Luca D'Angelo (ICOM) wins EDCE PhD Mobility Award
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Luca D’Angelo is one of the two co-winners of the EDCE PhD Mobility Award this semester for a collaboration with DTU (Prof Faber). He will receive a scholarship of 2000 CHF to spend 6 weeks at DTU.
Project description: Reliable management of rare extreme fatigue loads provide a technical challenge in the fatigue-life evaluation of bridge details. The main goal of my research project is to investigate the damaging effects of these rare extreme cycles, which lie above the Constant Amplitude Fatigue Limit (CAFL). To pursue this goal, two objectives have been defined for my PhD project: 1) appropriately define the high-cycle region and CAFL for fatigue S-N curves; 2) find the most appropriate damage accumulation rule for Variable Amplitude spectra having a low percentage of cycles above the CAFL. The research group of Professor Michel Havbro Faber (Technical University of Denmark, Department of Civil Engineering) is one of the most active European research groups in the probabilistic assessment of extreme loads, risk assessment, and reliability analysis. It would offer a great opportunity to improve my knowledge in these fields and directly benefit me achieving my project objectives. In particular, the added value I expect from this external stay will lie within the verification and improvement of my probabilistic model for the estimation of constant amplitude fatigue strength curves and within the finding of the correct probabilistic approach for the consideration of variable amplitude fatigue.
Luca D'Angelo (ICOM-EPFL) will spend 6 weeks at Denmark Technical University (DTU) to collaborate with Prof Faber on this project.