Here you will find news relevant to the activities of the initiative including webinars, talks, consulting projects, publications, participation in conferences and meetings mostly relevant to resilience of critical infrastructure with emphasis on transport and energy assets and their intra/interdependencies, views on the UNs Sustainable Development Goals and use of digital and emerging technologies in infrastructure risk-based management
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Sep 18
Organisation of a session on “Infrastructure System Resilience” in SECED2019
Our group is organising and chairing the session: Infrastructure System Resilience, in SECED 2019 Conference on Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics taking place on 9-10th September 2019 in Greenwich, London.
More details can be found here: https://www.seced.org.uk/index.php/programme-2/sessions 10
Sep 18
Organisation of a session on “Resilience of transportation infrastructure under multiple hazards” in ICONHIC2019
Our group is organising and chairing the session “Resilience of transportation infrastructure under multiple hazards” in ICONHIC2019, the 2nd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure, taking place on 23-26 June 2019 in Chania, Greece.
More details can be found here: https://iconhic.com/2019/
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Aug 18
The Morandi bridge failure
Some preliminary speculations on the Morandi bridge failure in Italy: an interview by Dr Stergios Mitoulis at BBC News (15/08/2018)
Online article by BBC News here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45188668
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May 18
EPSRC Vacation Bursary 2018
delighted to have a student working with us this summer on resilience assessment of transport infrastructure, funded by the EPSRC Vacation Bursary 2018 scheme!
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May 18
Participation to the GEESD V, Austin, Texas
we participate to the fifth decennial Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference (GEESD V) in Austin, Texas, 10-13 June, 2018
presenting the paper:
Fragility assessment of transportation infrastructure systems subjected to earthquakes (by Argyroudis S, Mitoulis S, Kaynia AM, Winter MG).
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May 18
Participation to the 16ECEE, Thessaloniki, Greece
we participate to the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE) in Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 June, 2018
co-organising the special sessions:
“Seismic risk & resilience of critical infrastructure”
& “Software for loss estimation: developments & applications”
and presenting the paper:
Fragility of critical transportation infrastructure systems subjected to geo-hazards (by Argyroudis S, Mitoulis S, Winter MG, Kaynia AM)
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Mar 18
Seminar to the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK
the group delivered a seminar to the Institution of Civil Engineers, in the framework of the SECED evening talks, 28 March, 2018
Title: Design of Integral Bridges to Earthquake Loads: Challenges and Opportunities