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IASSAR TC R3 Webinar — Integrating Structural Reliability and Resilience in Performance-Based (Earthquake) Engineering

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

IASSAR TC R3 Webinar

Organized by the IASSAR Technical Committee on Robust Reliability, Risk & Decision Analysis (TC R3).
TU Munich and online (Microsoft Teams) — 29 October 2026, 5:00 PM (CET, Berlin time).

The IASSAR Technical Committee on Robust Reliability, Risk & Decision Analysis (TC R3) hosts a webinar on structural reliability and resilience in earthquake engineering, in which Prof. Marco Broccardo (University of Trento) will present our work developed within the .

🎤 Speaker: Prof. Marco Broccardo (University of Trento)
📌 Title: Integrating Structural Reliability and Resilience in Performance-Based (Earthquake) Engineering
🗓️ Date: 29 October 2026
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM (CET, Berlin time)
🎙️ Chair: Prof. Daniel Straub

📍 In person: TU Munich, Room N3620, Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Theresienstr. 90, 80333 Munich, Germany
💻 Online: via Microsoft Teams (link in the organizers’ announcement)

The webinar will explore the integration of structural reliability and resilience within performance-based earthquake engineering, an important topic for advancing the assessment and design of safer and more resilient engineering systems. Colleagues, researchers and students interested in structural reliability, earthquake engineering, resilience and risk analysis are warmly invited to join in person or online.

WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 — World Congress on Computational Mechanics

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026

World Congress on Computational Mechanics — ECCOMAS Congress 2026.
Munich, Germany — 19–24 July 2026.

A very intense week with the RSUQ Chair at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026.

The conference offered a unique opportunity to showcase our latest research at the intersection of uncertainty quantification, reliability, stochastic modelling, Bayesian inference, and computational mechanics. We were proud to contribute five presentations spanning several aspects of our work.

Contributions

🔹 S. Marelli, S. Schär, C. Nardin & B. Sudret — Reliability analysis on dynamical systems using manifold-autoregressive surrogate models
The keynote delivered by Stefano explored mNARX+, a data-driven framework for modelling complex dynamical systems with evolving internal states and damage, enabling efficient reliability analysis of systems exhibiting non-stationary behaviour.

🔹 C. Nardin, S. Marelli, M. Broccardo & B. Sudret — A Continuous Markov-Chain Perspective on Joint Seismic Reliability and Resilience Assessment
In this work, I introduced continuous-time Markov chains into the PEER-PBEE framework, providing a unified perspective for modelling both damage and recovery processes and enabling consistent assessment of seismic reliability and resilience.

🔹 A. Herr, S. Marelli & B. Sudret — Introducing Stochastic Emulators for Hierarchical Bayesian Inference of Population Parameters
Anna presented a new approach based on stochastic emulators that directly approximates population-level responses, reducing the computational burden of hierarchical Bayesian inference for expensive and stochastic forward models.

🔹 S. Marelli, S. Schär & B. Sudret — UQLab – An Open-Source Tool for Uncertainty Quantification with Dynamical Systems
Stefano highlighted the latest capabilities of UQLab, including its support for time-series data, dynamical systems, and advanced data-driven surrogate models such as PC-NARX, F-NARX and mNARX+.

🔹 Moustapha — Reliability-Based Design Optimization with Stochastic Emulators
Moustapha’s work on RBDO demonstrated how stochastic emulators can provide an efficient alternative to classical deterministic surrogates, particularly for high-dimensional uncertainty spaces and intrinsically stochastic simulators.

Together, these contributions reflect the broader research vision of the Chair: developing efficient, scalable and reliable computational methods for uncertainty quantification and risk-informed decision making, while bridging fundamental methodological developments with challenging engineering applications.

Kudos to all the authors and presenters for their excellent work, and many thanks to the WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 organizers for bringing together such a vibrant scientific community. It was a pleasure to meet old and new colleagues, discuss new ideas, and see the UQ and computational mechanics communities come together at such an enormous congress.

Abstract

C. Nardin, S. Marelli, M. Broccardo & B. Sudret —
A Continuous Markov-Chain Perspective on Joint Seismic Reliability and Resilience Assessment
WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, Munich, July 2026.

RSUQ Chair at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, Munich — July 2026.

CSM9 — 9th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

CSM9 2026

9th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, under the aegis of IASSAR.
Corfu, Greece — 21–25 June 2026.

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending my first Computational Stochastic Mechanics (CSM9) conference in Corfu, magnificently organized by Jianbing Chen, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, and Antonina Pirrotta.

The single-session format truly fostered meaningful discussions, making it easier to engage with the presentations, exchange ideas, and connect with researchers from all over the world. I especially appreciated the many inspiring conversations and discussions that made this conference such a rewarding experience.

I would like to sincerely thank my supervisors, Marco Broccardo, Bruno Sudret, and Stefano Marelli, for giving me the opportunity to attend this conference and present our first work, “Reliability and Resilience Assessment via Spectral Properties of Continuous-Time Markov Chains”, developed within the MSCA .

This was an inspiring first CSM experience, and I look forward to future editions!

Book of Abstracts

C. Nardin, S. Marelli, M. Broccardo & B. Sudret —
Reliability and Resilience Assessment via Spectral Properties of Continuous-Time Markov Chains
CSM9 — 9th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Corfu, June 2026.

CSM9 conference participants, Corfu — June 2026.

WiDS Zurich 2026 — Poster & Pitch: A Generalized Framework for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

WiDS Zurich 2026

Poster and pitch presentation at the — The Future of Data Science: From Trends to Impact.
Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon, Switzerland — June 19, 2026.

Paper

C. Nardin, S. Marelli, B. Sudret, M. Broccardo —
A generalized framework for performance-based earthquake engineering: integrated assessment of structural reliability and resilience
arXiv preprint, May 2026.