Richard Loendersloot’s Post

It is always special when one of your PhD students finishes and defends her or his work to the graduation committee. This certainly applied to Neda Mostafa's defense. It was so great to see her defend her work with so much confidence - rightfully, as she showed to master the topic she has been working on in the past years. Great respect for the dedication and perseverance she showed in the past years to finish her PhD! Thanks to the committee members: Eloi Figueiredo, Maryam Ghandchi Tehrani, André Dorée, and Bojana Rosic, and to my colleagues Tiedo Tinga and Dario Di Maio, with whom I co-supervised Neda. #Universityoftwente, #bridgemonitoring, #DESTinationRAIL #nonstationarydynamics https://lnkd.in/gzWPknr2

It is my pleasure to announce that we, Uday Kumar, Matti Rantatalo, Gareth Tucker, Annemieke Meghoe, Laurent Bouillaut and I will organise the special session "Health/Condition Monitoring and Railway Asset Management" during the Railways 2024 conference, September 1-5, Prague. https://lnkd.in/g6yZimqK You are invited to submit your abstract: deadline is May 3rd 2024!

There are just a few days left to submit your abstract for the EWSHM-2024 conference from 10-13 June 2024 in Potsdam (https://www.ewshm2024.com). Together with Nan Yue I am organising the Special Session SHM for Impact Characterization and Damage Mechanisms in Laminar Composites (https://lnkd.in/ebx7yaKK), an excellent opportunity to share your work with the SHM community and we still have open spots! It is not a Black Friday deal, but very close to it! The deadline for submission is November 30th: Submit your abstract by 30 November 2023 and become a part of the programme!

The deadline for the EWSHM2024 (https://lnkd.in/esWThENj) is rapidly approaching - submit your abstract if you want to join this excellent workshop! Together with Nan Yue, I am organising the session "SHM for Impact Characterization and Damage Mechanisms in Laminar Composites" (https://lnkd.in/ebx7yaKK). An excellent opportunity to present and discuss your work on impact and the resulting effects in composite materials. Already looking forward to this great event!

The call for abstracts of the 11th EWSHM (https://www.ewshm2024.com) is out and together with Nan Yue, I will be organising a special session: SHM and Impact Characterization. Join us by submitting an abstract and selecting this special session! Detailed description:  The vulnerability of composite structures to impact loading is an important concern in industries relying on the use of composites, such as the aerospace and wind turbine industries, but increasingly also for civil engineering applications. Research efforts of the past years have brought us a wide selection of detection and localization methods. Crucial questions on the nature and consequences of the impact are however still unanswered, in particular for complex shaped structures with curvatures, stringers and stiffeners, thickness variation and so on. In this special session we want to offer a platform to researchers to present and discuss the state-of-the-art of Structural Health Monitoring and Impact Characterization, addressing topic as: - Force and energy reconstruction of impact in composite structures - Prediction of damage formation after impact based on (virtual) sensor readings - The use of SHM diagnostic methods and tools to characterize impact - Decision support based on impact characterization estimations - Digitization of life cycle management for impact prone composite (safety critical) structures The special session is open for contribution on experimental, numerical, physics-based, data-driven work and can be either more theoretical oriented or be more applied.

New vacancy for PhD-student! Applying nonlinear acoustics for detection and assessment of PVC water mains: https://lnkd.in/eayurant A great opportunity to work in the field of nonlinear ultrasonics, and phased array technologies, related to the assessment of PVC material. The project is a collaboration between the Center of Excellence of Sustainable Water Technology (Wetsus - https://www.wetsus.nl/), the Dynamics Based Maintenance research group of the University of Twente (https://lnkd.in/eKNwcZsU), and the participating water companies, material suppliers, and technology enablers participating in the Smart Water Grids theme. #nondestructivetesting #ultrasonictesting #phasedarray #universityoftwente #wetsus #phdposition

The second paper of my PhD student Neda Mostafa is online - open access, so available to everyone! The paper discusses how to detect damage to a railway bridge using the dynamic response during the crossing of the train over the bridge. A nice piece of work, worth more than the 9 minutes of suggested reading time in link :-) #universityoftwente #engineeringtechnology #dynamicsbasedmaintenance https://rdcu.be/cWPQq

2.0fte new Lecturer positions in our department (24-38 hours)! Do you have a passion for teaching mechanics and are you interested in an academic career at our beautiful University of Twente? Do you have a Mechanical Engineering background? Then this may be a great opportunity for you!