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Our multi-disciplinary research addresses the global need for delivering long-term, sustainable performance of existing and new infrastructure systems. We are leaders in modelling and managing the impacts of extreme natural and human hazards, such as earthquakes, climate change, flooding, industrial processes, traffic and crowds. We are also leading an international effort towards improving water quality in developing countries. Our application studies range in scale from complete national and regional systems, such as flood catchments, and hydro-power, water, electricity and transport networks, through individual artefacts, such as nuclear facilities, dams, long-span bridges and buildings, to low-cost water quality monitoring devices. Our three groups, Dynamics Engineering, Water, Environmental Management and Health, and Systems and Safety, collaborate widely with academic and industrial partners from across the engineering, science and social science disciplines, and from around the world. |
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Dynamics Engineering |
| Based around BLADE and the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, this group focuses on the non-linear performance and reliability of civil engineering infrastructures, with an emphasis on dynamic loading. It develops techniques for numerical analysis, physical testing of infrastructures in the field and laboratory, structural and geotechnical material behaviour characterisation and modelling, structural vulnerability theory and overall non-linear dynamic performance assessment. | |
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Systems and Safety |
| Based around the Safety Systems Research Centre and the University's £3.4m, EPSRC-funded, Engineering Doctorate Centre in Systems Engineering, this group develops novel, holistic, approaches for characterising and managing the safe and sustainable performance of complex systems, including human factors. A key aspect is the safety and vulnerability of embedded software systems. | |
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Water, Environmental Management and Health |
| Based around the Water and Environmental Research Centre and the new Water and Health Research Centre, this group addresses the management of flood risks, with emphasis on technologies for measurement and modelling of rainfall events and the consequent flood flows and environmental impacts. It has a particular interest in radar hydrology and also develops appropriate technologies for improving water quality in developing countries. | |
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