Resilient Civil Infrastructure Systems (RCIS) Lab

Welcome to the Resilient Civil Infrastructure Systems (RCIS) lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. At RCIS, our goal is to develop methods that minimize the magnitude and duration of disruptions caused by natural hazards to civil infrastructure systems and communities.

Our current research focuses on three key areas: (1) natural hazard modeling, including hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, flooding, ice storms, and tsunamis; (2) infrastructure resilience, encompassing electric power systems, transportation networks, water and wastewater systems, and gas networks; and (3) community resilience. Given the broad and complex nature of these challenges, effectively understanding and managing risks to civil infrastructure and communities require an interdisciplinary approach.

At the RCIS lab, we collaborate closely with researchers in Transportation Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Economics, and Social Science on various projects focused on infrastructure risk assessment and management.

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