We participated in the annual meeting organised on 14th of May by Highways England, on “University research – highway structures – hydraulic actions & extreme weather events”, with interesting discussions between academics and representatives of HE, on research priorities and the preparation of the DMRB document …
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London Bridges Engineering Group
On the 10th of May we participated in the London Bridges Engineering Group (LoBEG) AGM, where we presented our ongoing survey for developing restoration curves for bridges exposed to hydraulic hazards. Our research activities are aligned with the bridge management strategy for the London boroughs developed and …
Special Session on “Monitoring strategies for enhancing transport infrastructure resilience”, IABMAS2020, June 28-July 2, Sapporo, Japan
We are happy to announce the organisation of a special session with the National Physics Laboratory (NPL) from UK, on “Monitoring strategies for enhancing transport infrastructure resilience”. This special session will take place in IABMAS 2020 conference, June 28 – July 2, Sapporo, Japan. Submission of abstracts …
Special Session on “Loss and resilience assessment tools for infrastructure exposed to natural hazards”- ICONHIC2019, Chania, Crete, 23-26 June
Our Special Session on “loss and resilience assessment tools for infrastructure exposed to natural hazards”, is approaching! Organisers: Nisrine Makhoul, Notre Dame University, Lebanon Sotiris Argyroudis, University of Surrey, UK & Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece Jong Sung Lee National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois …
Minisymposium on “Novel methods for seismic design and intervention of Conventional and Integral Bridges”, COMPDYN 2019, Crete, June 24-26
Our Minisymposium “Novel methods for seismic design and intervention of Conventional and Integral Bridges”, is now on, please have a look at COMPDYN 2019 Conference, Crete, June 24-26: Organisers: Camillo Nuti (Universita Roma Tre, Italy) George Mylonakis (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) Flavia De Luca (University of Bristol, …
Special Session in Integral Bridge design-IABMAS 2020 Conference
Our Special Session in Integral Bridge design is now on please have a look at IABMAS 2020 Conference (June 28-July 2): [SS35] Latest developments on seismic response of integral abutment bridges Organisers: Bruno Briseghella, College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, China; Stergios Mitoulis, University of …
Workshop, 1 March 2019@London: Risk & Resilience of bridges and networks
There was a lot of interaction and extremely interesting conversations as to what the future of resilience engineering looks like for transport networks. A follow-up elicitation poll is on its way. The workshop will be repeated in early June due to the number of people …
A successful Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on the resilience of interdependent infrastructure assets
Another successful project H2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on the resilience of interacting infrastructure assets in densely populated urban areas exposed to diverse hazards! The Fellow Prof Juan Manuel Mayoral is joining our group in August 2019. “ResilienTTS: Resilience of Transit Transfer Stations exposed to multiple natural …
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on bridge monitoring enhanced resilience
We just won one more H2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on bridge monitoring enhanced resilience! BriFace: Novel assessment of bridge retrofitting measures through Interface Efficiency Indices (InterFeis) using a Guided Wave-based monitoring method
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