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  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship: The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) are the European Union’s reference program for doctoral and postdoctoral training.   The MSCA Doctoral Excellence program stands as a pinnacle of prestige in academic circles, recognized as the foremost initiative of its kind worldwide. This esteemed program embodies a commitment to nurturing the brightest minds, fostering groundbreaking research, and cultivating innovative approaches to address global challenges. They support excellence in research and innovation by fostering collaboration across borders, sectors, and disciplines. MSCA PhD grants are the richest (1st) in the world among PhD scholarships, funded by Europe Union, they must be honored.  Marie   Curie networks belong to the excellence pillar of H2020, which includes the calls most competitive from the scientific point of view. Only 6.7% of the submitted MSCA ITN proposals are financed, and this is a low p...
  Calls for papers for the special issue in a peer-reviewed journal Designs (ISSN 2411-9660) "Designing Industrial Monitoring Systems with the Help of Machine Learning" 2022-2023 The proposed special issue is devoted to exploring innovative automatic decision-based monitoring systems in the Automotive industry, Industrial Agriculture, Healthcare industry, Process Industries and Construction Management. Keywords: SHM design machine, bridges, tunnels, pipelines self-diagnostics sensor development data analysis, data mining, data management machine learning for monitoring and diagnostics More details: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/designs/special_issues/DIMSML

Gliwice bridge over Klodnica River

Hello Everyone! Post about SHM of wonderful Gliwice bridge over Klodnica River 😊. A first-class infrastructure is an inevitable factor for economic growth. Bridges have a key position in this infrastructure system. Its functional failure or collapse has significant economic and financial consequences. For this reason, it is important to regularly monitor the current bridge condition, and derive estimates of the remaining service life. This ensures a safe and economically sensible use for existing structures. For this purpose,  The research is conducted on the real bridge within DTS (Silesian Central Motorway)  in Gliwice ( Shared object for INFRASTAR project ),  which is  instrumented with various sensors .  The location of the bridge is illustrated in Figure below.  The sensors were install by NeoStrain in the construction during the erection works. Figure:  Gliwice Bridge  I t is located along the Katowice -...

Conference and technical visit at Østerild

I am so glad to share with you the  amazing experience of participating in my first conference in this project!   Technical system degradation conference  - took place in  liptovsky mikulas which are the military academy in Slovakia, between 04/04/18 and 07/04/18. The event was quite challenging for me since it was almost fully in polish.  Here is my  p oster: "I realized this morning that your event content is the only event related 'stuff' I still read. I think that's because it's not about events, but about the coming together of people to exchange ideas and learn from one another and that's valuable information for anyone." — Traci Browne I also learn from some presentations in the different technical system and interesting discussions which push me to think in a different way! The conference is not only about work,  it gives us a chance to meet different people. Here are some snaps: ...

Life and Learning

How can triangulation make your research more reliable!! Hi Again, Effective research is the outcome of communication. Discussing with others is more efficient compare to our lonely struggle with the material. It is really important to talk with others about our work,in addition to spending a good amount of time for reading, writing, and conducting experiments, because this will provide quicker and better solutions to problems that we may encounter. And specially if it's industry people, experts then we can see the practical aspects of our research.                                   The first  INFRASTAR  implementation day was held at the Federal Highway Research Institute ( BASt ) in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. The main aim was inviting companies, administrations, local authorities, academic experts, policy makers, research scientists, engineers in order to discuss INFRASTAR rese...

One year experience of being an Early Stage Researcher (ESR)

Why i decided to become an Early Stage Researcher? I was working in an organization before becoming an ESR. I did my internship at Deutsche telekom, so i was aware of the industrial perspective of a research, and I wanted to accelerate my technical technological knowledge so that I could cope up with the theoretical and practical aspects of research. That is the reason, I applied for the ESR position, to add more knowledge content to my profile. This knowledge comes from beneficiaries and partner organizations involved in the program as well as the recruited ESRs. They are from different domains and countries. It makes the program multidisciplinary very dynamic and has good international disclosure.  And during my first year, i had the impression that i was right. My host institution is Neostrain. And NeoStrain is a leading company in the measurement technologies for the construction industries in Poland. And i choose my host institution in an industry because it gives the p...

