tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83403261328992170512024-03-22T04:04:20.478+01:00ESR11 Development of optical fibre distributed sensing for SHM of bridges and large scale structuresAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587978269540510940noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340326132899217051.post-60089731959385768482018-08-07T19:06:00.000+02:002018-08-07T19:06:26.835+02:00Attendance and presentation at IABMAS 2018 and 7WCSCM <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first one was the 9th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (<a href="http://iabmas2018.org/" target="_blank">IABMAS 2018</a>). This is a conference held every two years, that brings together some of the world's highest authorities in bridge monitoring and maintenance both from industry and academia. As some of you may recall, I had participated in the previous edition of this conference in Foz do Iguazu, Brazil back in June 2016 as I wrote about it in this blog <a href="http://esr11truss.blogspot.com/2016/07/attendance-of-iabmas-2016-at-foz-do.html" target="_blank">post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time, this conference was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in the amazing city of Melbourne, Australia between</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> July 9-13.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this conference, I had the chance to present a paper entitled "Performance analysis of distributed optical fiber bonding adhesives to concrete" where I described some results of a laboratory experiment conducted last winter in UPC's structural technology laboratory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a great event where I was able to get to know some of the most interesting and innovative research being conducted currently in the field of bridge monitoring and the people behind that research. For those of you interested in attending the <a href="http://www.iabmas2020.org/" target="_blank">next edition</a> of IABMAS conference, it will be held in Sapporo, Japan between June 28 and July 3 of 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second conference was the 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (<a href="http://www.7wcscm.com/Data/List/Welcome" target="_blank">7WCSCM</a>) which was held between July 22-25 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Qingdao, China. This conference is held every four years and organized within the Internationa Association for Structural Control and Monitoring (IACSM). In fact, the last edition of this conference was held precisely in Barcelona in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this conference, I was also able to present a conference paper, this time with the title: "Long-term reliability assessment of OBR based DOFS on reinforced concrete elements".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, this conference was held together with the <a href="http://www.7wcscm.com/Data/List/APESS2018" target="_blank">APESS edition</a> of this year which was held between Qingdao and Harbin in China. As some of you might recall, I had participated in last year's APESS at Yokohama National University in Japan as I described in this <a href="http://esr11truss.blogspot.com/2017/09/apess17-summer-school-attendance-in.html" target="_blank">post</a>, together with three of my fellow TRUSS ESRs. In this way, it was very pleasant to see several known faces and reconnect with them after this year.</span></div>
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the Shandong High-speed Jiaozhou Bay Bridge which has a total of 41.58 Km
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is all from me now, and stay tuned for more posts as I get close to the end of my project within TRUSS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know it's been quite some time since I posted something but these have been incredibly busy months of my PhD project. Fortunately, everything is on track and now I've finally found some time to write again on this blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />In this way, today I'm going to write to you about two extremely exciting conferences that I had the pleasure to attend last September and where I presented some of the results obtained during the conduction of my project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first one was <a href="http://www.eurodyn2017.it/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Eurodyn 2017 - X International conference on structural dynamics</span></a>, that was held at the magnificent <a href="https://www.uniroma1.it/it/pagina-strutturale/home" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sapienza University of Rome</span></a> in Italy between the 10 and 13 of September.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was an extremely pleasant event which I had the chance to share with my fellow ESRs JJ Moughty (ESR 10) and Giulia Milana (ESR 6) as well as both other acquaintances from previous conferences and workshops and new colleagues that I got to meet and exchange experiences and ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second conference was the <a href="http://www.iabse2017.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">39th IABSE Symposium</span></a> at the beautiful city of Vancouver in Canada between the 21 and 23 of September.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've written before in this blog about <a href="http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/IABSE_Association/IABSE/association/About.aspx?hkey=a1591c9e-444d-4b65-adef-de743165577c" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">IABSE</span></a> (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering) which is one of the most important and active associations related with all aspects of structural engineering.