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Floriana Petrone

Floriana Petrone

Associate Professor

Prospective graduate students

Prof. Petrone is currently looking for highly motivated graduate students to join her research group. Areas of research would include advanced numerical modeling of structural systems to couple with synthetic ground motions and uncertainty quantification in numerical modeling to gain knowledge on implications for optimal and risk-informed performance-based seismic design; experimental testing of innovative structural damage assessment techniques and development of system optimization methods. 

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Research interests

  • Analysis and advanced numerical modeling of reinforced concrete and composite structures
  • High-performance computing applied to civil engineering problems
  • Calibration methods and stochastic analysis for structural safety assessment
  • Structural damage assessment methods

Awards

  • 2024 NSF CAREER award
  • 2020 R&D100 Award – finalist with UNR & LBNL team
  • 2012 Fellow of Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering

Selected publications

Journal Papers

  1. Kashizadeh, S., Petrone, F., & Kunnath, S. (2025). Performance-Based Design and Hazard-Based Risk of Temporary Bridges with Light-Weight Superstructures in California. Journal of Bridge Engineering, 30(12), 04025074. 
  3. Nguyen, V. Q., Nguyen, H. D., Petrone, F., & Park, D. (2025). Rapid damage state classification for underground box tunnels using machine learning. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 21(9), 1395-1408. 
  4. McCallen, D., Pitarka, A., Tang, H., Nakata, R., Mosalam, K. M., Petrone, F., ... & Perez, C. (2025). An open-access simulated earthquake ground-motion database for an M7 Hayward Fault earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Region. Earthquake Spectra, 41(3) 
  5. Taslimi, A., & Petrone, F., Vulnerability of Suspension Bridges to Spatially Variable Vertical Ground Motions. Earthquake Spectra. 40(4), 2737-2760. 
  6. Petrone, F., Taslimi, A., Mohammadi Nia, M., McCallen, D., Pitarka, A., (2024) “Ground Motions Site and Event Specificity: Insights from Assessing a Suite of Simulated Ground Motions in The San Francisco Bay Area,” Earthquake Spectra. 40(4), 2737-2760. 
  7. Taslimi, A., & Petrone, F. (2024). Assessment of the Seismic Demands Posed to Suspension Bridges in the Near Field with Site-Specific Arrays of Simulated Ground Motions. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, 29(5). 
  8. Taslimi, A., Petrone, F., & Pitarka, A. (2024). Characteristics of vertical ground motions and their effect on the seismic response of bridges in the near field: A state-of-the-art review. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, 29(6). 
  9. Miah, M., McCallen, D., Pitarka, A., & Petrone, F. (2024). Simulation‐based characterization of the variability of earthquake risk to buildings in the near‐field. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 53(1). 
  10. Matinrad, P., & Petrone, F. (2023). ASCE/SEI 7‐compliant site‐specific evaluation of the seismic demand posed to reinforced concrete buildings with real and simulated ground motions. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 52(15). 
  11. Petrone, F., Perez, R., Coates, J., & McCallen, D. (2023). A Biaxial Discrete Diode Position Sensor for Rapid Postevent Structural Damage Assessment. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 149(3). 
  12. Petrone, F., Abrahamson, N., McCallen, D., Pitarka, A., Rodgers, A., 2021, Engineering evaluation of the EQSIM simulated ground-motion database: The San Francisco Bay Area region. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 50(15). 
  13. Petrone, F., Abrahamson, N., McCallen, D., Miah, M., 2021, Validation of (not-historical) large-event near-fault ground-motion simulations for use in civil engineering applications. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 50(1), pp. 116-13. 
  14. Petrone, F., McKenna, F., Thanh, D., McCallen, D., 2021, A versatile numerical model for the nonlinear analysis of squat-to-tall reinforced-concrete shear walls, Engineering Structures, Vol. 242. 
  15. McCallen, D., Petersson, A., Rodgers, A., Pitarka, A., Miah, M., Petrone, F., Sjogreen, B., Abrahamson, N., Tang, H., 2021, EQSIM—A multidisciplinary framework for fault-to-structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers part I: Computational models and workflow, Earthquake Spectra, 37(2), pp. 707-735. 
  16. McCallen, D., Petrone, F., Miah, M., Pitarka, A., Rodgers, A., and Abrahamson, N., 2021, EQSIM-A multidisciplinary framework for fault-to-structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers, part II: Regional simulations of building response, Earthquake Spectra, 37(2), pp. 736-761. 
  17. Petrone, F., Shan, L., Kunnath, S., 2020, Assessment of Building Robustness against Disproportionate Collapse, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 146(12). 
  18. Shan, L., Petrone, F., Kunnath, S.K., (2019) "Robustness of RC Buildings to Progressive Collapse: Influence of Building Height ", Engineering Structures, Vol. 183, pp. 690-701.
  19. Petrone, F., Monti, G., (2019), "Unified Code-Compliant Equations for Bending Capacity and Ductility Capacity of Full and Hollow Rectangular RC Sections", Engineering Structures, Vol. 181, pp. 805-815.
  20. Petrone, F., McCallen, D., Buckle, I., Wu, S., (2018), "", Engineering Structures, Vol. 176, pp. 115-126. 
  21. McCallen, D., Petrone F., Coates, J., Repanich, N., (2017), "", Earthquake Spectra, 33(4), pp. 1573-1598.
  22. Monti, G. and Petrone, F. (2016). "", J. Struct. Eng., 142(11).
  23. Petrone, F., Bissonnette, N., Higgins, P., Kanvinde, A., (2016), "", Journal of Constructional Steel Research, V. 122, pp. 520-531. 
  24. Petrone, F., Li, S., Kunnath, S., (2016) "Modeling of RC Frame Buildings for Progressive Collapse Analysis", International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 10(1), pp. 1-13, DOI: 10.1007/s40069-016-0126-y
  25. Monti, G., Petrone F., (2016). "Analytical Thermo-mechanics 3D Model of Friction Pendulum Bearings", Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 45(6), pp. 957-977. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2693
  26. Monti, G. and Petrone, F. (2015). "Yield and Ultimate Moment and Curvature Closed-Form Equations for Reinforced Concrete Sections." ACI Structural Journal, V. 112, No. 4, pp. 463-474.
  27. Monti, G. and Petrone, F. (2015). "", J. Struct. Eng., V. 141, No. 12.
  28. Petrone, F., Monti G., (2014). “FRP-RC beam in shear: mechanical model and assessment procedure for pseudo-ductile behavior”. Polymers, V. 6, No.7, 2051-2064. DOI:10.3390/polym6072051
  29. Trentadue, F., Mastromarino, E., Quaranta, G., Petrone F., Monti, G., Marano G.C., (2014) “”, Open Journal of Civil Engineering, V. 4, No. 3, 285-300.  
  30. Marano G.C., Trentadue F., Petrone F., (2014) "Optimal arch shape solution under static vertical loads", Acta Mech 225(3), 679–686. DOI:10.1007/s00707-013-0985-0
  31. Quaranta G., Petrone F., Marano G.C., Trentadue, F., and Monti G., (2011). "Structural design of composite concrete-steel beams with spatial truss reinforcement elements", Asian journal of civil and engineering (building and housing) V. 12, No. 2, 155-178.



