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Professor Sean Wilkinson

Professor of Structural Engineering

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  • Address: School of Engineering
    Room 2.20
    Cassie Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    UK
Background

Background

I am a structural engineer specialising in earthquake engineering. The aim of my research is to help develop communities that are resilient to natural hazard. I believe the best way of achieving this is by understanding how critical infrastructure responds in a disaster and what role it has  in protecting communities. My specific methodology is to identify robust network architectures for critical infrastructure systems that are insensitive to the magnitude of the hazard to which they may be exposed  and therefore suffer minimum disruption in the event of a disaster. This is an extension of the way earthquake engineers design their buildings whereby they treat them as systems that have ductile modes of failure which can absorb vast amounts of energy without collapse (bend not break). I also teach these concepts in my structural engineering design classes as well as teaching my specific expertise of earthquake engineering. 

Qualifications

 PhD QUT 1997, Meng QUT 1991, Beng QIT 1986

Memberships

Committee member for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics

Chairman of the Earthquake Field Investigation Team

Industrial Experience

Worked as a Civil and Structural Engineering for Ove Arup and Partners in Brisbane Australia before returning to academia at Queensland University of Technology.  Seconded to Robert Bird and Partners in 1997 to design seismically resistant high-rise building in Indonesia, before moving to my present position.

Research

Research Interests

Resilient communities, Critical infrastructure, Earthquake engineering, Extreme loadings, Future design wind speeds

Other Expertise: Design of High-rise buildings, lifeline engineering, network reliability

Postgraduate Supervision

Louise Westoby  The Road to Recovery – understanding and improving the process of rebuilding seismic resistant schools in Nepal.

 Beth Barnes  Realistic evacuation simulation through micro and macro scale agent-based modelling including demographics, agent patience and evacuation route capacities

 Muhammed Rezki - Enhancing the Resilience of Transport Network to Volcanic Ash Hazard in Indonesia through Contingency Planning Informed by Catastrophe Modelling

Maria Pregnolato - Flood impact and risk modelling of the disruption to urban transport networks from pluvial flooding

Sarah Dunn - Making Resilient Communities for the 21st Century

Matthew Holmes, Resilience of water supply networks

Cassandra Pickering - Vulnerability curves for electricity distribution systems (MPhil)

Alan Richardson Graduated  2008

Mahdi Al Yami Graduated 2009

Michael Kyakula Graduated 2004  

Esteem Indicators

Reviewer for the Royal society of New Zealand
Reviewer for the Georgian National Science Foundation
Mission Leader EEFIT mission 20 2009 Padang Earthquake
Academic Leader EEFIT mission to 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics  committee member
Chairman of the Earthquake Field Investigation Team

Invited Lectures

  • Securing the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems. Invited lecture at Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Measures and Models of Resilience 1-2 November 2012; hosted by Rockefeller Foundation and Oxford Martin School
  • Increasing Community Resilience and Prosperity through the Provision of  Critical Infrastructure. Invited Speaker, Queensland University of Technology, 8 April 2013 
  • The Christchurch Earthquake of 22 March 2011. Invited Speaker, Institution of Structural Engineers, EEFIT meeting
  • ; Presentation for the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, 15 February 2011
  • Are our Air Traffic Networks Particularly Vulnerable to Spatial Hazards? Presentation for the University of Colorado at Boulder, 7 February 2011
  • The Padang Earthquake of September 30 2009. Invited Speaker at Institution of Structural Engineers, EEFIT meeting
  • The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Lessons Learnt and the Engineers’ Response. Invited Speaker at a joint meeting of the ICE Maritime Board and The Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, 7th February, Institution of Civil Engineers
  • The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December 2004 field mission. Invited Speaker at the Institution of Structural Engineers on 5 April 2005
  • Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster, December 2004. Invited Speaker at Institution of Structural Engineers, Northern Counties Branch, 8 November 2005 Central Square, 缅北禁地 and 10 January 2005, Sporting Lodge Inn, Stainton, Middlesbrough
  • The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami – Findings of the EEFIT Mission to the Area. Invited Speaker Institution of Engineers Australia, 11 November 2005

