Text Box: Congresses, Symposia & Meetings • 2nd World Congress on Risk - June 8-11, 2008. México • ESREL 2008 - 22 - 25 September, 2008. Valencia. Spain • 6th Intn’l Probabilistic Workshop. 11/26-27/08. Darmstadt. Germany • SRA 2008 Annual Meeting – Dec. 7-10, 2008. Boston • 18th AR2TS – April 21-23, 2009, Loughborough University. UK • ICOSSAR 2009, Sept. 13-17, 2009. Japan • 11th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering (11th ACWE) - June 23-27, 2009, Puerto Rico • ESREL 2009 – Sept. 7-10, 2009. Prague. Czech Rep. • 7th Intn’l Probabilistic Workshop. 11/25-26/09. Delft. The Netherlands.
 

 

 


Gonzalo L. Pita

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Civil Engineering Department

Florida Institute of Technology

Melbourne, FL 32901

(321)-674-7562

 

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Education

 

     Florida Institute of Technology University Seal Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering Department, Florida Institute of Technology.

      Since 2007

 

      Master in Engineering Sciences, (Structures & Geotechnics), National University of

     Córdoba, Argentina. December 2006

 

      Civil Engineer, National Technological University, Córdoba, Argentina. March 2003

 

      Electromechanical Technician, ENET Nº1 “Antonio Graziano”

     Bell Ville, Córdoba, Argentina. December 1996.

 

Research

 

My research lies within the Florida Hurricane Loss Model. I’m in FIT modeling the damage to Florida’s commercial building portfolio. We do this by modeling probabilistically building’s damage. We

come up thus with vulnerabilities as a function of hurricane speeds. I’m posting more papers as soon as I have time. Keywords: Vulnerability, Catastrophe Risk Modeling, Interior Damage Propagation, Risk analysis.

 

Awards

 

§        Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award - Department of Civil Engineering. FIT. 2008

§        Fulbright Scholarship – 2007. (I declined it due to better offer from FIT). 2006.

§        SeCyT Research Scholarship - awarded by National University of Cordoba - Science and Technology Secretary - SeCyT. 2005

§        Talents Award - to the best 2003 Civil Engineering undergraduate. 2003.

§        Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon

 

Journal papers

 

1) J.-P. Pinelli, K. R. Gurley, C.S. Subramanian, S. S. Hamid, G. L. Pita (2008), “Validation of a probabilistic model for hurricane insurance loss projections in Florida” Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Vol. 93, Issue 13.

Conference papers

 

1) G. L. Pita, J.-P. Pinelli, C.S. Subramanian, K.Gurley, S.Hamid (2008) “Hurricane Vulnerability of Multi-Story Residential Buildings in Florida”. ESREL 2008. Spain.

2) J-P. Pinelli, S. Hamid, K. Gurley, G. L. Pita, (2008) “Impact of the 2004 Hurricane Season on the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model”. 2008 ASCE Structures Congress. Vancouver, Canada.

3) G.L. Pita, A.Lainati, J.R.Saravia,(2004) “Design topics for a restricted horizontal force arch bridge”. Steelbridge 2004. Millau, France.

 

Reports

 

1) Survey of Commercial-Residential Buildings in Florida. Final Results. Engineering Team Report. Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. March 2008.

2) Descriptive Statistics and Strategies for Computing Losses of Commercial Residential Buildings in Florida. Engineering Team Report. Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. February 2008.

3) Exposure of Commercial Residential Buildings in Florida. Engineering Team Report. Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. December 2007.

4) Inventory of Commercial Residential Buildings in Florida. Engineering Team Report. Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. November 2007.

5) Engineering Team Progress report. Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model. May 2007.

 

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