Christine Wittich

Ph.D. Student, Structural Engineering

Christine is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2010 from Lafayette College in Easton, PA, followed by her M.S. in Structural Engineering in 2012 from UC San Diego. Her doctoral research focuses on an in-depth study of the seismic response and vulnerability of marble statues. In 2011, as an IGERT-TEECH trainee, she developed a database of high-resolution three-dimensional digital reconstructions of culturally important marble statues in Florence, Italy. Based on the findings of this field survey, she conducted a series of shake table experiments on representative full-scale marble statues. Her continued research aims to understand the response of statue-pedestal systems under seismic excitation.

Contact:

Email:
cwittich[at]ucsd.edu


Publications

Dec 31, 2013 - "“Computing geometric and mass properties of culturally important statues for rigid body rocking.” ," C.E. Wittich, T.C. Hutchinson, Computing in Civil Engineering 2013, American Society of Civil Engineers, 810-817.

Dec 31, 2013 - "Computing geometric and mass properties of culturally important statues for rigid body rocking. ," C.E. Wittich, T.C. Hutchinson, Computing in Civil Engineering 2013, American Society of Civil Engineers, 810-817.

Oct 29, 2012 - "A Methodology for Integrative Documentation and Characterization of Culturally Important Statues to Support Seismic Analysis.,"Wittich, C.E, Hutchinson, T.C, Wood, R.L, & Kuester, F., Proc., Euromed2012: Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation, Limassol, Cyprus, p. 825-832.

Oct 29, 2012 - "Characterizing Cracks in the Frescoes of Sala degli Elementi within Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio,"Wood, R.L, Hutchinson, T.C, Wittich, C.E, & Kuester, F., Proc., Euromed2012: Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation, Limassol, Cyprus, p. 776-783