Rodrigo wins the Unwin Prize

Congratulations to Rodrigo Thiers-Moggia who has been announced as the 2021 recipient of the WC Unwin Prize for the best PhD thesis in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. In his thesis, “Seismic control of rocking structures with inerters”, Rodrigo made substantial and original research contributions relying on analytical, numerical and design studies of rocking structures which utilise inerters for seismic control.

Rodrigo’s work has contributed to the following publications (with a few more in the pipeline):

Journal papers:

J1. Thiers-Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2019, Seismic protection of rocking structures with inerters, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol: 48, Pages: 528-547, ISSN: 0098-8847

J2. Malaga Chuquitaype C, Menendez-Vicente C, Thiers-Moggia R, 2019, Experimental and numerical assessment of the seismic response of steel structures with clutched inerters, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol: 121, Pages: 200-211, ISSN: 0267-7261

J3. Thiers-Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2020, Seismic control of flexible rocking structures using inerters, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol: 49, Pages: 1519-1538, ISSN: 0098-8847

J4. Thiers-Moggia R, Málaga-Chuquitaype C, 2020, Dynamic response of post-tensioned rocking structures with inerters, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol: 187, Pages: 1-15, ISSN: 0020-7403

J5. Thiers-Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2021, Effect of base-level inerters on the higher mode response of uplifting structures, Journal of Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, ISSN: 0733-9399

Conference papers:

C1. Thiers-Moggia R, Málaga-Chuquitaype C, 2020, Seismic protection of multi-storey rocking structures with inerters, Eurodyn 2020, Pages: 1528-1544, ISSN: 2311-9020

C2. Thiers-Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2019, Seismic control of post-tensioned rocking walls with inerters, SECED 2019, Earthquake Risk and Engineering Towards a Resilient World

C3. Thiers Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2018, Seismic protection of cross-laminated timber buildings with supplemental inertia devices, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE)

C4. Thiers-Moggia R, Malaga Chuquitaype C, 2020, Performance-based seismic assessment of rocking cross-laminated timber buildings protected with inerters, World Conference on Timber Eningeering (WCTE)

 WC Unwin FRS

William Cawthorne Unwin FRS was an Imperial civil and mechanical engineer who served as president of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. (Wikipedia link)