Julie Clarke

• PhD
• Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin

Ireland has witnessed an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in recent years due to climate change, including heavy rainfall, flooding and storm events. These extreme events can have a severe impact on transport networks, resulting in significant costs due to physical damage, transport disruption and associated economi...

This deliverable presents the results of two European case studies that were analysed to demonstrate the systematic application of the tools and methodologies that have been developed in the INFRARISK project. The case studies are located along the trans-European (TEN-T) network, which provides critical infrastructure corridors throughout Europe an...

Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, have the potential to cause damage to transport infrastructure networks and can lead to significant network disruption and associated losses. The INFRARISK project (Novel Indicators for Identifying Critical INFRAstructure at RISK from Natural Hazards) is developing methodologies to assess the impact of extreme...

Natural hazards can cause serious disruption to societies and their transport infrastructure networks. The impact of extreme hazard events is largely dependent on the resilience of societies and their networks. The INFRARISK project is developing a reliable stress test framework for critical European transport infrastructure to analyse the response...

This report aims to contribute to an improved understanding of the cost of climate change in Ireland owing to the impacts on the transport sector and examines the available methodologies to evaluate various adaptation planning strategies and decisionmaking tools. These issues are addressed through an existing literature review and two desk studies,...

SAFE-10-T (Safety of Transport Infrastructure on the TENT Network) is a project funded by the European Union according to the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. The SAFE-10-T project is developing a global risk framework that will form the basis of an online Decision Support Tool (DST) to assist in decision-making regarding the managem...

Prediction of the response of buildings to tunnelling-induced settlement for the extent of a tunnel route is a complex task due to the heterogeneous nature of ground conditions, variable tunnelling operations, and unknown building parameters. Consequently, there are generally uncertainties associated with building damage predictions. This paper pre...

Globally, the high rates of urbanization over the past century have spurred unprecedented levels of tunnel construction. With each tunnel installation, there is a large affiliated risk for damage to aboveground structures, especially those of unreinforced masonry. Such damage (and the subsequent costs and litigation) occur, despite huge sums commit...

An accurate prediction of the compressive strength of masonry is essential both for the analysis of existing structures and the construction of new masonry buildings. Since experimental material testing of individual masonry components (e.g., masonry unit and mortar joints) often produces highly variable results, this paper presents a numerical mod...

Dilapidation surveys may require extensive resources to achieve detailed accounts of damage for intervention purposes or may involve only limited resources but be restricted to an extremely rapid assessment (e.g. post-earthquake, life-safety inspection). Neither provides a holistic, cost-effective approach for evaluating the general health of a lar...