EAWE
(European Academy of wind energy) provides a forum to PhD students working in
the area of wind-energy to network and exchange ideas. For this year, the
networking seminar happened in Vrije University Brussels, Belgium.
This
time even few industries working for wind-energy sector participated in this
EAWE PhD Seminar to let researchers know about future opportunities and focus
areas of these companies.
I got chance to present my work “Fatigue reliability analysis of onshore wind turbine foundations”
In
addition, my colleagues from INFRASTAR #ESR7
(Gianluca), #ESR8
(Joey) & #ESR11
(Sima) participated with their presentations.
Social
part of the EAWE program was fantastic as it was planned at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/museum/home).
This
museum has great collection of Vertebrate Fossils (‘Wealden’ dinosaurs from the
Cretaceous period, from Belgium), even the large mammals of the Quaternary
period, from Belgium (including woolly rhinoceros, mammoths, cave lions and
cave bears).
We
got chance to dine with dinosaurs :D.
Overall,
attending EAWE was fun packed event including, interaction with industry, knowing
fellow colleagues working in same area, getting some new ideas, knowing one
more country and one more city and local culture in short ;).
Keep
a track on my blog; I will be visiting Belgium again for IALCCE at Ghent to present my
conference paper.
