Dr Sotirios Argyroudis
Reader in Infrastructure Engineering
Howell 230
- Email: sotirios.argyroudis@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267728
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research area(s)
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Resilience of critical infrastructure (highways, railways, ports, energy) to unexpected events (natural disasters, conflicts)
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Climate change adaptation, including sustainability and climate resilience trade-offs
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Data analytics to inform decisions, using emerging technologies and open-data
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Systemic analysis and stress testing of interdependent infrastructureMore details on Infrastructure Risk and Resilience research can be found here
Research Interests
- resilience assessment of critical infrastructure under single and multiple hazards (climate change, flood/scour effects, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis)
- vulnerability and risk assessment of transport infrastructure (highways, railways, port and airport facilities), networks and cities exposed to multihazards
- numerical modelling and analysis of infrastructure assets (bridges, tunnels, embankments, retaining walls, roads, railways, port facilities)
- resilience enhancement for critical civil infrastructure using emerging technologies
Research grants and projects
Grants
Funder: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Duration: September 2024 - September 2026
Funder: Brunel University London - BRIEF AWARDS
Duration: August 2023 - July 2024
Funder: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01-07
Duration: -
Funder: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Duration: January 2023 - December 2026
ReCharged is a transformative project that has the vision to develop a new integrated framework toward a practical visualisation platform in order to optimise and streamline climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission assessments for interdependent Transport and Energy Systems, Lifelines and Assets (iTESLA). To achieve this, ReCharged harnesses the power of digital technologies and data to quantify the functionality and recovery of iTESLA after hazards. This is in response to the lack of methods of assessment and communicable visualisations of consolidated climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission metrics for iTESLA. ReCharged will account for interdependencies that lead to failure propagation in transport and energy systems, to accelerate post-hazard recovery, mitigate losses and societal ramifications due to climate change. In doing so, ReCharged underpins synergies and participatory decision-making to combat siloed thinking in infrastructure management. This project will lead to 50% faster decision-making in iTESLA management, 50% reduction of carbon emissions for the two case studies analysed, create new jobs, and make Europeans fit for the Digital Age. ReCharged is a synergy that combines the exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge and tailored training of staff, through an alliance between leading academic institutions, industrial partners, SMEs, and a research and technology center. All beneficiaries are committed to exploiting and transferring their skills and knowledge, to incentivise data-driven resilience toward climate adaptation and reduce emissions in critical infrastructure. ReCharged will augment researchers' skills and career perspectives, create a community of practitioners, improve critical infrastructure, and ultimately make people feel safer