News Archive

IBK Science Slam 2019!

26.06.2019 Prof. Chatzi gave a semi plenary at the external pageCOMPDYN conference on "Monitoring and Assessment of Infrastructure: Sensemaking from Data"

24-26 June, 2019 Prof. Chatzi and Dr. Ntertimanis were organizing together with Prof. Papadimitrou from the University of Thessaly a mini-symposium at external pageUNCECOMP 2019 on "Uncertainty Quantification in Vibration based Monitoring and Structural Dynamics Simulations"

21.06.2019 Congratulations to Adrian Egger who won the student paper competition of the Computational mechanics committee at external pageEMI 2019!

18-21 June, 2019 Prof. Chatzi and group members were organising two symposia at EMI 2019 on "Metamaterials for vibration mitigation" and "Structural Identification & Damage Detection".

15.05.2019 The Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zürich, the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, EPFL and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences were organising the external pageSwiss Wind Energy R&D Network on May 15th, 2019 in Rapperswil

09.04.2019 Dynamische Messungen beim external pageRückbau von Mauerwerksobjekten durch die Forschungsgruppe von Prof. Chatzi

14.03.2019 external pageProf. Adrian Brügger (Columbia University) offered an IBK Seminar on the use of Neutron Diffraction for understanding the
Mechanics of Bridge Cables.

11.03.2019 Prof. Keith Worden (Uni. Sheffield) offered a thought-provoking Dynamics Colloquium on Digital Twins, Mirrors and Virtualizations, see more info here

14.02.2019 Check out the external pageAsia-Pacific-Euro Summer School on Smart Structures Technology from 15.7.-3.8.2019: 3-weeks of lectures given by international experts in Structural Engineering, Smart Material, Image Processing, Cultural Heritage, Sensor, Bridge Inspection, Uav and Robotics.

28.01.2019 Dr. Ntertimanis was organizing a Mini Symposium together with Dr. Eftekhar Azam from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at the external pageIMAC conference on the topic of "Bayesian Type Filters for Real Time Identification I"

16.01.2018 Professor Eleni Chatzi held an open lecture on "Monitoring Structures through Motion" as part of the IAS annual interdisciplinary theme on Motion at external pageLoughborough University

11.01.2019 Congratulations to Dr. Ntertimanis who was named a member of the editorial board of external pageHeliyon

08.01.2019 external pageSee how Columbia Engineering partnered up with Cornell, using monitoring and smart retrofitting to ensure the New York City L Train can continue to operate safely while repairs take place.

17.12.2018 The Chair of Prof. Chatzi has been officially renamed to Strukturmechanik und Monitoring / Structural Mechanics and Monitoring!

13.12.2018 Prof. Chatzi, member of The Energy Science Center (ESC), won a Proof of Concept Grant in September 2018. The ESC congratulates her! The grant will allow Prof. Chatzi to implement feasibility studies and business plans for earlier ideas. The PoC Grant is endowed with about 130,000 francs.

01.12.2018 TEC21 published a list of the 2018 FEB Prize winners, which also includes Chiara Steffen and Raphael Mesaric for their Bachelor's Thesis about an Online-Platform for Monitoring the "House of Natural Resources".

12.11.2018 We are happy to announce that Prof. Chatzi won an ETH Research Grant (Forschungsgesuch ETH-11 18-1) “Enabling Dynamic Earthquake Risk Assessment (DynaRisk)”!

08.11.2018 We announce a new ETH Mobility Initiative Grant: On board Monitoring for Integrated Systems. Understanding & Management Improvement in Railways (external pageOMISM). This project is supported by the Swiss Federal railways (SBB) and the ETH Zurich Foundation. It is a collaboration of Prof. Chatzi with Prof. Corman and the SBB.

07.11.2018 Master students working in the lab on the lab-students-scaled wind turbine. Check out their video here

19.10.2018 Prof. Chatzi was giving a talk at the external page22. Dresdner Baustatik-Seminar REALITÄT – MODELLIERUNG – TRAGWERKSPLANUNG on "Structural Health Monitoring – Daten im Dienst der Infrastruktur"

15.10.2018 Prof. Chatzi had a presentation on "Data in Service of Infrastructure” at the external page1st International Conference of Greek ERC Grantees in Heraklion

03.10.2018 The Chair of Structural Mechanics at the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) is seeking a external pageFull Stack software developer/Research Assistant (60%) within the ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant, an autonomous Real-Time Decision Tree framework for monitoring and diagnostics on wind turbines.

12.09.2018 external pageJean-Philippe Noël from the university of Liège in Belgium was giving a talk on "An Engineering Introduction to Nonlinear Modal Analysis" on Wednesday, September 12 at ETH Hönggerberg

27.07.2018 We announce a new European grant relating to WINDMIL "WINDMIL Real-Time Decision Tree" under the academic hosting of Prof. Chatzi

25.07.2018 The project of Prof. Chatzi "Smart Monitoring, Inspection And Life-Cycle Assessment Of Wind Turbines" was highlighted by the Energy Science Center on their website.

24.07.2018 Prof. Chatzi was organizing a Session on Monitoring-based Performance and Assessment of Infrastructure for the upcoming external page7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, 7WCSCM conference in Qingdao, China

11.07.2018 Prof. Chatzi was organizing a Session on Monitoring and Assessment of Civil Infrastructure for the external pageEuropean Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, EWSHM 2018 conference in Manchester.

