Vitelmo V. Bertero

Vitelmo V. Bertero
is presently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, and Research Engineer at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at the University of
California (UC), Berkeley. In 1947 he received his degree in Civil Engineering from the Facultad de
Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales, Universidad del Litoral, Rosario, Argentina, his native
country. In 1955 he received his M.S. degree and, in 1957, his Sc.D. degree in civil engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1958 he joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UC
Berkeley, where, from 1988 to 1990, he was the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center,
and where for the past 46 years he has been carrying out numerous integrated analytical and experimental
studies on seismic behavior of civil engineering facilities

Dr. Bertero has developed comprehensive methods of seismic design of steel moment frames, steel
braced frames, reinforced concrete (RC) frames, RC shear walls, and masonry structures. He conducted
many pioneering research studies including: elastic and inelastic seismic structural response due to nearfault
directivity pulses in the early1970s; classic experimental work on cyclic behavior of beam-column
steel and RC subassemblages; original experimental work on cyclic versus monotonically deformed
behavior of RC moment resisting frames and shear walls; innovative study on the understanding and
applications of energy-based methods in earthquake-resistant design and damage evaluation; and the
development of conceptual framework and the design-objective matrix for performance-based earthquake
engineering.
Professor Bertero has published more than 350 papers and reports on various issues in earthquake
engineering and received numerous national and international awards for his teaching and original
research efforts. In 1990 he was awarded the Berkeley Citation, UC’s highest honor. Among several other
awards in the USA, he received the ASCE NathanNewmark Award (1991); ACI Arthur Anderson Award
(1989); AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award (1990); and EERI Housner Medal (1995). In 1990,
Engineering
News Record
recognized him as the “Construction Man of the Year.” His international awards and
honors include: the Jai Krishna Award from the India Society of Earthquake Technology (1974); First
International Gold Medal Eduardo Torroja from the CSIC, Spain (1989); appointment as the Extraordinary
Chair of Javier Barrios Siera at the National University of Mexico (1986); appointment as Honorary
Professor in seven universities in South American countries; Honorary Doctoral degrees including“Doctorado
Honoris Causa en Ingeniería” from the University of Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela (1993); and
“CUYO” University, Mendoza, Argentina (1997).

Professor Bertero was elected to the Academy of Science of Argentina (1971); Academy of Engineers of
Argentina (1989); and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering as Foreign Associate (1990). He is an
Honorary Member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE), Honorary Member of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, and has been a
member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) since 1969.
In 1971–72 Professor Bertero served as the chief technical advisor to the UNESCO Mission at the International
Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo. From 1972 to 1978 he served as a member
of the Seismic Design Group on the development of comprehensive Seismic Code Provisions ATC 3-06. In
1977 he organized a workshop at UC Berkeley on Earthquake Resistant Reinforced Concrete Building Construction,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation — he also edited the three-volume proceedings.
Dr. Bertero has inspected structural and nonstructural damage in numerous earthquakes, including
the 1964 Alaska, 1967 Caracas (Venezuela), 1971 San Fernando (CA), 1972 Managua (Nicaragua), 1976
Guatemala, 1977 Caucete, San Juan (Argentina), 1979 Imperial Valley (CA), 1980 El Asnam (Algeria),
1983 Oga Peninsula (Japan); 1983 Coalinga (CA), 1985 Chile, 1985 Michoacan (Mexico), 1986 San

Salvador, 1987 Whittier Narrows (CA), 1988 Spitak (Armenia), 1989 Loma Prieta (CA), 1990 Luzon
(Philippines), 1992 Erzincan (Turkey), 1992 Flores (Indonesia),1994 Northridge (CA), and 1995 Kobe
(Japan) earthquakes.
Professor Bertero has been a consultant on various seismic design projects worldwide. He is presently
a member of the Seismic Technical Advisory Group for the City of Berkeley (CA). From 1988 to 1992
he was a member of the Advisory Committee to the United States Congress regarding the National
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). From 1992 to 2000 he was a Director (representing
the United States) of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). Professor Bertero
is currently the honorary president of the Latin American Association of Seismic Engineering.
Professor Bertero’s contributions to earthquake engineering have also included training, advising and
mentoring numerous graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research associates

He recently stated, “Nothing is more rewarding than witnessing
the success of former students and research associates.”

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