Bridge Resilience Design and Lessons from Failures is a comprehensive course designed for civil engineering professionals and students who aim to specialize in bridge design with a focus on resilience. This course delves into the principles of bridge resilience, emphasizing robustness, redundancy, and reparability to ensure rapid functionality restoration and long-term durability. Students will explore real-world case studies of bridge failures to understand the critical aspects of resilience design and apply these lessons to their engineering practices. Key topics include:
- Introduction to bridge resilience and its importance in modern engineering.
- Analysis of global bridge design codes and their resilience-related provisions.
- Detailed examination of bridge failure cases, including causes and preventive measures.
- Techniques for enhancing bridge resilience against natural and man-made hazards.
- Practical design strategies to improve bridge robustness, redundancy, and reparability.
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to design and assess bridges for resilience, ensuring they remain safe and functional under various extreme conditions.