AP&PAlessioPipinato&Partners

Research

The research of Alessio Pipinato, founder and technical and scientific director of AP&P: publications, academic work and innovation projects with universities and international institutions, which the practice brings to the construction site every day.

Railway deck testing

Publications

Over 250 publications and 11 books

Author: Alessio Pipinato, Engineer, Architect and PhD, technical and scientific director of AP&P.

250+scientific publications authored by Alessio Pipinato
11books, including the technical best-seller “Innovative Bridge Design Handbook” (Elsevier)
Innovative Bridge Design Handbook, second edition cover

Main book · Latest edition

Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance

Pipinato A. (ed.) · Second edition, Elsevier – Butterworth-Heinemann, 2022 · ISBN 9780128235508

Book page on Elsevier ScienceDirect ↗

Main papers in international indexed journals

  1. 2019Prolonging the life-time of old steel and steel-concrete bridges: assessment procedures and retrofit interventions
    Pipinato A., Collin P., Hallmark R. · Structural Engineering International (accepted)
  2. 2019Assessment procedure and rehabilitation criteria for riveted road bridges
    Pipinato A., Rebelo C., Pedrosa B., Gervásio S. H. · Structural Engineering International · DOI 10.1080/10168664.2019.1615855
  3. 2019Extending the fatigue life of steel truss bridges with tuned mass damper systems
    Pipinato A. · Advances in Civil Engineering, Hindawi
  4. 2018Recent north east Italian tornado events: lesson learned for improving structures
    Pipinato A. · Natural Hazards, Springer · DOI 10.1007/s11069-018-3380-2
  5. 2018Lifetime extension of existing steel bridges
    Pipinato A. · IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 419, 012004 · DOI 10.1088/1757-899X/419/1/012004
  6. 2018Extending the lifetime of steel truss bridges by cost-efficient strengthening interventions
    Pipinato A. · Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Taylor & Francis · DOI 10.1080/15732479.2018.1465103
  7. 2018Structural optimization of network arch bridges with hollow tubular arches and chords
    Pipinato A. · Modern Applied Science, 12(2)
  8. 2016Structural analysis and design of multi-span network arch bridge
    Pipinato A. · Proceedings of the ICE – Bridge Engineering, 169(BE1), 54–66 · DOI 10.1680/jbren.14.00013
  9. 2014Residual life of historic riveted steel bridges: an analytical approach
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Proceedings of the ICE – Bridge Engineering, 167, 17–32 · DOI 10.1680/bren.11.00014
  10. 2012Structural analysis of the cantilever construction process in cable-stayed bridges
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Periodica Polytechnica – Civil Engineering, 56(2), 141–166 · DOI 10.3311/pp.ci.2012-2.02
  11. 2012Fatigue behaviour of steel bridge joints strengthened with FRP laminates
    Pipinato A. · Modern Applied Science, 6(6), 1–14 · DOI 10.5539/mas.v6n10p1
  12. 2012Coupled safety assessment of cable stayed bridges
    Pipinato A. · Modern Applied Science, 6(7), 64–78 · DOI 10.5539/mas.v6n7p64
  13. 2012Assessment procedure and rehabilitation criteria for the riveted railway Adige Bridge
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 8(8), 747–764 · DOI 10.1080/15732479.2010.481674
  14. 2012Influence of fatigue on cable arrangement in cable-stayed bridges
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Fregno G., Modena C. · International Journal of Steel Structures, 12(1), 107–123 · DOI 10.1007/s13296-012-1010-5
  15. 2012Fatigue damage estimation in existing railway steel bridges by advanced loading history analysis
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · ISRN Civil Engineering, article 231674 · DOI 10.5402/2012/231674
  16. 2011Assessment of existing bridges: safety and security issues
    Pipinato A. · Ingegneria Ferroviaria, 66(4), 355–371
  17. 2011Fatigue assessment of highway steel bridges in presence of seismic loading
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Engineering Structures, 33(1), 202–209 · DOI 10.1016/j.engstruct.2010.10.008
  18. 2011Fatigue tests on riveted steel elements taken from a railway bridge
    Pipinato A., Molinari M., Pellegrino C., Bursi O.S., Modena C. · Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 7(12), 907–920 · DOI 10.1080/15732470903099776
  19. 2011A simplified management procedure for bridge network maintenance
    Pellegrino C., Pipinato A., Modena C. · Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 7(5), 341–351 · DOI 10.1080/15732470802659084
  20. 2010Structural analysis of historical metal bridges in Italy
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Advanced Materials Research, 133–134, 525–530 · DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.133-134.525
  21. 2010Step level procedure for remaining fatigue life evaluation of one railway bridge
    Pipinato A. · Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 5(1), 28–37 · DOI 10.3846/bjrbe.2010.04
  22. 2010Structural analysis and fatigue reliability assessment of the Paderno bridge
    Pipinato A., Modena C. · Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, ASCE, 15(2), 109–124 · DOI 10.1061/(ASCE)SC.1943-5576.0000037
  23. 2009High-cycle fatigue behavior of riveted connections for railway metal bridges
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Bursi O.S., Modena C. · Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 65(12), 2167–2175 · DOI 10.1016/j.jcsr.2009.06.019
  24. 2008Scheduled maintenance actions and residual life evaluation of railway infrastructures for metallic structure bridges
    Pipinato A., Pellegrino C., Modena C. · Ingegneria Ferroviaria, 63(2), 125–134 (also in Bautechnik, 8/2008)

More than 250 documents, including books, conference proceedings and papers in national and international journals. Full list on request at info@pipinatoandpartners.it.

Academic Activity

Between academia and practice

The academic and scientific career of Alessio Pipinato, which has always run alongside his professional work.

  • For more than ten years a lecturer at the University of Padua in Structural Engineering and Bridge Design.
  • International teaching for NATO.
  • UNI CT/21 National Technical Committee for Structural Engineering; full member of UNI.
  • Member of IABSE, Associate Member of ASCE, member of the Italian and European Chapters of the AIA.

Innovation

Research and development projects

Projects promoted by AP&P under the scientific direction of Alessio Pipinato.

PROLIFE RFCS European projectEuropean Commission. 2015 international grant for research on steel bridges and viaducts.
SEBE International FellowshipSince 2019 AP&P has supported international universities through R&D projects: Young Fellowship (since 2019) and Advanced Fellowship (since 2020).
Experimental researchStatic, multi-static and fatigue tests on railway bridge decks with research bodies and universities (Padua–Trento).
Bridge Management SystemsDesign and implementation of BMS and structural health monitoring systems for ordinary and complex bridge networks.
Optical load testingTests on railway and road bridges using advanced optical technology combined with wireless microsensors.
BIM and dronesUNI 11337-7 certified BIM team and in-house drone fleet for work-at-height inspections and photogrammetry.