Reliability, resilience and robustness in structural engineering design

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Differentiate between reliability, risk and resilience when quantifying structural performance

• Appreciate the role of robustness and resilience in the design of structures

• Understand the role of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in the design of structures

• Decide which design situations are best suited for the adoption of performance-based approaches, and justify their use in practice

• Break down the application of performance-based design into sequential stages; from assessing the relevant hazards to estimating the resulting losses

• Recommend a range of structural and non-structural solutions to enhance resilience and robustness

Intended for

• Graduate engineer

• Mid-career engineer

• Senior engineer/Team leader/Manager

• Academic/Researcher

• Other built environment professionals and engineers

Trainers

Caroline Field

Caroline Field

Prof. Caroline Field is a Partner at PA Consulting and leads their resilience business. Caroline has a background in asset and infrastructure resilience with over 26 years of professional experience including 12 years in counter terrorism, blast mitigation and physical security and 7 years in earthquake engineering and dynamics.

Andre Jesus

Andre Jesus

Dr Andre Jesus is a Chartered Structural Engineer (Portugal) and a lecturer in structural engineering at Loughborough University, UK. Andre has research expertise in structural dynamics, including structural health monitoring of bridges and timber buildings, human-structure interaction effects with application for modal testing, and modelling of railway infrastructure under high-speed trains passage. One common aspect throughout his research is the use of advanced probabilistic methods to describe different sources of uncertainty, which inevitably undermine data interpretation and damage detection strategies.