sabato 16 maggio 2015

the long days of, IF CRASC '15

IF CRASC ’15, the Second Congress on Forensic Engineering and the Sixth Congress on Collapses, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures, concluded today at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the Sapienza University of Rome. Together with my colleagues at StroNGER srl (principal sponsor of the event) we have prepared a Facebook page with news from the conference: https://www.facebook.com/IFCRASC15 The conference was a great success, with more than 80 presentations, and 150 delegates.
On top of being a member of the organizing committee, I contributed with four papers:
  • Milana, G., Olmati, P., Gkoumas, K. Scenario Based Structural Robustness Assessment of Tall Diagrid Structures.
  • Olmati, P., Gkoumas, K. Simplified FEM Modelling for the Collapse Assessment of a Masonry Vault.
  • Di Santo, C., Gkoumas, K., Bontempi. F. Risk analysis for severe traffic accidents in road tunnels (Part I).
  • Di Santo, C., Gkoumas, K. Risk analysis for severe traffic accidents in road tunnels (Part II).
I have already uploaded all papers on my research gate account. My former students Carmine di Santo and Giulia Milana gave two talks on Friday from two of the above papers.


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group photo at lunch break

Roberta Fornari performing during the first day cocktail



chairmen
 
children (and smaller children)
we had firefighters too...
... here with Ms D'Angelo, Head of the Civil Protection of the Rome Municipality
Carmine giving his talk 
Ms D'Angelo, Head of the Civil Protection of the Rome Municipality, session chairman
Giulia giving her talk
my colleague Francesco acting as chairman
the conference poster



martedì 5 maggio 2015

365 days (and pages) later...

Today together with Francesco we had a panel review at the ESA BIC Lazio office for the StroNGER project piezoTsensor.
The review was based on a presentation of the major outcomes we had in the first 12 months of the 24-month project, and a 365 page report containing 9 deliverables and 18 annexes, covering a total of 8 work packages.
PiezoTsensor is an advanced sensor for the optimum energy management in building HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition) systems, under development by StroNGER, with the financial and technical aid of the European Space Agency (ESA).
We are looking forward to successfully finishing the project!


365 pages... (that reflect)


(365 pages...) that reflect