Tim Sullivan obtained his Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and his Masters and PhD in Earthquake Engineering from the ROSE School, Italy. Tim has a considerable amount of professional engineering experience, beginning his professional career in 1998 and having worked in New Zealand, Germany and the UK on many international projects, including the Macau Tower (338m), the Taiwan High Speed Railway Viaduct, the Almaty Tower (approx. 200m high), and the Istanbul Tower (approx. 220m high). Tim is a Chartered Engineer with the UK institute of Civil Engineers and is a Member of the New Zealand Earthquake Engineering Society. His main research interests are in the fundamentals of seismic design, with an emphasis on Direct Displacement-Based Design, Capacity Design and Performance-Based Design. In addition to his role in the EUCENTRE, Tim is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of Pavia, Italy.


Recent Publications

Sullivan, T.J., Priestley, M.J.N. and Calvi, G.M., (2009) “Introduction to a Model Code for Displacement-Based Seismic Design” Proceedings, ACES Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering, Corfu, Greece.

Sullivan T.J., Salawdeh S., Pecker A., Corigliano M., and Calvi G.M. (2009) “Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Considerations for Performance-Based Design of RC Wall Structures on Shallow Foundations” Proceedings of the International Workshop on Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction, SFSI 09.

Sullivan T.J. (2009) “Direct Displacement-Based Design of a RC Wall-Steel EBF Dual System with Added Dampers” Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 42, No.3.

Calvi G.M. and Sullivan. T.J. Editors (2009) “A model code for the Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures, DBD09 – Draft Issued for Public Enquiry ”, IUSS Press, 80pages.

Garcia, R., Sullivan T.J. and Della Corte, G. (2009) “Development of a Displacement-Based Design for Steel Frame-RC Wall Buildings”  Accepted for Journal of Earthquake Engineering.

Pennucci, D., Calvi, G.M., and Sullivan, T.J., (2009) “Displacement-Based Design of Precast Walls with additional dampers” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 13(1), 40-65.

Goggins, J.G. and Sullivan, T.J. (2009) “Displacement-based seismic design of SDOF concentrically braced frames” STESSA conference, Philidelphia, U.S.A., paper No. 0141.

Sullivan, T.J., Priestley, M.J.N. and Calvi, G.M., (2008) “Estimating the Higher Mode Response of Ductile Structures” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol.12, No. 3, pp456–472.