Jitendra Agarwal
Senior Lecturer
Department of Engineering
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Jitendra Agarwal is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering at the University of Bristol. His main areas of research are structural safety, non-linear dynamics, civil engineering systems andcomputational methods. He has 25 publications in reputed journals and refereed conferences. Prior to becoming a lecturer in 2002, he designed seismic modifications for nuclear plants while working for WS Atkins. From 1996 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor David Blockley. During this time he developed new approaches to assessing the vulnerability of structures.
Research Interest
His current research on structural safety and nonlinear dynamics has origins in his PhD work and it has been gaining depth and breadth through the continuation of this work, some of which is in collaboration with other members of the systems group and dynamics group. The concept of vulnerability is applicable to all systems whether technical or social; however, recent work has shown that its usage differs. In the short term, he plans to examine the vulnerability of structures to dynamic progressive collapse using the concepts of energy.
Publications
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Liu, M, Agarwal, J & Blockley, DI, 2016, ‘Vulnerability of road networks’. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, vol 33., pp. 147-175
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Zhuang, W & Agarwal, J, 2017, ‘An improved measure of structural vulnerability’. in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability.
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Galvan, G & Agarwal, J, 2017, ‘Community detection in action: identification of critical elements in infrastructure networks’. Journal of Infrastructure Systems.
