Empa - Structural Engineering Research Laboratory

Empa, Structural Engineering Laboratory, Christmas dinner, 13 December 2024. We wish you happy holidays !

🎉 Open Doors at Empa 🌍 The Place where Innovation Starts! 🚀 Empa opened its doors last Saturday, September 14, 2024.  Visitors were able to take a behind-the-scenes look at the places where groundbreaking innovations are created and solutions for a sustainable, livable future are researched. 👩🏫💡 Visitors had the unique opportunity to step inside our laboratory and engage directly with our research. Watch our video to experience the highlights of the event! 🧑🔬 ! 🚀 Many Thanks for visiting us. #EmpaOpenDoors #Empa #Innovation #Sustainability #EmpaResearch

Empa Open Doors on last Friday and Saturday (14th of September 2024). A picture during visit of Professor Urs Meier and Dr. Jing Gao from our laboratory of Structural Engineering at Empa. We have exhibitied our Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing setup for printing large scale metallic members, 3D Concrete Printer, Seismic actions on timber structures, Structural Health Monitoring and Strengthening using modern techniques and high performance materials (fibre optics, CFRP, SMA, ...) From right side: Dr. Christoph Czaderski, Professor Urs Meier, Dr. Jing Gao and me)

Ein eindrückliches Experiment wird gerade an der Empa in #Dübendorf aufgebaut: Das Herzstück? Der sogenannte «Shaker». Der mixt zwar keine Cocktails, versetzt aber ein #Tragwerksmodell in Schwingungen, wie sie bei Erdbeben auftreten können. Am Modell zeigen die Empa-Bauingenieure René Steiger, Pedro Palma und Robert Widmann von der Forschungsabteilung «Ingenieurstrukturen», wie die Gewichts- und Steifigkeitsverteilung im Tragwerk dessen Schwingungsverhalten beeinflussen. Der Hintergrund zu dieser Demonstration? Häuser aus #Holz – vor allem mehrstöckige – werden in der Schweiz immer beliebter. Um ihre Stabilität zu gewährleisten, müssen genügend Aussteifungen im Tragwerk vorhanden sein. Die Grundlagen hierzu liefern Computerberechnungen. Um diese in der Praxis zu überprüfen und die Computermodelle zu verbessern, nutzen Empa-Forschende den zwei Tonnen schweren «Shaker». 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eXBsSD58 🗓️Übrigens: der «Shaker» kann am Samstag, 14. September im Rahmen des Tags der offenen Tür an der Empa besichtigt werden. Kommen Sie vorbei! https://openday.empa.ch/ Autor: Remigius Nideröst #bau #bauforschung #holzhaus #openlabdayempa #tagderoffenentür

Yesterday we were able to organise a group photo with all SMAR 2024 participants. A big thank you to all SMAR 2024 participants for their fundamental contribution to the success of the conference.

This year the Department of Civil Engineering at Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy) is co-organizing with the Empa Structural Engineering Research Laboratory the 7th #SMAR2024 International Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment, and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures from September 4-6, 2024. 🔗 Conference website: https://www.smar2024.org/ The conference opened with a welcome address by Gianvittorio Rizzano, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, and by Tanja Zimmermann, Director of Empa. Tanja Zimmermann presented the role of Empa's cutting-edge material and technology research in the #builtenvironment sector, along with its emphasis on meeting the requirements of industry and the needs of society. Careful use of #naturalresources and thinking in terms of #closedcycles are the focus of Empa's research today. With the research initiative "Mining the Atmosphere," at Empa we aim to remove excess #CO2 from the atmosphere and support the transition from a CO2-emitting society to a CO2-binding one. The goal is to develop carbon-based materials and utilize carbon captured from the atmosphere as a raw material for the future. The #constructionsector plays a key role, as concrete and other building materials could bind enormous amounts of atmospheric carbon due to their mass. This emphasizes the growing importance of this conference in the current global context. A special thank you also goes to the organizers of the event: Prof. Enzo Martinelli (University of Salerno), Prof. Alper Ilki (Istanbul Technical University), Prof. Moslem Shahverdi and Prof. Masoud Motavalli (Empa). Empa, represented by the Research Laboratory for Structural Engineering and the Laboratory for Mechanical Systems Engineering, is actively involved with about 20 presentations on topics such as monitoring technologies, structural assessment and the application of advanced materials for structural rehabilitation.