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this post, I will write about an extremely exciting and enriching activity in which I participated for three weeks. I'm talking about the 2017 edition of the Asia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APESS) that took place at the Yokohama National University in Japan between July 17th and August 4th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this event, together with my colleagues ESR7 (Farhad Huseynov), ESR9 (Matteo Vagnoli) and ESR10 (JJ Moughty), I attended three-week lectures given by experts in civil engineering, structural dynamics and control, smart structures technology and structural health monitoring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was the tenth edition of this summer school, being that the first edition was held in 2008 in KAIST South Korea and the last edition held at Cambridge University, U.K. in 2016. Other editions of this summer school were held in different locations including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the U.S., the University of Tokyo in Japan, Tongji University in China, Indian Institute of Science in India and the National Taiwan University in Taiwan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a program full of incredibly interesting lectures with distinguished speakers from all over the world covering topics from advanced structural engineering and dynamics, structural control and applications, smart structures technology, sensing and materials, structural health monitoring and assessments. The activities program can be found <a href="http://ias.ynu.ac.jp/news/20170804_symposium/images/programbook" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another visit was to the <a href="https://www.kajima.co.jp/english/tech/katri/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Kajima Technical Research Institute</span></a>. Kajima Corporation is one of the four biggest construction companies in Japan, and its technical research institute department was established as the construction industry's first research institute in Japan in 1949.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this visit, we attended a presentation where the main goals and line of work of this company were demonstrated followed by a visit to its laboratories and research facilities which included a wind tunnel and a large scale shaking table. Unfortunately, there are no photos of this visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, this is all from me now and I hope to have the time to write here again in a near future to tell you more about the latest activities regarding my project so please stay tuned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So today, I will talk with you about the UPC's Doctoral school open day that occurred some weeks ago and where I and JJ Moughty (ESR 10) were able to participate.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was an event held at the main auditorium of the Vertex building in UPC north campus on the 8th of June and was mainly attended by master students. The layout of the program for this event is visible in the next picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main goal was to present to these students the advantages of obtaining a doctoral degree while displaying the needed requirements and the different ways that are possible to undertake in order to obtain such degree. Furthermore and as part of this initiative, the testimony of two PhD students was presented in order to give a more personal and real view of taking this choice. It was in this part where I participated by doing a small presentation about my own personal experience while conducting my PhD studies in UPC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In this presentation, I talked a little bit about my arrival to UPC from Portugal, introduced the topic of my project while also explaining how Marie-Curie ITNs (more specifically the TRUSS ITN) work and finally described how this experience is being on a more personal level. Bellow, you can see some photos of this presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How's everything? I know I haven't written anything here in a while but time has been quite short on the past months. However, I will try to write again more often and keep you updated on the latest developments and events happening in my project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to start, today I'm going to talk with you about a TRUSS meeting that we had some weeks ago in London and my attendance with the rest of my ESR's colleagues in the ESREL 2017 conference just last week.<br /><br />The TRUSS meeting corresponded to the planned annual plenary meeting which also included a Workshop on the topic of Structural Safety & Infrastructure Management. This event took place at the beautiful headquarters of Lloyd's Register in Fenchurch Street in London, UK on the 24th and 25th of May.</span></div>
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<li>John Doran, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chair of the Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum and Infrastructure Expert at John Dora Consulting Limited, UK</em>, “Thoughts about the Risks in Adopting Risk-Based Strategies”</li>
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The next day was followed by short presentations by all the ESR's on their research progress and the usual doctoral study panels meetings.</div>
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More recently, i.e., last week all of the ESR's participated in the annual European Safety and Reliability Conference <a href="http://esrel2017.org/" target="_blank">ESREL 2017</a>. Here, as planned in the beginning of this project, a mini-symposia of TRUSS was organized within the topic of this conference. This event took place between the 18 and 22 of June in the city of Portoroz in Slovenia. </div>
