DrTheo Glashier

My PhD focuses on the health monitoring of the world’s first metal 3D printed structure: the MX3D Bridge.
Little is known of the long-term behaviour of metal produced using additive manufacturing, as its response to static loading differs from conventionally formed metal. For instance, the new manufactured components exhibit reduced strength, stiffness and ductility in the build direction.
Adequate monitoring of the bridge is therefore required to gain a better understanding of long-term response of additively manufactured metal. However, to enable health monitoring of the MX3D Bridge, through accurate structural change detection, the environmental and operational variations (such as temperature) which real-world structures are exposed to, first require modelling.

I have, so far, concentrated on developing accurate response predictions of the bridge’s response to (daily and seasonal) temperature fluctuations. My PhD therefore also involves the implementation and improvement of structural health monitoring techniques and workflows.