This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
Recently, at the fib symposium 2016 in Cape Town, I presented a paper that I co-authored with a junior colleague, who wrote his first paper. Here is the abstract of the paper: As the bridge stock in The Netherlands and…
I recently presented a paper at the 2016 fib symposium in Cape Town on the shear capacity of the Ruytenschildt Bridge. The abstract of the paper is as follows: In August 2014, the Ruytenschildt Bridge, a reinforced concrete solid slab…
Today, I am hosting James Towers in the "How I Work" series. James holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Nottingham Trent University which he gained in 1996. Since then he has had a varied career…
Today, I am hosting Jephtah Lorch as a guest author. A former CEO, Jephtah Lorch managed technology companies, led growth, expansions and turnarounds. His work with people, scientists and engineers stressed creativity, originality and the need for constant growth and…
Today, I am hosting Dr. Nels Lindahl in the "How I Work" series. Nels, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the author of Graduation with Civic Honors and founder of www.civichonors.com, which advocates development of ways…
We recently published a paper in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering about the collapse test on the Ruytenschildt Bridge and the implications for the flexural assessment of reinforced concrete slab bridges. The abstract of the paper is as follows:A large number…
I recently gave a guest lecture at my alma mater, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. You can also find some photographs of this even on the Facebook page of the group Mechanics of Materials and Constructions. The abstract for the presentation was…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
I recently gave a presentation at IALCCE 2016, the Fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, which was organized in Delft, the Netherlands. We organized a mini-symposium about proof load testing, which I co-chaired with some of my colleagues. The…
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