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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Jul 20
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 from Southern Methodist University and Prof Dimitris Konstantinidis, Berkeley University
Read the paper here: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ST.1943-541X.0002710
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Jun 20
Stergios Mitoulis joined the Editorial panel of the Journal: Advances in Civil Engineering of Hindawi
more info about this journal here
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Jun 20
a monograph published in Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering
Stergios’s recent monograph on Challenges and opportunities for the application of integral abutment bridges in earthquake-prone areas: A review
further info can be found here
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Jun 20
MDPI editorial panel
Stergios Mitoulis and Sotirios Argyroudis joined the MDPI Editorial panel of the Journal: Sustainability, Editorial panel: Hazards & Sustainability
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May 20
Stergios authored an Editorial for the Bridge Engineering of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE-UK)
Stergios’S Editorial at the Journal of Bridge Engineering of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Bridge Engineering 173(2): 61–62, https://doi.org/10.1680/jbren.2020.173.2.61
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Mar 20
Journal paper on monitoring of bridge deflections
Our latest scientific paper on prestressed bridge deflections, has a lot of valuable information for a recent consultancy on the lake Polyfytos Bridge: https://metainfrastructure.org/lake-polyfytos-bridge
Title: Control of long-term deflections of RC beams using reinforcements and low-shrinkage concrete authored by H. Sousa, S. Mitoulis, K. Psarras, I. Tegos. The paper explains how bridge vertical deflections can be alleviated by making use of low shrinkage concrete. The paper can be found here.
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Mar 20
we are part of the scientific committee of iBridge-2020
The Turkish Association for Bridge and Structural Engineers, the Turkish chapter for IABSE and the organisers of the 4th Istanbul Bridge Conference (iBridge-2020) have invited Dr Stergios A Mitoulis to the scientific committee of the Conference to be held on 16-17 November 2020 in Istanbul: https://ibridgeconference.org/
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Mar 20
Bridges 2020 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK 12th March 2020
Dr Sotirios Argyroudis delivered a keynote lecture on the “Quantification of Resilience” in the ‘Bridges2020’ conference, which took place in the Ricoh Arena, Coventry UK, on 12 & 13 March 2020.
The exposure of transport infrastructure to natural hazards such as floods or ground movements was proven to have severe consequences on economies and societies, which are expected to be exacerbated due to climate change. Thus, pinpointing the vulnerabilities and quantifying the resilience of infrastructure exposed to multiple hazards is of paramount importance for stakeholders, network operators and owners, toward more efficient allocation of their resources and rapid decision-making.
In this lecture, a resilience assessment framework for infrastructure assets exposed to individual and multiple natural hazard events is introduced. This framework considers the factors that reflect redundancy and resourcefulness in infrastructure, i.e. (i) the robustness to hazard actions, based on realistic fragility functions, and (ii) the rapidity of the recovery, based on realistic restoration and reinstatement functions. Examples were also presented including estimation of resilience indexes and indirect losses due to bridge closures. This lecture was part of the H2020-MSCA-IF TRANSRISK research project at University of Surrey: https://metainfrastructure.org/transrisk/
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Mar 20
International Women’s Day
#EachforEqual:
Our group celebrates International Women’s Day!
We embrace equality and balance for progress!
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Feb 20
Sky News: our interview on flood resilience of critical infrastructure
Stergios was interviewed by Sky News this morning on flood resilience of critical infrastructure, watch the video here.
The following points were communicated: The #EnvironmentAgency has improved significantly the level of understanding and the quantification of #flood #risk with the new flood risk maps. Perhaps this is an ideal time to improve the #resilience of our infrastructure assets and #networks to floods and deliver cost-effective flood-proof infrastructure by investing in alleviation and #adaptationmeasures to increased stressors exerting on our already deteriorated infrastructure
The flood risk is exacerbated due to #climatechange and the #urbanisation ie building on #floodplains susceptible to floods
Our infrastructure is exposed to stressors that deteriorate its functionality over time, and this makes the situation more difficult for infrastructure to respond successfully to new and/or aggravated natural hazard occurrences
The government has announced (5 Feb 2020) an additional investment of £2.6 billion over six years to alleviate flood risks and protect the more than 1.8 million people in the UK who live in flood-prone areas.
#SkyNews #MarieCurieIndividualFellowship 2019 and @ReBounce #EuropeanCommission #InfrastructuResilience #UniversityofSurrey
