On Friday 22nd March 2019, Farhad Huseynov (ESR7) became the fifth TRUSS ESR in successfully defending his doctoral thesis in front of an examination panel appointed by the Postgraduate Committee at University College Dublin (UCD). The thesis, titled “Bridge Condition Assessment Methods Using Rotation Measurements”, was supervised by Prof. Eugene OBrien from UCD, Dr. David [...]
On Tuesday 19th March 2019, Daniel Martínez (ESR12) became the fourth TRUSS ESR in successfully defending his doctoral thesis in front of an examination panel appointed by the Postgraduate Committee at University College Dublin (UCD), composed by Prof. Francis Au (External Examiner from the University of Hong Kong), Dr. Daniel McCrum (Internal Examiner from UCD), and Associate Prof. Amanda Gibney [...]
On Tuesday 12th March 2019, Rui Teixeira (ESR4) became the third TRUSS ESR in successfully defending his doctoral thesis in front of an examination panel appointed by the Postgraduate Committee at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and composed by Prof. Sebastian Thöns (External Examiner from Denmark Technical University), Prof. Dermot O'Dwyer (Internal Examiner from TCD), and Dr. [...]
on 23rd January 2019, Guang Zou (ESR5) became the second TRUSS ESR in successfully defending his doctoral thesis in front of an examination panel appointed by the Postgraduate Committee at University College Dublin (UCD). The thesis, titled "Probabilistic Methods for Life Cycle Management of Steel Structures under Fatigue" and directed by Dr. Kian Banisoleiman from [...]
on 5th November 2018, Antonio Barrias (ESR11) became the first TRUSS ESR in defending his doctoral thesis in front of a jury appointed by the Doctoral Committee of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). The thesis, titled "Development of optical fibre distributed sensing for the structural health monitoring of bridges and large scale structures" and directed by Prof. Dr. [...]
All TRUSS ESRs are enrolled in a PhD programme at one of the academic beneficiaries. Therefore, in addition to the research, training and dissemination activities related to TRUSS, they must meet a number of requirements before submitting their PhD thesis for assessment. The pictures in this post show Barbara Heitner (ESR8), Farhad Huseynov (ESR7), Alberto Gonzalez (ESR3), Daniel [...]
Four TRUSS ESRs (Farhad Huseynov (ESR7), Matteo Vagnoli (ESR9), JJ Moughty (ESR10) and Antonio Barrias (ESR11)) joined an intensive three‐week programme of coursework, lectures, laboratory exercises and exciting non‐academic activities in vibrant city Yokohama that took place between the 17th July and 4th August 2017. The programme is known as the Asian-Pacific-Euro Summer School (APESS), and it is opened [...]
From the first training weeek, TRUSS has encouraged team work amongst ESRs. Network-wide events have served to promote cooperative learning by making ESRs to work in groups towards providing solutions to a specific case study or meeting the aim of a particular module. Ultimately, ESRs get used to work together and to combine their individual strengths to deliver a superior [...]
ESRs in TRUSS are working on novel and advanced theoretical models that will reduce uncertainty in structural safety. However, these models need to be throughly tested on the field before they come standard in engineering practise. When the structures to be tested have the large scale of a bridge and the algorithm needs availability of long data records, [...]
As part of the secondment activities, the ESR is commonly asked to give a presentation about his research to local staff to share ideas and to promote discussion and further collaborations. This is the case of Federico Perrotta (ESR13), who gave a talk titled "MIRAVEC and Machine Learning: two different approaches to road asset management" in TRL (Transport Research [...]
