ROSE – Reduction of Seismic Risk

This programme of study focuses on assessment and mitigation of risk caused by earthquakes to new and existing structures and infrastructures.

Earthquake damage in Italy, following the 2016 Amatrice earthquake.

This curriculum offers compulsory and elective courses on a number of core subjects including seismic hazard assessment and engineering seismology, dynamics of structures, geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic design of bridges, seismic analysis and design of reinforced concrete, masonry and steel constructions.
The study of these topics is preceded by a number of propaedeutic courses, which encompasses numerical analysis, probability and statistics, computational solid mechanics.

Courses 2023-2024

The timetable of the classes is available here

Course Schedule

First year – Courses

First semester

  FIRST SEMESTER
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5
1STYEAR Monthly scheduling Dynamics of Structures Reinforced Concrete Structures Applied Mathematics Computational Mechanics Probability and Statistics
Semester scheduling

Second semester

  SECOND SEMESTER
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5
1STYEAR Monthly scheduling Seismic Hazard and Applied Seismology Foundation Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures Fundamentals of Seismic Design Nonlinear Response Analysis
Semester scheduling Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Second year – Courses

First semester

  FIRST SEMESTER
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5
2NDYEAR Monthly scheduling Risk Assessment and Loss Estimation One among:

Steel Structures 

Geomatics and GIS

Bridge Structures Masonry Structures One among:

Seismic Isolation and Dissipation

Risk Emergency Management and Legislation

Semester scheduling

Second semester

  SECOND SEMESTER
Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5
2NDYEAR Monthly scheduling Master thesis (27 credits)
Semester scheduling