Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Informal International Partners

Collaboration with CNR, Italy

Participants : Jean Dumoulin, Nicolas Le Touz.

Non destructive testing on outdoor structures by coupling infrared thermography with ground penetrating radar is one of the topic addressed in this collaboration. A new one about TerHertz is starting. A proposal for associated lab is currently drafted.

Collaboration with British Columbia University, Canada

Participants : Laurent Mevel, Michael Doehler, Saeid Allahdadian.

Saeid Allahdadian was PhD student of professor Carlos Ventura in Vancouver. Following our recent papers, Michael Doehler has been invited to co-supervise the PhD of Saeid Allahdadian. The thesis has been defended this year.

Collaboration with BAM, Germany

Participants : Laurent Mevel, Michael Doehler, Eva Viefhues.

Eva Viefhues is currently PhD student of Laurent Mevel and Michel Doehler in Berlin, financed by BAM. M. Doehler is also associate researcher of the BAM institut since 2016.

Collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Participants : Michael Doehler, Francesco Giordano.

During COST Action TU 1402 and professor M.P. Limongelli's research stay at IFSTTAR, collaboration with Politecnico di Milano has started, resulting in several joint publications in 2016 and 2017. PhD student F. Giordano has started at Politecnico Milano in November 2017 under the direction of M.P. Limongelli, M. Doehler is co-supervising.

Collaboration with Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Participant : Michael Doehler.

During COST Action TU 1402 and previously at BAM, collaboration with Sebastian Thöns from DTU in Denmark started on risk analysis and SHM based reliability updating. Also, DTU's PhD student Lijia Long is involved [36].

Collaboration with Aalborg University, Denmark

Participant : Michael Doehler.

Together with Structural Vibration Solutions, collaboration with Aalborg University (professor Lars Damkilde, Department of Civil Engineering) has started during the PhD of Szymon Gres on damage detection methods [32].