STORMLAMP – STructural behaviour Of Rock Mounted Lighthouses At the Mercy of imPulsive waves

Update: 23 March 2020: In accordance with UK government advice and UCL's response to coronavirus (COVID-19), we have re-planned this event as a digital Webinar to be held on Zoom.

Update: 11 May 2020: We have now reached digital capacity for the Webinar. We would love for you to join us via the livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Nm5Cke2fRQ

A recording of the workshop will be available to watch after the event on the UCL EPICentre YouTube channel.

The purpose of the virtual event is to mark the end of the STORMLAMP research project. The event will involve presentations on lighthouse research and relevant areas from academics, heritage professionals and industry stakeholders. There will also be discussions on future directions for related research.

THE EVENT IS FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Joining the webinar:

The webinar will be held via Zoom and broadcast on YouTube.

Details for joining will be sent out to everyone who has signed up via Eventbrite the day before the meeting.

YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/4Nm5Cke2fRQ

If you have any problems registering or accessing the event please email eve.allen@ucl.ac.uk

Programme:

Wednesday 13th May 2020, 13:30 – 16:00 (BST).

13:30 – 14:00 will be a soft start, to chat and resolve any connection issues. If we have time we will show part of the films for ‘Engineering Plymouth’ and ‘Stormlamp: Protecting our lighthouses for the safety of mariners’.

Talks will begin at 14:00.

Professor Alison Raby (STORMLAMP Project PI, University of Plymouth)

> Introduction to STORMLAMP

Tom Nancollas (Building conservationist and author of Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet)

> Tom will speak on his experiences of research, writing and publishing his book Seashaken Houses

Rob Dorey (Trinity House)

> Rob Dorey will speak on why STORMLAMP’s research is important to the UK and Irish General Lighthouse Authorities.

Professor Dina D’Ayala (University College London)

> Crests and Throughs: the survival of Victorian lighthouses to extreme wave impact

The talk will provide an overview of the evolution of lighthouse design from earlier examples in the 17th and 18th century to the iconic and enduring solution reached in the 19th century, which has become the standard of construction for rock mounted lighthouses affected by extreme wave loading.

William Allsop (William Allsop Consulting, formerly Technical Director for Maritime Structures at HR Wallingford. Current PhD candidate at University of Edinburgh)

> Predicting safety of (old) vertical walls – the development of understanding and prediction methods

Professor Paul Tayor (Oceans Graduate School, University of Western Australia)

> Towers without rocks - wave loads on offshore wind turbines

For waves hitting offshore wind turbine columns, a simple description is given for the main load distributed up the height of the immersed structure. For breaking waves, an extra ‘slam’ occurs high up. Both are discussed.

Michel Cousquer (Cerema)

> Scientific community to rescue La Jument and l'Ile Vierge lighhouses

Discussion:

Key areas for discussion:

-Which disciplines/stakeholders have an interest in maritime structures and why?

-Avenues for future research and commencing an interdisciplinary proposal?

-Implications for other heritage structures on the coast?

-What socio-economic aspects didn’t we address in STORMLAMP?

The STORMLAMP Project:

The STORMLAMP project is a comprehensive EPSRC-funded project focusing on the structural response of rock mounted lighthouses to wave loading. The 4 year project commenced in May 2016 and is a unique collaboration between University of Plymouth, University of Exeter and University College London. It has worked closely with the UK and Irish General Lighthouse Authorities (Trinity House, Irish Lights and the Northern Lighthouse Board) and other industry partners (AECOM, HR Wallingford, Atkins and the Environment Agency).

The project has entailed: fieldwork to characterise structural behaviour of the lighthouses and associated long-term monitoring of their response to being impacted by waves; experimental testing to characterise the wave impacts in the Plymouth COAST Laboratory Ocean Basin alongside CFD modelling; and detailed structural assessment of historic lighthouses modelled following an in-depth study of original nineteenth century drawings.

https://stormlamp.org.uk/

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Professor Alison Raby, STORMLAMP, University of PlymouthPrincipal Investigator for STORMLAMP and Professor in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering), University of Plymouth.

Professor Dina D’Ayala, STORMLAMP, University College LondonProfessor of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London. She is head of Civil Engineering and Co-Director of the Earthquake and People Interaction Centre, EPICentre. She is a director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineers and Fellow of the ICE.

Tom Nancollas, Building conservationist and author of Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet.

Born in Gloucester in 1988, Tom Nancollas is a writer and building conservationist based in London. After university, he joined English Heritage to work on church repair grants before moving on to the City of London and its historic townscape. Of Cornish ancestry, Tom maintained a love of seascapes during his work in the capital and became fascinated with offshore rock lighthouses, finding in them a new way of looking at buildings, heritage and, unexpectedly, family.

Rob Dorey, Trinity House

William Allsop

William Allsop founded William Allsop Consulting in 2017 having worked at HR Wallingford for 48 years as Technical Director for Maritime Structures. He has served on ICE Maritime Board, PIANC working groups, and contributed to PIANC, BSI, ISO and ICE working groups, the Rock Manual, Revetment and Exposed Jetties Manuals, and revisions to the BS6349. In 2014, he was appointed an Honorary Professor at University College London, previously Visiting Professor at Southampton, Sheffield, Belfast, and UTM. He is currently a PhD student at University of Edinburgh writing my thesis on: OLD BRITISH BREAKWATERS – HOW HAS HISTORY INFLUENCED THEIR SURVIVAL? – sections of which are appearing in ICE Forensic Engineering, Maritime Engineering, and Engineering History.

Professor Paul Taylor, Oceans Graduate School, University of Western Australia

Michel Cousquer, CEREMA

Michel Cousquer has been working for 15 years at Cerema which is the technical partner for the French Aids to Navigation authorities. He currently is the Maritime Safety Project Manager and he also has been the vice-chairman of the IALA ENG committee since 2018.

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