and its role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the built environment.
3 to 16 May 2025, 2025
São Carlos, SP, Brasil,
São Carlos School of Engineering
University of São Paulo
and its role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the built environment.
This advanced science school will address the main challenges related to Structural Safety and Infrastructure Resilience in a climate change context, as well as the tools required to address them. Climate change is already producing more frequent and more intense weather-related events, which have an impact on structural loads and their mean return rates. Increasing infrastructure resilience in this context is fundamental to reduce the impact of climate change on social wellbeing. Climate change is also pressing the production of cement with reduced CO2 emissions: yet, the durability of reinforced concrete made with these cements is still unknown. A potential reduction in the expected lifetime of such structures may completely offset the environmental gains in using reduced clinker cement. The compounding effect of more intense storms with unknown lifetime of reinforced concrete structures may be disastrous to the built environment. The above issues can be addressed by Structural Reliability (SR) methods, Performance Based Engineering (PBE) and risk-based optimization. SR methods have been used by the profession to quantify the uncertainties in loads, material strengths and engineering models, leading to objective measures of structural safety. PBE is a modern approach to address the uncertainty in stochastic process loads such as earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes and waves. Risk-based optimization addresses the compromise solutions between structural safety and costs/emissions, considering lifecycle costs such as construction, inspection and maintenance, as well as expected costs of failure.
Resilience, Performance-Based Engineering, Sustainability in Design, Structural Optimization, Reliability-based Optimization and Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics.
The school will create an atmosphere for high-level apprenticeship and spin-off solutions to a pressing global problem, enabling us to reach emission reductions of the Paris Agreement.
Founded in 1934, University of São Paulo is the largest institution of higher education and research in Brazil
The São Carlos Campus is renowned for its excellence in Exact and Technological Sciences.
Located 230 km away from the capital, São Carlos is a medium city in the east-central portion of the state of São Paulo
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 380 - Butantã, São Paulo - SP
Avenida Trabalhador são-carlense, 400 - Pq Arnold Schimidt, São Carlos - SP
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as of Feb. 19, 2025. | |||
Week 1: | Introduction, sustainability, risks. Structural reliability, robustness, optimization. | ||
Day | Morning | Afternoon | Location / event |
3/5 Saturday | Early arrival in São Paulo city | Early arrival in São Paulo city | |
4/5 Sunday | Arrival in São Paulo city | Reception in São Paulo city. Icebreaker BBQ Dinner | |
5/5 Monday | Opening ceremony. | FAPESP presentation. | Poli USP |
Mark G. Stewart: “Climate change impact on built infrastructure, sustainability, and risk- based approaches to climate resilience” | Paolo Gardoni: “Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure” | Auditório Francisco Romeu Landi | |
6/5 Tuesday | Commuting to São Carlos | André J. Torii: “Structural Reliability Methods: an Overview” | PS1 |
7/5 Wednesday | Jochen Köhler: “Future Structural Codes: Navigating Safety and Sustainability in Design” | Rafael H. Lopez: “Efficient approaches for the minimization of expected value functions” | PS2a |
8/5 Thursday | André T. Beck: “Optimal redundancy and optimal robustness of building structures” | Vanderley M. John: “Climate Change and Infrastructure: Mitigation and Resilience” | PS2b |
9/5 Friday | Túlio N. Bittencourt: “Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure for Reliability and Resilience” | Eduardo M. Mendiondo: “Blue-Green Infrastructure Design and Operation Under Global Changes: the Wild, the Weird and the Wonderful” Brainstorming session and project development I: students discuss and develop potential applications and/or research project sketch with lecturers | PS3 |
10/5, Saturday | Technical visit | Technical visit | |
11/5 Sunday | Day off | Day off | |
Week 2: | Structural Dynamics, Performance-based Engineering tools | ||
12/5 Monday | Mauricio Sanchez-Silva: “Modeling the built environment as Dynamic Systems for Reducing CO2 Emissions” | Leandro F. F. Miguel: “Performance- based Design of Transmission Lines and TMD equipped buildings” | PS4 |
13/5 Tuesday | Seymour M. J. Spence: “Reducing Emissions by Performance-based Wind Design” | Gustavo H. Siqueira: “Performance- based Design of Bridges and Buildings under Seismic Actions” | PS5 |
14/5 Wednesday | Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou: “Stochastic Engineering Dynamics” | Brainstorming session and project development II: students discuss and develop potential applications and/or research project sketch with lecturers | |
15/5 Thursday | Commuting to São Paulo | Afternoon departures | Late evening departures |
16/5 Friday | Morning departures | Afternoon departures | |
PS = Poster Sessions: PS1: Climate change, infrastructure resilience, sustainability. PS2: Reliability analysis, design codes, robustness, progressive collapse, optimization. PS3: SHM, structural materials. PS4: Performance-based Engineering. PS5: Structural Dynamics. |