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Professor Colin Taylor
Professor Colin Taylor
FICE, B.Sc., PhD, C.Eng
Emeritus Professor
Area of research
Earthquake Engineering, Infrastructure Resilience
Research summary
Earthquake and dynamic design of civil engineering systems, especially dams, long span bridges, buildings and nuclear facilities.
Developing new, holistic, risk-based approach for managing the performance of complex built environment systems over their life-cycle (design to decommissioning). Applying these ideas to assessing the impact of climate change on the UK Electricity Supply Industry and other utilities.
Developing advanced large-scale laboratory test techniques in earthquake engineering and structural dynamics (e.g. shaking table testing). A lead academic in development of the £15m BLADE laboratories.
Earthquake and dynamic design of civil engineering systems, especially dams, long span bridges, buildings and nuclear ...
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Recent publications
- Bennetts, J, Vardanega, PJ, Taylor, CA & Denton, SR, 2019, ‘Survey of the use of data in UK bridge asset management’. Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering.
- Dihoru, L, Crewe, AJ, Horseman, T, Dietz, M, Oddbjornsson, O, Kloukinas, P, Voyagaki, E & Taylor, CA, 2019, ‘A Computer Vision Approach for Dynamic Tracking of Components in a Nuclear Reactor Core Model’. Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol 344., pp. 1-14
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