Durability of wood – integration of experimental and numerical approach

A cross section of cut pieces of wood. Serene Gambarelli and Josipa Bosnjak research the tensile strength of soft- and hardwood and use a numerical model to capture the complex behaviour of wood, aiming to further our understanding of materials to be used in construction.

If a building is to have a lifetime of fifty years or more, it is important to be able to predict how the construction materials will fare in that timespan. This is particularly challenging for natural materials like wood due to natural differences in the structure. Serena Gambarelli and Josipa Bošnjak at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, employ a hygro-mechanical […]

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RADON: Expanding the use of serverless computing technologies

Giuliano Casale coordinates the RADON consortium which has developed a software engineering framework to maximise and finesse serverless computing across multiple industries

The RADON (Rational decomposition and orchestration for serverless computing) project is coordinated by Dr Giuliano Casale, with researchers from Imperial College London, Tilburg University, University of Stuttgart, and University of Tartu, as well as the Athens Technology Center, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, XLAB, and Eficode. The consortium has developed a software engineering framework that addresses the challenge of developing cloud applications […]

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