Clotaire Michel - Expert in risk Management

Dr., HDR

 

Current position


Consultant

 
  1. PuceStrong motions and site effects

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  3. PuceProbabilistic seismic risk assessment - loss estimation

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  5. PuceSeismic vulnerability assessment of existing buildings

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  7. PuceIn situ vibration tests in civil engineering structures and modal analysis

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Research Interests

“The natural period of vibration is the single most informative fact about the internal structure of buildings (...) Two structures having the same distribution of mass and the same fundamental period may experience shear forces of appreciably different magnitudes if the internal structures (mode shapes) are different” G. Housner and A. Brady (1963)


Häussler M., Michel C., Burjànek J., Fäh D. (2019) “Fracture network imaging on rock slope instabilities using resonance mode analysis, Geophysical Research Letters.


Michel C., Guéguen P. (2018) “Interpretation of the velocity measured in buildings by seismic interferometry based on Timoshenko beam theory under weak and moderate motion.Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.


Michel C. et al. (2017) “Probabilistic mechanics-based loss scenarios for school buildings in Basel (Switzerland)“, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.


Michel C. et al. (2014) “Assessment of site effects in Alpine regions through systematic site characterization of seismic stations”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.


Michel C., Lestuzzi P., Lacave C. (2014) Simplified non-linear seismic displacement demand prediction for low period structures“, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.


Michel C., Guéguen P. (2013), Experimental method: input of the recordings of ambient vibrations for the study of seismic vulnerability of the existing buildings”, in Seismic Vulnerability of Structures, John Wiley & Sons.


Michel C. et al. (2012) “Seismic vulnerability assessment to slight damage based on experimental modal parameters”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.


Michel C. et al. (2011) “Quantification of fundamental frequency drop for unreinforced masonry buildings from dynamic tests”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.


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Selected Publications

Selected Teaching experience

Seismic vulnerability of buildings and observed damages for post-earthquake survey of macroseismic intensities - Training for the macroseismic survey team of the Bureau Central Sismologique Français BCSF (2011, 2012, 2013) and of the Swiss Seismological Service (2012, 2013).


Advanced Earthquake Engineering with P. Lestuzzi - EPFL Doctoral School Structures (2009)


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