Postponed: Resilience-Based Design for Next-Generation Bridge Design and Construction Event

Due to the current circumstances, we have taken the decision to postpone the above workshop. We shall be looking to rearrange for 2021 and will be in touch with you again in due course to confirm future dates.

The main focus of this workshop will be on recent advances in the design, fabrication, construction, inspection, and accelerated bridge construction. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Accelerated bridge construction (ABC)
• Sustainability and resilience-based design and construction of bridges
• Application of composite and smart materials in bridge construction
• Robotic bridge repair and construction
• Robotic/autonomous inspection including NDT methods
• Off-site manufacturing
• Nonlinear dynamics and seismic performance of ABC bridges
• Application of ABC bridges for High-Speed and Ultra-High-Speed Trains

Oral Presentations

Our academic colleagues who are interested in presenting their work at the workshop need to send us your abstract by 15 March 2020. A special issue on the same topic will is called in Journal of Structures. The full paper submission deadline is by 15 June 2020. This special issue is not restricted to the papers by authors who will present their work at the workshop. Any author who wishes to submit a paper to this issue is welcome to do so. Those who will attend the workshop are required to submit a paper. Please send your 250 words abstract to Mehdi.Kashani@soton.ac.uk. Please make sure that you include your name, affiliation and contact details of the authors in your abstract. The confirmation of the acceptance of the research presentations and posters will be sent to the authors by 15 April 2020.

Poster presentations

There is also an opportunity for PhD/MSc students who wish to bring a poster to display their research projects related to the workshop theme. We will provide A0 size poster boards. If you are planning to participate in a poster session and/or a research presentation session you will need to send us a 250 word abstract.

Please send your intention to participate in these sessions together with your abstract to Mehdi.Kashani@soton.ac.uk by 15 June 2020. The abstract should describe the background of the project, the methodology employed and the results. Please make sure that you include your name, affiliation and contact details of the authors in your abstract. The confirmation of the acceptance of the research presentations and posters will be sent to the authors by 30 June 2020. 

Registration

The event is free but to register please visit online registration. The registration deadline is 15 June 2020.

Accomodation

You can find a list of local hotels and contact details in the Useful Downloads section below.

Keynote Speaker Information

Professor Saiid Saiidi, Professor Saiidi is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, Director of Center for Advanced Technology in Bridges and Infrastructure, and the Co-Director of ABC-UTC (2013 Award). He has been active in bridge earthquake engineering research having published over 500 technical papers and reports and given over 400 presentations in 30 countries, many as a keynote or plenary speaker. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Caltrans, FHWA, NCHRP, USDOT, Nevada and Washington State Departments of Transportation, and several industries. His primary research focus has been on experimental and analytical studies of seismic response of reinforced concrete bridge components and systems, bridge seismic retrofit, seismic resiliency through novel materials, probabilistic bridge seismic design, and seismic response and design of precast bridge components, connections, and systems for accelerated bridge construction (ABC). He has directed over 30 PhD dissertations and 50 MS theses. His awards include the UNR “Outstanding Researcher Award,” statewide “Regents Researcher Award,” UNR “Established Innovator Award,” “University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award,” the “National Academy of Engineering of Mexico,” the “PCI Journal Robert J. Lyman Award,” among many others. He is a registered engineer in California and Nevada.

Professor Marc Eberhard, Professor Eberhard received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the UC Berkeley in 1984. After working for the Bridge Design Division of the California Department of Transportation, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his Master's Degree (1987) and PhD (1989). Marc Eberhard joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 1989. He received the Presidential Young Investigator's Award from the National Science Foundation in 1991, the ASCE Reese Research Prize in 1994, the PCI Zollman Award in 2013 and the ASCE T.Y. Lin Award in 2014. His current research focuses on the rapid construction and performance of reinforced and prestressed concrete building and bridges, subjected to gravity loads, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Professor Anne S Kiremidjian, Professor Kiremidjian's current research focuses on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and the development of robust algorithms for structural damage diagnosis that can be embedded in wireless sensing units. She works on structural component and systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations.

Professor Michel Bruneau, Professor Bruneau’s research interests are behaviour of structural systems, emphasizing: earthquake resistant design, blast resistant design, multi-hazard engineering, dynamic response of structures, seismic evaluation and retrofit of steel buildings, steel bridges and unreinforced masonry buildings, ultimate behaviour of steel, metal and advanced composite structures and behaviour of guyed-towers, cable structures, long-span and tall structures.

Professor David Richards, Professor in Ground Engineering (Infrastructure) and Head of the School of Engineering within the faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. David is Professor in Ground Engineering and since 1st August, 2018, Head of the School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton. Technical interests include the geotechnical aspects of ageing infrastructure, large-scale field monitoring, the engineering behaviour and characterisation (pre and post processed) of landfill wastes, and the mechanical characterization of chalk using CT imaging techniques and cyclic simple shear tests. He has undertaken extensive studies into the rate loading effects of electricity transmission tower (shallow) footing systems involving both scaled physical modelling techniques in a geotechnical centrifuge and through field monitoring. He is PI for the £26M BEIS/EPSRC funded UKCRIC National Infrastructure Laboratory on the Boldrewood Campus and UKCRIC Coordination Node (CN) Director of Strategy – the CN is working to deliver a networked suite of national research test facilities.

Professor William Powrie, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. He is the former dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and currently he is conveyor of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC). His main technical areas of interest are Transport infrastructure, and Sustainable Waste and Resource Management, underpinned by an understanding of fundamental soil behaviour. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009 in recognition of my work in these areas. He is also Geotechnical Consultant to the internationally-leading groundwater control company, WJ Groundwater Ltd. He is committed to sustainability in daily life, especially in the key areas of transport and resource management. I cycle to work most days, and, wherever possible, re-use and recycle goods and materials.