FOCUS AREAS

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The infrastructure2 research group comprises the following areas of international research strength:

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- Optimum maintenance strategies for RC bridges
- Structural reliability and risk assessment
- Proactive health monitoring and integration with reliability-            based maintenance optimization
- Life-cycle cost optimisation for maintenance of deteriorating        infrastructure
- Monitoring based maintenance
- Structural health monitoring
- Corrosion of infrastructure (reinforced concrete structures)
- Performance, durability and reliability of structural members
- Sustainability issues for structures 

TEAM & RESOURCES

Coordinator
Elia A. Tantele
Assistant Professor , DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEOMATICS CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
http://www.cut.ac.cy/ceg/staff/elected//elia.tantele

Researchers:
Post – doctoral fellows:

Renos Votsis 2010- to date
https://www.cut.ac.cy/faculties/fet/ceg/staff/renos.votsis/?languageId=1

Ph.D. Students (primary supervisor):
Georgia Savva Sept 2020
PhD thesis: Health and Safety in the construction industry of Cyprus using Reliability/Risk techniques

Research Students: Current / Previous BEng / MSc students.


- Corrosion measurements equipments: CANIN, Corrosion Analysing Instrument; Gecor 6, Rebar Corrosion Rate      Determination System; Profoscope -Rebar Detector and Covermeter; GSSI StructureScan Mini
- FE Modelling: ANSYS
- Reliability software: RELIAN; StruRel: SYSREL Symbolic 9.6, COMREL T1+TV Symbolic 8.1; @RISK 
- Dynamic testing/Data acquisition system: KYOWA PCD-330B-F-Sensor Interface, LORD wireless sensing unit
- Data/Signals Post-Processing Analysis: KYOWA, DCS-100A Dynamic data recording software; ICATS: Modent;      DASYLab; SPICE; RT-Pro Software; ARTeMIS; FEM Tools
- Fluke Thermal Imager
- Sensors: LVDT; Accelerometers; Wind sensors; Thermocouples; Strain gauge; Wireless sensor nodes 

PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

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Overall Coordinator: Dr. Elia A. Tantele

PPREM_ISES
The project “UNIFIED PERFORMANCE PREDICTION MODEL FOR STRUCTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURES INCORPORATING DIVERSE MONITORING DATA” (acronym PPREM_ISES), is a RPF project under the Sustainable development programme, ΑΕΙΦΟΡΙΑ/ΑΣΤΙ/0311(ΒΙΕ).
Total Budget: 145,000
Duration: 2012-2015  

Maintenance, monitoring, reliability and optimisation, comprises the following areas of international research strength:

- Monitoring based maintenance
- Structural health monitoring
- Corrosion of infrastructure (reinforced concrete structures)
- Performance, durability and reliability of structural members
- Structural reliability and risk assessment
- Life-cycle cost optimisation for maintenance of deteriorating infrastructure
- Sustainability issues for structures

Our Contacts

Cyprus University of Technology

Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics
Dr Elia A Tantele
Research Group Director 

Phone:

Tel. +357 25 002523
Fax. +357 25002769

Address

Achilleos 1 Building, 1st Floor
2-8 Saripolou Street, 3036 Lemesos, Cyprus

Contacts

Tel. +357 25 002523
Fax. +357 25002769
[email protected]

Achilleos 1 Building, 1st Floor
2-8 Saripolou Street, 3036 Lemesos, Cyprus

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