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That was what my fellow ESR colleagues and rest of the TRUSS members discovered last week when they were here for the 2nd training week of our project. That's right, last week we had almost every member of our research group attending this event and that's what I'm going to describe you on this month's post.</div>
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Firstly, since I didn't write about the 1st conducted training week (it preceded the first post on this blog, you can read all about it <a href="http://trussitn.eu/training/network-wide/nottingham-30-nov-4-dec-2015/">here</a>), I probably should explain to you what are these training weeks and their role within our research project. As I've mentioned in previous posts, <b>TRUSS, </b>as it stands for <b>T</b>raining in <b>R</b>educing <b>U</b>ncertainty in <b>S</b>tructural <b>S</b>afety, is an innovative training network that brings together an intersectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry in order to conduct innovative research on the topic of structural safety. Part of this is achieved by providing to the 14 fellows local and network-wide training activities. It's in this last one, that these training weeks have a role. It basically consists of core (research methods and business skills), specialist and communicational skills modules given to the early stage researchers enabling us to improve the quality of our research and receive important and valuable training that will better prepare us towards our future career paths, either in academia or industry. You can learn more about the structure and objectives of this type of activities in this <a href="http://trussitn.eu/training/network-wide/">link</a>.</div>
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In this training week, at Barcelona, it was no different. This training week was held at the north campus of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from the 16 to the 20 of January. We ESR's had a full and productive week, where we received training in technical areas such as "<i>Multi-Level Monte Carlo Methods for stochastic analysis and robust optimum design</i>", "<i>Vulnerability and Risk Assessment</i>", "<i>Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety through Static Non Destructive Tests</i>", "<i>Observability Techniques for Uncertainty Reduction</i>", "<i>Survival Analysis and Discrete Event Simulation applied to Structural Reliability</i>", "<i>Reducing uncertainty through the Structured Expert Elicitation</i>", "<i>Uncertainty Quantification and propagation for sensitivity or reliability purpose</i>", "<i>Practical Reliability Engineering - Case Studies</i>" and "<i>Advanced Finite Element Modelling</i>".<br />
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We also received training on Research Methods such as "<i>Knowledge management: The path to innovation</i>" and "<i>Responsible conduct in research and innovation</i>".<br />
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But don't worry, not everything was work. We also had time for leisure moments. We had the opportunity to take a cultural and technical visit to one of the most important (if not the most) landmarks in Barcelona: Sagrada Familia! Here we received a presentation of the history and situational point of this incredible structure by project architect Jaime Serrallonga. Afterward, we had a guided visit where we were able to contemplate and admire this sublime monument.<br />
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So, as you can imagine this was an incredibly fun and enjoyable week where it was possible to continue to develop important technical and communicational skills and also appreciate the company of all my fellow ESR colleagues in the marvelous city of Barcelona.<br />
<br />Now it's time to get back to work since a lot of tasks are due in these next few months. In the next post I will get back to you with more information regarding my project, so please stay tuned.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How is everything going with you guys? This month went flying but, at the same time, it was greatly productive. However, in this post, I will talk with you about my experience last month at IALCCE 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, <a href="http://www.ialcce2016.org/">IALCCE2016</a>, was a conference held in the city of <a href="http://www.delft.nl/delften/">Delft</a>, South Holland in Netherlands from the 16th to the 19th of October 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a conference organized by Infra Quest, a collaboration between the </span><a href="http://www.tudelft.nl/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delft University of Technology</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.tno.nl/en/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TNO</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) and </span><a href="http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rijkswaterstaat</a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (government agency within the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. Furthermore, this event was mainly held at TU Delft Aula Congress Centre, that can be seen here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, or IALCCE, is an organization that focus on the advocacy of the life-cycle assessment and study in the field of civil engineering through international cooperation for the society benefit. They sponsor this conference that is held every two years, being that the first was held in Varenna, Italy back in 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this conference, the theme of this year event was: Civil Engineering from a life-cycle perspective. In this way, and taking into account the topic of the project that we have been discussing in this blog, our research group at Barcelona, submitted a document with the title <i>"<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Barrias/publication/309672218_Health_monitoring_of_real_structures_by_distributed_optical_fiber/links/581c6ecb08ae12715af1cd9a.pdf">Health Monitoring of real structures by distributed optical fiber</a>"</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I'm writing this, the date of TRUSS's Mid-term Review Meeting at Dublin is approaching on the first two days of December. In this way, hopefully, I will be able to give you some information of what went on on this meeting on my next post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As planned in the beginning of my project, the time to start my secondment at COTCA S.A. has arrived, so basically in this post I will talk with you about this important stage of my project within TRUSS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This secondment is part of the training that, as an ESR in TRUSS project, we receive during our research that is a period between 3 and 6 months. ESR's that are hosted at universities are seconded to industry and vice versa. There's several benefits that we receive from this experience, such as a better perspective from industry of the topics of our researches and in this way provide us with knowledge that will aid us in our researches in order to provide work and information that will better tackle the real necessities of our current society. Moreover, it's a great way to provide personal experience in an industry wise environment, that for instance, in my personal case, I've never had experienced before, improving our curriculum and widening our future professional opportunities after the conclusion of our work within this ITN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in this way, last September 12th I officially initiated my secondment at the company <a href="http://www.cotca.com/Index.html" target="_blank">COTCA</a> S.A. that is also located in the city of Barcelona, Spain. This secondment is done under the supervision of Dr. Sergi Villalba that is an employee of this company and is the overall co-supervisor of my project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a company that was founded in 1979 and that is dedicated to the quality control of construction in civil and building structures. In this way, they have a large expertise in the instrumentation of structures for monitoring purposes with different types of sensors including, and this is very important, the use of distributed optical fiber sensors, more specifically the OBR based sensor that I've mentioned in <a href="http://esr11truss.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/what-is-structural-health-monitoring.html" target="_blank">previous posts</a>. It's a relatively small company, with only 16 staff members but that has significant practical experience on structural monitoring, instrumentation, control and maintenance of structures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I had the opportunity of working with Sergi before, as part of some short stays of my secondment back in January and February, when a two-span bridge was being monitored with OBR sensors and where I was able to acquire a lot of practical experience by witnessing in first hand the main adversities and difficulties that arise from the real world application of this technology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In opposition to what happened with a lot of my fellow ESR's, the location of my secondment is not far away from where I am currently living. Actually it's closer to my home than the university, so in this way, my normal daily routine was not at all affected by this. This also allows me to easily and often visit UPC either to have a meeting with my supervisor, Prof. Joan Ramon Casas, or the laboratories of the Structures' department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, I know that, at least for me, this has been a period with plenty of tasks and activities which sometimes makes it difficult to deal with each one at a time. Nonetheless, I hope that in the end, everything will come out nicely with productive results for my project. Surely I will speak about this with more detail in future posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this post, I will talk about my experience, on the 5th Workshop of COST action TU 1402. For those of you that don't remember, back in my last April <a href="https://esr11truss.blogspot.com.es/2016_04_01_archive.html">post</a>, I mentioned that a workshop of this specific COST action had been held here at UPC in Barcelona back in March. Like I mentioned at that time, it had been very interesting to attend that workshop and I was looking forward to have the opportunity to attend or even participate in new meetings of this action. It so turns out that this opportunity indeed appeared back in June when my supervisor received a call for presentations on the experience of the use of new structural health monitoring techniques to be made at the 5th Workshop to be held at the <a href="http://www.dtu.dk/english">Technical University of Denmark</a> in Kongens Lingby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This event was held last month on the 24th and 25th of August. Here, we decided to present a review of the experience of our local research group at BarcelonaTech on the use of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) in both laboratory and real-world applications. Thus, the title of our presentation was: "Concrete structures monitoring with Optical Backscatter Reflectometry based Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors". Here, you can see a photo taken during my presentation.</span></div>
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As always, this experience allowed the continuous learning of the most recent investigated topics in the SHM field as well as the prolific exchange of ideas and opinions regarding my own project which I believe can only improve the final quality of my work.<br />