Current Funding

Learning from Earthquakes: Building Resilient Communities Through Earthquake Reconnaissance, Response and Recovery; EPSRC; £457,000 

Climate Services for a Net Zero World (CS-N0W);  BEIS

 

ACCELERATED Assessment of Climate Change Event Likelihood Embedded in Risk Assessment Targeting Electricity Distribution Network; Innovation Allowance fund

Past Funding

EEFIT Earthquake Mission Grant: Funding for improved response and dissemination; March 2011 - March 2016  (PI £205,000) 

RESNET Resilience and Electricity Networks in the UK; September 2011 - August 2015; £1.4M (PI NCL £415,000)

ECISE Enabling CLimate Information Services for Europe February 2011 – May 2014 (Co-PI £170,000)

Infrastructure reliability and adaptation - STREAM Cohort II Project; October 2010 – Sept 2014 (PI £58,000)

PLATFORM GRANT: Earth Systems Engineering: Sustainable systems engineering for adapting to global change Co-Investigator, £1.3M, December 2008 – November 2013 (joined 2011)

Post Earthquake Field Investigation of the Padang Earthquake 29 December 2009, £33,500 EPSRC funded, November 2009 

Post Earthquake Field Investigation of the Indian Ocean Tsunami 26 December 2004; January 2005;  £6,751 EPSRC funded.

Effects of Higher Modes On the Collapse Behaviour of Buildings.  May 2002 - April 2004; £60,000; EPSRC funded research grant. 

Steel Bearing Pile Market Survey, funded by Corus, 2005; £12,000

British Council Link Programme – Ghana RES/4562/7002; April 2000 - March 2001;  £12,516 British Council ;  

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

CEG2302 Steel and Concrete Structures -  Module leader (100%)
CEG8303 Seismic Resistant Design -  Module leader (100%)
CEG 2001 Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 2

