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The Chair of Advanced Structures participated this year again in Summaery2022 (Science Mile Q3) with four interesting projects in the field of climate change, VR/AR and earthquake engineering.

In part of the Erasmus+ capacity building project "Environmental Risk Assessment and Mitigation on Cultural Heritage Assets in Central Asia - ERAMCA", the Chair of Advanced Structures, Bauhaus University Weimar is organizing a workshop from the 18th to 22nd July 2022.

Within the framework of VR/AR Learning Days 2022 workshop, German academic institutes have presented their latest achievements in research and teaching implementations of VAMR (virtual, augmented and mixed reality) applications and virtual learning platforms.

On Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022, the doctoral colloquium and the summer party of the Institute for Structural Engineering (IKI) took place.

The final workshop of the research group on "Effects of climate change on buildings and neighborhoods" took place on 21.06.2022 at Coudraystraße 11 in Weimar.

Excursion and lectures in frame of the International MSc. Program in Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering (NHRE) organized by GFZ Potsdam Section 2.6 “Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics” in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC).

Dr. Filip defended his dissertation "Assessment of the Out-of-Plane Earthquake Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures with Masonry Infill Walls Containing Openings" on April 8th, 2022 in Osijek, Croatia.

We are pleased to announce that M.Sc. Moustafa Haroun Fakar, Ph.D. Student at the Chair of Advanced Structures, has been recently awarded a scholarship " Thüringer Graduiertenförderung, 2022/23" by the Scholarship Commission of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He is actively working on the research topic "Prediction of Structural Response Modification Factors for Mixed Building Types".

The Engineering Office Dr. Krämer GmbH represented by Mr. Adler delivered a guest lecture on the topic "Approaches for the construction improvement of a cellar vault" to the civil engineering students of the 5th semester as part of the lecture series "Construction of structural engineering I - construction of timber and masonry (sustainable buildings)" on February 1st, 2022.

As part of the Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering master’s degree program (NHRE), the Chair of Advanced Structures (KTW) and Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar organized an excursion to the university’s completely gutted building at Coudraystraße 7.