
Centre for Infrastructure Systems Engineering (CISE)
Infrastructure systems engineering covers activities across a wide range of length scales aimed at sustainable infrastructure delivery and management. Research encompasses the characterisation and modelling of damage processes through asset life-cycles, the simulation of complex structural systems under cyclic, dynamic and extreme loads, and the performance assessment and management of large infrastructure networks.
Research themes
- Innovative construction materials and their durability
- Reliability assessment of large infrastructure systems
- Asset performance and management of potable water networks
- Advanced FE modelling and testing of structural systems under static/dynamic/fatigue loading
- Structural glass and glass facades
- Robustness and progressive collapse of structures
- Structural health monitoring and damage assessment.
Research areas
Civil infrastructure monitoring and analytics (CIMA)
Digital technologies, including sensing technologies, telecommunication engineering, and data science, have enormous potential to transform the construction industry. Monitoring data analytics, whether physics-based or data driven, can improve maintenance efficiency and optimise asset life. At Surrey, we have so far investigated a range of issues related to the application of such techniques in metallic bridges, pipelines and other structures, bringing together expertise in materials and structures, as well as statistics, informatics and decision theory. Our collaboration with various industry partners enables us to analyse real data from critical infrastructure assets and to influence the development of industry guidelines on inspection and maintenance.
Dr Ying Wang has recently been awarded an EPSRC grant: An integrated physics-based and data-driven approach to structural condition identification, which aims to develop an integrated algorithm to create a reliable and effective approach for structural health monitoring, which can find different applications.
People
Academic staff

Dr Dan Bompa
Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering

Professor Marios Chryssanthopoulos
Professor of Structural Systems

Dr Alex Hagen-Zanker
Lecturer

Dr Donya Hajializadeh
Lecturer in Bridge/Structural Engineering

Dr Boulent Imam
Senior Lecturer

Dr David Jesson
Research Fellow and Manager of the Mechanical Testing Facility

Professor Robert Lawson
Professor of Construction Systems

Dr Stergios Mitoulis
Senior Lecturer

Dr Michael Mulheron
Reader in Construction Materials, Director of Learning and Teaching for Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Gerard Parke
Professor of Structural Engineering

Dr Juan Sagaseta
Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering

Professor Paul Smith
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Executive Dean (FEPS)

Dr Ying Wang
Lecturer
Research staff

Dr Dimitra Achillopoulou
Marie Curie Research Fellow

Dr Jingyan Yu
Research Fellow
Postgraduate research students

Aliyu Abdullahi
Postgraduate Research Student

Domenic Di Francesco
Postgraduate Research Student

Nigel Lawton
Postgraduate Research Student

Samuel Nkereuwem
Project: Optimising structural elements containing hybrid fibre-reinforced concrete