About Me

Academic experience

Education

Prizes and awards

Funded research projects

Publications

Book chapter

• Brandenberg S.J. , Durante M.G. , and Stewart J.P. (2021). “Single-Frequency Method for Computing Seismic Earth Pressures“. Latest Developments in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, , 1-10 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1468-2
• Simonelli A.L., Di Sarno L., Durante M.G., Sica S., Bhattacharya S., Dietz M., Dihoru L., Taylor C.A., Cairo R., Chidichimo A., Dente G., Modaressi A., TodoBom L.A., Kaynia A.M., Anoyatis G., Mylonakis G.  “Chapter 26: Experimental Assessment of Seismic Pile-Soil Interaction.” Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures, Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering 2014; Volume 26.

Archival international journal articles

• Durante M.G., Stewart J.P., Brandenberg S.J., Mylonakis G. (2022):”Simplified solution for seismic earth pressures exerted on flexible walls“. Earthquake Spectra. doi:10.1177/87552930221083326
• Durante M.G., Brandenberg S.J., Ausilio E., Zimmaro P. (2022):” On the combined effect of topographic irregularities and wave passage on the spatial variation of seismic ground motion“. Bull Earthquake Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-021-01293-9
• Durante M.G., Rathje E.M. (2021):”An exploration of the use of machine learning to predict lateral spreading“, Earthquake Spectra 2021, Vol. 37(4) 2288–2314.
• Brandenberg S.J., Durante M. G., Mylonakis G., Stewart J.P. (2020): “Winkler Solution for Seismic Earth Pressures Exerted on Flexible Walls by Vertically Inhomogeneous Soil”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 146(11), 04020127
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Zimmaro P., Stewart J.P. (2018). “Damage to roadway infrastructure from 2016 Central Italy earthquake sequence.”  Earthquake Spectra, 34 (4), 1721-1737.
• Sextos A., De Risi R., Pagliaroli A., Foti S., Passeri F., Ausilio E., Cairo R., Capatti M.C., Chiabrando F., Chiaradonna A., Dashti S., De Silva F., Dezi F., Durante M.G., Giallini S., Lanzo G., Sica S. Simonelli A.L., Zimmaro P. (2018). “Local site effects and incremental damage of buildings during the 2016 Central Italy earthquake sequence.” Earthquake Spectra, 34 (4), 1639-1669.
• Stewart J.P., Zimmaro P., Lanzo G., Mazzoni S., Ausilio E., Aversa S., Bozzoni F., Cairo R., Capatti M., Castiglia M., Chiabrando F., Chiaradonna A., d’Onofrio A., Dashti S., De Risi R.., de Silva F., della Pasqua F., Dezi F., Di Domenica A., Di Sarno L., Durante M. G., Falcucci E., Foti S., Franke K.W., Galadini F., Giallini S., Gori S., Kayen R.E., Kishida T., Lingua A., Lingwall B., Mucciacciaro M., Pagliaroli A., Passeri F., Pelekis P., Pizzi A., Reimschiissel B., Santo A., Santucci de Magistris F., Scasserra G., Sextos A., Sica S., Silvestri F., Simonelli A., Spanò A., Tommasi P., Tropeano G. (2018). “Reconnaissance of 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence.” Earthquake Spectra, 34 (4), 1547-1555.
• Lanzo G., Tommasi P., Ausilio E., Aversa S., Bozzoni F., Cairo R., d’Onofrio A., Durante M.G., Foti S., Giallini S., Mucciacciaro M., Pagliaroli A., Sica S., Silvestri F., Vessia G., Zimmaro P. (2018). “Reconnaissance of geotechnical aspects of the 2016 Central Italy earthquakes.” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s10518-018-0350-8.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Taylor C. A., Mylonakis G., Simonelli A. L. (2016). “Soil-pile-structure interaction: experimental outcomes from shaking table tests.” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 45: 1041-1061.
• Durante M. G., Karamitros D., Di Sarno L., Sica S., Taylor C. A., Mylonakis G., Simonelli A. L. (2015). “Characterisation of shear wave velocity profiles of non-uniform bi-layer soil deposits: analytical evaluation and experimental validation.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 75: 44-54.

Open-source scripts

• Brandenberg S., Durante M. G. (2019): Development of a validated methodology for seismic analysis and design of standard and pile-supoorted retaining walls. DesignSafe-CI.
• Durante, Maria Giovanna; Rathje, Ellen (2021) “Machine Learning Models for the Evaluation of the Lateral Spreading Hazard in the Avon River Area Following the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.” DesignSafe-CI. 

Guidelines documents for design professionals

• Contribution to Building Seismic Safety Council, BSSC (2020). RP4: Seismic Lateral Earth Pressures, in NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures. Volume II: Part 3 Resource Papers. Report No. FEMA P-2082-2, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington DC. pp. 170-192.