Postgraduate Teaching

CEG8303 Seismic Resistant Design -  Module leader (100%)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Contreras D, Bhamidipati S, Wilkinson S. . Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2023, 90, 101735.
    • Barnes B, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Travel Behaviour and Society 2022, 29, 308-318.
    • Contreras D, Wilkinson S, Aktas YD, Fallou L, Bossu R, Landes M. . Frontiers in Built Environment 2022, 8, 839770.
    • Wilkinson S, Dunn S, Adams R, Kirchner-Bossi N, Fowler HJ, Gonzalez Otalora S, Pritchard D, Mendes J, Palin EJ, Chan SC. . Climate Risk Management 2022, 35, 100412.
    • Contreras D, Wilkinson S, Balan N, James P. . Earthquake Spectra 2022, 38(1), 81-108.
    • Contreras D, Wilkinson S, Alterman E, Hervas J. . Natural Hazards 2022, 113, 403-421.
    • Westoby L, Wilkinson S, Dunn S. . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 56, 102120.
    • Barnes B, Dunn S, Pearson C, Wilkinson S. . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 60, 102289.
    • Contreras D, Chamorro A, Wilkinson S. . Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2020, 20, 1663-1687.
    • Kumar A, Hughes PN, Sarhosis V, Toll D, Wilkinson S, Coningham R, Acharya KP, Weise K, Joshi A, Davis C, Kunwar RB, Maskey PN. . Natural Hazards 2020, 101, 231-253.
    • Barnes B, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Natural Hazards 2019, 97, 813-840.
    • Chian SC, Wilkinson SM, Whittle JK, Mulyani R, Alarcon JE, Pomonis A, Saito K, Fraser S, Goda K, Macabuag J, Offord M, Hunt-Raby AC, Sammonds P, Franco G, Stone H, Ahmed B, Hughes FE, Jirouskova NK, Kaminski S, Lopez J. . Frontiers in Built Environment 2019, 5, 73.
    • Davis C, Coningham R, Acharya KP, Kunwar RB, Forlin P, Weise K, Maskey PN, Joshi A, Simpson I, Toll D, Wilkinson S, Hughes P, Sarhosis V, Kumar A, Schmidt A. . Journal of Seismology 2020, 24, 729-751.
    • Macabuag J, Raby A, Pomonis A, Nistor I, Wilkinson S, Rossetto T. . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering 2018, 171(4), 166-178.
    • Fu G, Wilkinson S, Dawson RJ, Fowler HJ, Kilsby C, Panteli M, Mancarella P. . IEEE Systems Journal 2018, 12(4), 3169-3180.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Alderson D, Fowler H, Galasso C. . Natural Hazards Review 2018, 19(1), 04017019.
    • Pregnolato M, Ford A, Wilkinson SM, Dawson RJ. . Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2017, 55, 67-81.
    • Panteli M, Pickering C, Wilkinson S, Dawson R, Mancarella P. . IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2017, 32(5), 3747-3757.
    • Pregnolato M, Ford A, Glenis V, Wilkinson S, Dawson R. . Journal of Infrastructure Systems 2017, 23(4), 04017015.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Reliability Engineering and System Safety 2017, 157, 1-12.
    • Morbidelli R, Saltalippi C, Flammini A, Cifrodelli M, Picciafuoco T, Corradini C, Casas-Castillo MC, Fowler HJ, Wilkinson SM. . Journal of Hydrology 2017, 554, 710-720.
    • Goda K, Campbell G, Hulme L, Ismael B, Ke L, Marsh R, Sammonds P, So E, Okumura Y, Kishi N, Koyama M, Yotsui S, Kiyono J, Wu S, Wilkinson S. . Frontiers in Built Environment 2016, 2(19), 1-23.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Ford A. . Sustainable Cities and Society 2016, 27, 23-31.
    • Tallett-Williams S, Gosh B, Wilkinson S, Fenton C, Burton P, Whitworth M, Datla S, Franco G, Trieu A, Dejong M, Novelli V, White T, Lloyd T. . Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 2016, 14(12), 3301-3315.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2016, 90, 39-50.
    • Fu G, Wilkinson S, Dawson R. . Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 2016, 31(9), 661-680.
    • Goda K, Kiyota T, MohanPokhrel R, Chiaro G, Toshihiko K, Sharma K, Wilkinson S. . Frontiers in Built Environment 2015, 1(8), 1-15.
    • Raby A, Macabuag J, Pomonis A, Wilkinson S, Rossetto T. . International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2015, 14, 332-346.
    • Jungersted JM, Hogh JK, Hellgren LI, Wilkinson S, Jemec GBE, Agner T. . Clinical and Experimental Dermatology 2015, 40(3), 243-246.
    • Chian SC, Wilkinson SM. . Natural Hazards Review 2015, 16(1), 05014004.
    • Rossetto T, D'Ayala D, Gori F, Persio R, Han J, Novelli V, Wilkinson SM, Alexander D, Hill M, Stephens S, Kontoe S, Elia G, Verrucci E, Vicini A, Shelley W, Foulser-Piggott R. . Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 2014, 12(1), 277-305.
    • Wilkinson S, Grant D, Williams E, Paganoni S, Fraser S, Boon D, Mason A, Free M. . Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 2013, 11(1), 107-140.
    • Dunn S, Fu G, Wilkinson S, Dawson R. . Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability 2013, 166(5), 281-292.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson SM. . Journal of Infrastructure Systems 2013, 19(2), 157-165.
    • Wilkinson SM, Dunn S, Ma S. . Natural Hazards 2012, 60(3), 1027-1036.
    • Wilkinson SM, Alarcon JE, Mulyani R, Whittle J, Chian SC. . Natural Hazards 2012, 63(2), 521-547.
    • Richardson AE, Coventry KA, Wilkinson S. . Cold Regions Science and Technology 2012, 83-84, 49-56.
    • Booth E, Spence R, Wilkinson S, Free M, Rossetto T. . International Journal of Forensic Engineering 2011, 164(3), 117-123.
    • Alyami M, Rouainia M, Wilkinson SM. . Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 2009, 29(3), 525-536.
    • Rossetto T, Peiris N, Pomonis A, Wilkinson SM, Del Re D, Koo R, Gallocher S. . Natural Hazards 2007, 42(1), 105-124.
    • Wilkinson SM, Knapton J. . Journal of Bridge Engineering 2006, 11(1), 4-12.
    • Wilkinson SM, Hiley RA. . Computers & Structures 2006, 84(5-6), 318-329.
    • Wilkinson SM, Hurdman G, Crowther A. . Journal of Constructional Steel Research 2006, 62(3), 295-302.
