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Read more at: Fabio Favoino presentation at ICBest 2014 Conference, Aachen

Fabio Favoino presentation at ICBest 2014 Conference, Aachen

7 December 2014

Eng. Fabio Favoino presented the results from his first year of PhD to the International Conference of Building Envelope System and Technology 2014 in Aachen.


Read more at: Mauro Overend visiting Professor at EPFL

Mauro Overend visiting Professor at EPFL

29 August 2014

Dr. Mauro Overend has been appointed visiting Professor for 2014 at the Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM) at EPFL, Switzerland, He is hosted by Dr Christian Louter who leads the Structural Glass team at ICOM. Further information is available here ( http://actu.epfl.ch/news/icom-hosts-visiting-professor-in-structural-glas-...


Read more at: gFT Research featured on Innovation & Research Focus

gFT Research featured on Innovation & Research Focus

29 August 2014

Recent research on the feasibility of composite components made of glass and glass fibre-reinforced polymers is featured in the August edition of Innovation and Research Focus. The project was supported by an Institution of Structural Engineers Research Award and the research was conducted by Susannah Benson, with...


Read more at: Visiting researcher within the Structural Glass Cost Action
Visiting researcher within the Structural Glass Cost Action

Visiting researcher within the Structural Glass Cost Action

7 August 2014

03.06.2014 Sandra Jordão, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, joined the gFT , April 2014, for a Short Term Scientific Mission sponsored by COST Action TU0905 – Structural glass |Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products. The topic of the mission was the...


Read more at: Marco Zaccaria at DTU within the Structural Glass Cost Action

Marco Zaccaria at DTU within the Structural Glass Cost Action

7 August 2014

13.06.2014 March 2014 gFT member Marco Zaccaria completed one week STSM (short term scientific mission) at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Lyngby. He was hosted by Dr Nielsen and they investigated the stress relaxation of fully toughened glass with a finite element analysis script developed at DTU. The work fits...


Read more at: Visiting research student
Visiting research student

Visiting research student

7 August 2014

Chayopas Tupberg, a graduate student in Chemistry at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, joined the gFT, April to June, for a short-term project sponsored by the Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents Project (DPST). The topic of the project was the preparation of TiO2 thin film coated on glass by sol-gel...


Read more at: Research award for the gFT research group from the Institution of Structural Engineers

Research award for the gFT research group from the Institution of Structural Engineers

6 August 2014

The gFT research group has recently secured a research award from the Institution of Structural Engineers. The awards are presented to individuals or teams to encourage high quality research with the involvement of industry. In this case the funding will be use to investigate FRP-glass composite behaviour in collaboration...