Join us for Asset Management Research at the University of Birmingham

Staff, researchers and post graduate students from University of Birmingham will provide a series of presentations on the interests, developments and work of the university in infrastructure asset management in the transportation sector and including updates on research into the use of digital twins for predicting defects in highway infrastructure.

A tour will also be provided of the National Buried Infrastructure Facility - A 'one of its kind' facility spanning research, innovation, education, CPD and training in buried infrastructure-ground interaction.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ukcric/nbif/index.aspx.

Speakers: 

Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan

Kun Chen

Jonathan Corker

Tom Carver

Zhe Li

Reza Movahedifar

Agenda:

17.00 Light refreshments provided by University of Birmingham

17:30 Welcome

- Sam Beamish, IAM Midlands Branch Chair

17.35 Introduction to Asset Management Research at the University of Birmingham

- Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan, Lecturer, University of Birmingham

Introduction to the state-of-the-art research and capacity building initiatives on infrastructure asset management in various countries across the globe.

17:45 Digital Twins for Roads; Combining Machine Learning and Physics-based Model to Predict Road Condition

- Kun Chen, PhD Candidate, Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham

A hybrid model integrating machine learning with physics for predicting road rutting as part of a digital twin for road

17:55 Using Network-Level Digital Twins to Support Cross-Asset Decision Making

- Jonathan Corker, PhD Candidate, Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham

An innovative data- and physics-based model for predicting road defects involved in road safety as part of a Digital twin for road

18:05 Understanding, predicting, and influencing road user behaviours

- Tom Carver, PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham

Introduction to an innovative data-driven model for predicting road user behaviour

18:15 Questions and Answers

18:30 Assessing the Severity of Damage in Flexible Pavement Cracks: A Comprehensive Study

- Zhe Li, PhD Candidate, Universities of Birmingham and Chang'an, China

 A Rapid and Automated Method to assess the severity of road condition from 2D images of road surface.

18:40 Interaction between Road and buried pipe failure

- Reza Movahedifar, PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham

An ongoing numerical and experimental to identify road defects caused by buried pipe failure

18:50 Questions and Answers

18:55 Closing Remarks

- Beamish, Samuel, IAM Midlands Branch Chair

19.00 Tour of the National Buried Infrastructure Facility

- A 'one of its kind' facility spanning research, innovation, education, CPD and training in buried infrastructure-ground interaction.

Location: 

Room 127, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT – building Y8 on this map: edgbaston-campus-map.pdf (birmingham.ac.uk)

The School of Engineering is a five-minute walk from University Station, which is less than ten minutes from Birmingham New Street. Full access details, including details of parking, are available here: Getting here - Edgbaston Campus - University of Birmingham