Maintenance and Safety of Aging Infrastructure

Professor Dan M. Frangopol is the first holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. His main research interests are in the application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including structural reliability, probability-based design and optimization of buildings, bridges and naval ships, structural health monitoring, life-cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and infrastructures under uncertainty, risk-based assessment and decision making, infrastructure resilience to disasters, and stochastic mechanics. Prof. Frangopol is the Founding President of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and of the International Association for Life Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). He is also the founder of the recently created ASCE-SEI Technical Council on life-cycle performance, safety, reliability and risk of structural systems. He has held numerous leadership positions in national and international professional societies. Prof. Frangopol is the Founding Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering an international peer-reviewed journal. He is also the Founding Editor of the Book Series Structures and Infrastructures. Prof. Frangopol is the author or co-author of more than 300 books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles, and more than 500 papers in conference proceedings. He has edited or co-edited 34 books. Prof. Frangopol has supervised the dissertations of 35 Ph.D. students (seven under current supervision) and the thesis and reports of 50 M.S. students. Many of his former students are university professors in the United States and abroad, and several are prominent in professional practice and research laboratories. Dr Yiannis Tsompanakis completed his studies (diploma in civil engineering and PhD in computational mechanics) in NTUA, and afterwards he is lecturing in Technical University of Crete (TUC), firstly as a visiting professor (2000-2003) and since 9/2003 as an Assistant Professor and since 9/2010 as an Associate Professor of Structural Dynamics in the Department of Applied Sciences of TUC having a permanent academic employment in TUC. He is expert in development and application of advanced computational models for the numerical simulation structures and infrastructures. His research interests include structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, dynamic soil-structure-fluid interaction, foundations and retaining structures, structural optimization, probabilistic mechanics, structural assessment and retrofitting as wells as artificial intelligence methods in engineering. He has over 150 publications (journal papers, conference papers, book chapters, edited books and journal special issues and conference proceedings. He has organized several conferences and minisymposia. He has participated in many research (Greek and EU) projects as researcher and/or coordinator. Dr Tsompanakis has excellent leadership, interpersonal and negotiating skills and many cooperations with other scientific groups in Greece, USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Serbia, etc. He is reviewer in many archival scientific engineering journals and member of the Editorial Board in several scientific journals. He is the Technical Editor of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering (SIE) Journal, Taylor&Francis Publ. He is the co-editor of the first two volumes in the same Taylor & Francis book series: “Structures & Infrastructures Book Series”, Book Series Editor Dan M. Frangopol.

1. Reliability-based durability design and service life assessment of concrete structures in a marine environment; 2. Designing bridges for inspectability and maintainability; 3. Structural vulnerability measures for assessment of deteriorating bridges in seismic prone areas; 4. Design knowledge gain by structural health monitoring; 5. Emerging concepts and approaches for efficient and realistic uncertainty quantification; 6. Time-variant robustness of aging structures; 7. Extending fatigue life of bridges beyond 100 years by using monitored data; 8. Management and safety of existing concrete structures via optical fiber distributed sensing; 9. Experimental dynamic assessment of civil infrastructures; 10. Two approaches for the risk assessment of aging infrastructure with applications; 11. Risk-based maintenance of ageing ship structures; 12. Investigating pavement structure deterioration with a relative evaluation model; 13. Constructs for quantifying the long-term effectiveness of civil infrastructure interventions; 14. Risk assessment and wind hazard mitigation of power distribution poles; 15. A comparison between MDP-based optimization approaches for pavement management systems; 16. Corrosion and safety of structures in marine environments; 17. Retrofitting and refurbishment of existing road bridges; 18. Stochastic control approaches for structural maintenance; 19. Modeling inspection uncertainties for on-site condition assessment using NDT tools; 20. The meaning of condition description and inspection data quality in engineering structure management; 21. Climate adaptation engineering and risk-based design and management of infrastructure; 22. Comparing bridge condition evaluations with life-cycle expenditures; 23. Redundancy-based design of non-deterministic systems