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Overview

Dimitrios Vamvatsikos is affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a substantial body of work in civil and structural engineering. The scope of their studies includes seismic performance and analysis, structural response to dynamic loads, and structural health monitoring techniques.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Engineering

Within this broad field, their subfields of study are:

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Building and Construction
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Geophysics

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
  • Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
  • Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design

Dimitrios Vamvatsikos has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Vamvatsikos are:

  • "Two frugal options to assess class fragility and seismic safety for low-rise reinforced concrete school buildings in Southern Italy," 2021, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
  • "Evaluation of Seismic Acceleration Demands on Building Nonstructural Elements," 2020, Journal of Structural Engineering
  • "A risk-consistent approach to determine EN1998 behaviour factors for lateral load resisting systems," 2020, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • "Reduced-order models for the seismic assessment of plan-irregular low-rise frame buildings," 2022, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • "Seismic risk and loss estimation for the building stock in Isfahan: part II-hazard analysis and risk assessment," 2021, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Their research network includes frequent collaboration with several co-authors, who have contributed multiple times to joint research projects. These frequent co-authors are:

  • Vasileios E. Melissianos
  • Mohsen Kohrangi
  • Paolo Bazzurro
  • Athanasia K. Kazantzi
  • Konstantinos Bakalis

Best Publications

  • Incremental dynamic analysis

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;C. Allin Cornell

  • Applied Incremental Dynamic Analysis

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;C. Allin Cornell

  • Incremental dynamic analysis for estimating seismic performance sensitivity and uncertainty

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;Michalis Fragiadakis

  • Developing efficient scalar and vector intensity measures for IDA capacity estimation by incorporating elastic spectral shape information

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;C. Allin Cornell

  • Direct Estimation of the Seismic Demand and Capacity of Oscillators with Multi-Linear Static Pushovers through IDA ‡

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;C. Allin Cornell

  • Direct Estimation of Seismic Demand and Capacity of Multidegree-of-Freedom Systems through Incremental Dynamic Analysis of Single Degree of Freedom Approximation

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;C. Allin Cornell;C. Allin Cornell

  • Intensity measure selection for vulnerability studies of building classes

    Athanasia K. Kazantzi;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Seismic performance, capacity and reliability of structures as seen through incremental dynamic analysis

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Conditional spectrum‐based ground motion record selection using average spectral acceleration

    Mohsen Kohrangi;Paolo Bazzurro;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;Andrea Spillatura

  • Current Challenges and Future Trends in Analytical Fragility and Vulnerability Modeling

    Vitor Silva;Sinan Akkar;Jack Baker;Paolo Bazzurro

  • Seismic Fragility Functions via Nonlinear Response History Analysis

    Konstantinos Bakalis;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Vector and Scalar IMs in Structural Response Estimation, Part II: Building Demand Assessment

    Mohsen Kohrangi;Paolo Bazzurro;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • The Incremental Dynamic Analysis and its Application to Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

    D. Vamvatsikos

  • Derivation of new SAC/FEMA performance evaluation solutions with second‐order hazard approximation

    Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • SPO2FRAG: software for seismic fragility assessment based on static pushover

    Georgios Baltzopoulos;Roberto Baraschino;Iunio Iervolino;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Seismic performance of a steel moment-resisting frame subject to strength and ductility uncertainty

    A.K. Kazantzi;D. Vamvatsikos;Dimitrios Lignos

  • Vector and Scalar IMs in Structural Response Estimation, Part I: Hazard Analysis

    Mohsen Kohrangi;Paolo Bazzurro;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

  • Conditional spectrum based ground motion record selection using average spectral acceleration

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  • Pulse-Like Versus Non-Pulse-Like Ground Motion Records: Spectral Shape Comparisons and Record Selection Strategies

    Mohsen Kohrangi;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;Paolo Bazzurro

  • Site dependence and record selection schemes for building fragility and regional loss assessment

    Mohsen Kohrangi;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos;Paolo Bazzurro

  • Fast performance uncertainty estimation via pushover and approximate IDA

    Michalis Fragiadakis;Michalis Fragiadakis;Dimitrios Vamvatsikos

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Bazzurro
Paolo Bazzurro Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Iunio Iervolino
Iunio Iervolino University of Naples Federico II
C. Allin Cornell
C. Allin Cornell Stanford University
Eduardo Miranda
Eduardo Miranda Stanford University
Helen Crowley
Helen Crowley University of Pavia
Dimitrios Lignos
Dimitrios Lignos École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Andreas J. Kappos
Andreas J. Kappos Khalifa University
Ted Stathopoulos
Ted Stathopoulos Concordia University
Jack W. Baker
Jack W. Baker Stanford University
Sinan Akkar
Sinan Akkar Boğaziçi University

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