
Professor Anastasios Sextos
Ph.D., MSc-DIC
Current positions
Professor of Earthquake Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Anastasios’s research contributions are in the areas of computational and experimental earthquake engineering, seismic design and assessment of bridges, dynamic soil-structure interaction, seismic risk of critical industrial facilities and pipelines, resilience of roadway, lifeline networks and communities to natural hazards, selection of realistic earthquake ground motion scenarios including multiple-support excitation of extended structures, smart structures, multi-resolution distributed simulations & hybrid testing, and structural health monitoring.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
East Africa Seismic Risk Partnership
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/11/2021 to 31/03/2022
8035 Covid19 CoA Sextos (R101073-101)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/04/2021 to 31/07/2021
Construction of a pilot, low-cost, high-seismic performance school building in Nepal
Principal Investigator
Description
Quality-Related (QR) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)– Impact Development callManaging organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/01/2021 to 31/07/2022
EPSRC Equipment Award 2020 - Hexapod relocation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Engineering Faculty OfficeDates
15/11/2020 to 15/05/2022
Thesis supervisions
Geometrical exploration of a generalized nonlinear multi-span bridge system under multi-support excitation
Supervisors
Analytical And Numerical Design of Buried Pipelines with Flexible Joints
Supervisors
The Seismic Response Of Buried Gas Pipelines In Inhomogeneous Soil
Supervisors
Seismic performance of multiply excited, dynamically interactive energy infrastructure systems
Supervisors
Probabilistic Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Monopile-Supported Offshore Wind Turbines
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2024Predicted and recorded ground-borne vibrations induced by the operation of two shaking tables at the new SOFSI research facility
Safer and Resilient Schools in Seismic Regions
Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems
SAFER: Improving seismic resilience of schools and educational communities
Shaking Table Test and Numerical Analyses of a Full Scale Three-Leaf Masonry Wall
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Large-Scale Testing for Enhancing the Resilience of Schools in Seismic Regions: Challenges and Cost-Efficient Solutions
Progresses in European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology – Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology – Bucharest, 2022.