Nieuws en aankondigingen
De prijs bekroont jong onderzoekstalent dat een vernieuwende bijdrage levert aan het onderzoek rond beton en duurzame infrastructuur. De prijsuitreiking vond plaats op Concrete Day 2025, waar Constantijn zijn onderzoek werd voorgesteld aan een breed publiek van onderzoekers, ontwerpers en infrastructuurbeheerders.
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Karel Van Den Hende will defend his PhD thesis entitled “Reliability-based assessment of corroding concrete structures and optimization of interventions in view of service life extension”. The public PhD defense of Karel will take place on Thursday 2 October 2025.
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Menno van de Velde will defend his PhD thesis entitled “Vibration-based monitoring for the condition assessment of existing concrete structures exhibiting corrosion”. The public PhD defense of Menno van de Velde will take place on Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 17h00 in BOKU 03.22, Kasteelpark Arenberg 40, 3001 Leuven
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Chloride ingress is a common issue in concrete structures that can result in reinforcement corrosion. In order to extend the lifetime of a structure, several preventive repair methodologies are available, which reduce the ingress of chlorides. In this work, the computational efficiency of the analytical model for a two-material diffusion problem has been improved to model the effect of a mortar overlay or partial cover replacement, and is further implemented to model the influence of a coating. This enables the assessment of each repair method in a probabilistic framework using Latin hypercube samples within an acceptable timeframe. A parameter study executed in both a deterministic and probabilistic framework demonstrated the model efficiency and the importance of the timing and quality of the intervention for successful repair when applying a repair intervention in the initiation phase.
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On 22 November 2022 a workshop MOW-lifeMACS was organized by EBS (‘Expertise Beton en Staal’) and the lifeMACS partners.
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Menno Van de Velde submitted a contribution to the International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA 2022).
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A Mini-Symposium related to the lifeMACS project will be organized during the ICASP14 2023 conference in Dublin (09/07-13/07/2023).
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A Mini-Symposium related to the lifeMACS project will be organized during the IALCCE 2023 conference in Milan (02/06-06/06/2023).
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The lifeMACS researchers submitted three contributions to the fib Congress 2022 in Oslo. These contributions were presented by the respective authors during the conference (12/06-16/06/2022).
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