Flood Resilient Bridge Modelling and Design

交通系统负责运送人员和货物，提供服务，并确保城市地区内部和城市地区之间的联系。与其他自然灾害相比，洪水事件是造成基础设施破坏的最常见原因。位于水道上的桥梁在洪水事件中特别容易损坏，这是当前研究的重点之一。许多战略性桥梁的设计并没有考虑到当前气候变化带来的日益增加的压力，而且它们的使用频率已经超过了它们的设计规格。该项目通过调查水动力如何破坏桥梁并破坏其功能，解决了提高桥梁抗洪能力的挑战。该研究利用基于风险的原则来重新思考基础设施，并通过针对洪水事件的弹性措施（例如改造）来支持我们城市的近期发展。该项目将根据候选人的兴趣进行定制，还可能包括：智能桥梁、传感和监测、网络分析、气候变化等方面。结果将提供给当地利益攸关方，为决策提供一系列基于风险的信息。候选人将被期望与工业和学术合作伙伴开展工作，并应具有出色的人际交往能力。

Transport systems are responsible for moving people and goods, delivering services and ensuring connection within and among urban areas. Flood events are the most frequent cause of damage to infrastructure compared to any other natural hazard. Bridges located over waterways are particularly prone to failure during flood events and constitute one of the current research priorities. Many of the strategic bridges are not designed to cope with the current increasing pressures of a changing climate, and their frequency of use has outstripped their design specification.This project tackles the challenge of improving bridge resilience to floods by investigating how hydrodynamic forces damage bridges and disrupt their functionality. The research draws on risk-based principles to re-think infrastructure and to support the near future of our cities through resilient measures against flooding events (e.g. retrofitting). The project will be tailored to the candidate's interest, and may also include aspects of: smart bridges, sensoring and monitoring, network analysis, climate change. Results will be accessible to local stakeholders, providing a series of risk-based information to inform decision-making. The candidate will be expected to conduct work with industrial and academic partners and should have excellent interpersonal skills.