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 [...]
The 3rd TRUSS ITN training week was held both in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and in University College Dublin (UCD) (Ireland) from Monday 15th to Friday 19th January 2018, both included. In the first two training weeks, the core modules were focused on research (i.e., training in University of Nottingham and in Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya), [...]
TRUSS ESRs and supervisors from WP5 have jointly published a paper on the project overall as well as results to date in each individual project carrying out research on bridges in a major conference on Structural Health Monitoring. The title is 'Structural Health Monitoring Developments in TRUSS Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network', by A. González, F. [...]
By the third consecutive year, TRUSS participated in Science Week Ireland. Again, TRUSS organised an outreach activity together with the UCD School of Civil Engineering and the Willow Park Junior School in Blackrock (Dublin) on the Monday 13th November 2017 from 9.30 am to 11.30 am. The activity targeted 112 nine-years old students in teams of four and five. First, John O'Sullivan (academic [...]
On Wednesday 8th November 2017, the Masters in Civil Engineering at Escuela Politecnica de Mieres (University of Oviedo, Spain), hosted a series of presentations, composed mostly of research projects by students in their last year, as requisite for their Master degree. The event, titled "I Jornadas de Investigacion, Desarrollo e Innovacion en Ingenieria Civil" (JIDIIC2017), was [...]
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 [...]
Rui Teixeira (ESR4) talked about his TRUSS paper titled "Random variables in the Offshore Wind Turbine fatigue reliability design with Kriging surfaces" in the 2nd International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI) that also hosted the 2nd Multi-Lateral Workshop on Fracture and Structural Integrity related Issues in Funchal, the island of Madeira (Portugal) from 4th to 7th September 2017. The paper [...]
On 24th August 2017, the paper titled "Railway bridge structural health monitoring and fault detection: State-of-the-art methods and future challenges" by Matteo Vagnoli (ESR9), and his supervisors Rasa Remenyte-Prescott and John Andrews, came available in the website of SAGE Structural Health Monitoring. The latter falls within the top quartile of journal publications in the mechanical engineering subject. The paper [...]
