ESR1 Advanced ultrasonic instrumentation for interferometric monitoring

Last week, I spent a wonderful time in Ifsttar, Nantes. And attended the 1st INFRASTAR spring school. Students and experts from different universities and companies came to this event.  During this week, we have learnt a lot, not only from the lectures by the professors, but also we gained a lot of experience explaining our research and 'guiding' the others to do the exercises that we prepared. (doing exercises) (Explaining my research) (dinner together) We spent a great time together, everything is just to the point! This is the charm of our project, of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, rich and colorful. Are you interested in the next training school? Please follow INFRASTAR .

I just came back to BAM from a 3 weeks business trip. Tired, but meaningful.  I spent two weeks in BASt (federal highway research institute)  to do my secondment. The idea was to install the ultrasonic sensors that I use on a real bridge (druaBast). (strong Marco on the left and Tall Heiko on the right) I worked together with my colleagues from BAM, Marco and Heiko. I am so grateful for their professional and  precise work. I am very luck and happy to have the chance to installed our embedded sensors and implement our method on a real bridge.  Now, let's start the work!  (measuring the distance to determine the position of sensors) (Checking rebars by GPR device) Drilling holes on the bridge. (installing sensors......) This is how it looks in the end, beautiful, isn't it? All the cables were protected well in the PVC tubes.  After a few days hard work with my Germany colleagues, of course beer is necessary. Prost For more details