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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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  

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 …

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, …