✌ The Empa - Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, is pleased to present its latest research at SMAR 2024 ✌ Articles and presentations (listed alphabetically by first author): Monitoring heavy vehicle braking events using smartphones to improve the braking force model Breveglieri | Feltrin Numerical and experimental study on steel members retrofitted by directed energy deposition Dahaghin | Moshavedi | Pichler | Li | Mohri | Diao | Motavalli | Zahrai | Ghafoori Self-Centering of RC Columns with Prestressed Fe-SMA Reinforcement Esmaelian | Raza | Shekarchi | Motavalli | Shahverdi Durability of RC Beams with NSM Fe-SMA after Eight-Year Exposure and Sustained Loading Harmanci | Czaderski | Shahverdi Innovations to Improve 3D Concrete Printing of Portland Cement-Steel Slag Blended Mortars Hassan | Raza | Shafei | Mahoutian | Shahverdi Contact Pressure Evolution in Heat-Treated Iron-Based Shape Memory Joints Jafarabadi | Czaderski | Mohri | Leinenbach | Ghafoori | Chatzi | Motavalli Energy absorption and dissipation in negative stiffness metallic architected materials Jafarabadi | Ghafoori Strengthening of bridges with iron-based shape memory alloy bars embedded in UHPFRC Lemos | Czaderski | Markovic | Michels | Kaufmann A Graphical Solution to Bond Capacity Li | Chatzi | Czaderski | Zhao | Ghafoori Slenderness effect on failure modes in RC beam strengthening with unbonded Fe-SMA strips Michels | Mamié | Czaderski | Schranz   Effect of thermomechanical training on recovery stress of Fe-based shape memory alloy Mohri | Jafarabadi | Leinenbach Mixed-Mode Cohesive Failure of CFRP to Steel and Fe-SMA to Steel bonded Joints Pichler | Li | Wang | Motavalli Digital Fabrication of Ribbed Slabs With Post-Tensioned 3D Printed Concrete Formwork Raza | Sakha | Manshadi | Fan | Wang | Shahverdi Digital Fabrication of Segmental Concrete Columns for Accelerated Bridge Construction Raza | Triantafyllidis | Anton | Dillenburger | Shahverdi Study of activation parameters in Fe-SMA reinforced concrete structures using multiphysics modelling Saeedi | Tabrizikahou | Shahverdi A Practical Applications of Fe-SMA for Punching Shear Strengthening of RC Slabs Sriram | Bärtschi | Harmanci Computational Modeling of Concrete Composites with Short Shape Memory Alloys Fibers Tabrizikahou | Kuczma | Shahverdi Development and Characterization of Thin Iron-Based Shape Memory Alloy Prestressing Wire Triantafyllidis | Oza | Michels | Wyrzykowski | Shahverdi Experimental study on recovery stress behavior of memory-steel patches bonded on cracked steel plates Wang | Su | Jiang | Motavalli | Ghafoori We are ready to meet you and discuss our latest research - together with yours - in Salerno ! Check out the program https://lnkd.in/dpTTM4_h

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✌ The final programme of SMAR 2024 is now available. 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇 You can download the program from on the SMAR 2024 website https://lnkd.in/dpTTM4_h It can also be browsed via the SMAR 2024 Conference App 🤓 👨💻 👩💻 Download the app here https://lnkd.in/d_75hCrt or by typing 'smar2024' in Google Play or Apple Store. It will be a pleasure to meet you in Salerno, Join us at SMAR 2024 😃

🎉 The Department of Civil Engineering of Università degli Studi di Salerno (Italy) is co-organizing with Empa - Structural Engineering Research Laboratory (Switzerland) the 7th International Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures, SMAR 2024 🎉 The event is hosted at the Main Campus of the University of Salerno between 4 and 6 September 2024. Previous editions of the SMAR conference have been held at prestigious institutions such as, in order, the American University of Dubai (SMAR 2011), Istanbul Technical University (SMAR 2013 and SMAR 2015), ETH Zurich (SMAR 2017), BAM in Berlin (SMAR 2019), and Tongji University in Shanghai (SMAR 2022). The event will be held at the main campus of the University of Salerno between September 4 and 6, 2024. It will be a pleasure to meet you in Salerno, Join us at SMAR 2024 😃 The program and information are also available here: https://lnkd.in/dSs2w3av