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martedì 15 agosto 2017

post DCEE 2016 - pre DCEE 2017

Last October in Rome, together with Franco Bontempi, I organised the 5th Design in Civil and Environmental Engineering workshop (DCEE 2016). But time flies.
In view of the DCEE 2017 workshop that this year will take place in Cagliari Sardinia on November 9-11, we uploaded the DCEE 2016 papers in the workshop website, together with a brief editorial.
We are looking forward to a successful DCEE 2017 workshop!

martedì 3 novembre 2015

(on) design and more - DCEE4 (and DCEE5...)

Last Friday and Saturday, I attended the 4th International Workshop on design in Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE 2015) in Taipei City, Taiwan (http://dcee2015.info).
I gave two talks: on the first day, on the "Design for robustness, resilience and anti-fragility in the built and urban environment: considerations from a civil engineering point of view", and on the second day, on "The long way towards a sound framework for structural design: 10 years of experience in Rome".
I also chaired a session on the first day, and I gave a talk on our research team in Rome, since, in the committee meetings, it was decided that the the next workshop will be held in Rome in 2016 (on a date yet to be decided, probably in October).
During the conference, we visited the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park and we were given presentations on the Taipei 2016 Design Capital (http://wdc2016.taipei/en) from the World Design Capital CEO Wu Han-chung.
On a side activity, I visited the rooftop of Taipei 101 (a landmark super-tall skyscraper, the world's tallest until 2010), a night-market, the Taipei Expo Park, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (http://www.tfam.museum).

together with Shang-Hsien Hsieh (Patrick), the workshop chair

Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen of the Technical University of Denmark

Eduardo Miranda giving his keynote speech on performance-based engineering

group photo


Ying-Chih Chang, founder and chief engineer of Envision Engineering Consultants (EEC)

at the group dinner

meeting Eduardo Miranda

from the rooftop of Taipei 101

the Taipei 101 gigantic TMD

in front of the Taipei 101 TMD room

view from the 90th floor of the Taipei 101

on top of the Taipei 101

visiting the Taiwan Design Museum

visiting the robotics room in the civil engineering department

(building) drones everywhere

drone

the seismic isolation floor at the civil engineering department

leaving a sign

at the Taipei Expo Park

at a night market in downtown Taipei

at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park

Alice's Rabbit Hole at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

the World Design Capital CEO Wu Han-chung

Shih-Chung “Jessy” Kang with Edoardo Miranda

at the dinner

obsolete (?) books

Taipei 2016 World Design Capital

next to me in Business class on my way to Taipei on an Asiana 777 flight

Dcee4 paper 9 from Konstantinos Gkoumas

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

sabato 4 ottobre 2014

8th (yet, my 3rd)

I just returned back to Athens from the 8th Hellenic National Conference of Steel Structures, which this year was held in Tripoli (in Peloponnese) on October 2-4.
http://eeme.ntua.gr/8HNCSS/en/
The conference (the third I am attending) was very interesting, and I had the chance to meet old friends and make new ones.
I also had the chance to give a talk on Diagrid tall buildings.

Earlier today we had a technical tour on the construction site of the Tsakona Arch Bridge, which, with a length of 390m, is one of the world's longest multi-span arch bridge.
I had the chance to take many photos, both during the conference and during the technical tour.
On my way back to Athens I visited Nafplio, a town which was the capital of the First Hellenic Republic, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834.