Pettorruso Carlo

Carlo Pettorruso is a structural civil engineer. He graduated with top marks (110/110) in Civil Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and earned a PhD with honors from the ABC Department at the same university. After completing his master’s degree, he worked in leading engineering firms before pursuing an academic and research career. His doctoral research focused on the seismic retrofit of existing bridges through seismic isolation, followed by studies on the assessment and safety of post-tensioned reinforced-concrete bridges. He then held a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship and is currently an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano. He was also part of the research group that obtained a patent for a seismic energy-dissipation device and a member of the team that won the S2P contest.

Career

Graduated in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

PhD from the ABC Department at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Research

• Seismic retrofit of existing bridges.
• Assessment of bridge condition (state of preservation).
• Assessment of residual prestress in post-tensioned reinforced-concrete bridges.
• Seismic mitigation devices.

Selected Publications

"A Performance-Based Ranking Approach for Optimizing NDT Selection for Post-Tensioned Bridge Assessment." Pettorruso, C., Rossi, D., Quaglini, V. Infrastructures, 2025, 10(8), 194.

"An Explorative Investigation of the Flat-Jack Test for Prestress Assessment in Post-Tensioned Concrete Structures." Rossi, D., Pettorruso, C., Quaglini, V., Cattaneo, S. Applied Sciences, 2025, 15(11), 6199.

"Conceptual Design of Seismic Retrofit of Existing Bridges by Deck Isolation: Assessment of Effectiveness." Pettorruso, C., Quaglini, V. Applied Sciences, 2024, 14(16), 7353.

"Experimental And Numerical Assessment Of Prestressed Lead Extrusion Dampers." Quaglini, V., Pettorruso, C.,Bruschi, E. Ingegneria Sismica, 2021, 38(2), pp. 46–68.

"Cold bending of vertical glass plates: Wind loads and geometrical instabilities." Quaglini, V., Cattaneo, S., Pettorruso, C., Biolzi, L. Engineering Structures, 2020, 220, 110983.