Portfolio risk assessment for the urban built environment to flooding
Event details
| Date | 22.11.2012 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Fatemeh Jalayer |
| Location |
GC C330
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The urban built structures and lifelines in cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme climate-related events such as flooding. This seminar provides an overview of the activities of our research unit related to the identification of the urban hot spots and the assessment of vulnerability of the built environment to flooding in the context of the FP7 project Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability (CLUVA). A quantified risk-based methodology is presented in order to perform micro-scale evaluation of building vulnerability to flooding. This methodology is developed specifically for vulnerability assessment based on in-complete knowledge and relies on various data-gathering techniques such as Orthophoto boundary recognition, sample field survey and laboratory tests. A new GIS-compatible computer platform and Matlab-based user interface entitled "Visual Vulnerability & Risk" (Flooding module) --stemming from the above-mentioned methodology-- is illustrated. This integrated platform puts together vulnerability and risk assessment modules for flooding in order to generate detailed (micro-scale) risk maps for building stock with more-or-less similar characteristics. The GIS compatibility allows for graphical processing of both input and output to the program, facilitating an efficient visualization of flooding risk. These maps can be potentially used as supplementary technical support for flood risk mitigation, emergency preparedness, response and recovery.
Bio: Fatemeh Jalayer is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. She has received her degrees from Stanford University (MS and Ph.D.) and Sharif University of Technology (BS and MS). She is a recipient of the 2003 Norman Medal of the Society of the American Engineers (ASCE). Her fields of research include structural vulnerability and risk assessment and the application of probabilistic methods in civil engineering problems. She is involved in pre-normative research efforts for the seismic reliability of existing buildings within the Italian RELUIS-DPC program. She is the lead researcher in the vulnerability and adaptation of buildings in the African urban setting to climate change in the context of the European project CLUVA.
Bio: Fatemeh Jalayer is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. She has received her degrees from Stanford University (MS and Ph.D.) and Sharif University of Technology (BS and MS). She is a recipient of the 2003 Norman Medal of the Society of the American Engineers (ASCE). Her fields of research include structural vulnerability and risk assessment and the application of probabilistic methods in civil engineering problems. She is involved in pre-normative research efforts for the seismic reliability of existing buildings within the Italian RELUIS-DPC program. She is the lead researcher in the vulnerability and adaptation of buildings in the African urban setting to climate change in the context of the European project CLUVA.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis & Prof. Katrin Beyer
Contact
- Dr. Amin Karbassi