Dr Farook Kalendher’s research investigated the resilience of bridges during natural hazards, particularly during floods. He identified that bridges have a
major impact on resilience of road infrastructure and damage to bridges can increase the vulnerability of communities that heavily rely on road infrastructure.
To address this issue, Farook developed a methodology to derive structural vulnerability models for bridge structures and determine vulnerable structures in road networks.
Farook is currently a Research Fellow at RMIT University and a Research Agent at VicRoads.
His thesis is available here.