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SUMMARY:Honorary Lecture - Prof. Eugen Brühwiler
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Eugen Brühwiler\nDate: 29 November 2023\nTime: 18:00 -
  19:00\nIntroduction by Vice President Jan S. Hesthaven\, Dean Claudia R. 
 Binder and Associate Dean Katrin Beyer\, lecture by Prof. Eugen Brühwiler
 . Followed by an Apero.\nPlace: SG-1\nZoom link\n\n\nTitle:\n“The art of
  engineering existing structures”\n\nAbstract\nOnly recently\, the prese
 rvation of the built infrastructure has been recognized by the civil engin
 eering community and the public as a necessity to reduce the environmental
  impact of buildings and civil structures. The good engineering project of
  an existing structure is founded on knowledge of construction history\, c
 alls on advanced technologies and methods\, and requires creativity and an
  exclusive commitment to preserve the existing structure and its cultural 
 values. Engineering of existing structures is a respectful and humble acti
 vity\, which makes it an art !\nThis lecture will highlight recent scienti
 fic developments and shows how novel engineering methods and technologies 
 make a difference in preserving existing structures. For example\, accurat
 e determination of in-situ structural behaviour of bridges using data from
  monitoring of traffic action effects allow to verify realistically their 
 structural and fatigue safety. If interventions are necessary\, a targeted
  use of advanced high-performance materials such as UHPFRC (Ultra-High Per
 formance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite) allows to rehabilitate a
 nd strengthen effectively buildings and civil structures such as bridges. 
 In all cases\, it is a question of prolonging the duration of use of struc
 tures and their embodied resources\, with the least invasive intervention 
 possible. Consequently\, resources are reasonably managed and cultural val
 ues are preserved. \nBy means of examples of existing structures of high 
 cultural values\, mostly bridges\, this lecture reviews 40 years of resear
 ch and its implementation in teaching and applied structural engineering. 
 More than 20 years of experience in technology transfer “from the lab to
  the field” reveals key factors to draw the future of structural enginee
 ring towards real sustainability. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\nEugen Brühw
 iler is a professor of structural engineering and director of the laborato
 ry of maintenance and safety of existing structures at the École Polytech
 nique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 1995. He received his civil engi
 neering and doctoral degrees from ETH Zurich in 1983 and EPFL in 1988.\nHi
 s research activities comprise methods of engineering of existing structur
 es including structural and fatigue safety\, monitoring and reliability\, 
 durability and management of bridges\, buildings and built infrastructure.
  Together with his team\, he developed original structural concepts and en
 gineering methods for the use of Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced C
 ementitious Composite (UHPFRC) to rehabilitate and strengthen reinforced c
 oncrete structures. His research approach is based on experimental methods
  (both in the laboratory and in situ on structures) complemented with adva
 nced analytical and numerical methods.\nHis teaching activities included e
 ngineering of existing structures\, safety and serviceability of structure
 s\, rehabilitation of buildings\, risk management as well as aesthetics an
 d history of civil engineering structures. He supervised numerous semester
  and master projects in these domains. Recently\, Eugen Brühwiler receive
 d again the award for the best teaching at the Civil Engineering Section.
   \nFor many years\, he is a consulting engineer and independent expert 
 for existing bridges and buildings\, with the objective to implement resea
 rch findings. He was involved in numerous projects related in particular t
 o the preservation of road and railway bridges. For more than 20 years\, h
 e is consultant of the federal office of culture in questions related to h
 eritage structures.\nHe was a member of several code committees of the SIA
  (swiss society of engineers and architects) and leader of the SIA 269 Sta
 ndards on Engineering of existing structures. Among the scientific duties\
 , he was chairman of the steering committee of the SNF’s NRP 54 “Susta
 inable development of the built environment” concluded in 2011.\n\n\n 
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