Conference papers

• Brandenberg S.J., Durante M. G., Stewart J.P. (2020): “Single-Frequency Method for Computing Seismic Earth Pressures” 7th International Conference on Recent advances in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics (7ICRAGEE), 12-15 July 2021, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. 
• Rathje E. M., Durante M. G. (2020): “On the use of machine learning techniques to predict lateral spreading displacement in New Zealand.” 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE, Sendai, Japan – September 13th to 18th 2020.
• Durante M. G., Brandenberg S. J, Dashti S., Stewart J. P., Mylonakis G. (2019): “Analysis of seismic earth pressures on flexible underground box structures.” 7th lnternational Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (VII ICEGE), 17-20 June 2019, Rome, Italy – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Brandenberg S. J, Ausilio E., Zimmaro P. (2018): “Influence of topographic irregularities on the amplitude and phase of strong ground motions.” Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Integrating Science, Engineering & Policy, June 25-29, 2018, Los Angeles, California – With oral presentation.
• Koutsantonakis C., Mylonakis G., Brandenberg S. J., Durante M. G., Stewart J. P., (2018): “Seismic response of flexible walls retaining homogeneous viscoelastic soil.” 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, June 18-21 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Durante M. G., Brandenberg S. J, Stewart J. P., Mylonakis G. (2018): “Winkler stiffness intensity for flexible walls retaining inhomogeneous soil.” 5th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference (GEESD2018), June 10-13 2018, Austin, Texas – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Mylonakis G., Taylor C. A., Simonelli A. L. (2017). “Soil-pile-structure interaction evidences from scaled 1-g model.” GeoMEast2017 International Congress and Exhibition “Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology”, Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, 15 – 19 July 2017.
• Ausilio E, Dente G., Durante M.G., Mirabelli S., Zimmaro P. (2017). “Effetto della topografia sull’asincronismo del moto sismico della valle del fiume Lao in Calabria” (in italian), XXV Convegno Nazionale di Geotecnica, June 20-22 2017 – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Simonelli A. L. (2017). “Numerical simulation of soil-structure interaction: a parametric study.” In COMPDYN 2017, 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes Island, Greece, 15–17 June 2017.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Taylor C. A., Mylonakis G., Simonelli A. L. (2017). “Effects of soil-pile-structure interaction on seismic response of structures.” 16th World Conference on Earthquake, 16WCEE 2017, Santiago Chile, January 9th to 13th 2017.
• Stewart J.P., G. Lanzo, N. Alexander, S. Aversa, F. Bozzoni, M. Castiglia, F. Chiabrando, A. Chiaradonna, A. D’Onofrio, S. Dashti, R. De Risi, F. De Silva, V. Di Pietra, L. Di Sarno, M.G. Durante, E. Falcucci, S. Foti, M. Fragiadakis, K. Franke, F. Galadini, S. Giallini, S. Gori, N. Grasso, E. Katsiveli, R.E. Kayen, T. Kishida, M. Mucciacciaro, G. Mylonakis, A. Pagliaroli, A. Penna, I. Psycharis, B. Reimschiissel, F. Santucci de Magistris, G. Scasserra, A. Sextos, S. Sica, F. Silvestri, A.L. Simonelli, P. Tommasi, E. Vintzilaiou, P. Zimmaro. (2017) “Engineering Reconnaissance following the August 24, 2016 M6.0 Central Italy Earthquake”, 16th World Conference on Earthquake, 16WCEE 2017, Santiago Chile, January 9th to 13th 2017.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Taylor C. A., Mylonakis G., Simonelli A. L. (2015). “Structural response including seismic soil-pile-structure interaction.” Dynamic Interaction of Soil and Structure, DISS_15, Rome, Italy, November 12th, 13th 2015.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Simonelli A.L., (2015) “Simulazione numerica dell’interazione terreno-palo-struttura: analisi di casi studio”. (in italian) Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica – IARG 2015, Cagliari 2015 – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Taylor C. A., Mylonakis G., Simonelli A. L. (2015). “Soil-pile-structure-interaction: experimental results and numerical simulations.” In COMPDYN 2015, 5th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Crete Island, Greece, 25–27 May 2015.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Sica S., Mylonakis G., Taylor C. A., Simonelli A. L., (2014) “Experimental measurements of geotechnical system in 1-g tests.” In: 20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities: Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn. ISBN: 9789299007327, Benevento, 15-17 September 2014 – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Sica S., Simonelli A.L., (2014) “Interazione terreno-palo-struttura: analisi numeriche di prove sperimentali.” (in italian) Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica – IARG 2014, Chieti 2014 – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Sica S., Simonelli A.L., (2013) “Interazione terreno-palo-struttura in condizioni dinamiche: evidenze sperimentali.” (in italian) Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica – IARG 2013, Perugia 2013 – With oral presentation.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno L., Sica S., Mylonakis G., Taylor C., Simonelli A.L., (2013) “Seismic Pile-Soil Interaction: Experimental results vs. numerical simulations.” In Proc. 4th Intern. Conf. on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. M. Papadrakakis, V. Papadopoulos, V. Plevris (eds.), Kos Island, Greece, 2013.
• Durante M. G., Di Sarno, L., Sica, S., Simonelli, A.L., Chidichimo A., Cairo R., Dente, G, (2012) “Sperimentazione su pali mediante tavola vibrante”. (in italian) Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica – IARG 2012, Padova 2012 – With oral presentation.
• Simonelli, A.L., Di Sarno, L., Durante, M.G., Sica, S., Bhattacharya, S., Dietz, M., Dihoru, L., Taylor, C.A., Cairo, R., Chidichimo, A., Dente, G., Anoyatis, G., Mylonakis, G., Modaressi, A., Todo Bom, L.A. and Kaynia, A.M., (2012) “Experimental investigation of soil-pile-structure seismic interaction.” 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon 2012.
• Simonelli, A.L., Di Sarno, L., Durante, M.G., Sica, S., Bhattacharya, S., Dietz, M., Dihoru, L., Taylor, C.A., Cairo, R., Chidichimo, A., Dente, G., Anoyatis, G., Mylonakis, G., Modaressi, A., Todo Bom, L.A. and Kaynia, A.M., (2012) “Performance of soil-pile-structure systems under seismic waves.” II Int. Conf. On Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Taormina 2012, Paper 11.20.
• Lombardi D., Durante M. G., Dash S. R., Bhattacharya S., (2010) “Fixity of piles in liquefiable soils”, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Dynamics, May 24-29 2010, San Diego, California.

