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On March 10th, I wrote 14046 words, which is my absolute maximum in a day since I started tracking my writing in November. Not bad for being pregnant, with a foggy brain and rather tired. In the category of epic typing battles: I wrote 14046 words today #acwri This may be an all-time record. — Dr Eva Lantsoght (@evalantsoght) March 11, 2017 How did this word count break down? I didn't write all 14046 words on a single writing project. Instead, I worked on several projects, as I do virtually every working day: - 969 words on emails and admin - 2536 words on my blog - 1301 words on a journal paper writing project - 8627 words on my book - 613 words on a research report The main chunk of my writing was done that day in the afternoon, as I was working on the first draft of my book, the A-Z of the PhD Trajectory. The book won't be published anytime soon, but it needs to go for review by March 31st 2018. I like being ahead of deadlines, and especially with the baby coming, I'm ...

We recently published our second paper in Structural Concrete, the journal of fib (the international concrete federation). You can find the paper online here. The abstract of the paper is as follows: The bridges built during the development of the Dutch road network after the Second World War are reaching their originally devised service life. A large subset of the Dutch bridge stock consists of reinforced concrete slab bridges. This bridge type often rates insufficient according to the recently introduced Eurocodes. Therefore, more suitable methods are developed to assess reinforced concrete slab bridges to help transportation officials make informed decisions about the safety and remaining life of the existing bridges. Field testing can be used for example when the effect of deterioration on the structural capacity is unknown. A proof load test demonstrates that a given bridge can carry a certain load level. In the Netherlands, a number of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges ha...

Today, I am hosting Dr. Colleen Clemens in the "How I Work" series. Colleen, an associate professor of Non-Western Literatures and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, earned her Ph.D. in Post-Colonial Literature at Lehigh University. Previously, she earned her M.Ed. in English Education at DeSales University (where she still teaches courses on South Africa and English Composition) while teaching twelfth grade English in the public system. She earned her undergraduate degrees in English and French Education from Penn State University. She's the co-creator of the Inside 254 podcast . Colleen lives in Bucks County with her partner, two dogs, and daughter. She can be reached via her blog kupoco.wordpress.com . Her professional editing, writing, and tutoring site is clemensphd.weebly.com . Current Job : Associate Professor of Non-Western Literatures, Director Women’s and Gender Studies Current Location : Kutztown University Curren...

We recently pulished a paper in Engineering Structures about the distribution of shear stresses that you can use in finite element models of reinforced concrete slabs for assessment. The title of the paper is "Distribution of peak shear stress in finite element models of reinforced concrete slabs". Until August 30th 2017, you can download the article for free at this link ; afterwards a library subscription to Engineering Structures will be necessary. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Existing reinforced concrete solid slab bridges in the Netherlands are re-assessed for shear based on a Unity Check: the ratio of the shear stress caused by the applied loads to the shear capacity of the concrete cross-section. The governing shear stress resulting from the self-weight, weight of the wearing surface, distributed and concentrated live loads, can be determined with a simplified spreadsheet-based method, the Quick Scan (Level of Assessment I) as well as with a linear finite e...

Today, I am interviewing Rebecca Gelding for the "How I Work" series. Rebecca is a PhD student investigating music cognition, specifically what is going on in the brain as people imagine music. She began part time in Feb 2013, as she was also looking after her 2 small children. Said children are both now at school this year (hooray) and so she's changed to full time. Prior to starting a family, she worked in the finance industry, but realised when she had kids that life is short: spend it doing something you are passionate about. She told me: "I've has always loved maths, music and the brain and now I get paid to discover and write about it every day, whilst still enjoying being a mother. Best of both worlds." Current Job : PhD Student in Cognitive Science. Aiming to submit mid-2018. Current Location : Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Current mobile device : Samsung Galaxy S7 Current computer : Acer Aspire V5-431 Can you briefly explain your current ...

At the ACI Spring Convention in Detroit, MI, I gave a presentation in the committee meeting of ACI 437. In this presentation, I gave a quick overview of the research we've been doing in the Netherlands related to load testing. You can find the slides of this presentation below: Proof load testing in the Netherlands - overview of current research from Eva Lantsoght

This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer , your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those of you interested in pursuing a research position in the Netherlands. If these posts raise your interest in working as a researcher in the Netherlands, even better - and feel free to fire away any questions you might have on this topic! It's a story all too common in academia: two partners wanting to build up a life together, but each of them aspiring academic careers . Finding an academic position in itself can be very difficult, but finding two academic positions at the same university or in the same city is even more challenging. It's called the " two-body problem ", and most universities decide to plainly ignore the situation and just hire somebody on a position that is available. Some universities ...