    • Wilkinson SM, Thambiratnam D. . Computers and Structures 2001, 79(32), 2833-2845.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Contreras D, Wilkinson S, Fallou L, Landès M, Tomljenovich I, Bossu R, Balan N, James P. . In: 1st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (1CroCEE) 2021. 2021, Zagreb, Croatia.
    • Contreras D, Wilkinson S, Balan N, Phengsuwan J, James P. . In: 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE). 2020, Sendai, Japan: International Association for Earthquake Engineering.
    • Westoby L, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: SECED 2019 Earthquake Risk and Engineering Towards a Resilient World. 2019, London, UK.
    • Wilkinson S, Contreras D, Westoby L. . In: SECED 2019 Earthquake Risk and Engineering Towards a Resilient World. 2019, University of Greenwich, Greenwich.
    • Rezki M, Wilkinson S, Jenkins SF, Amezaga J. . In: 2019 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2019, Auckland New Zealand: New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
    • Wilkinson S, Stone H, DAyala D, Verrucci E, James P, Rossetto T, So E, Ellul C. . In: 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2018, Los Angeles, California, USA: Earthquake Engineering Institute.
    • Bianco M, Cimellaro GP, Wilkinson S. . In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2017). 2017, Rhodes Island, Greece: National Technical University of Athens.
    • Dhonju HK, Xiao W, Sarhosis V, Mills JP, Wilkinson S, Wang Z, Thapa L, Panday US. . In: 3D ARCH - 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures: 7th International Workshop. 2017, Nafplio, Greece: ISPRS.
    • Wilkinson S, Dunn S, Adams R. . In: National Infrastructure Commission visit to 缅北禁地. 2016, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK: 缅北禁地.
    • Al-Rifaie H, Wilkinson S. . In: Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing. 2015, Prague, Czech Republic: Civil-Comp Press.
    • Panteli M, Mancarella P, Hu X, Cotton I, Calverley D, Wood R, Pickering C, Wilkinson S, Dawson R, Anderson K. . In: IET International Conference on Resilience of Transmission and Distribution Networks (RTDN) 2015. 2015, Birmingham, UK: Institution of Engineering and Technology.
    • Wilkinson S, Whitworth M, DeJong M, Ghosh B, Burton P, Tallet-Williams S, Novelli V, Franco G, White T, Trieu A, Datla S, Lloyd T, Goda K. . In: Tenth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2015, Sydney: The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society and the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
    • Dunn S, Galasso C, Wilkinson S, Manning L, Alderson D. . In: 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering. 2015, Vancouver, Canada: University of British Columbia.
    • Panteli M, Mancarella P, Wilkinson S, Dawson R, Pickering C. . In: 2015 IEEE Eindhoven PowerTech. 2015, Eindhoven, Netherlands: IEEE.
    • Pickering T, Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference - COMPDYN 2013: 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Proceedings - An IACM Special Interest Conference. 2013, Kos, Greece: National Technical University of Athens.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S. . In: SECED - Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics Young Engineers Conference – 2013. 2013, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: SECD.
    • Dunn S, Wilkinson S, Fu G, Dawson R. . In: Earth Systems Engineering 2012. 2012, 缅北禁地: Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research, 缅北禁地.
    • Chian SC, Mulyani R, Whittle J, Alarcon JE, Wilkinson SM. . In: 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2010, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.
    • Wilkinson SM, Fowler HJ, Blenkinsop S, Kilsby CG. . In: 9th UK Conference on Wind Engineering. 2010, Bristol University, UK.
    • Bramald T, Wilkinson SM. . In: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. 2009, Austin, Texas, USA: American Society for Engineering Education.
    • Wilkinson S, Henderson NA. . In: 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2008, Beijing, China: International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).
    • Alyami M, Wilkinson SM, Rouainia M, Fei CAI. . In: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering: 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering. 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece.
    • Alyami M, Rouainia M, Wilkinson SM. . In: Electronic Proceedings of the 15th UK Conference of the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering. 2007, Glasgow, UK.
    • Wilkinson SM, Hiley RA. . In: First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. 2007, Geneva, Switzerland.
    • Jones CJFP, Wilkinson SM. . In: International Symposium on Tsunami Reconstruction with Geosynthetics: Protection, Mitigation and Rehabilitation of Coastal and Waterway Erosion Control. 2005, Bangkok, Thailand.
    • Jones CJFP, Wilkinson SM. . In: International Symposium on Tsunami Reconstruction With Geosynthetics. 2005, Bangkok: Asian Center for Soil Improvement and Geosynthetics.
    • Kyakula M, Wilkinson SM. . In: 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2004, Vancouver, Canada.
    • Wilkinson SM, Hiley RA. . In: 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2004, Vancouver, Canada: International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).
    • Kyakula M, Wilkinson SM. . In: World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 2004, Vancouver, Canada.
    • Wilkinson SM, Hiley RA. . In: ASRANet International Colloquium. 2002, Glasgow.
    • Wilkinson SM, Thambiratnam D, Clark B, Williamson M. . In: Eurosteel '99 - European Conference on Steel Structures. 1999, Prague, Czech Republic: CVUT.
    • Wilkinson SM, Thambiratnam D. . In: 7th International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing. 1999, Oxford, England: Civil-Comp Press.

