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Synthetic Infrastructure Model for Vulnerability, Failure, & Future Transition
Urban infrastructures are complex and vulnerable to cascading failures (e.g., a hurricane causing large-scale power outages). Understanding urban infrastructures, their relationships, and propensity for cascading failures is essential to preparing for future extreme events. Often seemingly innocuous failures trigger a catastrophic hazard as the initial...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Mikhail Chester, SK Nasir Ahmad, Nathan Johnson, Ryan Hoff
Keywords(s): Infrastructure, Modeling, PS-Energy and Power
Category(s): Computing & Information Technology, Energy & Power, Environmental, Physical Science
A Vector-Based Structural Safety Measure
­ Building collapse is a common phenomenon associated with multiple disasters, including those caused by natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides, as well as technological hazards such as sub-standard construction and maintenance practices. Over the past 50 years, there have been 181 building collapse disasters in 51 nations,...
Published: 2/5/2024   |   Inventor(s): Hooman Ghasemi
Keywords(s): Collapse, construction, Infrastructure, Safety
Category(s): Engineering, Software
Truck-mounted pavement deflection monitoring system using high-precision laser scanners and inertial sensors
A new easy to use universal pavement deflection monitoring system to monitor road healthThe deflection of pavement when a moving vehicle passes over it is an important measure of its condition. Since pavement damage is initially not visible on a road’s surface, pavement deflection should be measured as often as possible for the efficient maintenance...
Published: 7/17/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jorge Prozzi, Christian Claudel, Praveenkumar Pasupathy
Keywords(s): Infrastructure, Sensors, Transportation
Category(s): Computer > Algorithms and software methods > Geophysical, Physical sciences > Transportation
SnakeGrid (Local Coordinate Mapping)
Available For: Licensing and collaborative development<h2>Summary</h2>{{start}} SnakeGrid® products provide innovative solution to a significant problem in engineering surveying, namely the design of a coordinate system that has minimal scale factor and height distortion even when projects extend for many hundreds of kilometres. {{end}}<h2>The...
Published: 9/23/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jonathan Iliffe, Ant Sibthorpe, John Arthur
Keywords(s): Infrastructure
Category(s): Software - non-medical
SnakeGrid Transformer for CAD
Available For: Licensing and collaborative development<h2>Summary</h2>{{start}} Based on research at UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Department, SnakeGrid® Transformer is a plug-in software module for the Bentley MicroStation CAD package and allows the conversion of Bentley MicroStation design files "on the fly"...
Published: 9/23/2024   |   Inventor(s): Jonathan Iliffe
Keywords(s): Built Environment, Infrastructure
Category(s): Software - non-medical