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Furthermore, I take the opportunity to announce that I officially began my secondment at COTCA S.A. company as it was planned at the beginning of my project. In the next post, I will talk in more detail about this topic and its role in my research within the TRUSS group.</div>
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Enjoying some of your vacation days? For me, I'm afraid they are coming to an end so it's time to get back to work with recharged batteries. But before, and like I said in my last post, I will tell you guys very briefly about my attendance of the 8th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM2016).</div>
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This was an event held at the Euskalduna Conference Center in the beautiful city of Bilbao, in the Basque country in Spain, from July 5-8, where the latest advances related with Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) were presented. At the same time, the 3th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society (PHME16) was organised jointly at the same building. As me, also my colleague JJ Moughty (ESR12) presented part of his work on EWSHM2016 and my colleague Matteo Vagnoli (ESR9) on PHME16.</div>
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I made a presentation regarding my work on the literature review that I conducted in the first year of my research with the title: " Review of civil engineering applications with distributed optical fiber sensors".</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This conference was held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, from June 26-30 and organized by the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (<a href="http://www.iabmas.org/" target="_blank">IABMAS</a>). This is one of the biggest bridge monitoring conferences in the world and is organized every two years being that the first was held precisely here in Barcelona in 2002.</span></div>
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As for me, like I said in my last post, this has been a busy but also productive period of my project. In addition, to the work that I've been developing at the UPC laboratory (which I intend to talk about in a future post), I've been attending different meetings and conferences, which gives me plenty to talk about here. In this way, I will speak about these different events in different posts in this blog, starting by describing to you the 2nd meeting of our TRUSS ITN research group.<br />
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This meeting took place at Santander, Spain on the 16th and 17th of June. For those of you who don't know this city, Santander is the capital of the autonomous community region of Cantabria located in the north of Spain. Here you can see a few pictures of it (all of them were downloaded from the <a href="http://santanderspain.info/en/" target="_blank">website </a>of Santander tourism department).</div>
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In this meeting, all the ESRs presented their progress on there respective projects followed by separate meetings of each ESR with a small group of experts, by the name of doctoral studies panel (DSP) meetings, which provided feedback on the personal career development plan (PCPD) of each ESR.</div>
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Furthermore, we were presented by the local organization with different and interesting networking activities. From a visit to a factory of nuclear plant components, to boat rides through the Santander bay and also a visit to a historical village in this region.</div>
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This was a incredibly fun and enjoyable meeting where it was good to see the development of all my colleagues and engage in these activities with them. I must refer that unfortunately, our colleague ESR 13 Federico Perrotta was not able to attend this meeting and in this way, he was greatly missed by all of us. But as you can see from his <a href="https://esr13truss.blogspot.com.br/" target="_blank">blog </a>his project is going just fine.</div>
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Currently, I'm writing this post from Foz do Iguaçu in the beautiful country of Brazil, where I'm attending IABMAS 2016 conference and where I presented an article related with my PhD project. Here you can see a small preview of my time here in Brazil, which I will talk about in my next post.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It was great to get to know the newest projects developed by our colleagues in this field and also the people behind it. I've even got to see some amazing works where distributed optical fiber sensors were applied with success and that gave me important and different perspectives of these sensors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I also take this chance to happily announce that my first peer-reviewed journal article was published online this last week! This article is a result of my developed literature review and was published in the journal <i><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors" target="_blank">Sensors</a>, </i>an Open Access Journal from MDPI with an impact factor of 2.245. So if you want, you can have a look at it <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/5/748/html" target="_blank">here</a> and hopefully, you'll find it interesting.</span></div>
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In the past month of March, two different but compelling meetings occurred here in Barcelona where the thematic of Structural Health Monitoring was heavily discussed.</div>
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The first one was a summit organised by <a href="http://www.iabse.org/">IABSE</a> and the Finnish Association of Civil Engineers with the title of Global Risks in Structural Engineering. This was a two day event (10-11 March 2016) where the first day was held at Helsinki and the second one here at UPC, Barcelona. Here, different and engaging presentations were made by notable keynoters. </div>
