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Earthquake engineering with a twist: the torsional...

Reinforced concrete (RC) core walls are embedded in millions of buildings internationally and provide the resistance from wind and earthquakes. These structural elements have the potential to bend and twist when subjected to an earthquake, which causes damage to accumulate and could result in...
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Improve the design of offshore wind turbine foundations...

  The foundations of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWT) represent a large share of their installation costs and environmental impact. In order to improve both aspects, the "SAGE-SAND" project investigates the evolution during multiple years of soils’ mechanical properties, called soil ageing,...
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New blind prediction competition is launched. Participate!

The GCE warmly invites you to participate in the prediction of the response of two reinforced concrete walls subjected to cyclic flexural and torsional actions up to failure. The units will be tested between May and June 2022 in the LEMSC laboratory and the deadline for the submission of the...
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Industrial robots and "raw" tree trunks: the future of...

The HERA Award Sustainable Engineering 2022 is awarded to Justin Goose. Justin Goosse's work is based on the observation that wood is not competitive enough with respect to concrete and steel in the construction sector, simply because it requires several (costly) transformations before being...
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‘The STRÉPY-THIEU BOAT LIFTS’ Visit

The master-one students had the opportunity to visit some of the hydraulic engineering structures in the Wallonia region. The visit of largest boat lift in Europe and the second in the world. It was built to conquer a significant drop between two channels, vital to keeping Belgium's waterways...
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