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Academic Lectures
CE Seminar Series with Dr. Ellingwood
Department / Organization: Civil Engineering
Performance Goals for Civil Infrastructure Managing Safety, Reliability and Risk - Fri 4/18 11:00 AM BBW475
Who: Dr. Bruce R. Ellingwood, PhD, PE, NAE, Dist M ASCE, F SEI
What: Continuing the Civil Seminar series, Dr. Ellingwood will give his seminar titled, Performance Goals for Civil Infrastructure Managing Safety, Reliability and Risk.
Where: Brown Building W475
When: April 18, 2025, at 11:00 AM MDT
Abstract: Global warming promises have a disruptive and substantial impact on the design and performance of civil infrastructure facilities, which are essential to the health of modern society. Performance assessment of such facilities traditionally has treated environmental demands as if the past is representative of the future (embedded in the notion of statistical stationarity), an assumption that clearly is not tenable in a changing climate. While typical buildings, bridges and similar infrastructure are expected to perform their intended functions for service periods of approximately 50 to 100 years, the required service periods for certain projects (e.g, large dams, critical flood-control structures, toxic waste repositories) are substantially longer. It is now widely recognized that stable societies require resilient communities. Risk-informed planning and assessment of civil infrastructure aimed at ensuring resilient communities must address deep uncertainties associated with climate change and the potential consequences of engineering decisions for future generations.....
