Presentation Of My Phd Defense, Lekenpraatje

On June 14th 2013, I defended my doctoral dissertation at Delft University of Technology.
As I wrote before, the defence itself was the really destination of the entire procedure of writing, editing, re-editing, publishing together with in conclusion defending my doctoral dissertation.

One of the elements of the defence at TU Delft itself is the so-called "lekenpraatje" - a presentation for the laymen.

For my "Lekenpraatje" I decided to bear upon upon a few elements of my dissertation:

• the background: why was this inquiry necessary, together with what has been (or has non been) done previously
• an overview of the experiments: because all my friends together with solid unit of measurement know is that I spent crawling roughly on a dusty laboratory flooring for a niggling less than three years, resulting inward my ever-white-dusted appearance at random events, or my needing to launder my labjeans at high temperatures to decease the cement dust out.
• beams versus slabs: or something that I accept been trying to repeat over together with over again: slabs inward one-way shear comport differently than beams!
• Modified Bond Model: the theory that I worked on, together with I tried to explicate it every bit graphically every bit I could.
• Application to practice: What accept nosotros won past times investing inward experiments? We flora that nosotros tin forcefulness out decrease the loads for calculation amongst almost 20% every bit a number of the recommendations that nosotros formulated from our experiments. That does NOT hateful we've "won" 20%, every bit the shear provisions inward the electrical flow code number inward lower shear capacities. Overall, nosotros did come across a little improvement based on our recommendations together with the Eurocodes every bit compared to the previously used national code.

All inward all, I had virtually xx minutes' worth of fourth dimension allotted for the presentation - together with it was a niggling on the curt side. thirty minutes would accept been to a greater extent than comfortable to halt together with expand on a few topics along the way, only I intend (and hope) it gave my friends together with solid unit of measurement an thought of what I worked on for the past times few years.

If you lot are interested inward the slides of this presentation, you lot tin forcefulness out notice them here:

Lekenpraatje from Eva Lantsoght