Book Chapters

  1. McCallen, D., Petrone, F., (2019). An Optical Technique for Measuring Transient and Residual Interstory Drift as Seismic Structural Health Monitoring (S2HM) Observables. Seismic Structural Health Monitoring (S2HM). Springer, Netherlands.
  2. Monti G., Petrone F. (2018). Strengthening of RC Buildings with Composites. In: Costa A., Arêde A., Varum H. (eds) Strengthening and Retrofitting of Existing Structures. Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, vol 9. Springer, Singapore.
  3. Monti, G., Bilotta, A., Napoli, A., Nigro, E., Petrone, F., Realfonzo, R., (2016). Design by Testing and Statistical Determination of Capacity Models. (Chapter 2) in C. Pellegrino and J. Sena-Cruz (eds.) Design Procedures for the Use of Composites in Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures, RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports 19, pp. 5-38, Springer, Netherlands.
  4. Monti, G., D’Antino, T., Lignola, G.P., Pellegrino, C., Petrone, F., (2016). Shear Strengthening of RC Elements by Means of EBR FRP Systems. (Chapter 4) in C. Pellegrino and J. Sena-Cruz (eds.) Design Procedures for the Use of Composites in Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures, RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports 19, pp.97-130, Springer, Netherlands.

Media

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Patents

  1. EU Patent No.1255, May 2013, entitled "", Inventors: Marano G.C, Liotta, M., Petrone, F., Trentadue, F., Bufi, G., Ruggiero, N.,
  2. McCallen, D. B., Laplace, P., & Petrone, F. (2025). U.S. Patent No. 12,209,936. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office