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Dr Giovanni De Francesco

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Department: Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

Email: giovanni.defrancesco@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690899

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Language: English

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Research / Creative works

Fields of Research

  • Earthquake and Structural Engineering

Researcher Summary

Giovanni De Francesco, M.Eng., Ph.D., CPEng, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Earthquake and Structural) in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He received his master’s in civil (structural) engineering (2009) and Ph.D. in structural and geotechnical engineering (2013) degrees from the University of Catania in Italy. As a Visiting Ph.D. student, Dr. De Francesco was also affiliated at the Department of Structural Engineering of the University of California in San Diego (July 2011-December 2012) where he had the privilege to be involved in landmark experimental projects on Bridge Rocking Columns (Charles Lee Powell Laboratory) and Base Isolated Structures (Englekirk Structural Engineering Center).

He continued his career (November 2013-July 2016) as a Chief R&D Structural Engineer, responsible for Research and Development of Innovative Structural Systems for Precast Concrete Structures, at Preesforzados y Construcciones S.A. (PreCon), in Guatemala City, Guatemala. In November 2016, he moved to New Zealand and started working as Project Structural Engineer at New Zealand Consulting Engineers Ltd in Wellington. In March 2019, he got his current position at the University of Canterbury.

His main research expertise is in Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Passive Supplemental Damping and Seismic Isolation, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Low-Damage  Rocking Systems, Precast Concrete Structures.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Engineering and Technology: Earthquake Engineering; Structural

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • De Francesco G. and Sullivan TJ. (2022) P-delta effects on short-period systems subjected to earthquake excitation. Engineering Structures 254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.113642. (Journal Articles)
  • De Francesco G. and Sullivan T. (2021) Experimental loading protocols to evaluate the seismic performance of floor systems. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Gribbon C., Jennings Z., Sullivan T. and De Francesco G. (2021) Seismic design and analysis of a medium-density residential building. In (paper 128). (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Arifin FA., De Francesco G., Sullivan T. and Dhakal R. (2020) Developing guidelines for the seismic assessment of glazing systems. In NZSEE. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • De Francesco G. (2020) Hybrid Low-Viscous-Damping Inelastic Displacement Ratios for Seismic Design and Assessment of Structures. Journal of Earthquake Engineering http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2020.1841046. (Journal Articles)
  • De Francesco G. and Sullivan T. (2020) An integrated local damping approach for enhanced characterization of nonlinear dynamic response. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • De Francesco G. and Sullivan TJ. (2020) Formulation of Localized Damping Models for Large Displacement Analysis of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Inelastic Systems. Journal of Earthquake Engineering http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2020.1826370. (Journal Articles)
  • De Francesco G. (2019) Constant-ductility inelastic displacement ratios for displacement-based seismic design of self-centering structures. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 48(2): 188-209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3131. (Journal Articles)
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