ENAC Seminar Series by Dr D. Istrati
Event details
| Date | 16.07.2019 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Dr Denis Istrati |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
16:00 – 17:00 – Dr Denis Istrati
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Moving toward more resilient infrastructure in an era of climate change and extreme water hazards
The prosperity of modern societies is highly reliant on the functionality of critical infrastructure, including hydraulic, energy and transportation infrastructure. However, recent natural hazards, such as tsunamis, hurricanes and flooding events have caused unprecedented loss of human lives and damage to the built environment. It is anticipated that in the era of climate change the extreme weather phenomena will be amplified and the mean sea level will rise, which would consequently increase the exposure of both coastal and inland infrastructure to flooding events. These new environmental conditions in conjunction with the inevitable aging and deterioration of all manmade structures will undoubtedly increase the vulnerability of modern infrastructure systems and communities to future water hazards. In this context, there is urgency to advance current understanding on the effects of water hazards on critical infrastructure to enable the development of risk assessment methodologies and proactively explore new mitigation techniques for achieving more resilient communities.
This lecture will present an overview of several multi-disciplinary research projects related to tsunami-and hurricane-induced flooding effects on critical infrastructure, with primary being an unprecedented experimental study that was conducted in the largest wave flume facility in the United States. This project did not only decipher the tsunami inundation mechanism and associated effects on coastal bridges, but it led to a paradigm shift in hydrodynamic experimental testing by bridging hydraulic and structural engineering. The results of this study, together with the calibrated high-end computational fluid dynamics methods and simulations it employed, have informed the first-of-its kind official documentation for tsunami-resistant design of coastal bridges. The lecture will summarize lessons learned to-date, main challenges and future research directions for steadily moving toward more resilient infrastructures and communities.
Research Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Moving toward more resilient infrastructure in an era of climate change and extreme water hazards
The prosperity of modern societies is highly reliant on the functionality of critical infrastructure, including hydraulic, energy and transportation infrastructure. However, recent natural hazards, such as tsunamis, hurricanes and flooding events have caused unprecedented loss of human lives and damage to the built environment. It is anticipated that in the era of climate change the extreme weather phenomena will be amplified and the mean sea level will rise, which would consequently increase the exposure of both coastal and inland infrastructure to flooding events. These new environmental conditions in conjunction with the inevitable aging and deterioration of all manmade structures will undoubtedly increase the vulnerability of modern infrastructure systems and communities to future water hazards. In this context, there is urgency to advance current understanding on the effects of water hazards on critical infrastructure to enable the development of risk assessment methodologies and proactively explore new mitigation techniques for achieving more resilient communities.
This lecture will present an overview of several multi-disciplinary research projects related to tsunami-and hurricane-induced flooding effects on critical infrastructure, with primary being an unprecedented experimental study that was conducted in the largest wave flume facility in the United States. This project did not only decipher the tsunami inundation mechanism and associated effects on coastal bridges, but it led to a paradigm shift in hydrodynamic experimental testing by bridging hydraulic and structural engineering. The results of this study, together with the calibrated high-end computational fluid dynamics methods and simulations it employed, have informed the first-of-its kind official documentation for tsunami-resistant design of coastal bridges. The lecture will summarize lessons learned to-date, main challenges and future research directions for steadily moving toward more resilient infrastructures and communities.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Cristina Perez