic Approach

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

  • A Disaster Risk Management Performance Index

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Damage Scenarios Simulation for Seismic Risk Assessment in Urban Zones

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

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

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

  • Performance of Buildings under Earthquakes in Barcelona, Spain

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

  • New methodology for urban seismic risk assessment from a holistic perspective

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

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

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

  • Predictive Control of Structures

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

  • Active Control of Nonlinear Base-Isolated Buildings

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

  • 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

  • Static analysis of beam structures under nonlinear geometric and constitutive behavior

    P. Mata;S. Oller;Alex Barbat

  • Equivalent linearization of the Bouc-Wen hysteretic model

    Jorge E Hurtado;Alex H Barbat

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

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

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

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

  • Viscous damage model for timoshenko beam structures

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Oller
Sergio Oller National University of Salta
José Rodellar
José Rodellar Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Mark Pelling
Mark Pelling King's College London
Eugenio Oñate
Eugenio Oñate Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Sergio Lagomarsino
Sergio Lagomarsino University of Genoa
Miguel Cervera
Miguel Cervera Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Andrea Penna
Andrea Penna University of Pavia
John Douglas
John Douglas University of Strathclyde
Renato Natal Jorge
Renato Natal Jorge University of Porto

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