Publications

Tsunami: Their characteristics and effects on buildings

  • Coelho, C., Rossetto, T. and Allsop, W. (2008). Waves and Tsunami. COST-C26: Risk Assessment for Catastrophic Scenarios in Urban Areas Technical Note. European Union. In Publication
  • Allsop, W., Rossetto, T., Robinson, D., Charvet, I. and Bazin, P-H. (2008). A Unique Tsunami Generator for Physical Modeling of Violent Flows and Their Impact. Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 12-17 October, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. 15-0002. Oral presentation.
  • Rossetto, T., Allsop, W., Robinson, D., Charvet, I. And Bazin P-H. (2008). Analysis of Tsunami Hazards by Modelling Tsunami Wave Effects. Proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management Research into Practice, FLOODrisk 2008, 30 September- 2 October 2008, Oxford, UK. Oral Presentation.
  • Robinson, D., Charvet, I., Allsop, W. and Rossetto, T. (2008). Development of a New Tsunami Generator. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, CoastLab 2008, July 2008, Bari, Italy. Oral Presentation.
  • Rossetto,T., Peiris,N., Pomonis,A., Wilkinson,S.M., Del Re,D., Koo,R., Gallocher,S. (2007). The Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004: Observations in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Natural Hazards. 42 (1). 105-124.

Human Loss

  • Solberg, C., Joffe, H. and Rossetto, T. (2009). How People Behave in Anticipation of and During Earthquakes: A Review of the Social Science Literature. Earthquake Spectra. Submitted.
  • Solberg, C., Joffe, H. and Rossetto, T. (2008). How People Behave in Anticipation of and During Earthquakes: A Review of the Social Science Literature on What Drives this Behaviour. Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 12-17 October, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. S21-007. Poster presentation.

Earthquake Damage Prediction

  • Hill, M. And Rossetto, T. (2008). Comparison of building damage scales and damage descriptions for use in earthquake loss modeling in Europe. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 6(2). 335-365.
  • Hill, M.P., and Rossetto, T. (2008). Do Existing Damage Scales meet the Needs of Seismic Loss Estimation?. Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 12-17 October, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. S01-02-003. Oral presentation.
  • Rossetto T, (2002). Prediction of Deformation Capacity of Non-Seismically Designed Reinforced Concrete Members. Proceedings of the 7th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, EERI, 21-25 July 2002, Boston, USA. CD-ROM. Oral Presentation.

Vulnerability and Seismic Loss

  • Hill, M.P., and Rossetto, T. (2008). Development of Parameters for use in Seismic Recovery Estimation of Residential Buildings in Lima, Peru. Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 12-17 October, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. 09-01-0027. Poster presentation.
  • Hill, M.P., and Rossetto, T. (2008). Improving Seismic Loss Estimation for Europe through Enhanced Relationships between Building Damage and Repair Costs. Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 12-17 October, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. S01-02-009. Oral presentation.
  • Rossetto T, A.S.Elnashai, (2005). A New Analytical Procedure for the Derivation of Displacement-based Vulnerability Curves for Populations of RC Structures. Engineering Structures, Vol.27, No.3. pp.397-409.
  • Rossetto T, A.S.Elnashai, (2003). Derivation of Vulnerability Functions for European-type RC Structures based on Observational Data. Engineering Structures, Vol.25, No.10. pp.1241-63.