Critical Infrastructure Performance and Reliability (CIPAR)
The CIPAR group has a strong national and international reputation within the academic community and industry, with an emphasis on infrastructure resilience.
The core focus of CIPAR is bridging the gap between fundamental research and its practical applications. CIPAR is actively involved in senior industry advisory boards, professional body committees, and national or international standards review panels.
Established June 2000, CIPAR’s quarter of a century vision continues to remain at the forefront of research in measuring, assessing and engineering solutions for the reliability of existing and deteriorating or aging infrastructure. Including buildings, bridges, roads, pipelines, water reservoirs, green infrastructure, power transmission towers, shipping, aircraft, railway systems, urban and land development, offshore infrastructure, and other infrastructure systems.
Research focus
- Structural Engineering, Reliability and Resilience
- Advanced Structural Analysis and Design
- Structural Assessment and Design of Masonry Construction
- Corrosion Science, Engineering & Technology
- Prototyping and Forensic Material Science
- Infrastructure Asset Management
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Surveying and Remote Sensing
- Environmental Impact on Infrastructure
- Machine vision, and visual odometry
- State estimation and model predictive control
- Simultaneous localisation and mapping
- Data-driven modelling
- Geospatial Technology and Satellite Data Analytics.
Our researchers
- A/Prof. Igor CHAVES (Director)
- Dr Alejandro DONAIRE
- Dr. Lewis GOOCH (Affiliate)
- Prof. Shin-Chan HAN (Affiliate)
- Dr Ryan HOULT
- Dr Md. Akhtar HOSSAIN (Research Associate)
- Dr Roxy JACKSON
- Dr Mehdi KHAKI
- A/Prof. Anthony KIEM
- Mr. Chee Yin LAM (HDR Candidate)
- Dr Congying LI
- Prof. Mark MASIA (Deputy-Director)
- Emeritus Prof. Robert MELCHERS
- Prof. Brett NINNESS
- Mr. Ahmed NISHAM (HDR Candidate)
- Emeritus Prof. Adrian PAGE
- Dr Lloyd PILGRIM
- Dr Robert PETERSEN
- Dr Christopher RENTON
- Mr. Mansoor SABZALI (HDR Candidate)
- Prof. Mark STEWART (Affiliate)
- Ms. Lyndsey TERRY (HDR Candidate)
- Dr Yuri TOTOEV
- A/Prof Adrian WILLS
- A/Prof. In-Young YEO (Affiliate)
- Dr Hannah YOON
- Dr Arthur ZHOU.
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