Future Events:

I. IABMAS2024, Copenhagen we are working on the Special Session «SS 42 – Community Resilience and Decision-Support systems» for « IABMAS 2024 – 12th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management », which will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-28 June 2024. It is organized by the following members: Nisrine Makhoul, Rolands Kromanis, John van de Lindt, Andre R. Barbosa, Franziska Schmidt. 

II. For SEI Special issue Special Issue on Assessment/ Maintenance/ Performance in 2024:  

1. Makhoul N, Roohi M, van de Lindt J, Sousa H, Santos LO, Argyroudis S, Barbosa A, Derras B, Gardoni P, Lee J, Mitoulis S, Moffett B, Navarro C, Padgett J, Rincon R, Schmidt F, Shaban N, Stefanidou S, Tubaldi E, Xenidis Y, Zmigrodzki S. Seismic resilience modelling of an interdependent built environment for integrating SHM and emerging technologies in decision-making. SEI Structural Engineering International. SEI Special Issue. 2024. Submitted.  

2. Derras B, Matallah M, Derbal R, Benmansour N, Benadla Z, Dif Z, Makhoul N, Chaibeddra-Tani F. Contribution of Artificial Intelligence to the amelioration of seismic resilience of bridges considering spatial variability. SEI Structural Engineering International. SEI Special Issue. 2024. Submitted soon.  

Past Events:

Participation to the ICONHIC2022 with the Special Session entitled «The Role of Information In Infrastructure Resilience: Methods And Tools». Organized by Nisrine Makhoul, Sotiris Argyroudis, John van de Lindt. The following articles were published by the members.  

1. J. van de Lindt, B. R. Ellingwood, J. Brown Kruse, D. T. Cox, J. Sung Lee, T. P. McAllister. 2022. A quantitative approach to modeling and improving community resilience to natural hazards. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece.  

2. A. Tzioutziou, Y. Xenidis. 2022. Impact evaluation of sensor-based warning systems on the resilience of socio-ecological systems. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece.  

3. Makhoul N, Limongelli MP. 2022. Quality indicators for Structural Health Monitoring data: A tool for enhanced resiliency assessment and decision-making. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece.  

4. S. Ientile, M. Rasol, F. Schmidt, L. Adelaide, B. Nedjar, C. Chevalier. 2022. Sensor-based monitoring systems for resilient road infrastructures. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece.  

5. Derras B, Makhoul N. 2022 An overview of the infrastructure seismic resilience assessment using Artificial Intelligence and machine-learning algorithms. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece. 

6. Sousa H., Santos L.O., Makhoul N. 2022. Next generation of Monitoring Systems towards Infrastructure Resilience. ICONHIC2022 – 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure, 5 – 7 July 2022, Athens, Greece.

  

Recently achieved actions and events:

I. TG1.8 members participated to IABSE Symposium Istanbul 2023, Long Span Bridges. 26 – 28 April 2023, Istanbul, Turkey. The published articles from the members were:   

1. Derras B., Makhoul N. 2023. Artificial Intelligence for the amelioration of seismic resilience of bridges. IABSE Symposium Istanbul 2023, Long Span Bridges. 26 – 28 April 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.   

2. Makhoul N. 2023. Data Quality for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges. IABSE Symposium Istanbul 2023, Long Span Bridges. 26 – 28 April 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.     

3. Shaban N., Makhoul N. 2023. Resilience Metrics in Bridges. IABSE Symposium Istanbul 2023, Long Span Bridges. 26 – 28 April 2023, Istanbul, Turkey.  

II. For IALCCE 2023 we had a Mini-Symposium Entitled «Integrating Life Cycle Engineering Concepts into Community Resilience and Decision-Support», in IALCCE 2023 – 8th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 11 – 15 June 2023, Milano, Italy. It was organized by the following members: John van de Lindt, Jamie Padgett, Andre R. Barbosa, Nisrine Makhoul. The published articles from the members were:   

1. Makhoul, N., & Kromanis, R. 2023. Toward Enhancing Community Resilience: Life Cycle Resilience of Structural Health Monitoring Systems. In F. Biondini & D. M. Frangopol (Eds.), IALCCE 2023, Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2 – 6 July 2023, Milan, Italy.  

2. Derras B, Makhoul N. 2023 Prediction of Recovery Time of Infrastructure Functionalities after an Earthquake Using Machine Learning. In F. Biondini & D. M. Frangopol (Eds.), IALCCE 2023, Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2 – 6 July 2023, Milan, Italy. 

3. W. Wang, J.W. van de Lindt, S. Hamideh, E. Sutley. 2023. The life-cycle of a community for physical-social interdependent resilience impacted by policy decisions following tornado hazards. In F. Biondini & D. M. Frangopol (Eds.), IALCCE 2023, Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2 – 6 July 2023, Milan, Italy. 

4. M. Roohi, J. Li, J. W. van de Lindt. 2023 Integrating life-cycle analysis into civil infrastructure resilience decision making: Illustrative application to seismic resilience modeling of US communities. In F. Biondini & D. M. Frangopol (Eds.), IALCCE 2023, Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2 – 6 July 2023, Milan, Italy. 

5. R. Rincon, J.E. Padgett. 2023. Smart resilience: capturing dynamic, uncertain and evolving life-cycle conditions. 2023. In F. Biondini & D. M. Frangopol (Eds.), IALCCE 2023, Eighth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2 – 6 July 2023, Milan, Italy. 

III. Previous publications in previous IABSE Conferences

1. Makhoul N. 2019. Performance-based assessment of Nahr Al-Fidar bridge. IABSE Symposium 2019 Guimarães, Towards a Resilient Built Environment - Risk and Asset Management. March 27-29, 2019, Guimarães, Portugal.  

2. Makhoul N. 2018. Preservation of An Existing Original Building By Studying Its Dynamic Properties. 40th IABSE Symposium, Tomorrow’s Megastructures. 19-21 Septembre 2018, Nantes, France.  

3. Makhoul N. 2017. Bridges between the past, the present, and the future: a source to conceptual design and strengthening of heritage structures. IABSE Conference Bath 2017 – Creativity and Collaboration. April 19-20 2017, Bath, United Kingdom.  

4. Makhoul, N., Mikhael, E. 2016. «Earthquake Damage Estimations of Byblos Potable Water Network». 19th IABSE Congress Stockholm, 21-23 September 2016. Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment.  

5. Makhoul, N. 2015. «From Sustainable to Resilient and Smart Cities». Geneva 2015, IABSE Conference, «Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges». 23-25 September 2015.  

6. Makhoul, N. 2010. «The Building Rehabilitation case: Protection against Seismic Risk». IABSE SYMPOSIUM, VENICE 2010. Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised areas.