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Andrea Penna

Andrea Penna

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
7082
World Ranking
5843
National Ranking
185

Overview

Andrea Penna is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy, focusing on research within the field of Engineering. Their work predominantly involves subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Earth-Surface Processes, Building and Construction, Mechanical Engineering, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis
  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Building materials and conservation
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
  • Structural Analysis of Composite Materials

Andrea Penna has contributed to several publication venues with multiple papers, including:

  • Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Procedia Structural Integrity
  • Journal of Earthquake Engineering
  • 12th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions

Among recent papers featuring Andrea Penna are:

  • Seismic risk assessment of residential buildings in Italy, 2020, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • Empirical fragility curves for Italian residential RC buildings, 2020, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • Empirical fragility curves for Italian URM buildings, 2020, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • A three-dimensional macroelement for modelling the in-plane and out-of-plane response of masonry walls, 2020, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Numerical modelling of the out-of-plane response of full-scale brick masonry prototypes subjected to incremental dynamic shake-table tests, 2020, Engineering Structures

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Maria Rota
  • Gabriele Guerrini
  • Stefano Bracchi
  • Daniele Malomo
  • Ilaria Senaldi

Best Publications

  • TREMURI program: An equivalent frame model for the nonlinear seismic analysis of masonry buildings

    Sergio Lagomarsino;Andrea Penna;Alessandro Galasco;Serena Cattari

  • Performance of masonry buildings during the Emilia 2012 earthquake

    Andrea Penna;Paolo Morandi;Maria Rota;Carlo Filippo Manzini

  • Processing Italian damage data to derive typological fragility curves

    M. Rota;A. Penna;C.L. Strobbia

  • A nonlinear macroelement model for the seismic analysis of masonry buildings

    Andrea Penna;Sergio Lagomarsino;Alessandro Galasco

  • A methodology for deriving analytical fragility curves for masonry buildings based on stochastic nonlinear analyses

    M. Rota;A. Penna;G. Magenes

  • Seismic behaviour of ordinary masonry buildings during the 2016 central Italy earthquakes

    Luigi Sorrentino;Serena Cattari;Francesca da Porto;Guido Magenes

  • Seismic risk assessment of residential buildings in Italy

    Mauro Dolce;Andrea Prota;Barbara Borzi;Francesca da Porto

  • Empirical fragility curves for Italian residential RC buildings

    A. Rosti;C. Del Gaudio;M. Rota;P. Ricci

  • Shaking Table Test of a Strengthened Full-Scale Stone Masonry Building with Flexible Diaphragms

    Guido Magenes;Andrea Penna;Ilaria Enrica Senaldi;Maria Rota

  • Estimates for the stiffness, strength and drift capacity of stone masonry walls based on 123 quasi-static cyclic tests reported in the literature

    Francesco Vanin;Dario Zaganelli;Andrea Penna;Katrin Beyer

  • Empirical fragility curves for Italian URM buildings

    Annalisa Rosti;Maria Rota;Andrea Penna

  • ON THE USE OF PUSHOVER ANALYSIS FOR EXISTING MASONRY BUILDINGS

    Alessandro Galasco;Sergio Lagomarsino;Andrea Penna

  • Out-of-plane shaking table tests on URM single leaf and cavity walls

    Francesco Graziotti;Umberto Tomassetti;Andrea Penna;Guido Magenes

  • Seismic Performance of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) Masonry: From Experimental Testing of the In-Plane Capacity of Walls to Building Response Simulation

    Alexandre A. Costa;Andrea Penna;Guido Magenes

  • Shaking table test on a full scale URM cavity wall building

    Francesco Graziotti;Umberto Tomassetti;Stylianos Kallioras;Andrea Penna

  • The Effect of Stiffened Floor and Roof Diaphragms on the Experimental Seismic Response of a Full-Scale Unreinforced Stone Masonry Building

    Ilaria Senaldi;Guido Magenes;Andrea Penna;Alessandro Galasco

  • Damage to churches in the 2016 central Italy earthquakes

    Andrea Penna;Chiara Calderini;Luigi Sorrentino;Caterina F. Carocci

  • A framework for the seismic assessment of existing masonry buildings accounting for different sources of uncertainty

    M. Rota;A. Penna;G. Magenes

  • Experimental characterisation of stone masonry mechanical properties

    A. Penna;M. Rota

  • Damage classification and derivation of damage probability matrices from L’Aquila (2009) post-earthquake survey data

    Annalisa Rosti;Maria Rota;Andrea Penna

  • Development of a dataset on the in-plane experimental response of URM piers with bricks and blocks

    P. Morandi;L. Albanesi;F. Graziotti;T. Li Piani

  • Seismic assessment of existing and strengthened stone-masonry buildings: critical issues and possible strategies

    A. Penna

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Magenes
Guido Magenes University of Pavia
Sergio Lagomarsino
Sergio Lagomarsino University of Genoa
Serena Cattari
Serena Cattari University of Genoa
Rui Pinho
Rui Pinho University of Pavia
Daniel V. Oliveira
Daniel V. Oliveira University of Minho
Andrea Prota
Andrea Prota University of Naples Federico II
Gerardo M. Verderame
Gerardo M. Verderame University of Naples Federico II
Paulo B. Lourenço
Paulo B. Lourenço University of Minho
George Mylonakis
George Mylonakis University of Bristol
Fabrizio Galadini
Fabrizio Galadini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

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