Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Birmingham |
Funding for: | UK Students, EU Students, International Students |
Funding amount: | EPSRC Doctoral Training Programme |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 1st February 2024 |
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Closes: | 1st May 2024 |
Critical transport infrastructure, play a key role for the seamless functioning of our societies. Several assets are approaching the end of their design life, whereas at the same time are subjected to ever-increasing traffic loads and natural hazards that are aggravated by climate change. To address this issue, there is an urgent need for policy makers and stakeholders to take imminent and informed decisions as to where, the often-limited available budget, needs to be directed and what sort of interventions need to be implemented to restore and maintain the resilience of the interdependent transport assets at an acceptable level. This process requires, among others, (a) identification of the most critical assets within a transport network, (b) assessment of their current condition, (c) evaluation of their resilience in the “as-is” state and (d) resilience enhancement for different proactive/restoration measures.
The main scope of this PhD is to develop a practical methodology for enabling a resilience-informed proactive restoration roadmap in transport networks. To accomplish this goal, detailed and surrogate finite elements models will be developed for the critical transport assets to allow the generation of a set of representative/class fragilities for a portfolio of transport assets. The class fragilities will then enable the identification of the most vulnerable assets/locations in a transport network and the identification of the proactive measures.
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Deadline for applications (see steps 1-4 below need to be completed by): 25 February 2024
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*If you are international student you will have to obtain an ATAS immediately after step 4 and if the supervisor gave you positive feedback
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