Workshop 1

The first workshop entitled “Preventing structural failure propagation” took place on June 7, 8 and 9 at the UPV and ICITECH. We took the opportunity to meet with the Advisory Board and collaborators of our ERC Endure project.
We welcomed recognized experts in progressive collapse and structural engineering from all over the world: Rigoberto Burgueño, Jason Ingham, Luca Pelà, Antoni Cladera, David Stevens, Itsaso Arrayago, Uwe Starossek and Bing Li; with whom we shared two working days that were greatly beneficial for the advancement of the project.

These were the scheduled events:

June 7. We visited the test site in Alberic (Valencia), where we recently carried out various tests on a full-scale precast building structure subjected to the sudden removal of a column.
June 8. Interesting presentations related to preventing structural failure propagation were given by the invited experts to the workshop. This Lectures session was live streamed on our YouTube channel and is now available in the video below.
June 9. A working session of the ERC Endure project took place, in which important topics related to the project were discussed, such as the general research plan and strategic aspects, the development of WP1 and risk assessment, and the preliminary design of fuses and planned experimental campaign.