Dr.-Ing. Eric Kirpal

  • Gotthard-Franz-Straße 3
    76131 Karlsruhe

Career

10.2009 - 04.2015: studies of civil engineering, specialisation in engineering structures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

11.2010 - 02.2012: tutor for statics of rigid bodies, strength of materials and dynamics, Institute of Mechanics

09.2012 - 07.2013: student assistant, Institute of Steel and Lightweight Structures

08.2013 - 06.2015: student employee at engineering company Peil, Ummenhofer

07.2015 - 03.2020: PhD student, Institute of Reinforced Concrete and Building Materials, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Research focus

Determination of damage evolution eith regard to corrosion, fatigue, stress corrosion cracking and damage interactions

Assessment of load-bearing capacity of bridge constructions due to damages

Prediction of service life of bridge constructions

Detection of damages by use of monitoring

Lecture

basics of prestressed concrete: summer semester 2016, 2017, 2018

solid construction bridges: winter semester 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19

supervised theses

Bachelor

     - Probabilistic service life design of carbonation and chloride penetration for reinforced concrete bridges

     - Probabilistic service life design for the damage phase of steel corrosion of reinforced concrete bridges

     - Probabilistic service life assessment of massive bridge structures susceptible to stress corrosion cracking

     - Measuring the service life of concrete bridges for operation loads

     - Design of an integral railway bridge

 

Master

     - Determination of steel removal as a result of reinforcement corrosion and the preparation of a finite-element-model for the

       modeling of removal rates

     - A numerical investigation into the influence of corroded tendons on the load-bearing behaviour of prestressed concrete bridges

     - Numerical simulation of service life of prestressed concrete bridges under the influence of corrosion

     - Numerical investigation of the influence of fatigue-related material degradation on the lifespan of prestressed concrete bridges

     - Life span estimation of prestressed concrete bridges under consideration of fatigue failure in the tendon

     - A numerical investigation into the influence of corrosion-related damage of tendons on the load-bearing behaviour of

       prestressed concrete bridges

     - Numerical analysis of the corrosion fatigue behavior of prestressed bridge structures and deduction of the service life

     - Numerical investigation of the preannouncement behaviour of post-tensioned concrete bridges under tendon failure