Briefing: Plexus: Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems

Christopher D.F. Rogers

doi:10.1680/jsmic.21.00017

Briefing: Plexus: Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems

Christopher D.F. Rogers^*

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Abstract

The UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) is, with a capital investment of £138 million from the UK government and matched funding from its 15 collaborating partner universities, creating world-class city observatory and modelling and simulation and physical laboratory facilities. This briefing aims to introduce UKCRIC's formulation, capabilities and core thinking, before describing a programme of work that has linked the 11 laboratory facilities. Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems (Plexus) has focused on three important technical challenges-intense physical interdependency of urban infrastructure systems, harvesting energy from buried infrastructure systems and accelerated deterioration of infrastructure materials due to extreme loading-as well as a study of how the large, multidisciplinary research team progressed towards transdisciplinary working. The background context of UKCRIC, its approach to collaborative research and how this has shaped the Plexus research programme provides the starting point to this narrative. Thereafter the underpinning thinking and justification for the four strands of Plexus's research are described. Finally, the briefing draws these strands together into a proposition for the research, development and implementation of a new generation of transport bridges building on the research reported in this special issue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-9
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Volume	175
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.21.00017
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2022

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements:
The author acknowledges the exceptional contributions of knowledge and experience of all of the members of the Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems (Plexus) team (academic co-investigators, research staff and students, notably those who have contributed as co-authors of the papers in this special issue, and the project manager, Amy Beierholm) to the crafting of this briefing note, which is substantially based on the original proposal for research funding. The author equally gratefully acknowledges funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for UKCRIC Plexus under grant reference EP/R013535, UKCRIC City Observatory Research Platform for Innovation and Analytics (Corona) under grant reference EP/R013411 and the UKCRIC Coordination Node under grant reference EP/R017727.

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Keywords

bridges
concrete technology & manufacture
thermal effects
UN SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities
UN SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
UN SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Civil and Structural Engineering

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Rogers, C.
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council
1/10/17 → 31/03/22
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Briefing: Plexus: Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems

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