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As the title of this summit suggests its topic was focused on risk assessment and evaluation of civil engineering structures subjected to natural hazards. The presentations ranged from new risk-based wind design methods for bridges, probabilistic seismic risk evaluation of urban areas, damage modes of concrete structures in major earthquakes and state-of-the art and proposal of infrastructure for disaster hazards.</div>
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The second meeting was related with the COST Action TU1402. For those of you that like me didn't knew what a cost action is, it's basically an European Concerted Research Action that focus on a relevant field. You can find more about these actions in <a href="http://www.cost.eu/about_cost">here</a>.</div>
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This specific action has the objective of Quantifying the value of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) by means of improving decision basis for design, operation and life-cycle integrity management of structures.</div>
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This action is involved with several other COST actions, other European projects and even a different Marie Curie Network (SmartEn).</div>
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This was a fascinating meeting since different SHM applications where presented and in which not only its relevance for the maintenance of the structure was debated but also the quantification of the procedure of implementing each SHM application and its value for the monitored structure. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to obtain photos of this meeting but you can see and read its presentations <a href="http://www.cost-tu1402.eu/Events/Workshops/3rd-Workshop">here</a>.</div>
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In the future, I hope I'll be able to attend more of these meetings since it allows me to easily witness what have been the latest achievements in research related with the topic that I'm currently working on and also since it's a great way to network and interact with fellow researchers that, ultimately, can greatly contribute to the quality of my work.</div>
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Nowadays, DOFS sensors are an attractive technology that offers superior performances and advantages when compared with more conventional sensors applied in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) practice, as explained in the previous posts. Despite their apparently high cost, they are ideal for applications where reliability in challenging environments is essential. Furthermore, they provide lower installation and maintenance costs.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, this is still a recent and developing technology as it can be perceived by the relatively few number of DOFS applications in SHM projects. Notwithstanding, some different DOFS applications were made in the last two decades in various and very distinct civil engineering structures such as bridges, dams, tunnels, pipelines and slopes. Also, a great load of work was made, with the goal of improving these sensors capabilities by executing different laboratory experiments.</span></div>
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The ability to cover long distances, perform distributed measurements (both in space and time), immunity to electromagnetic interference and endurance, are some of the advantages of the DOFS over traditional discrete measuring sensors. For these reasons, these sensors have been initially and mostly instrumented in large structural systems. As discussed in the previous post, the Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDR) has been the most applied technique of DOFS based sensors due to their wide range of measurement capability. In order to get to know with more detail examples of the application of this technique on bridges monitoring, for example, the reading of the following documents is advised: (Bastianini et al 2005a), (Bastianini et al 2005b), (Minardo et al 2012a), (Minardo et al 2012b), (Glisic et al 2011), (Glisic et al 2013).</div>
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When a better spatial resolution is necessary (for crack detection for example) in a relatively cost-effective way, the most sought-out technique is the Rayleigh based optical frequency reflectometry (OFDR) or as is also known, optical backscattered reflectometer (OBR) and this is the equipment that we mostly have been working with at UPC - Barcelonatech.</div>
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One of the first conducted experiments with the goal of exploring the capabilities of crack detection in concrete elements was conducted by Villalba & Casas, 2013 by instrumenting a concrete slab with OBR based DOFS that was then subjected to a load test .<br />
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Another impressive experiment was conducted in the extraordinary historical building of <i>Hospital de la Sant Creu i Sant Pau. </i>This building, one of the most outstanding examples of the Modernism movement in Barcelona of the beginning of the 20th Century and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The OBR system was implemented, during the replacement of two deteriorated columns, on the adjacent upper slab where it successfully monitored the stress redistribution of this structural element due to this process.<br />
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Barrias, “Monitoring of shear cracking in partially prestressed concrete beams
by distributed optical fiber sensors,” in <i>Proceedings 8th International