28.06.2018 Dr. Imad Abdallah was giving a talk on June 28 on the topic of "An ensemble learning approach to aggregate the output from multiple simulators and measurements". The talk was taking place during the 19th working conference of the IFIP Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems IFIP 2018.

25.06.2018 The article on the topic of external page"Hybridization of Guided Surface Acoustic Modes in Unconsolidated Granular Media by a Resonant Metasurfacewe" with Rachele Zaccherini, Dr. Dertimanis and Prof. Chatzi as co-authors has made Editor's choice in the Physical Review Applied Journal. external pageThe Physical Review Applied (PRApplied) publishes high-quality papers that bridge the gap between engineering and physics, and between current and future technologies.

08.06.2018 Assistant professor external pageHae Young Noh from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh was giving a talk on the topic of "Structures as Sensors: Using Structures to Indirectly Monitor Humans and Surroundings" on June 8, at ETH Hönggerberg.

01.06.2018 Congratulations to Konstantinos Tatsis who won the Student paper competition of the Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee at the external pageEMI 2018.

31.05.2018 The Chair of Prof. Chatzi was represented in two of the external pageEMI student paper competitions: Rachele Zaccherini as a finalist in the Computational Mechanics Competition and Konstantinos Tatsis as a finalist in the Structural Health Monitoring and Control Committee.

29.05.2018 - 01.06.2018 Prof. Chatzi and Dr. Ntertimanis were organizing Mini Symposia at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2018 (external pageEMI) in Boston, on the topics of "Structural Identification and Damage Detection" and "Metamaterials for vibration mitigation"

Visit by Prof. Masri

14.05.2018 Prof. Sami F. Masri from the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California gave a talk at the The Dynamics Colloquium on May 14 at LEE E 101 (Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich). Titel: Some Approaches for the Modeling and Monitoring of Complex Nonlinear Systems

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27.04.2018 We congratulate Chiara Steffen and Raphael Mesaric for receiving an award by the external pageFEB (Fachgruppe für die Erhaltung von Bauwerken des Schweizerischen Ingenieur- und Architektenvereins) for their Bachelor's Thesis about an Online-Platform for Monitoring the "House of Natural Resources".

FEB Award

13.04.2018 Prof. Chatzi participated at the DyVirt kick off meeting which took place in Sheffiled. DyVirt is a European Innovative Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme. The Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions offer an exciting opportunity to work with leading experts across Europe to develop advanced virtual models for the dynamic behaviour of engineering structures, primarily for offshore wind energy. Prof. Chatzi is looking for motivated Ph.D. candidates, the job description is available external pagehere.

11.04.2018 Prof. Chatzi gave a keynote lecture on "Data-Driven Assessment of Engineered Systems: Beyond LTI" at the Workshop about the external pageNonlinear System Identification Benchmarks in Belgium.

02.2018 - Congratulations to Ms. Claude Leyder from the group of Structural Mechanics, for successfully defending her PhD thesis on Monitoring-based perfromance assessment of an innovative hybridtimber building

29.01.2018 - Receipt of H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 Grant, SiMAero, Simulation-Driven and On-line Condition Monitoring with Applications to Aerospace, Proposal ID: 795917 Call, Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Konstantinos Agathos

01.01.2018 We announce a new SNSF Ambizione Grant, "Structured materials for multiscale wave control", awarded to Dr. Andrea Colombi, under the academic hosting of Prof. E. Chatzi & Prof. B. Stojadinovic

01.12.2017 - Initiation of SNSF R’Equip Grant, Smart Monitoring System for Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment of Critical Infrastructure, Project # 2-77242-17

01.10.2017 The group welcomes Ms. Rachele Zaccherini, PhD Fellow on an ETH Research Grant ETH-49 17-1, for “Metastructures for Seismic Vibration Attenuation”

14.09.2017 Follow us in the external page7AESE, external pageEurodyn2017 & external pageSMAR2017 conferences, where we roganize a number of Mini Symposia on Structural Health Monitoring and System Identification

10.09.2017 Mini Symposium on “Damage Detection” for the X International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2017, September 10-13 2017, Rome, Italy.

06.09.2018 § Mini Symposium on “Field Testing and Structural Health Monitoring” for the 7AESE Conference, 6-8 September 2017, Pavia, Italy

01.09.2017 See the new external pagetrailer of COST Action TU1402 on "external pageQuantifying the Value of Structural Health Monitoring"

29.08.2017 We are happy to join an ITN Training Network consortium on project DyVirt: Dynamic Virtualisation: modelling performance of engineering structures

17.03.2017 See us discuss "external pageBig Data in the building industry" for a Deutsche Welle feature.

10.03.2017 Prof. Chatzi is appointed Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics read more

21.02.2017 See us discuss "external pageBig Data im Bauwesen" for a 3sat.de/nano feature.

07.11.2016 We are hosting this year's Academia Industry Modeling (AIM) Week for Computational Science Zurich! read more

05.10.2016 See us featured on the Energy Science Center (ESC) "Weekly Spotlight on Energy Research"

01.10.2016 See our work featured in the new issue of ETH Globe (pp. 10-11)