Work Packages & Progress Made
Work Package list
Workflow
Originality
EXCHANGE-Risk is expected to meet all the challenges described previously by essentially assigning one WP per main field of innovation demand. As mentioned, it brings together leading scientists from Europe and North America, establishes a platform for interaction between the academia and the industrial sector and leads to a series of theoretical, analytical, computational and experimental advancements beyond the current state-of-the-art. EXCHANGE-Risk not only promotes integration of laboratory facilities between EU, US and Canada but proceeds further in organizing an innovative and very challenging geographically distributed hybrid experimental campaign of a soil-supported pipeline subjected to multiple earthquake inputs along its supports. The project also encompasses high technology monitoring systems in the framework of a comprehensive methodology and delivers to the engineering community a set of new practices, tools and guidelines for assessing and mitigating the consequences of a major earthquake event on the natural gas network and society at large. Overall it fills the existing legislative and strategic gap of safeguarding energy supply solely on the basis of market, man-made or geopolitical hazards.
EXCHANGE-Risk is expected to meet all the challenges described previously by essentially assigning one WP per main field of innovation demand. As mentioned, it brings together leading scientists from Europe and North America, establishes a platform for interaction between the academia and the industrial sector and leads to a series of theoretical, analytical, computational and experimental advancements beyond the current state-of-the-art. EXCHANGE-Risk not only promotes integration of laboratory facilities between EU, US and Canada but proceeds further in organizing an innovative and very challenging geographically distributed hybrid experimental campaign of a soil-supported pipeline subjected to multiple earthquake inputs along its supports. The project also encompasses high technology monitoring systems in the framework of a comprehensive methodology and delivers to the engineering community a set of new practices, tools and guidelines for assessing and mitigating the consequences of a major earthquake event on the natural gas network and society at large. Overall it fills the existing legislative and strategic gap of safeguarding energy supply solely on the basis of market, man-made or geopolitical hazards.
Inter/multidisciplinarity
EXCHANGE-Risk is an interdisciplinary research as it involves knowledge from different fields of earthquake engineering, structural mechanics, structural dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, geomechanics, strength of materials that are deeply intertwined with stochastic methods, structural health monitoring, information and communication technologies, scientific computing, reliability theory, as well as network analysis. It is deemed that the personnel involved in the exchange scheme will develop multidisciplinary skills that are essential in a working environment that steadily directs towards ever more complex issues embracing different disciplines to resolve problems that can be only addressed in a holistic way. EXCHANGE-Risk is also an actively intersectoral project as the interaction with the industrial partners is continuous within all WPs while their feedback is embedded in the research process. Inversely, the research outcome is not only disseminated from the academia to the participating design and construction companies but the training is essentially bilateral through the participation of the latter in the final case study.
EXCHANGE-Risk is an interdisciplinary research as it involves knowledge from different fields of earthquake engineering, structural mechanics, structural dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, geomechanics, strength of materials that are deeply intertwined with stochastic methods, structural health monitoring, information and communication technologies, scientific computing, reliability theory, as well as network analysis. It is deemed that the personnel involved in the exchange scheme will develop multidisciplinary skills that are essential in a working environment that steadily directs towards ever more complex issues embracing different disciplines to resolve problems that can be only addressed in a holistic way. EXCHANGE-Risk is also an actively intersectoral project as the interaction with the industrial partners is continuous within all WPs while their feedback is embedded in the research process. Inversely, the research outcome is not only disseminated from the academia to the participating design and construction companies but the training is essentially bilateral through the participation of the latter in the final case study.