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Funded Projects

Selected European Union Projects

EMJM DEGREE: Triple Master's Degree - Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures (MS2) (Grant under preparation)

  • Planned Duration: 48 months
  • Consortium: TU Dortmund (D), Ecole Centrale de Nantes (F), University of Trento (I)
  • Principal Investigators: Francesco Dal Corso and Oreste S. Bursi
  • Total Funding: € 4,000,000 EURO

LASTTS: Laser cutting technology for tubular structures. (Grant No: 101034038)

  • Planned Duration: 48 months
  • Consortium: 10 European universities and 5 private companies.
  • Principal Investigators: Oreste S. Bursi and Gabriele Zanon
  • Total Funding: € 1,764,644 EURO

INSPIRE: Innovative ground interface concepts for structure protection. (Grant No: 813424)

  • Planned Duration: 48 months
  • Consortium: 8 European universities and 5 private companies.
  • Principal Investigators: Oreste S. Bursi and Davide Bigoni
  • Total Funding: € 3,892,123 EURO

DISSIPABLE: Fully Dissipative and Easily Repairable Devices for Resilient Buildings with Composite Steel-Concrete Structures. (Grant No: 800699)

  • Planned Duration: 36 months
  • Consortium: 8 participants.
  • Principal Investigators: Nicola Tondini and Oreste S. Bursi
  • Total Funding: € 907,405.82 EURO

SERA: Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for Europe. (Grant No: 730900)

  • Planned Duration: 36 months
  • Consortium: 21 participants.
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Total Funding: € 10,000,000 EURO

XP-RESILIENCE: Extreme loading analysis of petrochemical plants and design of metamaterial-based shields for enhanced resilience. (Grant No: 721816)

  • Planned Duration: 48 months
  • Consortium: 8 European universities and 7 private companies.
  • Co-ordinators and PIs: Oreste S. Bursi and Nicola Tondini
  • Total Funding: € 3,393,812 EURO

INDUSE-2-SAFETY: Component fragility evaluation, seismic safety assessment and design of petrochemical plants under design-basis and beyond-design-basis accident conditions. (Grant No: RFS-PR-13056)

  • Planned Duration: 2013-2016 (36 months)
  • Consortium: 9 European universities and industries.
  • Co-ordinator and PI: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 1,713,842 EURO

SEQBRI: Performance-based earthquake engineering analysis of short-medium span steel-concrete composite bridges (Contract RFSR-CT 2012-00032).

  • Planned Duration: 2012-2015 (36 months)
  • Consortium: 6 European universities and industries.
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi.
  • Budget: € 1,401,959 

SERIES: Seismic Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies (Grant No: 227887, FP7/2007-2003). 

  • Duration: 2009-2013 (48 months). 
  • Consortium: 23 European universities and industries
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi.
  • Total Funding: € 9,723,659

INDUSE: Structural safety of industrial steel tanks, pressure vessels and piping systems under seismic loading (Grant No: RFSR-CT-2009-00022)

  • Duration: 2009 – 2012 (36 months) 
  • Consortium: 8 European universities and industries.
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 1,790,383

Selected National Projects

PNRR_PE3_MISSION 4: Spoke VS3 - Safer Rebuilt

  • Duration: 2024-2025 (15 months)
  • Consortium: 5 universities 
  • Principal Investigators @DICAM: Ivan Giongo, Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 117,000

PNRR_CN_ICSC: Spoke 9 Wp 7 - Infrastructures and utilities

  • Duration: 2022-2025 (36 months)
  • Consortium: 4 universities 
  • Principal Investigator @DICAM: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 140,537

RELUIS BRIDGES: Activity 3.2 - Services for emergency management and rapid response

  • Duration: 2021-2024 (36 months)
  • Consortium: 24 universities 
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 145,000

RELUIS: RELUIS Information system

  • Planned Duration: 2022 (24 months)
  • Consortium: 4 universities
  • Principal Investigator: Oreste S. Bursi
  • Budget: € 30,600