{"id":11,"date":"2020-11-25T04:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato-new\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:47:30","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Professor Michele Barbato, Ph.D., P.E. (LA, Italy), F.ASCE, F.SEI, F.EMI<\/h3>\n<p>Professor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cee.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/faculty-and-research\/structural-engineering-and-structural-mechanics\">Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cee.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/\">Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n3149 Ghausi Hall<br \/>\nUniversity of California<br \/>\nDavis, CA 95616<\/p>\n<p>Lab webpage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/barbatolab.sf.ucdavis.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Structural and Infrastructure Hazard Mitigation Under Current and Changing Climate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/climateadaptation.ucdavis.edu\/\">Climate Adaptation Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citris-uc.org\/research\/climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS Climate Initiative<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citris-uc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CITRIS and the Banatao Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Executive Committee Member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdrn.net\/\">UC Disaster Resilience Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>E-mail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mbarbato@ucdavis.edu\">mbarbato@ucdavis.edu<\/a><br \/>\nPhone: 530-754-6427<\/p>\n<h3>Research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete, steel, steel-concrete, and wood-concrete composite structures;<\/li>\n<li>Modeling and analysis of reinforced concrete structures retrofitted with fiber reinforced polymers;<\/li>\n<li>Modeling and analysis of soil-foundation-structure interaction systems;<\/li>\n<li>Finite element methods for response and response sensitivity analyses of structural and geotechnical systems;<\/li>\n<li>Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics;<\/li>\n<li>Random vibration theory and stochastic process modeling;<\/li>\n<li>Computational reliability analysis of structural and geotechnical systems;<\/li>\n<li>Probabilistic methods and their application to earthquake\/wind\/hurricane engineering;<\/li>\n<li>Performance-Based Earthquake\/Wind\/Hurricane\/Multihazard Engineering;<\/li>\n<li>Multihazard assessment and mitigation under current and changing climate conditions;<\/li>\n<li>Wildfire risk assessment and mitigation;<\/li>\n<li>Innovative use and valorization of waste and by-product materials for construction applications;<\/li>\n<li>Numerical optimization methods and their application to structural engineering problems, e.g., structural reliability, structural optimization, structural identification, and finite element model updating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/04\/barbato-michele.jpg\" alt=\"Michele Barbato\" width=\"180\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Michele Barbato, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, F.SEI, F.EMI<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Professor<br \/>\nPronouns: He\/him\/his<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cee.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/\">Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.ucdavis.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of California, Davis<br \/>\nOne Shields Avenue<br \/>\nDavis, CA 95616-5294<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:%20mbarbato@ucdavis.edu\"><br \/>\nmbarbato@ucdavis.edu<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"tel:%205307546427\"><br \/>\n(530) 754-6427<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Michele Barbato, Ph.D., P.E. 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