Delivering bridges resilient to multiple natural hazards and climate change is fundamental to continued economic prosperity and social coherence. Emerging and disruptive digital technologies have the potential to enhance the climate resilience of critical infrastructure such as bridges. Nevertheless, the potential of these technologies remains …
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Our new paper titled “Innovations in earthquake risk reduction for resilience: recent advances and challenges
Our paper is now published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) highlights the importance of scientific research, supporting the ‘availability and application of science and technology to decision making’ in disaster risk reduction (DRR). …
New paper “Restoration models of flood resilient bridges: survey data”
The data of our elicitation survey on restoration of flood damaged bridges is now available on-line in Data in Brief, please see here The survey includes the duration and sequence of restoration tasks, idle times, cost, and traffic/functionality loss for specified damage levels of given …
New paper on “Restoration models for quantifying flood resilience of bridges”
In order to assess and quantify the resilience of flood-critical bridges and subsequently deploy bridge resilience models aiming at building resilience into transport networks, it is essential to use reliable fragility, capacity restoration and traffic reinstatement metrics and models. In our recent paper “Restoration models for quantifying flood …
Participation to IABMAS2020
Our group has participated in the IABMAS2020 conference, held online on April 11-18, 2021. We have successfully organised a special session on “Monitoring strategies for enhancing transport infrastructure resilience” Please watch the video of a lecture that we delivered on “Data-driven resilience assessment for transport infrastructure …
How to Quantify Resilience In Critical Infrastructure Assets and Networks- ETSols live webinar
I’m speaking to help you Quantify the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Assets and Networks. Would you like to attend? 1 – 3 pm UK time, Thursday 10 June 2021 more information and registration here
new paper on the vulnerability of bridges to individual and multiple hazards- floods and earthquakes
If you love bridges and want to protect them against floods then delve into the details of our recent article. With this paper you can assess the potential losses and risk of a bridge that is exposed to flood and scour effects. Use the fragility …
A themed issue on Bridge and transport network resilience – call for papers:
Institution of Civil Engineers – Bridge Engineering Recent natural disasters revealed the vulnerabilities of bridges and critical infrastructure to diverse hazards (e.g. floods, blasts, earthquakes), which may exacerbate due to climate change, leading to significant economic losses and societal disruption. This themed issue is focused …
Field reconnaissance of the 2020 Medicane Ianos, Karditsa, Greece
Damage of bridges and local transport network, by Dr Marianna Loli On September 17, 2020, the Mediterranean Cyclone (a.k.a. Medicane) “Ianos” made landfall in central Greece affecting a great part of the Country. In the most impacted areas, the associated precipitation was among the highest …
a free workshop: Can monitoring enhance the resilience of Civil infrastructure?
Can monitoring enhance theresilience of Civil infrastructure? A free workshop will bedeliverd on 8 January 2021 at 12 o’clok UK time. Zoom link please join here: https://surrey-ac.zoom.us/j/95984397747?from=addon