Earthquake engineering and resilience

Earthquakes are a major global concern affecting people’s lives, economy and wellbeing. Since 1900, 2.3 million people have died in 2,233 earthquakes^[1] and we can only expect those numbers to continue increasing as the exposure and vulnerability of communities grow year to year. 

We work to characterise the relationship between strong ground-motion and structural response, from fundamental relationships grounded in Dimensional and Orientational Analyses to hazard-consistent models that respect the causal chain from seismic source to structural demand.

Representative papers:

• Málaga‐Chuquitaype, C. "Strong‐motion duration and response scaling of yielding and degrading eccentric structures." Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics (2021): 635-654.
• Málaga-Chuquitaype, C. "Estimation of peak displacements in steel structures through dimensional analysis and the efficiency of alternative ground-motion time and length scales." Engineering Structures (2015): 264-278.
• Zahra, F., and Málaga-Chuquitaype, C. "Hazard-consistent performance comparison of ASCE and Eurocode-compliant steel moment frames." Engineering Structures (2025): 119492.