Pierre Smars |
Bath, 24 May 2012, 13:30 |
Dr Pierre SMARS has a degree in architectural engineering from the Catholic University of Louvain, UCL (1989). He completed a master degree in conservation of monuments (1992) and a Ph.D. in engineering (2000), both at the Catholic University of Louvain KUL. He had been working at the R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation at the KUL from 1993 to 2001. Since 2001, he is research associate at the University of Bath, working on a EPSRC research. His research interests are stability of structures, surveying techniques and computers programming. Gothic churches are his customary study objects. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he studied the influence of the release of the classical plasticity theory hypotheses on the stability of vaulted structures.
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