ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction: A steel collaboration between the University and ArcelorMittal Luxembourg
Thanks to a close collaboration initiated more than 10 years ago, the University of Luxembourg and ArcelorMittal Foundation have agreed to extend their partnership until 2025, through the ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction. A signing ceremony was held on 13 February 2023 with Prof. Jens Kreisel, Rector of the University of Luxembourg, Prof. Christoph Odenbreit, holder of the ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction, Prof. Olivier Vassart, CEO Steligence, Nicoleta Popa, Head of ArcelorMittal Global R&D Construction applications, Infrastructures and Long Products, and Pascal Moisy, Head of Communications & CSR at ArcelorMittal Luxembourg.
The ArcelorMittal Chair of Steel Construction was created in 2010 by ArcelorMittal Luxembourg and the University of Luxembourg for teaching and research. The Chair is managed by Christoph Odenbreit, professor of mixed metal structures at the University of Luxembourg. It focuses on the study of future metal construction for high-performance buildings and on construction techniques, developing new structures and design rules for innovative steel construction and mixed structures.
The focus is on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the circular economy in construction and improving sustainability through the development of green solutions.
Over the past decade, the Chair of Steel Construction has been very successful. At the 2022 FNR Awards, Professor Christoph Odenbreit received the “Outstanding Mentor” award. In 2020, Dr. Maciej Chrzanowski received an FNR award for his outstanding doctoral thesis “Shear Transfer in Heavy Steel-Concrete Composite Columns with Multiple Encased Steel Profiles (1) “. In 2019, Dr Valentino Vigneri received an award for his article entitled “Different load bearing mechanisms in headed stud shear connections for composite beams with profiled steel sheeting (2) at the Nordic conference on metal construction, and Dr Andras Kozma presented his conclusions on circular construction at a TEDx conference at the University of Luxembourg.
At the Luxembourg pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai, the Chair promoted a futuristic vision of modular, circular and standardised steel solutions, based on “Digital Twin” technologies. These scientific results were recently applied to the “Petite Maison” Pavilion (https://petitemaison.lu/), which is a contribution of the University of Luxembourg to the Esch2022 initiative – European Capital of Culture, and which can still be visited at the Belval Campus.
The Chair has also contributed substantially to the development of European standards in the area of steel and mixed structures. In particular, the team consisting of four senior researchers since the creation of the Chair (Oliver Hechler, Renata Obiala, Matthias Braun and Jie Yang) and fourteen PhD researchers, actively participated in the revision of Eurocode 4 “Design of composite steel and concrete structures (3) “.
(1) Shear Transfer in Heavy Steel-Concrete Composite Columns with Multiple Encased Steel Profiles.
(2) Different load bearing mechanisms in headed stud shear connections for composite beams with profiled steel sheeting.
(3)Design of composite steel and concrete structures.
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