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 resilience- and sustainability-based management

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Jan 19

DYnamic identification and MOnitoring of scoured BRIdgeS under earthquake hazard

We have recently won the European research project “DYMOBRIS”, as part of the H2020-SERA-TA project (Transnational Access Facilities). We will be testing large scale bridge pier specimens under mulitple hazards (flood-induced scour and earthquake excitations). More details can be found here

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Nov 18

Our course on Risk and Resilience of Bridges and Networks will be delivered in London 1 March 2019

You are all welcome!

more info: https://www.etsols.com/resiliencebridges
register here: https://www.etsols.com/book-course-online

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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

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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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