Civil and Environmental Engineering

https://thangel.github.io/index.html

Athanasios is working on engineering fluid mechanics, incorporated within the Institute for Infrastructure and the Environment and leading research on hydro-environmental applications. Aside from the role of lecturer in Civil Engineering hydraulics, as an Industrial Innovation Research Fellow of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) he coordinates research activities on computational methods for marine and offshore renewable energy, working closely with industry and other research groups.

• PhD in Hydro-environmental engineering (2014). Hydro-environmental Research Centre, Cardiff University.
• MEng in Civil Engineering (2010). School of Engineering, Cardiff University.

• CIVE10006 Hydraulic Engineering 4, University of Edinburgh (2019 - Now) - Course Organiser and Lecturer
• CIVE09035 Water Engineering Transport and Treatment 3, University of Edinburgh (2020-Now) - Course Organiser and Lecturer

• Environmental fluid mechanics
• Coastal ocean modelling
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Marine renewable energy
• Fluorescence spectroscopy

• PhD, The University of Cambridge, 2000
• MEng, Jesus College, The University of Cambridge, 1996
• MA(Cantab), Jesus College, The University of Cambridge

MIStructE, CEng

• Tools for Engineering Design 2

Advanced Composite Structures

Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) such as carbon, aramid and glass FRPs are being increasingly used in construction. These advanced composites can be used in combination with traditional construction materials, or to form structures in their own right. Of particular importance with FRP materials are the methods of forming joints.

Adhesively Bonded Joints

The structural use of FRPs usually involves adhesive joints. These might be between two pieces of FRP (eg: in an all-FRP bridge deck), or where the FRP is bonded to another material (eg: FRP strengthening of a metallic beam or FRP reinforcement inside concrete). These bonded connections require proper design, both mechanically and to ensure their durability.

Externally Bonded FRP Strengthening

Metallic, concrete and masonry structures can be strengthened by bonding FRP to their external surfaces. FRP can be used to strengthen a wide variety of structural elements (eg: bridge columns and decks and floor slabs). FRP is particularly beneficial where time or space constraints govern a strengthening scheme.

Concrete Reinforced using FRP

FRP materials can be used to reinforce structural concrete. They are most likely to be used for their corrosion restance (eg: marine environments) or near electromagnetically sensitive equipment. However, replacing ductile steel rebar with brittle FRP reinforcement requires traditional concrete design techniques to be revised.

Shear in Concrete with Brittle Reinforcement

Stability of Long Precast Concrete Beams

• Experimental structures research
• Structural response in fire
• FRP composite materials for structural engineering
• Externally bonded strengthening and repair using FRP
• Shear in concrete with brittle (FRP) reinforcement
• Structural Analysis and Design

http://cyberbuild.eng.ed.ac.uk/

My name is Frédéric Bosché. Following a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo (Canada), I worked for 2 years as researcher in the Computer Vision Laboratory at ETH Zurich, before becoming Assistant Professor in Construction Informatics at Heriot-Watt University. In 2019, I joined the University of Edinburgh where I was first Senior Lecturer and now Reader in Construction Informatics. I teach on Engineering Project Management, Digital Construction and some Surveying. I also lead the CyberBuild Lab that delivers research and innovation in related areas.

• PG-Cert. Academic Practice, Heriot-Watt University (UK), 2013.
• Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo (Canada), 2008.
• M.Sc. Construction Engineering and Project Management, Univ. of Texas at Austin (USA), 2003.
• M.Eng. Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Lille (France), 2003.

• Associate Editor fo the Journal of Information Technology in Construction.
• Board Member and Past President (2019-2022) of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC).
• Member and Past Chair (2019-2022) of the Modelling and Standards Committee of the European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3).
• Editorial Board Member and Past Associate Editor of Automation in Construction (Elsevier).
• Editorial Board Member of Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier).
• Innovation Champion for Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC).
• Member of European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE).

• Engineering Project Management
• Digital Construction
• Civil Engineering Construction and Surveying
• Final Year Thesis Coordinator

My research interests are related to the development and application of new digital solutions to support project delivery and asset (including heritage) management (operation and maintenance), with current focus on: 

• Acquisition and Processing of reality capture data to support construction and life cycle management (scan-to-BIM, scan-vs-BIM/DT)
• XR technology, to support enhance on-site construction works.
• OpenBIM, Linked Data and ICT for information management, principally in relation to the previous two areas.

Aside from our academic and industrial impact, our research projects in the CyberBuild Lab have also given my colleagues and I the opportunity and joy to engage in numerous public engagement activities from school career fairs to events at the Glasgow Science Museum and the Edinburgh International Science Festival.