Welcome to the Department of Roads, Bridges and Coastal Engineering
Roads:
various aspects of road design: material technology, environmental, acoustic and safety issues, e.g.- inlay/overlay techniques
- environmental impact of infrastructure
- roundabout design
- noise impact
Bridges:
- fatigue behaviour of steel orthotropic plated decks subject to road and railway traffic - optimistaion of stress dispersing
- arch buckling criteria based on geometrical imperfections and erection criteria
- non-continuous stiffening of thin walled elements in compression
- effects of rib distorsion on orthotropic plated decks - numerical simulation of structures subject to impact load
- control of wind induced hanger vibrations
- in situ bridge and tunnel monitoring
- applications of advanced materials in bridge engineering
Coastal:
- design, construction and monitoring of coastal structures, mainly breakwaters and sea dikes
- development and exploitation of measurement jetty and instruments at Zeebrugge for prototype measurements on breakwater
- development of numerical wave laboratory for wave propagation and interaction with structures
- wave energy
Technology Park Campus Ardoyen, Building
904, B-9052 Gent, Belgium (map)
Phone: +32 (0)9 264 54 89 Fax: +32 (0)9 264 58 37
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