Welcome to the Structural Monitoring for Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure research group website. Our research is aimed at contributing to solve one of the Grand Challenges for Engineering posed by the National Academy of Engineering of the United States for the 21st century: Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure. The aging and increasing frequency of catastrophic failures of civil infrastructure has raised serious concerns about the current state of integrity of the built environment and the associated failure risks of the infrastructure that defines the backbone of modern societies.

Our research work is aimed at developing effective, efficient and robust state-of-the-art methods to assess the state of structural integrity of civil infrastructure, and estimating their future performance during potentially severe events with the objective of minimizing the impact of extreme natural and man-made hazards, reducing the risks associated to catastrophic failures. For this purpose we employ methods that integrate sensing and instrumentation data and computational algorithms resulting on cyber-physical civil infrastructure systems that are able to monitor their state of health and predict their future performance with an increased accuracy with respect to traditional methods.

The PI also offers expertise consulting services in structural engineering, including forensic structural engineering, and structural engineering expert witness and litigation support.

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool” –  R.F.