Flood Resilient Bridge Modelling and Design

交通运输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之间的连接。与任何其他自然灾害相比，洪水事件是造成基础设施损坏的最常见原因。位于水道上的桥梁在洪水事件中特别容易发生故障，并构成当前的研究重点之一。许多战略桥梁的设计无法科普当前气候变化带来的日益增加的压力，其使用频率已超过其设计规范。本项目通过调查水动力如何损坏桥梁并破坏其功能，来应对提高桥梁抵御洪水的挑战。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）来支持我们城市的不久的将来。该项目将根据候选人的兴趣量身定制，还可能包括以下方面：智能桥梁，传感和监测，网络分析，气候变化。当地利益攸关方将可获得评估结果，提供一系列基于风险的信息，为决策提供依据。候选人将被期望与工业和学术合作伙伴进行工作，并应具有良好的人际交往能力。

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.