PhDTalks | Study on toppling resistance of trees and of their effects as Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: experimental tests at small-scale and at real-scale & hydrologic probabilistic modelling.
December 3 @ 17:15 - 18:30
The next appointment in the PhDTalks series will take place on Tuesday, December 3rd in the Fassò lecture hall (Building 4A), from 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM CET.
PhDTalks is a series of seminars and discussions among PhD students.
The events aim to provide a space for networking among PhD students and connecting with the many projects developed within our department.
The speaker, Giacomo Marrazzo, will lead a seminar titled:“Study on toppling resistance of trees and of their effects as Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: experimental tests at small-scale and at real-scale & hydrologic probabilistic modelling”.
At the end of the event, a small refreshment sponsored by the department will be available.
It will also be possible to attend the conference online at the following link.
Abstract
The protection against toppling failure of trees requires a large multidisciplinary approach and, in this perspective, Geotechnical Engineering can provide a valuable contribution, particularly when the attention is focused on the mechanisms of collapse due to root-plate overturning.This research aims to study not only the toppling resistance of trees but also their effects as Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS).Experimental tests both at small-scale, on a simplified prototype, and at real-scale by investigating different loading conditions will be shown. Moreover, an analytical-probabilistic approach to evaluate the role of trees in the water cycle restoration and in reducing stormwater runoff will be presented.
Speaker’s bio
Giacomo holds an MSc in Civil Engineering for Risk Mitigation from Politecnico di Milano, in 2021. He is currently a PhD candidate in Structural, Seismic and Geotechnical Engineering (38th cycle). His scholarship is interdisciplinary and it is co-founded by the Doctoral Program in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering. His research focuses on the numerical and experimental study on toppling resistance of trees in urban areas and of their role as sustainable drainage systems for flooding control.
Outside academia, he is a non-professional basketball player and he plays for the club “Asm70 Pezzini Basket Morbegno”.