Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Helen Kara who wrote a guest post in which she highlights some elements of her recently published book on creative research methods. Helen has been an independent researcher and writer for the last…
It's my pleasure to announce the publication (online, ahead of print) of the second paper in the Magazine of Concrete Research. You can access the article online.The abstract is as follows:The long-standing problem of shear in structural concrete elements is…
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…
We recently published a paper in Engineering Structures based on the work from Chapter 6 of my dissertation, titles: "Proposal for the extension of the Eurocode shear formula for one-way slabs under concentrated loads".The abstract is as follows:A large number…
Last December, a study day was organized on the topic of the proofloading of the Ruytenschildt bridge in Friesland, in which I participated. As my interest is the ultimate limit state capacity of reinforced concrete slab bridges, I was involved…
I recently gave a lecture at ESPOL, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador. The topic of the presentation was "Extending the service life of existing bridge", covering three topics: 1. Improved calculation methods 2. Improved inspection methods 3. Improved…
Last summer, I spent a week helping out with the load testing of a bridge in the North of the Netherlands, in Friesland. Prior to that, I spent a couple of months making predictions of the capacity of the bridge…
It's with pleasure and pride that I announce today that we have published a paper in the Magazine of Concrete Research. It's already available ahead of print on the MoCR website.This paper is based on a part of the second…
For IABSE 2014, I published the first paper about the theoretical work about the Modified Bond Model from my dissertation. The abstract of the paper is: The shear problem is typically studied by testing small, heavily reinforced, slender beams subjected…
Today we have a second post on academic schedules, this time by Karra Shimabukuro. Karra is a PhD student in British and Irish Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on how folkloric characters are represented…
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