Developments in damage assessment by Marie Skłodowska-Curie TRUSS ITN project

Arturo González

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/842/1/012039

Abstract

The growth of cities, the impacts of climate change and the massive cost of providing new infrastructure provide the impetus for TRUSS (Training in Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Safety), a €3.7 million Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Innovative Training Network project funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, which aims to maximize the potential of infrastructure that already exists (http://trussitn.eu). For that purpose, TRUSS brings together an international, inter-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration between five academic and eleven industry institutions from five European countries. The project covers rail and road infrastructure, buildings and energy and marine infrastructure. This paper reports progress in fields such as advanced sensor-based structural health monitoring solutions – unmanned aerial vehicles, optical backscatter reflectometry, monitoring sensors mounted on vehicles, … – and innovative algorithms for structural designs and short- and long-term assessments of buildings, bridges, pavements, ships, ship unloaders, nuclear components and wind turbine towers that will support infrastructure operators and owners in managing their assets.

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Physical ill-health, mental illness and psychological problems present substantial challenges to a significant number of college students [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Two hundred and twenty-two students applied for exemption from fees for medical or psychiatric reasons over two academic years (2004-2005 and 2005-2006)
Applications were received from all five colleges that constitute University College Dublin (UCD); i.e. Arts and Celtic Studies (52.7% of applicants), Business and Law (9.5%), Human Sciences

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Physical ill-health, mental illness and psychological problems present substantial challenges to a significant number of college students [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. In Irish third-level colleges, more than one student in ten describes their general health as poor or less WKDQ JRRG¶. In the United Kingdom, 12% of male and 15% of female college students have measurable levels of depression [1]. In Irish third-level colleges, one student in thirteen is currently depressed and more than one third of students report being depressed in the past [2]. It is significant that the prevalence of depression in female students is twice that in male students [2]. Physical and mental illness present substantial challenges to college students and authorities

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