FRANCHI ALBERTO - CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Data: Name: Alberto Franchi Nationality: Italian Born: October, 3 1946 in Casale Monferrato, Alessandria (Italy) Status: Married, two children Address: c/o Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

Politecnico di Milano University P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 20133 Milano (Italy)

Education: Ph. D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1977 Master of Science in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano University, 1970 High School Diploma from the Liceo Scientifico “Palli” in Casale Monferrato, 1965 Ph. D. Thesis title: “STRUPL: Structural Plasticity by Mathematical Programming. Fundamentals for a General Software”. Academic Curriculum 1995: Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Milano; 1983: Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Brescia; 1982: Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Pavia; 1980: Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Cagliari. Actual Teaching Activities:

- Course of Structural Mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering Management - Design of Structures for Architects, Faculty of Architecture

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Actual Research Activities Low cycle fatigue of rebar in plastic hinge zone;

Cyclic behaviour of post installed metal anchor under seismic loading; Model of cracking as localized plastic strains in FE technology; Strain softening computational models and algorithms; Computation and Engineering of Monuments under Seismic Loading Author of more then 70 papers. Research and Normative Activities Coordinator 1995-2005 President of SC 12 of UNSIDER (Italian Standardization Association for Steel Products); President of WG2 of ECISS TC19/SC1 for European Standard for Reinforcing Seismic Steel; 2000- Coordinator of the Research European Project ECSC N. 7210- PR 111 on steel reinforcement for seismic applications; 2001- Coordinator of the Research European Project (5th RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME)“HIPER” on low cost stainless steel; 2002- Coordinator of the Post Installed Anchor Laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano; 2004-2015 Director of CISE, Consortium at the Politecnico di Milano for (i) managing Specializing Master in the Construction area and Consulting. Membership activities and Academic Responsibilities 1984-1987 Member of the Administration Council of the University of Brescia; 1986-2005 Chairman of the Material and Structure Laboratory “P. Pisa” of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Brescia; 1987-2005 Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Brescia; 1992-1995 Member of the “Consiglio Superiore dei Lavori Pubblici” of the Ministry of Public Works in Rome; - 2000 Fellow ASCE; 2002- Member of WG for post installed Anchors of ’EOTA. Consulting activities Technical certification official of the Brescia-Padova highway Monte Berici tunnels; IKEA prefabricated reinforced concrete structure in Brescia; dynamic control of a tall building in Brescia; stability evaluation of the “Palazzo della Loggia” in Brescia; restoration of the “San Faustino” convent in Brescia; collaboration in the “Pirelli” tall building restoration; collaboration in the design of a new bridge on the Ticino river with MSC design engineering firm; collaboration in the restoration of the “Navigli” historical retaining masonry walls in Milano; experimental/numerical analysis of a deep beam of Bocconi new buildings in Milano; analysis of the Garibaldi Repubblica tall building in Milano under wind loading; collaboration to the supervision of the tall buildings of Citylife in Milano; collaboration in a consulting to Hines Italia on the wind analysis of a tree in real scale at the WoW of the International University of Florida in Miami; structural design supervision of buildings in the Varesine compound with HINES Italia promoter; consulting for the structural analysis of a collapse r.c. building in L’Aquila; consulting for the reconstruction and structural retrofitting of the Basilica Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L’Aquila.