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iSMART: INFRASTRUCTURE SLOPES: SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT Stakeholder meeting 26.02.14
iSMART
INFRASTRUCTURE SLOPES: SUSTAINABLE
MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT
THE PROBLEM…….
AND AGAIN IN 2014…….
The landslide between Wadhurst and Battle
Picture tweeted by Network Rail on 12.44pm 10 Feb 2014
OVERVIEW
• Summary of the proposal
• Aims
• Objectives
• iSMART organisation
• iSMART expertise
• Meeting the needs of our stakeholders
iSMART - SUMMARY
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AIMS
The science
To understand materials and system behaviour
• the soil-water-vegetation system (scale 1)
• the systems of slopes (scale 2)
• transport network (scale 3)
under current and future weather event sequences
and to be able to integrate the understanding across these 3 scales
AIMS
The impact
To use this scientific understanding to inform advanced inspection
monitoring maintenance, and repair regimes
A co-ordinated community of researchers and stakeholders, equipped
with a virtual research centre, to continue to meet the challenges of
providing sustainable infrastructure
A LONG-TERM VISION……..
OBJECTIVES
1. Obtain benchmark datasets from 5 slopes
2. Develop conceptual and numerical models of the near surface
processes (top 1.5m)
3. Develop conceptual models of the different mechanisms of
movement and failure
4. Construct numerical whole-slope models for the instrumented
sites
5. Model representative future slopes
6. Make recommendations on the design, management, adaptation
and maintenance of clay slopes
THE SITES
Newbury road
cutting
BIONICS model
embankment
Great Central Railway
embankment
Hawkwell Railway
embankment
Loughbrickland road
cutting
Craigmore Railway
cutting
PROJECT ORGANISATION
Stakeholder group
Work-package 1: User impact and management
Scale 1 Scale 2 Scale 3
Work –
package 2:
Understanding
material
behaviour
Understanding
slope systems
behaviour
Work –
package 4:
Asset
management
strategies
Work –
package 3:
Wider research user community
COLLABORATOR EXPERTISE
Scale 1 Scale 2 Scale 3
Work –
package 2: materials
Toll
P Hughes
Smethurst
Gunn
Dixon
Smethurst
Clarke
D Hughes
P Hughes
Chambers
Gunn
Dixon
Work –
package 4: Asset management
Dixon
Glendinning
Rouainia
Powrie
Gunn
Work –
package 3: slopes
Work-package 1: User impact and management
Glendinning Dijkstra Dixon Augarde
Stakeholder group
Wider research user community
MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS
• What are the major issues?
• What are the knowledge gaps?
• How can we address these?
• What are the barriers?
• Data sets + availability?
• Desired outcomes?
• Role of researchers/stakeholders?
• Mechanisms for communication/knowledge exchange?
• The way forward?
AGENDA FOR THE MORNING
Session 1 Asset management in a challenging environment (climate, finance, demands, ageing)
10.30 2012 – a year of dramatic contrasts John Dora, John Dora Consulting
10.50 Geotechnical assets in flux David Patterson, HA Bristol
11.10 Coffee break
Group 1 - Stephanie Glendinning
Main Room
Group 3 - David Hughes - Room 10
Major issues
Group 2 - Joel Smethurst
Room 9
Group 4 – Neil Dixon - Main Room
Knowledge gaps
11.45
Questions for both groups
What are the major issues?
What are the barriers to development?
What are the knowledge gaps?
How can we address these?
Swap 1 with 4; 2and 3
Outcomes
A set of bullet points summarising the main developments and barriers towards achieving best practice
12.00
Reporting back by rapporteurs
12.30 Lunch
AGENDA FOR THE AFTERNOON
Session 2 How do we deal with the problem?
14.00 Vegetation management – chop it all down!
Lee Parry, Mott Macdonald UK
14.20 Remediation practices – why bother with pro-active approaches?
Christina Jackson, AMEY
14.40 Coffee/tea
Group 1 - Jon Chambers
Main Room
Group 3 – Derek Clarke
Room 10
Desired outcomes
Group 2 - David Toll
Room 9
Group 4 – Kevin Briggs
Main Room
Role of researchers
Questions for both groups
Communication
Data sets + availability?
What are the questions?
secondments/PhD sponsoring/internships
Outcomes
A set of bullet points summarising the main outcomes of the discussions
15.10 Reporting back by the rapporteurs
15.30 Coffee/tea Session 3 The way forward 15.50 The way forward? William Powrie, Southampton 16.15 Wrap up and close