A architectural model that describes my Phd Goal

My task in the project is to integration of sensor and local signal procession. Now i will try to explain architectural model from system engineering approaches which will describe my Phd Goal.  Following the architectural model (AM), the AM diagram of a sensor integration is shown below. The diagram includes entity, aspects, requirements and functions of the sensor integration.    Consider a stakeholder, such as bridge contractor. T hey have an excessive amount of maintenance on bridges due to demands from fatigue safety and monitoring considerations. Because, bridges need to be maintained to identify of possible damage. And monitoring  is really costly because good monitoring needs ''good sensor'' which can give meaningful information. But in practise it is difficult to get meaningful information from one sensor, that is the reason sensor integration for monitoring system recognized as a significant problem. Three system elements related to the bendi...

A Successful Scientific Night

On Saturday, October 14, The  Silesian University of Technology  held its 12th edition of Scientific Night - The Art of Science.  I participated the art of science and showed some scientific experiment. The NeoStrain families also participated in science night activities.  NeoStrain came with a crack measurement scale and snow monitoring system.  And we had a demonstration of body weight application by using two strain gauge sensor in the bridge and  detecting the speed of the hitting to the board application using the accelerometer .   The speed of the hitting on the Board application: We can detect the speed of the ball throwing on some object using basic physic of Accelerometer.  Speed or velocity comprises of two things if some objects travel at a known distance in a known amount of time this is known as velocity. So acceleration is how much something increases has velocity over time. We have used  HS-100 ...

BLEIB structure at BAM

Hi Everyone! Here i am again!!  In my last blog, I have mentioned about my secondment. So last week, I had a hard working day in Horstwalde  to see  the different nondestructive   technique for BLEIB structure. And I and xin (ESR1) used the embedded ultrasonic sensor to measure the static and dynamic changes in  BLEIB structure.  Here is the picture of beam: And a picture of the static test: And a picture of the dynamic test:    Video of the dynamic test: Here is the embedded ultrasonic sensor measurements and signal:

Secondment and advance NDT&E training in BAM, Germany

Hi Everyone! Here i am again!!  I have started my secondment on 1st of July in BAM, Germany. Oh yes, ''A  secondment  is a name given to temporary work which is assigned to a researcher in a different area from which they are already working on the project''. As i am working in a European project ( Infrastar ) so I have to go for secondment to work with other ESR. That is the reason i am here ( BAM ). And i will be here for three months. I was bit lucky when i came to BAM, because there was advance  NDT training workshop. So i had a chance to participate this workshop.  I have to say that it was an interesting experience, met lots of interesting people in BAM. Other engineers, researcher (working on NDT), which makes me happy to see such an interest in NDT testing. But mostly, the opportunity to hands on experience on sensor and measurement and discuss my work, reuniting some good comments, good contacts, that was great. Her...

Who am I?

Hello!  It will please some of you to know that who am I!  it will please the rest of you to know that why I  choose to pursue a Ph.D.? My name is Joyraj Chakraborty, seems some Asian name! Hmm!! Yes, I am from Chittagong, Bangladesh. I completed my Master’s degree majoring in radio communication Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden and undertook an internship at Deutsche Telecom in the customer equipment department. Before joining Infrastar project ( 10th February 2017) ,  I  worked as a scientific research engineer at KU Leuven, in Belgium from 2014 to 2015, developing an acoustic sensor localization for an unknown sound source. Drive for research is the best reason to start my Ph.D.  I have experienced a sense of  excitement  while working on a project of my own during working as a scientific researcher at KULEUVEN, where I enjoy the opportunity to focus on a problem of cutting-edge research. The ...