Technology transfer, horizontal, integrated and holistic approaches
Smart solutions for sustainable marine and onshore infrastructure and environment
Research, education and industry working together
“We aim to promote and develop world class research and education and facilitate industry uptake of safe and effective critical infrastructure development and operation through smart, proactive, integrated solutions using emerging technologies and life cycle management. Emphasis on energy, marine technology, offshore, coastal and onshore infrastructure, safety and environment.”
Modes of operation and areas of interest
The SmartEN Initiative brings together academia, industry and government in a collaborative, integrated and innovative way through a multi-disciplinary and multi-modal framework of operation.
ENERGY
The ocean space offers significant opportunities and challenges for the energy sector where increasing exploitation of both offshore oil and gas and renewable resources is expected to play a major part in global economy.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The development of smart solutions for infrastructure reliability and management with emphasis on proactive management and life cycle optimization is of major importance for the existing ageing population of infrastructure…
SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
Increasing development and exploitation of ocean space through offshore and coastal infrastructure developments and operations as well as natural and other threats create major safety challenges and environmental…


Techniques & Applications
Research, education and industry working together
TECHNIQUES
Techniques include:
- Numerical modelling and analysis
- Advanced structural analysis
- Monitoring/measurements
- Sensors & signal processing
- Data analytics
- Robotics
- Risk analysis
- Reliability analysis
- Probabilistic modelling
- Baysian updating
- Genetic algorithms
- System reliability analysis
- Whole life costing
- Optimisation methods

APPLICATIONS
Applications to offshore, coastal and onshore infrastructures and environment in:
- Design and optimisation
- Integrity management
- Life extension studies
- Life cycle management
- Multi-objective optimisation
- Smart proactive management
- Safety, security, health and environmental
- Environmental monitoring and protection
- Autonomous systems
- Holistic asset management
- Strategic planning and implementation
- Sustainability
Development & Integration of: Advanced, emerging and developing technologies
Optimisation of: Performance, cost, safety, security, environment
Achieve: Better whole life value
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