UKIERI-DST Partnership Development Workshop

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE (Workshop program)

Date: 13^th Dec 2021

Time

Activity

Resource Person

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-9:50

Welcome address

Lead coordinators (Dr Shashank Gupta, Prof Vasant Matsagar, Head of SoABE of UoW)

9:50-10:05

Overview of UKIERI and PDW

Representative from British Council & DST

SESSION 1 (Chair: Prof Chaminda Pathirage, Co-chair Dr. Shashank Gupta)

10:05-10:45

Opening Keynote – Mainstreaming the Uptake of Low Cost Flood Resilience Measures in UK Homes: Lessons for India

Prof David Proverbs (Dean of FSE of University of Wolverhampton)

10:45-11:05

Networking and Tea break

11:05-11:30

Assessing the earthquake resilience of urban areas: the 2014 Ludian Earthquake

Dr Konstantinos Skalomenos – University of Birmingham

11:30-11:55

Virtual presentation – An overview of Steel-Reinforced Grout (SRG) Jacketing Application

Dr Georgia Thermou – University of Nottingham

11:55-12:20

Resilience-Based Design of Precast Post-tensioned segmental bridge piers

Dr Ehsan Ahmadi – Birmingham City Univeristy

12:20-13:30

Networking Lunch

SESSION 2 (Chair: Dr Marina Bock and Co-chair Dr Adhikari)

13:30-14:10

Virtual Keynote – A holistic approach to building resilient and sustainable cities

Amy Macdonald – Principal and Resilience Practice lead at Thornton Tomasseti

(Industrial speaker)

14:10-14:35

Virtual Presentation - A Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment Framework: case study Adapazari, Turkey

Dr Zuhal Ozdemir – University of Sheffield

14:35-15:00

Virtual Presentation - Resilience and vulnerability-based infrastructure interdependencies

Dr Donya Hajializadeh – University of Surrey

15:00-15:20

Networking and Tea Break

15:20-15:45

Multihazard retrofit of steel and steel-concrete composite structures

Dr Georgios Papavasileiou - University of Wolverhampton

SESSION 3 (Group discussion)

15:45-16:45

Discussion of emerging themes on day 1 with applicability to Indian context – Resilience of cities in Indian context

Leads  - Prof Matsagar, Prof. Kapuria, Dr. Shashank Gupta, Dr Suresh Renukappa

16:45-17:00

Close

All participants (online and in-person)

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Date: 14^th Dec 2021

Time

Activity

Resource Person

9:00-9:10

DAY 1 Recap

Shashank Gupta and Vasant Matsagar

SESSION 4 (Chair: Dr Ehsan Ahmadi and Co-chair Dr Suresh Renukappa)

9:10-9:50

Virtual Keynote – The use of technology as a catalyst for strengthening stakeholder collaboration in building disaster resilience

Prof Terrance Fernando – University of Salford

9:50-10:30

Virtual Keynote – Title awaited

Prof Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya– IIT Kharagpur

10:30-10:50

Networking and Tea break

10:50-11:15

Application of Bayesian networks for assessment of disruption to school systems under combined flood and seismic hazards

Ahsana Parammal Vatteri – Unversity College London

11:15-11:40

New development on sustainability and durability of reinforced concrete structures

Dr Meini Su – University of Manchester

11:40-12:05

Developing design guidelines for structural aluminium

Dr Marina Bock – University of Wolverhampton

12:05-12:30

Structural performance of concrete-filled aluminium alloy columns under axial compression

Dr Georgios Kamaris – Liverpool John Moores University

12:30-13:30

Networking Lunch

SESSION 5 (Chair: Dr Irwanda Laory and Co-chair Dr Konstantinos Skalomenos)

13:30-14:10

Keynote – Improving the seismic performance of new and existing buildings through dynamic interaction with secondary structures

Dr Alessandro Palmeri – Loughborough University

14:10-14:50

Keynote - Title awaited

Prof Matsagar - IITD, India

14:10-14:35

Multi-hazard assessment of building facades and their enhancement using smart materials.

