SMM News

Members of the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich, including Konstantinos Vlachas, Kyriakos Chondrogiannis, and Marcus Haywood-Alexander, are actively participating in the ReCharged MSCA Staff Exchanges program. Their efforts contribute to advancing critical asset resilience through cutting-edge research and international collaboration.

Our group at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and the SMM Group at ETH Zurich presents a novel framework for input estimation in monitored systems using Imitation Learning from Observation (ILfO). Published in MSSP, the method reformulates input estimation as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), integrating both known and learned dynamics. Validated through simulations and real-world experiments, it marks a significant step in advancing structural monitoring.

The Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich celebrated the holiday season with a memorable Christmas dinner, featuring a fun-filled Gift Guessing Showdown.

Members of the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich—Kiran Bacsa, Xudong Jian, and Huangbin Liang—are participating in the 10th Asia Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (APWSHM) in Sendai, Japan. Their work focuses on physics-enhanced machine learning, monitoring, and decision support as part of the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) program of the Singapore-ETH Centre.

Flexible multi-fidelity framework for load estimation of wind farms through graph neural networks and transfer learning: work led by Gregory Duthé of our Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich. The work is co-authored with RTDT Laboratories AG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & OWI-Lab.

Check out works of our group on Structural Dynamics, Reduced Order Modelling, Structural Health Monitoring, and Decision Making under Uncertainty.

Engadin Art Talks, and the affiliated AAA Experiments series at the Kunsthalle, offer a public platform for knowledge-transfer, an alternative academy of sorts, and a real and imaginary building that constantly changes, adapts, and reinvents itself.

Check out this latest publication in the Data-Centric Engineering journal, led by Marcus Haywood-Alexander in collaboration with Wei Liu, Kiran Bacsa, Zhilu (Oscar) Lai and Eleni Chatzi.

The SMM Chair joins the ETH Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP) and the ALIVE initiative as exhibitors at the ETH Zurich Industry Day @ Open-i! Join us in the Science Zone on November 21st for a chance to talk directly with researchers working in the exciting field of advanced engineering with living materials.

Research from the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich was represented at the Beijing Art & Technology Biennale 2024, thanks to collaborations with Janiv Oron and Adrian Notz. Supported by Swissnex in China, the audiovisual installation The Stack explores megastructure theory, connecting engineering and artistic expression.