Welcome: Mercator-Fellow Chandula Wickramarachchi

The CRC welcomes its Mercator Fellow for 2022: Chandula Wickramarachchi, EngD, from the University of Sheffield. Ms Wickramarachchi will work closely with the subprojects C01, C02, C04 as well as Z01.

"The aim of my work is to learn health information of one structure by studying a population of other, whilst taking environmental and operational variations into account. In structural health monitoring (SHM), we often find that studying one structure can give a limited view of all the possible damage scenarios. With a population-based approach, we hope to address this challenge. During the research stay, I plan to validate data-based models developed for population-based SHM using the new open-database benchmark structure, the Leibniz University Test Structure for Monitoring (LUMO)."