Towards Integrating Modelling of Flood-Induced Bridge Failures

5 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Maria Pregnolato, Vasilis Sarhosis and Chris Kilsby

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of fluvial flooding on bridges. A high-resolution flood model is coupled with damage and transport modelling, to assess structural vulnerability and critical functionality of bridges subjected to flooding. The study involves integrated investigation of riverine bridges, devises a systematic methodology and practical implementation in computer-based decision support tools. The research draws on the principles of a risk-based approach to assess the hydrodynamic effects of floods at bridges, and moves these forward by advancing a deep analysis over the whole UK territory. This research will fill the gap of current guidance for design and assessment of bridges relevance within the overall transport system, highly inadequate for evaluating these risks in light of the increasing external pressures.

Keyphrases: bridge, flood, resilience, risk, transport

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 1698-1702.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/QBJT
	https://doi.org/10.29007/zthz

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Towards_Integrating_Modelling_Flood,
  author    = {Maria Pregnolato and Vasilis Sarhosis and Chris Kilsby},
  title     = {Towards Integrating Modelling of Flood-Induced Bridge Failures},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/QBJT},
  doi       = {10.29007/zthz},
  pages     = {1698-1702},
  year      = {2018}}

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