Hi friends,
Today I
would like to talk to you all about my secondment at IFSTTAR! I had been really
busy to write about it and I should say that it was an amazing experience, so,
I wanted to write a good post about it and for that, I was needing some extra time.
First of
all, my secondment was supervised by Dr. Pierre Hornych and Dr. Juliette Blanc
from the Laboratory for Modelling, Experimentation and Survey of transport
infrastructures (LAMES) of IFSTTAR. I should say that I feel really grateful
because not just them, if not, all their work team, researchers, students, and
technicians, made me felt like at home. The work environment they have there is
great, so, I should say that my coupling there was really quick and I could
learn so much for just a month. I really would have liked to be there for more
time!
Natasha (ESR15
of SMARTI) and Domenico (ESR3 of SMARTI) are based there, so, I could share
more time with them, which was also great, and learn a little bit more about
their awesome projects!
During this
secondment, I learned about LAMES experience in instrumentation that is
possible to use in real scale experiments in the field and at the Carrousel-LAMES
facilities. Also, how to treat the corresponding data: back-calculation using
the Alizé software, viscoelastic analysis using the Viscoanalyse software and
dynamic analysis using the Viscoroute software.
At the end,
with their advice, I defined a proposal of instrumentation that could be
possible to use in the next step of my project. Although I am not going to
build it, it was really useful to have their support in this part of the project.
It sounds
that the project is ending, and well, yes, we are starting our last year, so, the
time had passed really fast, and now we can see how much we had grown, how we had
become a kind of family. We won´t be strangers anymore (the sensitive woman
appears again, I am sorry).
I guess I
should stop here for the moment, but I promise you all that I am going to share
more things like this. Thanks for being tuned.
Keep in
touch,
ESR14-PLP.
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