In the latest issue of the ACI Structural Journal, the discussion and authors' closure of the very first journal paper about my research was published.This publication marks the end of a process that started long ago, in the Fall of…
Depending on your institution's guidelines, you will either finish your PhD by having a number of papers accepted for publication, or by writing a "big book"-style thesis.This post is entirely aimed at those of us who spend months on end…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Scheg to share her views on the unique type of writing that is dissertation writing. Dr. Abigail Scheg is an Assistant Professor of English at Elizabeth City State University and an Adjunct…
If you are the type of linear writer like me, you will typically start your paper from the abstract, then the "Introduction", and on and on - all the way down to the "Summary and Conclusions."When you start proofreading your…
Today, I once more have the pleasure of hosting Nicole K.S. Barker in the writers' lab. Nicole is a Ph.D. student at Laval University in Québec, Canada, working with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Boreal Avian Modelling Project. While technically…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Nicole K.S. Barker in the writers' lab. Nicole is a Ph.D. student at Laval University in Québec, Canada, working with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Boreal Avian Modelling Project. While technically a Forestry…
I recently presented a paper at the 1st International Conference on Concrete Sustainability in Tokyo, Japan. The next edition will be in Madrid, in 2016. The abstract of my paper is: A large number of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges…
Whenever I hear a fellow PhD student tell me that he/she has nothing to write a conference paper about, I get a little antsy.While the main chunk of your research might not be ready yet, that doesn't mean you have…
At the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, I've presented in the session of "Topics in Concrete Bridges". You can find the slides of my presentation here: Assessment of the Shear Capacity of Existing Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab…
Our paper "Spreiding puntlasten plaatviaducten" in the Dutch magazine "Cement" has been nominated as 1 of the 6 papers that might make it as paper of the year.You can find the announcement here.Voting goes on this page. It'd be super…
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