Workshop Videos of all speakers of the "Dynamic Analysis, Testing and Design of Infrastructure to Environmental Loads", organised in Thessaloniki, Greece (11-13 Nov. 2014) in the framework of the Degrie Lab are available in the official Project Website

Lecture on the effect of Spatial Variability of Earthquake Ground Motion on the Seismic Response of R/C Bridges

Hybrid test between Greece, Italy, Canada and United States. Presentation made during the 10th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Anchorage, United States.

Congratulations to Olympia Taskari for completing her Ph.D. 

First evaluation round of the Thessaloniki Smart Up Innovation Hub. A very important step for the Alexander Innovation Zone S.A.

Presentation made in Athens during the Workshop about Cephalonia Earthquake jointly organised by the Society of Civil Engineers, the Hellenic Association for Earthquake Engineering, the Greek branch of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering and the Organisation for Earthquake Protection and Planning. 

A seminar was given at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Bristol on the “Dynamic response of special bridges under spatially variable earthquake ground motions”

An amazing event, on educational robotics and means to mitigate nature's fury. Proud to participate as a judge in this high standard and well organised educational party. Congratulations to all teams for their innovative ideas and hard work. More at: https://www.facebook.com/firstlegoleaguegreece

Anastasios Sextos was part of the GEER Reconnaissance Team to the Kefalonia earthquake. More about the field trip can be found at the GeoEngineer Hub while additional information are posted at the
Civilengineering.gr web info point

 

The Board of Alexander Innovation Zone met Hannes Swoboda, Chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.

Assoc. Prof. Anastasios Sextos gave a presentation on "the Finite Element model updating and Structural Health Monitoring as a tool for assessing the seismic performance of major bridges". Different analytical and numerical approaches validation were presented to evaluate the behavior of the structural elements subjected to seismic and lateral loading dealing with soil interaction.

Anastasios Sextos gave a talk on "3-Dimensional pounding of adjacent buildings under earthquake loading" at the University of Cyprus during the Workshop entitled "Advanced issues of Computational Earthquake Engineering"

On October 29, 2013, the first hybrid experiment of the project was conducted between the Universities of Patras and Thessaloniki. This is the first hybrid experiment that took place in Greece and meets one of the major objectives of the EXCHANGE-SSI project. More information can be found in the attached pdf.

Congratulations to Elina Mylona for receiving the Aristotle University research scholarship for academic excellence.

Anastasios Sextos presented a paper on "Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment through back-analysis of Byzantine and Roman Monuments"
during the 10th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics. Chania, Crete, Greece, May 25-27, 2013.

City University London senior lecturer Agathoklis Giaralis visited Lab and delivered a lecture on "Advances in seismic response spectrum compatible stochastic representations and in non-linear stochastic structural dynamics techniques for earthquake engineering applications"

Congratulations to Periklis Faraonis for receiving a 6 months scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to visit the Bauhaus University of Weimar.

Professor Kevin Mackie visited Lab and delivered a lecture on "Quantifying seismic bridge performance in terms of loss and sustainability".

Prof. Mackie is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Structural Engineering Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering ETH Zürich, Switzerland and an Associate Professor Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA.

Congratulation on Vaggelis Katsanos for defending successfully his Ph.D. Thesis. 

The department of Civil Engineering is pleased to present the new high performance computational system. 
More at http://hcouper.weebly.com