The brochure provides a summary of the objectives of each individual research project in addition to the overall goals of TRUSS ITN. A printed leaflet of this file will be distributed in local events targeting a general audience, such as "Open Days" held by the Universities participating in the consortium, and at national workshops and international symposia. Below, you [...]
Three Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) were present in European conferences organised jointly at the Euskalduna Conference Center in Bilbao (Spain) from 5th to 8th July 2016. António Barrias (ESR11) and JJ Moughty (ESR10) from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and Matteo Vagnoli (ESR9) from University of Nottingham attended the 8th European Workshop on Civil Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2016) and the 3th European [...]
ESR14, Siyuan Chen, participated in the organisation of the free event "Fly Scan Print" by U3D that took place on the Wednesday 22nd June 2016. Most of visitors were aged from 18 to 30, with a majority of college students. Also some parents brought their children to enjoy the activity. There was at least 150 people that attended the exhibition [...]
The annual plenary meeting of TRUSS was hosted by ENSA in their premises of Maliaño (Cantabria, Spain), on the Thursday 16th and Friday 17th June 2016. The agenda included a range of activities described below. Management and Supervisory Board meetings where the project coordinator (Dr. Arturo Gonzalez) reviewed progress in all Work Packages, financial matters [...]
Four Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two main supervisors from TRUSS attended the 6th workshop on Civil Structural Health Monitoring (CHMS-6). António Barrias (ESR11) and JJ Moughty (ESR10) from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Farhad Huseynov (ESR7) and Prof. James Brownjohn from Full Scale Dynamics and Daniel Martínez Otero (ESR12) and Prof. Eugene OBrien from University College Dublin met with other [...]
On the 23rd May 2016, Antonio Barrias (ESR11) published the paper titled "A Review of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors for Civil Engineering Applications" together with his supervisors Joan Ramon Casas and Sergi Villalba, in the Physical Section of Sensors, an original peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of Physical Sensing. This paper is open access and available for download [...]
Federico Perrotta (ESR13) together with his supervisor Dr Tony Parry attended the Microlise Transport Conference 2016 which took place on the 18th May at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK. The conference received more than 1,000 delegates in a 6,000 m2 space for both the conference and exhibition areas, from which 4,000 m2 were exhibition space [...]
All 14 TRUSS Early Stage Researchers have now launched their individual blogs that are being updated on a continuous basis. Blogging is employed here to disseminate and maximize the impact of each research project; to reach the general public and other researchers by sharing experiences and information and; to promote discussion via the comments section or the personal [...]
Guang Zou (ESR5) and Giulia Milana (ESR6) are attending the course on "Theory of Structural Reliability" imparted at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Imperial College London. The course is delivered via a combination of lectures and tutorials from 25 Jan to 21 Mar 2016 (2pm-5pm every Monday). Dr Peter Stafford, senior lecturer in Imperial College, covers the former 7 [...]
In March 2016, UPC Barcelona welcomed members of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for Day 2 of their 2016 summit meeting, with Day 1 having been held in Helsinki, Finland. TRUSS ESR's, JJ Moughty (ESR10) and António Barrias (ESR11), attended the summit meeting in UPC., which dealt with the theme of Global Risk [...]
