Natural disasters & uninsured economic losses
By Grid Engineers Research Group on December 6, 2018Read moreWith a series of hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, the economic losses from natural disasters in 2017 rose to $353 billion –– a number that makes last year the second-costliest on record, according to Aon Benfield’s Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight Annual Report (2017). Interestingly enough, the...
0Power Production Facilities: Is it the time for a “Metathesis” of our design philosophy?
By Grid Engineers Research Group on October 21, 2016Read morePower production facilities are all but immortal. Oil & gas extraction rigs have a life span of 20-30 years while wind turbines are designed to work 120,000 hours –a lifespan of only 20 years. Unlike most of our civil infrastructure (whose lifespan exceeds 50-100 years or...
A seismic isolation approach offered almost “for free”
By Grid Engineers Research Group on October 12, 2016Read moreby Grid Engineers Research Group ven if such a place may ever arise, neither our past nor our contemporary experience, provide evidence of such a utopia reaching us soon. On the contrary, society has repetitively witnessed natural disasters so unprecedented in nature and intensity that have...
Soil-induced deformation on Pipelines
By Grid Engineers Research Group on October 12, 2016Read moreIt is well known that pipelines can hardly avoid traversing unstable ground locations such as active fault areas or precarious slopes.