Geohazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Prevention
Abstract
This project aims to provide a step change in terms of our capacity to assess and predict risks due to geohazards (landslides and rock slides, earthquakes, floods). This is necessary in order to make built environments and infrastructures resilient to the increasing threat of natural hazards due to the expanding size of European cities and urban centres, increased use of infrastructure, and the effect of increased climatic variations. To achieve this we will bring together the complementary expertise of world leading academic groups in geotechnical, geoenvironmental and seismic engineering, soil and rock mechanics, seismology, hydrology, geology together with private Engineering software companies. The goals of this proposal are: i) to investigate the key physical-mechanical aspects of major geohazards (landslides, earthquakes, floods) with a multi-disciplinary approach in order to bridge the current gaps in knowledge and enable a stepchange in the current capabilities of risk assessment, prevention, and mitigation; ii) to generate new approaches to predicting geohazards by creating an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral group which will combine existing knowledge to generate new research methodologies and applications by enabling knowledge exchange among researchers with expertise in complementary research fields; iii) to train several Early Stage Researches (ESRs) during their stay at the host Institution who will form the next generation of researchers for academic and industrial applications; iv) to improve the current normative standards and codes ruling geohazard prevention; v) to provide a competitive edge to European engineering software companies modelling geohazards.
Geohazards Risk Assessment
Publikationen
Project staff
Wei Wu
Univ.Prof. Dr.Ing. Wei Wu
wei.wu@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87311
BOKU Project Leader
01.04.2015 - 31.03.2019
Miguel Angel Cabrera Cabrera
Miguel Angel Cabrera Cabrera MSc.
Project Staff
01.04.2015 - 31.03.2019
BOKU partners
External partners
Technical University of Catalonia
none
partner
National University of San Juan
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partner
Applied Seismology Consultants Ltd
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partner
Institut polytechnique de grenoble
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partner
University of Warwick
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coordinator
ITASCA Consultants GmbH
none
partner
Georgia Institute of Technology
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partner
Universidad Mayor de San Simon Facultad de Ciencias de Agricolas y Pecuarias
none
partner
University of Tongji
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partner