Dr John Douglas, University of Strathclyde

Industrial Fellowships 2022

A key input into the design and assessment process for civil engineering infrastructure is a mathematical model of the ground motions that could be expected in nearby future earthquakes. Benefiting from close and long-standing collaborations between Dr Douglass and his industry partner, Jacobs, this project will develop a UK ground-motion model using a method called the backbone hybrid stochastic-empirical method. Over the past decade, this has been increasingly used in the nuclear sector and enables epistemic uncertainties to be transparently and rigorously captured. The model will be compared to UK ground-motion observations and to other models developed in recent studies. The implications of this model for UK seismic hazard prediction will also be investigated. Finally, the model will be disseminated in various forms so that it can be easily used in practice. 

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www.strath.ac.uk/staff/douglasjohndr/ 

www.linkedin.com/in/john-douglas-7331191b8 

www.gmpe.org.uk 

Professor Jason Hallett