Sofia Antonopoulou (ESR1) and Siyuan Chen (ESR14) supported the Communication Office of DG Research & Innovation at their Horizon 2020 stand in the EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) 2018 on Sunday 16 September session, held in RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. This is an event open to the public, which allowed the stand to be visited by [...]
The 3rd annual plenary meeting of TRUSS was hosted by UCD on 28th and 29th August 2018. The agenda included the delivery of 2nd TRUSS Workshop in UCD Sutherland School of Law during the 29th (Information on the Workshop can be found here) and the Supervisory and Management Board meetings held in UCD School of [...]
Following the collapse of the Genoa bridge, Matteo Vagnoli (ESR9) was interviewed again by Casentino più, this time by Christian Bigiarini - magazine director, for their 2018 August issue, this time about artificial intelligence and structural health monitoring. The article, titled "Tragedy of Genoa, Eng. Matteo Vagnoli: the future is artificial intelligence". An English translation [...]
On 16th May 2018, the paper titled "The Feasibility of Using Laser Doppler Vibrometer Measurements from a Passing Vehicle for Bridge Damage Detection" by Daniel Martinez (ESR12), his supervisor Eugene OBrien, and Abdollah Malekjafarian, came available in the website of Shock and Vibration. The paper is open access and can be downloaded at the DOI link of the publisher's website [...]
TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers competition is the largest competition for Young Researchers in Europe for the transport industry and takes place every two years. The best final year and PhD students in Europe compete with each other. This year's winners were selected out of 169 young researchers from 56 different European universities that [...]
This paper serves as a complement to the joint paper on TRUSS progress in bridge engineering already reported in SHMII-8. Here TRUSS ESRs and supervisors deal with TRUSS progress on infrastructure research other than bridges (i.e., braided FRP, concrete, nuclear racks, wind turbine towers, ships and ship unloaders and pavements). The title is 'Contributions [...]
On 26th March 2018, Antonio Barrias (ESR11) published the paper titled "Embedded Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors in Reinforced Concrete Structures—A Case Study" together with his supervisors Joan Ramon Casas and Sergi Villalba, as part of the Special Issue Optical Fiber Sensors 2017 in Sensors, an original peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of Physical Sensing. This paper is open access [...]
On 6th March 2018, the paper titled "On the suitability of the generalized Pareto to model extreme waves" by Rui Teixeira (ESR4) and his supervisors Maria Nogal and Alan O'Connor got published online in the website of the Journal of Hydraulic Research. The latter falls within the top quartile of journal publications in the civil and [...]
Science Impact Magazine (www.impact.pub) has published a 3-page article about TRUSS featuring interviews to Federico Perrota (ESR13) and Arturo Gonzalez (coordinator) in the 2018 March issue. The latter features content from world’s leading research agencies, policy groups, universities and research projects with an editorial focus on ETN's / ITN’s within materials research, highlighting training and development [...]
On 23rd February 2018, the paper titled "Application of distributed optical fiber sensors for the health monitoring of two real structures in Barcelona" by Antonio Barrias (ESR11), Gerardo Rodriguez, and his supervisors Joan Ramon Casas and Sergi Villalba got published online in the website of the Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance. The [...]
