Special Session: Understanding, Modelling, and Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation

This special session aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to share recent advances in theoretical, experimental and computational modelling of soil-structure interaction problems and behaviour of soils under cyclic loading, with special emphasis on foundations for offshore wind turbines. Learn more

Special Session on Loss and resilience assessment tools for infrastructure exposed to natural hazards

Urban areas and critical infrastructure are exposed to natural and manmade hazards, which are becoming more frequent and have severe consequences on world economies and societies. Therefore, cities and infrastructure resilience to extreme events and diverse hazards such as tsunami, hurricanes, fires, landslides, floods, climate change, man-made and technological risks, is of paramount importance for maintaining functionality and operability during and after the hazard event. Learn more

Special Session on Recent Advances in Rocking Structures

This session will focus on recent advances in the dynamics of rocking structures. When subjected to earthquake shaking, freestanding or weakly restrained structures may uplift and set into rocking, which can significantly reduce the seismic shears and moments that develop at the base of the structure. Learn more

Workshop on Urban Flooding, Nature-Based Solutions and Socio-environmental Services

Floods result in both life and economic losses in cities of different scales across the developed and developing world. In the UK alone, economic losses from the 2014 floods amounted to more than £1bn. It is not only rare catastrophic events that matter: being more frequent (return periods 1 in 5 years and above), events of smaller intensity can have a detrimental cumulative impact on the economy as they cause extensive disruption and damage to properties and infrastructure. Flooding is becoming more frequent as climate change has led to the intensification of extreme weather Learn more

Workshop on Natural Hazards & Pipeline Infrastructure

The Workshop invites researchers and practicing engineers, with special interest on pipeline analysis, design and integrity to present their papers and discuss their experiences on the effects of geo-hazards on pipelines. Learn More

Workshop on Energy Resources, Human Induced Earthquakes and Community Resilience

Exploitation of hydrocarbon energy resources has accelerated in the recent years, often resulting in seismic activity in populated regions. Such induced earthquakes did not only affect the built environment as expected but also introduced a significant impact on society, as the cases of Groningen (Netherlands) and Oklahoma (USA) confirm. Learn More

Special Session on Bridge Risk Assessment from Natural Hazards 

Modern societies are very reliant on infrastructure, especially for transportation. Transport networks allow for the movement of people and goods, ensuring communication and accessibility. Bridges are crunch points in such networks, since they connect links that would not be otherwise connected. They have high capital construction cost, and this results in fewer structures and therefore less redundancy in the system. Learn more.

The Ergo Consortium 5th annual workshop

The ERGO is a Multi-Hazard Assessment, Response and Planning Platform based on Consequence-based Risk Management principle. The Ergo consortium members will be holding their 5th annual workshop on the 27th June to present updates on how the ERGO system has been deployed throughout the world. Learn More