Special Session on TRUSS in Portoroz (ESREL 2017)

TRUSS researchers participated at the Symposium titled “TRUSS, A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in Structural Safety”, held as part of the 27th edition of the ESREL (European Safety and Reliability) conference series in Portoroz (Slovenia) from 18th to 22nd June 2017. TRUSS was featured in Room Europa D of Grand Hotel Bernardin on Tuesday 20th from 15:40 to 17:20 and on Wednesday 21st from 14:00 to 17:40.

About 700 professionals were registered to the conference. More than 640 abstracts were submitted to ESREL 2017, which were followed by more than 480 papers. Following review by the technical programme committee consisting of 122 members, 455 papers were selected for publication and presentation at the conference. Amongst them, the following papers were selected to be presented by ESRs within the TRUSS symposium:

• “Reliability-based inspection planning in view of both crack initiation and propagation” by G. Zou (ESR5), K. Banisoleiman and A. Gonzalez. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “A Bayesian Belief Network approach for railway bridge condition monitoring and fault detection” by M. Vagnoli (ESR9), R. Remenyte-Prescott and J. Andrews. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “UPC – Barcelona Tech experience on the use of Rayleigh based distributed optical fiber sensors for SHM of concrete structures” by A. Barrias (ESR11), J.R. Casas, S. Villalba and G. Rodriguez. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Using truck sensors for road pavement performance investigation” by F. Perrotta (ESR13), T. Parry and L.C. Neves. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Pavement condition measurement at high velocity using a TSD” by A. Malekjafarian, D. Martinez Otero (ESR12) and E.J. OBrien. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Evaluation of Hilbert-Huang transformation of transient signals for bridge condition assessment” by J. Moughty (ESR10) and J.R. Casas. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Comparative study on Bayesian updating of bridge safety model” by B. Heitner (ESR8), E.J. OBrien, F. Schoefs, T. Yalamas and C. Leahy. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Field characterization of location-specific dynamic amplification factors towards fatigue calculations in ship unloaders” by G. Milana (ESR6), K. Banisoleiman and A. Gonzalez. Download presentation  -> Read more

• “Reliability assessment of braided BFRP reinforcement for concrete structures” by S. Antonopoulou (ESR1) and C. McNally. Download presentation   -> Read more

• “Structural probabilistic assessment of offshore wind turbine operation based on Kriging response interpolation” by R. Teixeira (ESR4), A. O’Connor, M. Nogal, J. Nichols and M. Spring. Download presentation  -> Read more

• “Tracking deflection in the field using optical system: a case study” by Y. Xu, F. Huseynov (ESR7), J.M.W. Brownjohn, E.J. OBrien and D. Hester. Download presentation  -> Read more
• “The effect of angles and distance on image-based three-dimensional reconstructions” by S. Chen (ESR14), D.F. Laefer, J. Byrne and A.S. Natanzi. Download presentation  -> Read more

• “Post-installed concrete screws for in-situ assessment of mortar strength” by M.S.N. A. Sourav (ESR2), S. Al-Sabah and C. McNally. Download presentation  -> Read more

• “Sensitivity analysis of a finite element model for the seismic analysis of free-standing spent fuel racks” by A. Gonzalez Merino (ESR3), L. Costas and A. Gonzalez. Download presentation  -> Read more

The TRUSS symposium was chaired by the project coordinator, Arturo Gonzalez. Each presentation was allocated 15 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Other TRUSS researchers at the symposium included Luis Costas from Equipos Nucleares (ESR3 supervisor), Maria Nogal from Trinity College Dublin (ESR4 co-supervisor), Frank Schoefs from Universite de Nantes (ESR8 co-supervisor), Rasa Remenyte-Prescott and John Andrews from University of Nottingham (ESR9 supervisors), Joan Ramon Casas from University Politecnica Catalunya (ESR10 and ESR11 supervisor) and Eugene OBrien from University College Dublin (ESR7, ESR8 and ESR12 supervisor).