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, everything has a lifetime period, from living organisms to inanimate
objects. Deterioration and decay is a constant all around us and engineering
structures are not an exception. </span><span lang="EN-US">In the United States alone, over 11% of the nation’s 607 380
bridges are structurally deficient and the cost to repair these deficient
bridges is estimated to be $76 billion (ASCE 2013). Well maintained civil
infrastructure can substantially increase a country’s competitiveness in a
global economy and enhance resilience to adverse circumstances. Therefore, a
structure, especially in the present days, must be able to reliably produce
information regarding the alterations in its structural health condition and
communicate it to the responsible operators and decision makers both in time
and either automatically or on-demand in order to decrease these costs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The control
and monitoring of the aging process of civil engineering structures is of
extreme importance for their quality and safety. Furthermore, there are
different external events that can induce damage to a structure. </span><span lang="EN-US">The process of employing a damage
identification strategy for engineering and aerospace infrastructures is
referred to as structural health monitoring (SHM). The early detection of structural malfunctions
allows the increase of the service life-time of the structure at the same time
that decreases the maintenance costs associated with every infrastructure and
the economic losses related with repair/reconstruction in the case of
structural failure being critical for the emergence of sustainable civil and
environmental engineering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The act of damage
identification has been around probably, in a qualitative manner, since modern
man has used tools</span><span lang="EN-US">. Notwithstanding, SHM has been
recently a fast-developing area in aerospace and engineering disciplines especially
in the civil engineering field. The innovation in the SHM technologies as well
as the development of the large‑scale SHM systems has been a great subject of
interest within the engineering and academic communities over the last two
decades</span><span lang="EN-US">. However, despite its great potential,
SHM has not been applied in large scale and in a systematic manner to civil
infrastructures. One significant reason for this is the deficit of reliable and
affordable generic monitoring solutions</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">Currently, evaluations of buildings, bridges, dams,
tunnels and other vital infrastructures are usually carried out by engineers trained in
visual inspection, which sometimes can be inaccurate due to differences in
their personal experience with safety condition assessment. In order to improve
the inspection accuracy and efficiency, optical fiber sensors (OFS) are one of
the fastest growing and most promising researched topic, due to their features
of durability, stability, small size and insensitivity to external
electromagnetic perturbations, which makes them ideal for the long-term health
assessment of built environment</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Different kinds of sensors, embedded
or attached to the structure, can be used in SHM systems but only those based
on fiber technology provide the ability to accomplish integrated,
quasi-distributed, and truly distributed measurements on or even inside the
structure, along extensive lengths</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span lang="EN-US">Standard
monitoring practice is normally based on the choice of a limited and relatively
small number of points that are supposed to be illustrative of the structural behavior</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">For a large
scale structure, the number of point sensors needed to generate complete strain
information can grow rapidly.</span><span lang="EN-US"> Discrete short‑gauge sensors provide useful and interesting data of the
structure related with local behavior but might omit important information in
locations where degradation occurs but that not is instrumented. </span></span></div>
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optical fiber sensors (DOFS) offer an advantage over point sensors for global
strain measurements.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">The thousands of sensing points that the DOFS provides
enables mapping of strain distributions in two or even three dimensions. Thus,
real measurements can be used to reveal the global behavior of a structure
rather than extrapolation from a few point measurements. </span><span lang="EN-US">A truly
distributed optical sensor is expected to measure temperature, strain and
vibration data at any point along an entire fiber trough light scattering. The
great challenge has been to develop these sensors in a way that they can
achieve appropriate sensitivity and spatial resolution</span><span lang="EN-US">. Fortunately, great advances have
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defined, in a simple way, as the interaction between the light and an optical
medium. Three different scattering processes may occur in a DOFS, namely:
Raman, Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering. </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Distributed
fiber optic sensors can depend on different techniques and principles. For
different SHM applications, different DOFSs sensors can be developed and so
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the DOFS that have been mostly applied in civil engineering SHM applications are based on the following techniques: Brillouin optical time domain reflectometer (BOTDR), Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) and Rayleigh based optical frequency reflectometry that is better know by the optical backscattered reflectometer (OBR) designation.</span></span></div>
