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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr D. Istrati
DTSTART:20190716T160000
DTEND:20190716T170000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Denis Istrati\n16:00 – 17:00 – Dr Denis Istrati\nResear
 ch Assistant Professor\, University of Nevada\, Reno\, USA\n\nMoving towar
 d more resilient infrastructure in an era of climate change and extreme wa
 ter hazards\n\nThe prosperity of modern societies is highly reliant on the
  functionality of critical infrastructure\, including hydraulic\, energy a
 nd transportation infrastructure. However\, recent natural hazards\, such 
 as tsunamis\, hurricanes and flooding events have caused unprecedented los
 s of human lives and damage to the built environment. It is anticipated th
 at in the era of climate change the extreme weather phenomena will be ampl
 ified 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 ag
 ing and deterioration of all manmade structures will undoubtedly increase 
 the vulnerability of modern infrastructure systems and communities to futu
 re water hazards. In this context\, there is urgency to advance current un
 derstanding on the effects of water hazards on critical infrastructure to 
 enable the development of risk assessment methodologies and proactively ex
 plore new mitigation techniques for achieving more resilient communities.\
 n \nThis lecture will present an overview of several multi-disciplinary r
 esearch projects related to tsunami-and hurricane-induced flooding effects
  on critical infrastructure\, with primary being an unprecedented experime
 ntal study that was conducted in the largest wave flume facility in the Un
 ited States. This project did not only decipher the tsunami inundation mec
 hanism and associated effects on coastal bridges\, but it led to a paradig
 m shift in hydrodynamic experimental testing by bridging hydraulic and str
 uctural engineering. The results of this study\, together with the calibra
 ted high-end computational fluid dynamics methods and simulations it emplo
 yed\, have informed the first-of-its kind official documentation for tsuna
 mi-resistant design of coastal bridges. The lecture will summarize lessons
  learned to-date\, main challenges and future research directions for stea
 dily moving toward more resilient infrastructures and communities.\n 
LOCATION:CM 1 4 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%204
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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