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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
New studentship on the resilience of drinking water supplies in low income countries
Field aspects of the PhD will be undertaken in collaboration with Kyambogo University in Uganda. We are seeking to recruit a PhD student at the University of Surrey. PI: Dr Kathy Pond, Co-PI: Dr Stergios Mitoulis. The applications have to be made through this link …
new paper in the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
a new paper on “Cost-based resilience assessment of bridges subjected to earthquakes” has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, by Sotirios Argyroudis, Giorgos Nasiopoulos, Nikolaos Mantadakis and Stergios Mitoulis. Transport infrastructure resilience is of paramount importance for societies, …
new paper in Transportation Geotechnics
A new paper on “Multiple hazard fragility analysis for granular highway embankments: moisture ingress and scour” has been published in Transportation Geotechnics. This is the result of a collaborative effort between Greg McKeena (ByrneLooby Partners Ltd), Dr Mike G Winter (Winter Associates), Dr Sotirios Argyroudis and …
new paper in the Science of the Total Environment
our second paper this year in the Science of the Total Engvironment is discussing how resilience of transport infrastructure can be enhanced by deploying digital technologies:Monitoring of transport infrastructure exposed to multiple hazards: a roadmap for building resilience by Dimitra V Achillopoulou, Stergios A Mitoulis, Sotirios A …
paper on the vulnerability of bearings
Our new paper published in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering is on the fragility of bridge elastomeric bearings, on the basis of a novel damage index, and the influence of steel reinforcement plates on their performance. The paper is co-authored with Dr Kostas Kalfas …