On the 21st of August 2015, a Spanish guy first stepped
into Ireland with no idea about how the work routine was going to be. After a
few days settling in and sorting accommodation issues, the 1st of September that guy started to work.
This means that it is the anniversary, and this post is going to give an
overall view of what I have done until now. Other posts will be dedicated to cover
individual topics in detail.
Four
conference papers have been done so far: Tirana (Albania), Belfast (UK), Galway
(Ireland) and Cape Town (South Africa). The topics show a development of the
research plan:
·
SEMC2016 Conference in
Cape Town introduced the ranges of data analysed when using different
measurement methods,
·
BCCCE2016 Conference
in Tirana showed the curvature method as a bridge damage detector,
·
CERI2016 Conference in
Galway studied the influence of the road profile and the noise in the results
and
·
CSHM6 Belfast
Conference introduced case studies in order to verify the method.
Fig 1.
Conference logos.
Learning
activities that I have completed during this period include Endnote training,
Academic Written English course, seminars and demonstrating to students. I have
also helped in a community activity in Willow School with the marshmallow
challenge in which we had lots of fun.
Fig 2. In
the middle of an Endnote lesson for referencing with Shah Nur.
Finally, I
made two visits to our Industrial partner in the project, i.e., Greenwood
Engineering. There, I was able to see how this Danish company works and also
collect some data information on how the Traffic Speed Deflectometer (TSD) operates.
The TSD is intended to measure the road stiffness in order to detect damage.
However, if we manage to make the TSD able to measure bridge damage, it will be
a significant contribution for monitoring bridges in a cost-efficient manner.
Fig 3.
Photo with the Italian TSD.
More posts about these topics will come soon!
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