DOSS Award Ceremony 2024

Monday 22nd April, starting 11:00 CET, TU Delft and Bouwen met Staal will organize the online DOSS Award Ceremony 2024, presenting the nominees ánd announce the winner of this year’s international prize for graduation-projects by master students in civil engineering worldwide.

At the event the six nominees will each give a personal elucidation on their appraised master thesis.

The occlusive highlight of the ceremony is (of course) the announcement of the winning thesis. A jury consisting of internationally recognized members will vote the winner of the DOSS Award 2024. The winner will receive a reward of 2500 Euro.

Free participation

Participation is free. Registration is not required. You can join in on Monday 22nd April 2024 from 10:45 CET, by pressing this participation link.

Program:

11:00 Welcome and introduction DOSS Award 2024

Milan Veljkovic (Professor of Steel and Composite Structures, Delft University of Technology)

11:05 The future with 'green' steel

dr. Tobias Lehnert (Head of Marketing & Technical Support Department, Dillinger)

11:25 Discussion

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NOMINEES DOSS AWARD 2024 (part 1):

11:30 Lateral-torsional buckling resistance of trapezolidally corrugated web girders

Erzsébet Bärnkopf (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Structural Engineering)

11:40 Discussion

11:45 Assessment of the laterial-torsional stability of steel I-beams with sequential sinusoidal web openings

Adriano Silva de Carvalho (State University of Maringá, Department of Civil Engineering)

11:55 Discussion

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12:00 Mechanical steel auxetic architected materials for a new generation of reinforced concrete structures

Simos Gerasimidis (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

12:25 Discussion

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NOMINEES DOSS AWARD 2024 (part 2):

12:30 Feasibility study and numerical investigation of novel timber veneer-wrapped steel columns

Morena Giulieri (ETH Zürich, IBK)

12:40 Discussion

12:45 Data‐based asset management of a T‐beam bridge with orthotropic deck plate exemplified by the motorway bridge at the Dortmund‐Unna motorway intersection

Stefan Kimpeler (RWTH Aachen, Institute of Steel Construction)

12:55 Discussion

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13:00 Rules for public voting, and jury voting

Milan Veljkovic (Professor of Steel and Composite Structures, Delft University of Technology)

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NOMINEES DOSS AWARD 2024 (part 3):

13:10 A geometric approach for controlling local overheating in topology optimization for additive manufacturing

Manabendra Nath Das (Delft University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (High-tech Engineering specialization)

13:20 Discussion

13:25 3D scanning imperfection measurements for FEM analysis of steel links

Viktor Szalai (Politehnica University Timisoara, Steel Structures and Structural Mechanics)

13:35 Discussion

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13:40 Voting time

Milan Veljkovic (Professor of Steel and Composite Structures, Delft University of Technology)

13:45 And the winner of the DOSS Award 2024 is..., the public winner is….

13:55 Round up and closing

Milan Veljkovic

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The DOSS Award is supported by various acknowledged organisations, educational institutions, and design-, build and steel production companies worldwide.

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