Publications
Below you can find relevant publications from the UNESCO Chair in DRR-DR team at UCL.
Publications
Byun, J., Vatteri, A., Lo, D., D’Ayala, D. (2026). A Bayesian network framework for quantitative analysis of education continuity under earthquake risk: integrating physical and social vulnerabilities, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 137, 15 April 2026, 106084.
D’Ayala, Fernández, R., Parammal Vatteri, A., Li, Z., Bendito, A., Yasukawa, S. (2025). Evaluating education disruption by integrated school and road infrastructure system analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Li, Z., Fernández, R., & D’Ayala, D. (2025). Reinforcement Learning Based Recovery of Education after Natural Hazards. In International Conference for Artificial Intelligence: Applications, Innovation and Ethics (AI)2E.
D’Ayala, D., Fernández, R., Parammal Vatteri, A., Yasukawa, S., Bendito, A. (2023). Minimize education disruption following natural hazards, Dominican Republic 2023/SC/DRR/03
Fernández, R., Calvo, A., Correal, J. F., D’Ayala, D., & Medaglia, A. L. (2024). Large-scale school building infrastructure improvement: The case of the city of Cali, Colombia. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 93, 101881
Guardiola-Víllora, A., Molina, S. & D’Ayala, D. Performance based probabilistic seismic risk assessment for urban heritage. An example in Pla del Remei Area (Valencia). Bull Earthquake Eng (2023)
Fernández, R., Correal, J.F., D’Ayala, D. and Medaglia, A.L., 2023. A decision-making framework for school infrastructure improvement programs. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, pp.1-20.
Fernández, R., Correal, J.F., D’Ayala, D. and Medaglia, A.L., 2023. Towards disaster risk mitigation on large-scale school intervention programs. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 90, p.103655.
Adhikari, R.K., D’Ayala, D., Fernandez, R., Yamin, L., Nassirpour, A., Vatteri, A.P., Ferreira, C. and Cortes, F., 2023. GLOSI Taxonomy: A tool for ‘seismic risk assessment’oriented classification of school buildings. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, p.103594.
Adhikari, Rohit Kumar, Ahsana Parammal Vatteri, and Dina D’Ayala. 2023. “Seismic Performance Assessment of Low-Rise Unreinforced and Confined Brick Masonry School Buildings Using the Applied Element Method“ Buildings 13, no. 1: 159.
Cels, J., Rossetto, T., Little, A.W. and Dias, P., 2023. Tsunami preparedness within Sri Lanka’s education system. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 84, p.103473.
Fernández, R., Yamin, L., D’Ayala, D. et al. (2022) A simplified component-based methodology for the seismic vulnerability assessment of school buildings using nonlinear static procedures: application to RC school buildings. Bull Earthquake Eng 20, 6555–6585.
Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2022), Analytical vulnerability-based risk assessment of school systems exposed to multi-hazards, Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure (ICONHIC), Athens, Greece.
Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2022), Bayesian Networks for Assessment of Disruption to School Systems under Combined Hazards, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 74, 102924.
Vatteri, A.P. and D’Ayala, D., (2021). Classification and seismic fragility assessment of confined masonry school buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 19(5), pp.2213-2263.
Del Zoppo, M., Wijesundara, K., Rossetto, T., Dias, P., Baiguera, M., Di Ludovico, M., Thamboo, J. and Prota, A., (2021). Influence of exterior infill walls on the performance of RC frames under tsunami loads: Case study of school buildings in Sri Lanka. Engineering Structures, 234, p.111920.
Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2021), Bayesian Networks for Seismic Performance Assessment of Confined Masonry School Systems, Proceedings of 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), Sendai, Japan.
Fernández, R.I., Adhikari, R.K., Yamin, L.E., D’Ayala, D.F. and Fuentes, G.A. (2020) Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Reduction Strategy of Low-rise School Buildings, 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
D’Ayala D, Galasso C, Nassirpour A, Adhikari RK, Yamin L, Fernandez R, Lo D, Garciano L and Oreta A (2019) Resilient communities through safer schools, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
UCL and UniAndes (2019). Final Report, GLOSI: Global Library of School Infrastructure, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
Adhikari, R.K., D’Ayala, D. (2019). Applied element modelling and pushover analysis of unreinforced masonry buildings with flexible roof diaphragm, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Crete, Greece.
Adhikari R.K., D’Ayala D. et al (2018). “Structural Classification System for Load Bearing Masonry School Buildings”. In: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece.
