Christiaan Jilderda wins DOSS Award
Christiaan Jilderda, structural engineer at W2N Engineers in Drachten, has been acclaimed first prize winner of the Dutch Open Steel Award (DOSS) 2021. He won the prize for his graduation study at the faculty for Design, Production & Management of the University of Twente, about fatigue in tubular structures. He was granted the international prize at a well-attended online award final, last Thursday.
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26 april 2021
Christiaan Jilderda, structural engineer at W2N Engineers in Drachten, has been acclaimed first prize winner of the Dutch Open Steel Award (DOSS) 2021. He won the prize for his graduation study at the faculty for Design, Production & Management of the University of Twente, about fatigue in tubular structures. He was granted the international prize at a well-attended online award final, last Thursday.
The DOSS Award is a new international prize, initiated by the Technical University Delft and Bouwen met Staal (Dutch Steel construction Institute). It stands open for participation by MSc students, graduating in civil engineering at (technical) universities from all over the world.
This year the DOSS award experienced its scoop, aiming for the thesis of master students, graduating between 1 March 2020 and 28 February 2021. The competing dissertations have to address research matters in which the building material steel plays a major part.
For this years’ prize-edition a total number of 22 contributions were received, coming from 15 different universities in 16 different countries. Out of the entrees the jury selected these six nominees:
- Henrique Gonçalves Afonso: Design of S690 Slender Plate I-Girders under combined Shear, Bending and Compression;
- Christiaan Jilderda: Fatigue in Tubular Structures;
- Capone Paolo: The potentialities of high-performance metal foam cores;
- Ben Weber: Material anisotropy in wire and arc additively manufactured structure;
- Angeliki Christoforidou: New joints of GFRP tower with a steel support structure for offshore windturbines and
- Iulia Alexandra Tarus: Evaluation of structural properties of high-performance steel obtained on coupon specimens.
The jury elected Christiaan Jilderda their first prize winner. In this decision they were accompanied by the public, attending the award final. Some 35% of the 200 public votes went to Christiaan Jilderda. Ben Webber (Imperial College London) was chosen the runner up by the jury.
The DOSS Award 2021 was supported by Zeman, Serverfield, ECCS, SNS-Intra and Dutch Steel construction Institute – English study books.