Research Highlights
Seismic risk and resilience of roadway networks
Our group is developing a systematic and comprehensive approach for the assessment and management of seismic risk to urban and interurban roadway networks in earthquake prone areas. More specifically, a holistic methodology has been developed for the assessment of losses in the various components of the urban and interurban roadway networks (inclusive of roads, motorways, bridges, overpasses, embankments and abutments, tunnels, retaining walls, slopes) exposed to the risk associated with a strong earthquake. More: www.retis-risk.eu |
Spatial variability of earthquake ground motion and its effect on extended structures
Our research focuses on the development of a holistic methodology to account for the effect of spatially variable earthquake ground motion on the response of long bridges considering ground motion incoherency and wave passage effects, soil-structure interaction and local soil and site response. Based on laboratory experiments, free field and on-structure measurements, the influence of higher mode excitation is investigated while design codes and guidelines are critically assessed.
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Seismic risk of natural gas pipelines
Our group is leading an H202, EU-funded, Intersectoral/International, Research and Innovation transfer scheme between academia and the industry in Europe and North America focusing on mitigating Seismic Risk of buried steel pipeline Networks that are subjected to ground-imposed permanent deformations. A (nearly real time) Decision Support System is developed for the Rapid Pipeline Recovery involving quick inspection of the soil-pipeline system at a pipe, pipeline and network level, hybrid testing and novel network analysis.
More: www.exchange-risk.eu |