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civil structures SHM due to their extended measurement range potential
that makes them very useful for the application on large structures, such as
dams, pipelines, tunnels and long span bridges. Notwithstanding, some
applications require a better spatial resolution than the one provided by these
sensors. The BOTDA sensing technique, through the application of advanced and
complex algorithms, can address this point but in the process increases the
price of this technology. OBR technique (Rayleigh OFDR) offers a more
cost-effective way of achieving high spatial resolution limiting, nonetheless,
the sensing range to 70 meters.</span></span></div>
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So, since this is my first message on this blog, I thought I should start by making a presentation of myself and my background.<br />
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In this way, my name is António Barrias, I’m 25 years old and I’m currently working towards a PhD degree on the project in the title, under the TRUSS ITN initiative in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona since September 2015. I was born in a small but beautiful city in the north of Portugal called Vila Real in the unique Douro region. From a very young age, I was impressed by structural engineering, especially bridges. The first time I saw bridges like <i>D. Luiz</i> and <i>Arrábida</i> in Porto or <i>25 de Abril</i> in Lisbon I was very intrigued and fascinated with such works of art as we call them in Portuguese. When the <i>Vasco da Gama </i>bridge in Lisbon, the longest bridge in Europe, was completed in 1998 and I crossed it for the first time with some family members, I asked them who were the amazing persons responsible by the astonishing feat of “making bridges”. When they told me that these structures were possible thanks to structural engineers, I decided right then, that I had to be one someday.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Therefore, in 2008, after high school I enrolled at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) in Civil Engineering where, when starting to learn more about this fascinating area, I realized I had made the correct decision despite the hard recession that was starting to develop in Portugal and that was taking a big toll in the construction business.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">During this period, I participated in the Erasmus programme in the Czech Technical University in Prague for one semester where I was able to meet different people and different cultures but also a different way of looking to and solving civil engineering challenges.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">When the time came to choose the specialization for my Masters, despite the fact that during my studies I discovered other areas that incited my interested, I knew all along that there was only one single correct option and that was structures. With my love for the superb examples of bridges present in Porto, when the opportunity appeared to propose the design of new road bridge between Vila Nova de Gaia and Porto as my master’s thesis I pleasantly took that challenge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">After concluding my master’s degree, in September 2013, I did a brief IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) internship of two months in TU Kaiserslautern where I was aiding in the experiences being conducted in the Laboratory of Soil Structures and at the same time starting to develop a personal interest for </span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">laboratory</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> work. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Hence, later, when the opportunity appeared, I became a researcher at the Laboratory of Concrete Technology and Structural Behaviour (LABEST) in FEUP where I was involved in the research programme “GNSS and accelerometers data fusion in large structures monitoring”. This project enabled me to combine my newfound interest in research with my passion with bridges and contributed greatly in my inclination of pursuing a research career in this area and, in this way, applying for TRUSS programme for the ESR 11 topic.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">This is a very exciting and promising theme. Distributed fiber optic sensors, besides the advantages of discrete fiber optic sensors such as immunity to electromagnetic interferences, corrosion, long-term reliability, small size and weight, offers the possibility of continuous monitoring of strain and temperature along the whole length of the fiber. This is of great interest especially for concrete structures where the prediction of the exact location of cracks is impossible and in this way, it’s possible to cover bigger lengths of the structure that would otherwise require a large number of sensors in a more cost-effective and simple way. There are three different processes of scattering that can be explored in a DOFS system: Brillouin, Raman and Rayleigh scattering. Optical Backscatter Reflectometry (OBR) technique takes advantage of the later in order to obtain strain and temperature measurements with high spatial resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The objectives of the project are to analyze the spatial resolution, strain accuracy obtained with these sensors without the failure and debonding from the concrete structures and their long-term reliability. It’s also intended to, at the end of this project, propose the criteria for the design and deployment of a permanent monitoring system based on these sensors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Feel free to contact me at antonio.de.sousa.barrias@gmail.com or antonio.jose.de.sousa@upc.edu</span></div>
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