Reports and dissertations

• Zimmaro P. and Stewart J.P. editors and contributing authors; Lanzo G., Ausilio E., Cairo R., Bozzoni F., Capatti M.C., della Pasqua F., Dezi F., Di Sarno L., Simonelli A.L., Foti S., Chiabrando F., Dabove P., Di Pietra V., Maschio P., Passeri F., Sgobio A., Teppati Lose’ L., Franke K., Reimschiissel B., Galadini F., Falcucci E., Gori S., Kayen R.E., T. Kishida, Lingwall B., Pagliaroli A., Giallini S., Gogoladze Z., Vessia G., Pizzi A., Di Domenica A., Pelekis P., Santo A., De Falco M., Forte G., Scasserra G.,  Santucci de Magistris F., Castiglia M., Fierro T., Gautam D., Mignelli T., Staniscia F., Sextos A., De Risi R., Sica S., Mucciacciaro M., Tommasi P., Di Giulio A., Tropeano G., Durante M.G. contributing authors (2017). Engineering Reconnaissance of the 24 August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake. Version 2,, GEER Association Report No. GEER-050 DOI:10.18118/G6HS39.
• Zimmaro P. and Stewart J.P. editors and contributing authors; Lanzo G., Ausilio E., Cairo R., Bozzoni F., Capatti M.C., della Pasqua F., Dezi F., Di Sarno L., Durante M.G., Simonelli A.L., Foti S., Chiabrando F., Dabove P., Di Pietra V., Maschio P., Passeri F., Sgobio A., Teppati Lose’ L., Franke K., Reimschiissel B., Galadini F., Falcucci E., Gori S., Kayen R.E., Lingwall B., Pagliaroli A., Giallini S., Gogoladze Z., Pizzi A., Vessia G., Santucci de Magistris F., Castiglia M., Fierro T., Gautam D., Mignelli T., Staniscia F., Sextos A., De Risi R., Sica S., Mucciacciaro M., Tommasi P., Tropeano G. contributing authors (2017). Engineering Reconnaissance following the October 2016 Central Italy Earthquakes, GEER Association Report No. GEER-050C. DOI:10.18118/G6S88H.
• Stewart J.P., Lanzo G., Aversa S., Bozzoni F., Chiabrando F., Grasso N., Di Pietra V., Dashti S., Di Sarno L., Durante M.G., Foti S., Franke K., Reimschiissel B., Galadini F., Falcucci E., Gori S., Kayen R.E., Mylonakis G., Katsiveli E., Pagliaroli A., Giallini S., Scasserra G., Santucci de Magistris F., Castiglia M., Sica S., Simonelli A.L., Penna A., Mucciacciaro M., Silvestri F., D’Onofrio A., Chiaradonna A., De Silva F., Tommasi P., Zimmaro P. (2016) “Engineering Reconnaissance following the 2016 M6.0 Central Italy Earthquake: Ver 1”, GEER Association Report No. GEER-050. 
• Durante M. G. (2015) Experimental and numerical assessment of dynamic soil–pile–structure interaction. Ph.D. Thesis, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli.
• Simonelli, A.L., Di Sarno, L., Durante, M.G., Sica, S., Bhattacharya, S., Dietz, M., Dihoru, L., Taylor, C.A., Cairo, R., Chidichimo, A., Dente, G., Anoyatis, G., Mylonakis, G., Modaressi, A., Todo Bom, L.A. and Kaynia, A.M. (2013) “TA4 – Experimental investigation of soil-pile-structure seismic interaction”. Final report, Seismic Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies (SERIES) May 2013.

Presentations and invited lectures