  • Editorial

    • Wilkinson S, Huyck CK, Rossetto T. . Frontiers in Built Environment 2020, 6, 55.

  • Letter

    • Eilstein J, Lereaux G, Arbey E, Daronnat E, Wilkinson S, Duche D. . Experimental Dermatology 2015, 24(7), 547-549.

  • Note

    • Tallett-Williams S, Gosh B, Wilkinson S, Fenton C, Burton P, Whitworth M, Datla S, Franco G, Trieu A, Dejong M, Novelli V, White T, Lloyd T. . Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 2020, 18, 6117.

  • Reports

    • Aktas Y, O'Kane A, Tolga Özden A, Kösker A, Parammal Vatteri A, Durmaz B, Kazantzidou-Firtinidou D, Cotton D, Contreras D, Verruci E, Çabuk E, Sevil Malcioglu F, Ioannou I, Black J, Cels J, Baiguera M, Kontoe M, Asinari M, Ercolino M, Esabalioglou M, Free M, Dermanis P, Burton P, Rostami R, Wilkinson S, Putrino V. . London: Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT), 2021.
    • So E, Babic A, Majetic H, Putrino V, Verrucci E, Contreras D, Rossetto T, Wilkinson S, Keogh C, D'Ayala D. . 缅北禁地, UK: EEFIT, 2020. EEFIT report.
    • Pomonis A, Rossetto T, Wilkinson SM, Del Re D, Peiris N, Koo R, Manlapig R, Gallocher S. . London: Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT), 2006. Earthquake Field Investigation Team Report.