Objective Resilience Committee

Purpose:

To support the society in enhancing the resilience of its assets and communities through objective processes, with infrastructure resilience defined as the ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and / or rapidly recover from a potentially disruptive event.

LECTURE

2024 ORC LECTURE

Actionable Resilience

Presented by: Božidar Stojadinović,
Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zürich

Hosted by the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University under the Zachry Distinguished Lecture Series.

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The Objective Resilience Lecture Series

2020 Dr. Yuri Bazilevs

"Advanced and Practical Fluid-Structure Interaction for Large-Scale Structural Systems"

2019 Dr. Jamie Padgett

“Multi-Hazard Resilient Transportation Infrastructure: Advances, Opportunities, and Role in Supporting Community Resilience”

2018 Dr. Paolo Gardoni

“Promoting Societal Well-being by Designing Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure: Engineering Tools and Broader Interdisciplinary Considerations”

WINNERS

Student Competitions

First Place
Raul Rincon, Rice University
Title: “Coupling Effects of Fragility Fidelity and Network Resolution in Infrastructure Resilience”

Second Place
WoongHee Jung, University of Notre Dame
Title: “Selection of Storm Ensembles Consistent with Storm Surge Hazard Maps Across Large Geographic Regions”

Thank You to Our Judges
Dr. Katherine Flanigan
Dr. Zhiqiang Chen
Dr. Katerina Aikaterini
Dr. Milad Roohi
First Place
Saransh Dikshit, PhD candidate, Iowa State University
Advisor: Professor Alice Alipour
Title: Characterizing Resilience of Transmission Tower Systems Considering Cascade Failures

Second Place
Saanchi Singh Kaushal, PhD student, Penn State University
Advisor: Professor Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto and Professor Rebecca Napolitano
Title: High-Fidelity Geometric Modelling and Analysis to Examine Tornadic Loads on Historic Masonry

Third Place
Michelle Reckner , PhD student, Georgia Tech
Advisor: Professor Iris Tien
Title: Spatial and computational analysis to prioritize green and grey flood infrastructure under uncertainty to increase resilience

Thank You to Our Judges
Professor Zhiqan Chen
Professor Katherine Flanigan
Professor Katerina Kyprioti
Professor Teng Wu

Membership

Alice Alipour, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Chair
Fariborz Mohammadi Tehrani, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Vice-Chair

Hamid Reza Adib, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE
Member
Anil Kumar Agrawal, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE
Member

Raimondo Betti, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member
Paolo Bocchini, Ph.D., C.Eng, F.SEI, M.ASCE
Member

Amar A. Chaker, Ph.D., F.AEI, F.EMI, F.ASCE
Member
Zhiqiang Chen, A.M.ASCE
Member

Derya Deniz, Ph.D., EIT
Member
Georgios Deodatis, Ph.D., F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE
Member

Katherine Flanigan, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Paolo Gardoni, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member
Kundan Goswami, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Tisha D Kramer, Aff.M.ASCE
ASCE Staff Contact
Maria Koliou, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member
Aikaterini (katerina) P. Kyprioti, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Sihan Li, Ph.D., P.Eng, M.ASCE
Member
Jerome Peter Lynch, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
Member

Hussam Nabil Mahmoud, Ph.D., F.SEI, F.ASCE
Member
Fernando Moreu, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member
Christopher Louis Mullen, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Milad Roohi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Georgios Tzortzinis, Ph.D.
Member

Franz-Josef Ulm, Ph.D., NAE, F.EMI, M.ASCE
Member

Wanting Wang, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member
Teng Wu, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Member