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I-RISK - solutions for dealing with natural hazards

I-RISK is a community project focusing on natural gravity hazards: landslides, blockfalls, mudflows, torrential floods.

I-RISK is also :

  • A working and exchange community conducive to the development of R&D projects
  • A Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) platform serving economic players and local authorities
  • Services and innovation in the field of natural hazards

The I-RISK community is made up of economic, technical and scientific players. This community is set to grow, with the aim of creating a collaborative dynamic. All types of establishments (design offices, companies or research organizations) working in the field of natural hazards are welcome, provided they share our values and objectives.

Currently involved in I-RISK: Geolithe, Geophyconsult, GINP, INDURA, INRAe, INSA Lyon, Tenevia, UGA, USMB

I-RISK services and expertise

Three main application markets stand out:

  1. Reducing natural gravity hazards: risk prevention, protection of people and infrastructure.
  2. Sustainability of mountain facilities in the face of climate change: detection, monitoring and surveillance of destabilization of transport and civil engineering infrastructures in high mountains
  3. Monitoring of major power generation facilities, which are naturally subject to hydro-gravitational hazards (flooding, heavy torrential flooding, rockfalls).

I-RISK offers a wide range of services to meet these needs, from field characterization to numerical modeling of countermeasures, as well as site investigation using appropriate innovative tools and unparalleled experimental resources.

I-RISK focuses on three main themes:

  1. Monitoring, measurement, detection
  2. Physical experimentation
  3. Numerics: analysis and modeling

Download our communication brochure: it presents some of the services we offer.

Join I-RISK 

  • By strengthening the links between research organizations and companies, I-RISK is conducive to the creation of collaborative projects between research and industry.
  • This community is the ideal place to bring together the skills needed to complete your innovation development project.
  • I-RISK encourages feedback from the operational world, in particular through the thematic events it organizes.

 

  • I-RISK organizes themed events to showcase its expertise, raise awareness of operational issues and meet the various players involved in natural hazards.
  • Increase your organization's visibility with our communication tools:
    • Newsletter
    • Website
    • Social networking
  • I-RISK federates a variety of complementary initiatives around a common theme to create a coherent offering of research and technological services throughout the region.
  • I-RISK is working on consolidating a modular academics offering in the field of natural gravity hazards, with the aim of increasing the skills of the entire community.
  • I-RISK members are ready to organize customized training courses on request: please contact us.

USMB in I-RISK

USMB, which has been involved in I-RISK since its inception, is deeply committed to its operation, notably through its EDYTEM laboratory. The university is planning to strengthen its laboratory facilities, with a view to increasing its cooperation with institutions operating and requesting services in the field of natural gravity hazards.

Edytem is now equipped with:

Dynamics linked to the alpine cryosphere (glacier and permafrost) and torrential floods, which often start in the high mountains, occur in areas that are difficult to access. Tracking their evolution, against a backdrop of climate change which tends to modify the phenomena and their impacts, is a major challenge for the safety of people, infrastructures and related economic activities, particularly tourism.

The development of innovative, non-intrusive systems for measuring and monitoring surface changes (movement, flow, volume variations), based on image analysis in difficult environments, overcomes this constraint. It relies on the acquisition of remote imaging equipment (cameras, long-range LiDAR, image analysis devices, etc.) to continuously produce the high-resolution, high-frequency data needed to prevent and forecast risks linked to the spatio-temporal evolution of high-mountain environments.

The monitoring tool, developed in partnership with TENEVIA, a company specializing in the measurement of environmental variables using image processing, gives operators access to an innovative decision-making tool.

This instrumental platform enables the study of surface and deep water flows in 3D using non-intrusive auscultation methods. The solution combines three specific methods

  1. and electrical resistivity techniques,
  2. spontaneous potential method,
  3. magnetoresistivity method.

There are two main areas of application:

  • detection of leaks and internal erosion in dikes and dams;
  • mapping of preferential flow zones associated with permafrost evolution linked to climate forcing: this innovative method will help identify the risks of destabilization of high-altitude infrastructures.

The USMB also dedicates one person to leading the I-RISK community, thus developing a working and exchange environment conducive to the development of R&D projects.

How can I join I-RISK?

Would you like to propose innovative solutions, gain access to cutting-edge resources and equipment in the field of natural hazards and/or take part in a collaborative dynamic conducive to the development of R&D projects?

Contact our Project Manager, Margot BERNARD: m.bernard@indura.fr

Upcoming events

I-RISK regularly organizes discussion and exchange days on the subject of gravity risks.

Event : A day of reflection and discussion on the evolution of avalanches and the vulnerability of structures to this risk.