Professor Colin Taylor

Professor Colin Taylor
BSc(Leeds), PhD(Bristol), CEng, FICE

Professor of Earthquake Engineering

Area of research

Earthquake Engineering, Infrastructure Resilience

Office 1.37
Queen's Building,
University Walk, Clifton BS8 1TR
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 331 5746
colin.taylor@bristol.ac.uk

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 facilities ...

Recent publications

Goda, K, Aspinall, WP & Taylor, C 2013, ‘Seismic hazard analysis for the U.K.: sensitivity to spatial seismicity modelling and ground motion prediction equations’. Seismological Research Letters, vol 84., pp. 112-129
Taylor, C, Crewe, AJ, Dietz, MS, Dihoru, L & Oddbjornsson, O 2012, ‘Advances in the Development and Application of Large Scale Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering through the EU FP7 SERIES Project’. in: 15th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering,Lisbon., CD

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