Dr. Bocchini is Professor and Director of the Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience at Lehigh University. He serves also as the Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Bocchini's research activity is related to the use of probabilistic concepts, computational mechanics, operations research, and other numerical tools in civil engineering problems. Most of his recent research deals with catastrophe modeling and community resilience under natural disasters, to support decisions on design, retrofit, preparedness, damage mitigation, and recovery of critical infrastructure systems.
 
Dr. Bocchini served as Principal Investigator of the PRAISys project, a multi-million dollar effort supported by the National Science Foundation that involved 58 scholars (43% from underrepresented groups in STEM) over 5 years to model and predict in a probabilistic sense the damage, recovery, and resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems. Dr. Bocchini was elected Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, he authored the chapter on infrastructure interdependencies in the Objective Resilience Manual of Practice of ASCE, served in the committee of the National Academies to develop guidelines for the U.S. Congress to allocate resources to projects that improve transportation resilience, co-led the development of the chapter on Impact of Climate Change on Infrastructure Performance in ASCE's book on Effects of Climate Change on Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructure Systems, and received a number of awards and recognitions.

Some additional projects related to past research topics involve advanced techniques for the simulation of random functions; structural identification and damage detection in truss structures and in pipelines for oil and gas; 3D printing of concrete by selective binder activation; numerical tools for non-destructive testing by means of guided ultrasonic waves; stochastic finite element methods; advanced rheological models and pre- post-processing tools for ceramic materials.

Additional information is available on the website of Dr. Bocchini's research team: www.paolobocchini.com

 

Selected Publications

Paolo Bocchini, Dan M. Frangopol, Thomas Ummenhofer, Tim Zinke. Resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure: Toward a unified approach. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, Vol. 20, Issue 2, p. 04014004 1-16, 2014. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000177

Wenjuan Sun, Paolo Bocchini, Brian D. Davison. Applications of artificial intelligence for disaster management. Natural Hazards, Springer, Vol. 103, p. 2631-2689, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-020-04124-3

Liyang Ma, Vasileios Christou, Paolo Bocchini. Framework for probabilistic simulation of power transmission network performance under hurricanes. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Elsevier, Vol. 217, p. 108072 1-19, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2021.108072

Wenjuan Sun, Paolo Bocchini, Brian D. Davison. Model for estimating the impact of interdependencies on system recovery. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, Vol. 26, Issue 3, p. 04020031 1-20, 2020. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000569

Haifeng Wang, Paolo Bocchini, Jamie E. Padgett. Estimation of wind pressure field on low-rise buildings based on a novel conditional neural network. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Elsevier, Vol. 250, p. 105752 1-13, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2024.105752

Xinyue Wang, Paolo Bocchini. Predicting wildfire ignition induced by dynamic conductor swaying under strong winds. Scientific Reports, Nature, 3998, p. 1-19, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-30802-w

Liyang Ma, Daniel Conus, Paolo Bocchini. Optimal generation of multivariate seismic intensity maps using Hazard Quantization. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, ASCE - ASME, Vol. 8, Issue 1, p. 04021078 1-14, 2022. DOI: 10.1061/AJRUA6.0001210

Aman Karamlou, Paolo Bocchini. Functionality-fragility surfaces. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Wiley, Vol. 46, Issue 10, p. 1687-1709, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2878

Graziano Fiorillo, Paolo Bocchini, Javier Buceta. A predictive spatial distribution framework for filovirus-infected fruit bats. Scientific Reports, Nature, Vol. 8, Article 7970, p. 1-13, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26074-4

Wenjuan Sun, Paolo Bocchini, Brian D. Davison. Resilience metrics and measurement methods for transportation infrastructure: The state of the art. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 168-199, 2020. DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2018.1448663

Liyang Ma, Paolo Bocchini, Vasileios Christou. Fragility models of electrical conductors in power transmission networks subjected to hurricanes. Structural Safety, Elsevier, Vol. 82, p. 101890 1-15, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2019.101890

Aman Karamlou, Paolo Bocchini. From component damage to system-level probabilistic restoration functions for a damaged bridge. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE, Vol. 23, Issue 3, p. 04016042 1-14, 2017. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000342

Liyang Ma, Paolo Bocchini. Hysteretic model of single-bolted angle connections for lattice steel towers. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 145, Issue 8, p. 04019052 1-16, 2019. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001630

Paolo Bocchini
Professor and Director, Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience
paolo.bocchini@lehigh.edu
(610) 758-3066
117 ATLSS Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Education

Ph.D., Structural Mechanics, University of Bologna, Italy, 2008
Laurea Degree (B.Sc. + M.Sc.), Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy, 2004

Areas of Research

Catastrophe Modeling, Infrastructure and Community Resilience, Regional Seismic Analysis, Regional Hurricane Analysis, Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Random Processes and Fields in Civil Engineering, Probabilistic Structural Analysis, Applications of ML/AI to Civil Engineering, Life-Cycle of Structural Systems, Structural Engineering