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.
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 | Computational Mechanics | Probability and Statistics | – |
| Semester scheduling | Applied Mathematics | |||||
Second semester
| SECOND SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Seismic Hazard and Engineering 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 | Free choice.
Suggested: |
Bridge Structures | Masonry Structures | Free choice.
Suggested among: ■ Seismic Isolation and Dissipation ■■ (see below) |
| Semester scheduling | – | |||||
Second semester
| SECOND SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Master thesis (27 credits)
■■ (see below) |
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| Semester scheduling | ||||||
| Elective options are available as single 6 CFU courses (■) or pairs of 3 CFU courses (■■).
■■ Risk Emergency Management and Legislation (second semester) ■■ Sustainability Science in the Built Environment (first semester) ■■ Systemic Risk and Indirect Impacts (second semester) 12 CFU must be obtained by means of elective courses |