The 2nd TRUSS ITN training week was held in Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) (Spain) from Monday 16th to Friday 20th January 2017. All fourteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) received training in core and specialist research modules, team activities and research seminars as per table below. Additionally, four postgraduate researchers and five lecturers external to TRUSS attended modules of [...]
In page 3 of the Technical News issue 100 (January 2017) by Arup Ireland, it is possible find an article about TRUSS mid-term review at Arup. The article is written by Dr. Salam Al-Sabah, who reports on the mid-term review meeting held in Arup’s Dublin Office over two days at the beginning of December 2016. The meeting was attended by [...]
Siyuan Chen (ESR14) has published the paper titled "State of Technology Review of Civilian UAVs" together with his supervisors Debra F. Laefer and Eleni Mangina, in Recent Patents on Engineering. The highlights of the paper are as follows: Background: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology has exploded in recent years. Presently UAVs are beginning to be major in roads [...]
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) held an Open Day on Saturday, 10th December 2016, from 9 am to 3.30 pm. The Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering had a stand at this event, where TRUSS ITN was represented by the early stage researcher, Rui Teixeira, hosted by that same institution. Rui distributed TRUSS brochures to the attendants, explained the objectives of [...]
Nationwide is a television programme shown in Ireland each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at 19:00. Produced by RTÉ Cork, and broadcast on RTÉ One for around 30 minutes, it is presented by Anne Cassin and Mary Kennedy. On the Friday 9th December, Anne Casin refers to how "unfortunately women continue to be under-represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and [...]
Secondments often provide an opportunity of exposing Early Stage Researchers to other projects. When on secondment at Greenwood Engineering in Denmark, Daniel Martinez Otero (ESR12), had the chance to attend 2016 ROSE workshop: "Green Road Infrastructure", from 11 am to 5 pm on the 24th and from 9 am to 1 pm on the 25th November. The workshop was [...]
Here, our ESR 8, Barbara Heitner, reports on her findings to the research community using two different means of presentation: a poster in an international conference and a sequence of slides in a seminar held locally. Barbara had the chance to present a poster at the Ninth International Conference on Bridges in Danube Basin, where she is from. [...]
The journalist Eugenio Milizia interviewed ESR9, Matteo Vagnoli, at the beginning of August 2016, for Casentino Più, a mainstream monthly Italian magazine. In the interview, Matteo spoke about TRUSS, the objectives of his research and his future goals. The interview has now been published in the October issue of “Casentino più” magazine under the gold list Section in an article titled "Excellencies, the [...]
Sofia Antonopoulou (ESR1) is carrying out sophisticated finite element modelling to gather a better understanding of the impact of braided FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) on reinforced concrete. For this purpose, she attended a specialised course on how to model composite materials using Abaqus finite element software in Vienna (Austria) from the 5th to the 7th [...]
With 119 full peer-reviewed technical papers, 5 keynote papers and over 180 delegates registered for the Civil Engineering Research in Ireland 2016 (CERI2016) conference, this edition, held in the Engineering Building at National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway, on 29th and 30th August, has been the largest in the conference series to date. The event counted [...]
