2020

The Chair opens a Ph.D. position in the field of advanced simulation methods for offshore wind turbine design in the context of the European Project HIPERWIND.

The Chair received an Innovedum grant to develop a web-based platform hosting educational apps for the two Structural mechanics courses.

The kick-off meeting of the Horizon 2020 European project HIPERWIND devoted to the next-generation design of offshore wind turbine farms has taken place online on December 8 and 9, 2020.

Biswarup will work as a post-​doctoral researcher with the main interest to develop surrogate modeling frameworks for mixed discrete-​continuous random variables.

The project HIPERWIND (Highly advanced probabilistic design and enhanced reliability methods for high-value, cost-efficient offshore wind) has been approved by the European Commission end of July 2020.

The IFIP WG 7.5 2020 conference will be hosted by Kyoto University from August 23rd to 26th.

M. Moustapha co-​authored a new paper proposing a methodology for the identification of robust strategies in building renovations. The paper is a result from a collaboration with the Chair of Sustainable Construction at ETH Zurich, the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland and the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

S. Marelli co-authored a new paper comparing options for a European renewable energy supply grid. The paper is a result from a collaboration with IAAS Potsdam and the Climate Policy Group in ETH.

A former visiting scholar of the Chair (H. M. Kroetz) recently published a paper in collaboration with M. Moustapha, A.T. Beck and B. Sudret on reliability-based optimization problems in a life-cycle cost setting.

X. Zhu and B. Sudret published a new paper on emulating stochastic simulator responses with generalized lambda distributions.

A paper co-authored by S. Marelli and B. Sudret was recently published on MSSP, as a result of a collaboration with the University of Aarhus (G. Abbiati) and the ETH Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (B. Stojadinovic and N. Tsokanas).

Two papers resulting from a collaboration of the Chair with Télécom Paris (Dr. J. Wiart) and Université Paris-Saclay (Prof. D. Lesselier) have been recently published.

The GREYDIENT Innovative Training Network (ITN) on grey-box modelling and applications to reliable design and monitoring of complex systems has been approved. 

B. Sudret is co-author of a paper on the probability density evolution method applied to uncertainty quantification of non linear structures, in collaboration with Tongji University in Shanghai (China).

B. Sudret is co-author of a paper on estimating the surrogate model uncertainty in wind turbine reliability assessment, in collaboration with the University of Aalborg (Danemark) and the wind turbine company EMD International.

Members of our Chair authored two of the five papers published in the Volume 10, Issue 1 (2020) of the International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification.

M. Moustapha presented the strategy adopted by our Chair for the solution of the black-box reliability challenge alongside other participants.  He also introduced an upcoming UQLab module for active learning reliability.

The paper Polynomial-chaos-based kriging by Schöbi et al. is the most downloaded paper in the International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification. 

P.-R. Wagner and B. Sudret in collaboration with the Chair of Timber Structures published a paper on surrogate model accelerated calibration and sensitivity analysis of heat transfer models used in structural fire design.