Miguel Abambres and I worked on the development of an ANN-based expression for the fatigue strenght of concrete under compression - using Miguel's algorithm and my database of fatigue tests. I'm quite pleased that the resulting model only takes 3…
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…
Within the TRB AFF 40 Standing Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures, we have finalized and published the Circular: Primer on Bridge Load Testing.It took us nearly four years and many conference calls and discussions, but you can…
I recently gave a presentation at the II SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DEL CEMENTO Y HORMIGÓN at the Universidad de Cuenca. My slides of the presentation are here: Inspeccion, mantenimiento y evaluacion de puentes de hormigon from Eva Lantsoght
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Maria Belen Sathicq to tell us about PhD defenses in Argentina. Maria Belen is an Argentinean biologist, living and working in Italy. She got a B.Sc. degree in Biology, from the Universidad Nacional…
For the year 2019, Miguel Abambres and I won a Collaboration Grant from USFQ. The first paper from this collaboration is titled "ANN-Based Shear Capacity of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Beams without Stirrups". It's open access and published in the journal…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Noelle Sterne with a guest post on dissertation writing. Dissertation coach and nurturer, editor, academic and mainstream writing consultant and soother, author, workshop leader, and spiritual counselor, Noelle Sterne, Ph.D. (Columbia University),…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Felienne Hermans. Felienne is associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University, where she heads the PERL research group, focused on programming education. On Saturdays she teaches children…
As you may have read from my previous post, I tend to plan per semester and per year.For 2020, I hope to do the following things from my list o dreams:1. Build our house2. Visit the Amazon jungle3. Go on…
I've been planning most of my goals per semester, with some goals from my list of 100 dreams for my goals per year.Here's a list of my goals from 2019:1. Visit the Quilotoa loopYes! We went in the spring and…
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