Joan Ramon CASAS
Dr. Joan Ramon CASAS (Spain, 1960) got his 6-year program degree in Civil Engineering (1984) and his PhD (1988) in Construction Engineering from Technical University of Catalonia, UPC-BarcelonaTech (Barcelona, Spain). At this moment, he is Professor of Bridge Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering in Barcelona, UPC-BarcelonaTech (Spain). His area of expertise is Design, Construction and Management of Bridges and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) with main focus on Fiber Optic Sensors (FOS).
Founding member and Secretary General of IABMAS (International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety), since 1999, Vice-president of EUROSTRUCT (2017-2022), Chairman of Working Commission I on Structural Performance, Safety and Analysis of IABSE (2009-2013) and Vice-chairman of the same Commission from 2005 to 2009. Managing Editor for Europe and Associate Editor of the Journal STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING, Associate Editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE) and Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in the Built Environment-Bridge Section.
Other fields: Concrete Bridge Design and Construction, Dynamic testing of bridges, Inspection methods and Structural Health Monitoring, Concrete Structures Repair and Strengthening.
Current research interests: Fiber Optic Sensors for Bridge Health Monitoring, AI for Bridge Damage Detection, Robustness and Redundancy of Concrete Structures, Live Load modelling applied to reliability and safety analysis of bridges, Bridge Management Systems, advanced non-destructive techniques in bridge evaluation, repair and strengthening of existing bridges with advanced materials, long-term performance and life-cycle analysis of bridges
Full details on the publication activity may be found in:
https://futur.upc.edu/JoanRamonCasasRius
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=casasrius
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7203049645
- Visiting professor (GIAN Course). Department of Civil Engineering. Indian Institute of Technology of Madras (India), 2016
- Visiting Professor, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 2012- Visiting Professor, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México, 2007
- Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Chiapas, Tutxtla Rodríguez, México, 2007
- Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, 2005
- Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005
- Visiting Professor, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan, 2004
- Visiting Professor, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, 2004
- Visiting Professor, Escuela Politécnica del Ejército, Quito, Ecuador, 1997
- Visiting Professor, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, 1993
- Visiting Professor, Universidad Católica de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay, 1993
- Visiting Professor, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 1991
Academic director of the Ph.D. program in Construction Engineering at UPC-BarcelonaTech. Former academic director of the Master Program in Structural and Construction Engineering from 2011 to 2015 and Dean of the School of Civil Engineering from 2001 to 2004.
Former academic director of the Ph.D. program in Construction Engineering at UPC-BarcelonaTech from 2015 to 2023. Former academic director of the Master Program in Structural and Construction Engineering from 2011 to 2015 and Dean of the School of Civil Engineering from 2001 to 2004.
- Special Service IABMAS award 2004 , awarded by the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety.
- Civil Engineering School Medal 2004 , awarded by the School of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Catalunya for outstanding contribution to teaching activities and research in the field of civil engineering.
- 2012 IABMAS Senior Prize , awarded by the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety in recognition of outstanding contributions to the application of advanced bridge inspection, assessment and monitoring techniques.
- 2012 Outstanding Paper Award , awarded by IABSE (International Associaction for Bridge and Structural Engineering) to the best scientific paper published in the Journal of Structural Engineering during the year 2012
- 2018 Outstanding Paper Award , awarded by IABSE (International Associaction for Bridge and Structural Engineering) to the best scientific paper published in the Journal of Structural Engineering during the year 2018
- T.Y. Lin Medal-IABMAS 2022 awarded by the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety in recognition of outstanding contributions to bridge engineering
Vice-Chair of the COST Action TU1406: Quality Specifications for Roadway Bridges: standardization at a European level ( https://www.tu1406.eu/)
He is member of ACHE (Spanish –Association of Structural Engineering), IABSE (International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering), IABMAS (International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety), FIB (Federation Internationale du Beton), ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) and IALCCE (International Association for Life-cycle Civil Engineering)
Member of Commission 5 (Existing structures ) and Core member of Commision 6 (Sustainability) in IABSE and member of Commission 3 (Existing Concrete Structures ) and 8 (Durability) in FIB.
Member of the Editorial Board of “Infrastructures”, “Advances in Concrete Construction” and “Structural Monitoring and Maintenance”
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