A5081564002- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
- Geophysical Methods and Applications
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Renewable energy and sustainable power systems
- Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Transport and Economic Policies
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Concrete Corrosion and Durability
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Smart Materials for Construction
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Railway Engineering and Dynamics
- Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- HVDC Systems and Fault Protection
University of Birmingham
2013-2024
University of Cambridge
2020
Abstract Robotics and autonomous systems are reshaping the world, changing healthcare, food production biodiversity management. While they will play a fundamental role in delivering UN Sustainable Development Goals, associated opportunities threats yet to be considered systematically. We report on horizon scan evaluating robotics impact all involving 102 experts from around world. likely transform how Goals achieved, through replacing supporting human activities, fostering innovation,...
Roads as vital public assets are the backbone for transportation systems and support constant societal development. Recently, data-driven technologies such digital twins especially machine learning have shown great potential to maintain service level of existing road infrastructure by accurate future condition modelling optimal maintenance treatment recommendations. However, pavement community suffers from inadequate data errors experienced in collection, which unavoidably limits...
Successful operation of infrastructure, such as the road, rail, and utility networks, are fundamental to modern living, failure these can have significant consequences. Yet they likely, when in proximity, interact, one cause cascade others. Equally, all supported by ground, which also experience changes properties infrastructure deteriorates. Research into interconnected nature is not new, but much focuses on structural behaviour human-made components (road structures, pipes, etc). This...
Sustainable urban infrastructure planning and maintenance require an integrated approach that considers various assets (e.g., the ground, roads, buried pipes) their inter-linkages as a holistic system. To facilitate usage of this approach, we propose model city interdependencies, providing details on how asset properties processes affect each other. This is represented ontologies in OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax, which can be read interpreted by machines automatically. These...
Road infrastructure systems have been suffering from ineffective maintenance strategies, exaggerated by budget restrictions. A more holistic road-asset-management approach enhanced data-informed decision making through effective condition assessment, distress detection and future predictions can significantly enhance planning, prolonging asset life. Recent technology innovations such as digital twins great potential to enable the needed for road proactive management. To this end, machine...
Evaluation of crack severity in flexible pavements predominantly centers around the analysis cracks' surface characteristics. However, this study highlights critical importance 3D parameters, including volume and depth, for comprehensive assessment. The objective here is to develop an autonomous assessment, by predicting vertical parameters cracks exclusively from their properties. To achieve this, a dataset comprising 200 eight was acquired, both linear nonlinear correlations were conducted...
Abstract Rapid, accurate, and fully automated estimation of both length width asphalt pavement cracks, essential for achieving a proactive asset management, presents significant challenge, primarily due to limitations in the effectiveness automatic image segmentation accuracy crack algorithms. To address this paper introduces Branch Growing (BG) algorithm, specifically designed pavements, along with an optimized OrthoBoundary algorithm tailored estimation. Leveraging four widely adopted deep...
Through this study, a vehicle to enhance existing education curricula was demonstrated, by exposing students research-informed educational activities and experience the key digital systems used in different industrial sectors. Digital skills are high demand across globe, with over million digitally skilled people required 2022 U.K. alone. With being vital country's economy, there is need develop higher sector prepare for digitized future—a area of future graduate skills. The overall aim...
The ever-growing urban population faces challenges of ageing infrastructure. process for renewing the infrastructure is costly, and current practices maintaining repairing are often ineffective labour intensive. Road networks, instance, which act as arteries cities, suffer from reoccurring potholes (in UK, a pothole filled every 21 s). A more effective way road networks through proactive approach, where condition assessment intervention conducted throughout asset life cycle. However, there...
Railway track infrastructure asset management is a challenging problem with added values on safety, society and environment. With railways serving as key sustainable mode of transportation for passengers freight, the industry facing an increasing demand to expand its capacity, availability speed, resulting in faster deterioration ageing railway infrastructure. Given constrained maintenance budgets environmental challenges posed by climate change, managers have identify economically...
Interconnected electricity networks, Supergrids, are being considered to help tackle some of the current global energy challenges such as rising CO2 emissions and complete reliance on renewables. However, there a range obstacles associated with developing interconnections, not least uncertainties selecting appropriate countries which make interconnection. The process identifying then assessing various risks for these interconnections can be an important factor in mitigating controlling their...
The UK’s local road infrastructure is subject to frequent openings maintain and invest in buried infrastructure. Opening a reduces its structural integrity, necessitates the implementation of traffic management causes environmental pollution. These turn can result increased use costs, adversely affect business, cause social disbenefit, reduce asset value necessitate unplanned maintenance. There are therefore benefits be gained from coordinating highway similar locations. Shared openings,...
The functioning of modern societies relies on the successful performance their infrastructure. In UK, much buried infrastructure is located below road surface, and routine maintenance these requires networks to be accessed, commonly by open-cut methods. operation in roads likely change pavement structure potentially how loads are transmitted, thereby affecting main objective this paper investigate impact construction road, ground with aim improving current associated guidelines. A fully...