Load Testing of Bridges: Current Practice and Diagnostic Load Testing

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Dr. Lantsoght graduated with a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels Belgium) in 2008. She later earned a Master's degree in Structural Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta Georgia USA) in 2009 and the title of Doctor in Structural Engineering from Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft the Netherlands) in 2013. The work experience of Dr. Lantsoght includes design work in structural and bridge engineering in Belgium (Establis and Ney & Partners) and working as an independent consultant in structural engineering in Ecuador (Adstren). Dr. Lantsoght is an active member of the technical committees of the Transportation Research Board in Concrete Bridges (AFF-30) and Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures (AFF-40) a member of the technical committees of the American Concrete Institute and Deutscher Ausschuß für Stahlbeton Shear Databases (ACI-DAfStb-445-D) and the joint ACI-ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) committee on Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs (ACI-ASCE 421) and an associate member of the committees on Evaluation of Concrete Bridges and Concrete Bridge Elements (ACI 342) on Shear and Torsion (ACI-ASCE 445) and on Strength Evaluation of Existing Concrete Structures (ACI 437). In the academic field Dr. Lantsoght is a full professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Quito Ecuador) and a researcher at Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft Netherlands). Her field of research is the design and analysis of concrete structures and analysis of existing bridges.