Dr Farook Kalendher completed his PhD at RMIT University in 2017. His research investigated the resilience of bridges during natural disasters, particularly during floods. Farook 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.