TRUSS researchers participated at the Special Session SS-6 titled “TRUSS ITN - Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety”, which is the last network-wide event planned in the grant agreement of the project. The Special Session about TRUSS was held as part of the 6th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering in Ghent (Belgium) from 28th [...]
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 [...]
Following a successful workshop in London, TRUSS liaised with the Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland (CERAI) to host a second workshop in parallel with the Civil and Engineering Research (CERI) conference (29-30 August 2018) chaired by Vikram Pakrashi (UCD). The CERAI was formed for the purpose of promoting civil engineering research and practice [...]
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 [...]
This 4 day course was organised by TRUSS and designed by DCM learning to give ESRs a fast track introduction to the skills that are required to work effectively while managing projects of all sizes. By submitting the final written assignment due in six weeks after the last training day, ESRs will receive the [...]
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 [...]
