Structural Engineering and Earthquake Engineering

Drone-Based Construction

The additive manufacturing of real scale structures using UAVs (drones) is a new discipline with challenges as wide as the possibilities it opens up for the future.

DROXELS : THE UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION COMPONENT

DROXELS

We created the droxels while searching a structural component able to provide four essential features required by robot-based construction: they can faithfully reproduce any 3D structural form...

Extreme and Dynamic Testing

Advancements on understanding and simulation of structural response rely closely on the availability of experimental data, which unfortunately is often insufficient, scattered, or inexistent....

Influence of design details

Design details can have a critical influence on the inelastic dynamic behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under seismic loading. When executed according to modern detailing rules and...

Raw Timber Construction

In Belgium, the concrete industry is very powerful, with the consequence that 95% of the buildings are built with concrete. We are convinced that, in a changing world where CO2 is a planetary...

Seismic Response Simulation

One research field of my strong personal liking is the simulation of the seismic response of structures, namely reinforced concrete. A substantial part of my work has focused on nonlinear material...

Tensegrity Structures

The architectural potential of tensegrity structures is proven. Yet, paradoxically, very few real construction projects have been built around the world. The main reasons are complex construction...