Dr Shashank Gupta – University of Wolverhampton

14:35-15:00

Behaviour of Underground Structures against Man-Made Disaster and their Mitigation Strategy

Prof M.D Goel - VNIT

15:00-15:20

Networking and Tea Break

15:20-15:45

Enhance robustness of steel connections by improving bolts contribution

Mohamad Shaheen – Loughborough University

SESSION 6 (Round table discussion)

16:00-17:00

Round table discussions on theme 2 – focus on seismic excitation and extreme loading on city infrastructure

Lead – Prof. Matsagar, Prof Kapuria, Dr. Shashank Gupta, Dr. Palmeri

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Date: 15^th Dec 2021

Time

Activity

Resource Person

9:00-9:05

RECAP

Workshop chair – Shashank Gupta and Vasant Matsagar

SESSION 7 (Chair: Dr Alessandro Palmeri, Co-chair Dr Georgios Kamaris)

9:05-9:30

GLOSI (Global Library of School Infrastructure): Tools and guidelines for improving the disaster resilience of school infrastructure

Dr Rohit Adhikari – University College London

9:30-9:55

Artificial Intelligence and Structural Health Monitoring for Improving Disaster Resilience

Dr Irwanda Laory – Warwick University

9:55-10:25

Keynote – Measuring Disaster Resilience at Community Level: MOBILISE Approach

Prof Chamina Pathirage – University of Wolverhampton

10:25-10:45

Networking and Tea Break

10:45-11:15

Resilient Building design against Fire Hazard

Dr RuiRui Sun – Director Fire Safety Division at Hydrock

(Industrial speaker)

11:15-11:40

Understanding the behaviour of buildings in hilly regions under multiple hazards

Professor Sandip Saha – IIT Mandi

SESSION 8 (Group discussion)

11:40-12:30

panel discussion on the research themes and ideas for developing roadmap for resilient cities in Indian

Lead – Prof Pathirage, Dr Shashank Gupta, Prof Matsagar, Prof Kapuria

12:30-13:30

Networking lunch

13:30--17:00

Visit/tour to the National Brownfield Institute (underconstruction) and the Springfield Campus – Europe’s largest Architecture and Built Environment campus

18:00-21:00

Networking and Workshop Dinner

Molinieux

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Date: 16^th Dec 2021

Time

Activity

Resource Person

9:00-9:15

RECAP

Workshop chair – Shashank Gupta and Vasant Matsagar

SESSION 9 (Chair: Dr Shashank Gupta and co-chair Dr Georgios Papavasileiou)

9:15-9:55

Keynote – Baseline Signal-Free Structural Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure Towards Robust Resilience

Prof Santosh Kapuria

9:55-10:25

what is impact, pathways to create impact, Challenges and drivers and opportunities within Disaster/ Emergency Management

Chris Wyatt – Research office at University of Wolverhampton

10:25-10:45

Networking and Tea Break

10:45-11:10

Business Resilience During COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Suresh Renukappa – University of Wolverhampton (guest lecture)

11:10-11:35

A method to evaluate community resilience in the face of multiple threat kinds which can inform intervention design decisions

Dr Tim Ferris – Cranfield University

11:35-12:05

UK Research base, funding opportunities and International cooperations

Rupert Avis – Project support office at the University of Wolverhampton

12:05-12:25

Research base and funding opportunities in India

Prof Vasant Matsagar or someone from Indian delegation

12:25-13:30

Networking lunch

SESSION 10 (Break-out session)

13:30-14:45

Break-out sessions to discuss research collaborations and develop research proposals addressing the theme of the workshop

SESSION 11 (Research propopsals/ideas presentations)

14:45-15:30

Proposal and research idea presentations for discussion –  feedback on research themes, enhancing research impact, building collaboration with stakeholders.

Lead – Prof Matsagar, Prof Kapuria, Prof. Pathirage, Dr Shashank Gupta

15:30--15:50

Networking and tea break

15:50-16:45

Key highlights and discussions on takeaways from the workshop. Roundtable discussion on research roadmap – feedback and concluding remarks

All Participants

16:45-17:00

Closing – Certificate distribution