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Michele Barbato

 
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Dr. Barbato received the ASCE 2009 Moisseiff Award, for the paper “Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames”, Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), June 2008, as an “important contribution to the knowledge of the dynamic response of composite steel-concrete structures”. The award was presented at the Structures Congress 2009, Austin (TX), April 30, 2009.

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Michele  Barbato, Ph.D.Structural Engineering & Mechanics3418H Patrick F. Taylor Hall(225) 578 8719(225) 578 4945mbarbato@lsu.edu

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 Biography

EDUCATION
Ph. D.                         2007 – University of California, San Diego, CA (USA)
M.S.                           2005 – University of California, San Diego, CA (USA)
B.S. (Laurea Degree)  2002 – University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome  (Italy)


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
10/2007 – present     : Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (USA)
04/2002 – 09/2007   : Research Assistant, University of California, San Diego, CA (USA)
06/2007 – 07/2007   : Teaching Assistant, ROSE School, Pavia (Italy)
09/2006 – 02/2007   : Visiting Scholar, University of Chiety-Pescara “G. D’Annunzio”, Pescara (Italy)    

 

 

AWARDS

·         EASD 2011 Junior Research Prize, in the area of Development of Methodologies for Structural Dynamics “for his already achieved excellent scientific visibility in structural reliability and earthquake engineering.” Awarded at EURODYN 2011, Leuven (Belgium), July 4-6, 2011.

·        ASCE 2009 Moisseiff Award, for the paper “Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames”, Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), June 2008, as an “important contribution to the knowledge of the dynamic response of composite steel-concrete structures”. Received at the Structures Congress 2009, Austin (TX), April 30, 2009.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete, steel, steel-concrete and wood-concrete composite structures;

• Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete structures retrofitted with fiber reinforced polymers;

• Modeling and analysis of soil-foundation-structure interaction systems;

• Finite element methods for response/response sensitivity analyses of structural/geotechnical systems;

• Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics;

• Hurricane engineering;

• Random vibration theory and stochastic process modeling;

• Computational reliability analysis of structural and geotechnical systems;

• Numerical optimization methods and their application to structural engineering problems (e.g, structural reliability and structural optimization)


 

Professional Membership and Licenses

  • AEI Member 2008
  • EMI Member 2008 – present
  • SEI Member 2008 – present
  • AISC Educator Member 2008 – present
  • ASCE Associate Member 2008 – present (Student Member, 2007 – 2008)
  • Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA), Member 2008 – present
  • IALCCE, Member 2009 - present
  • IABMAS, Member 2009 - present
  • CERRA, Member 2003 - present
  • Professional Board of Engineers of Isernia (Italy), License # 371, 2002 – present
  • Professional Engineer, Civil, Isernia (Italy), September 2002

  

COURSES OFFERED

·         CE 7700    Random Vibrations (Spring 2008): Graduate level course

·         CE 4435    Indeterminate Structural Analysis (Spring 2008, Spring 2009): Undergraduate level course

·         CE 3415    Structural Analysis I (Fall 2008): Undergraduate level course

·         CE 7420    Limit Analysis and Design (Spring 2009): Graduate level course 

 

 

LIST OF JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Deng L, Cai SC and Barbato M. “Reliability-Based Dynamic Impact Factor for Prestressed Concrete Girder Bridges.” Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), in print.
  2. Tubaldi E, Barbato M and Dall’Asta A. “Influence of Model Parameter Uncertainty on Seismic Response and Vulnerability of Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges with Dual Load Path.” Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), in print.
  3. Barbato M and Conte JP (2011). “Structural Reliability Applications of Nonstationary Spectral Characteristics.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), 137(5):371-382.
  4. Barbato M, Gu Q and Conte JP (2010). “Probabilistic Pushover Analysis of Structural and Soil-Structure Systems.” Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), 136(11):1330-1341.
  5. Gu Q, Barbato M and Conte JP (2010). “A New Multidimensional Visualization Technique for Limit-State Surfaces in Nonlinear Finite Element Reliability Analysis.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), 136(11):1390-1400.
  6. Tubaldi E, Barbato M and Dall’Asta A (2010). “Transverse Seismic Response of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges Exhibiting Dual Load Path.” Earthquake and Structures, 1(1):21-41.
  7. Zona A, Barbato M, Dall’Asta A and Dezi L (2010). “Probabilistic Analysis for Design Assessment of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Girders.” Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 66(7):897-905.
  8. Barbato M and Vasta M (2010). “Closed-Form Solutions for the Time-Variant Spectral Characteristics of Non-Stationary Random Processes.” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 25(1):9-17.     
  9. Gu Q, Barbato M and Conte JP (2009). “Handling of Constraints in Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis.” Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), 135(12):1427-1438.
  10. Barbato M. “Efficient Finite Element Modelling of Reinforced Concrete Beams Retrofitted with Fibre Reinforced Polymers.” Computers and Structures, 87(3-4):167-176.
  11. Barbato M and Conte JP. (2008). “Spectral Characteristics of Non-Stationary Random Processes: Theory and Applications to Linear Structural Models.” Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 23(4):416-426. 
  12. Zona A,  Barbato M and Conte JP. “Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames.” Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), 134(6):986-997.
  13. Barbato M, Zona A and Conte JP (2007). “Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis using Three-Field Mixed Formulation: General Theory and Application to Frame Structures.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 69(1): 114-161.
  14. Barbato M and Conte JP (2006). “Finite Element Structural Response Sensitivity and Reliability Analyses using Smooth versus Non-Smooth Material Constitutive Models.” International Journal of Reliability and Safety, 1(1-2): 3-39.
  15. Zona A, Barbato M and Conte JP (2006). “Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis of Continuous Steel-Concrete Composite Girders.” 
    Steel and Composite Structures, an International Journal, 6(3): 183-202.
  16. Zona A, Barbato M and Conte JP (2005). “Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams with Deformable Shear Connection.” 
    Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), 131(11):1126-1139.
  17. Barbato M and Conte JP (2005). “Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis: a Comparison between Force-Based and Displacement-Based Frame Element Models.” 
    Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194(12-16):1479-1512.  
  18. Conte JP, Barbato M and Spacone E (2004). “Finite Element Response Sensitivity Analysis using Force-Based Frame Models.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59(13):1781-1820. 
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