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ASCE Geo-Institute Technical Presentation
Infrastructure Lifelines Systems: Risk and REliability
This talk is part of GI 2019 Technical Committees Speakers Program. It covers methods for analyzing civil lifelines systems (pipelines, canals, highways, etc) from a reliability perspective. Examples of different lifelines failures over the years are examined to learn from past mistakes. Then for back-analysis or forward-design the following topics are covered: spatially correlation of load and resistance, interconnectedness/ interdependence of lifelines, systems redundancy verses capacity, ageing and maintenance, multi-hazard susceptibility, and lifelines resilience. The goal of this talk is to raise awareness of systems specific engineering issues and provide a means for addressing them within a risk and reliability framework.
Speaker Bio
Robb is a professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for more than a decade. He earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley with research into probabilistic liquefaction triggering, while minoring in engineering seismology and structural reliability. His areas of expertise include geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and risk and reliability with respect to earthquake engineering. He has research into liquefaction of geologically older deposits, variance analysis of ground motion prediction equations, probabilistic tsunami modeling, reinvestigation of liquefaction case histories, seismic resistance and probability of failure of levees and levee systems, physical modeling of seismic soil structure interaction, probabilistic fault displacement analysis, uncertainty of in situ soil properties, and seismic earth pressures behind retaining walls. Robb has authored or co-authored on over 90 technical publications and reports.
Besides academic activities, Robb has years of consulting experience involving seismic geotechnics of onshore and offshore projects around the world. He’s been a member of nine earthquake reconnaissance teams traveling to Nepal, Japan, Chile, Alaska, Turkey, India, Mexico, and around California.
He is a registered professional engineer in the state of California and is a professional member of SSA, EERI, and ASCE. Robb was awarded of the Middlebrooks Award by ASCE and the Associate Editor of the Year for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
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