Prof. Dr. Geert Lombaert - Hauptvortragender 2012

Structural Mechanics Division of the Department of Civil Engineering KU Leuven
Dr. Geert Lombaert (PhD KU Leuven 2001) is Associate Professor at the Structural Mechanics Division of the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven. He has been a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Centrale de Paris (January 2003-July 2003) and at the University of California, San Diego (April 2008-July 2008). At the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven he teaches courses in Strength of Materials, Structural Mechanics, Matrix Analysis of Structures, and Wave Propagation and Vibrations in the Built Environment. He has also been teaching Computational Mechanics in the International Master in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna.

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Research field

His research interests include environmental vibrations due to traffic and construction activities, inverse problems in structural mechanics, Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification for vibration-based model updating, health monitoring of civil engineering structures, dynamic force identification, wave propagation and scattering in inhomogeneous and random media, and (robust) shape and topology optimization. He has been involved in many national projects and projects of the EU 6th and 7th Framework Programme and is copromotor of the second phase (2010-2017) of the Centre of Excellence on Optimization in Engineering at KU Leuven (OPTEC). He was member of the Scientific Committee of many international conferences and has co-chaired Eurodyn 2011, the Eighth International Conference on Structural Dynamics (Leuven, 4-6 July 2011).


He is currently (co-)supervisor of 8 Ph.D. students and was involved as a (co-)supervisor or member of the advisory committee of 8 Ph.D. dissertations. He has given several invited/keynote lectures in research institutes and conferences. He has published 46 refereed journal articles, and more than 100 conference articles. In 2000, the OROS European University Millennium Award was awarded to him and G. Degrande.

Key Publications

  • G. Lombaert, G. Degrande, J. Kogut, and S. François. The experimental validation of a numerical model for the prediction of railway induced vibrations. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 297(3-5):512-535, 2006.
  • G. Lombaert, G. Degrande, B. Vanhauwere, B. Vandeborght and S. François. The control of ground borne vibrations from railway traffic by means of continuous floating slabs. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 297(3-5):946-961, 2006.
  • M. Schevenels, G. Lombaert, G. Degrande and S. François. A probabilistic assessment of resolution in the SASW test and its impact on the prediction of ground vibrations. Geophysical Journal International, 172(1):262-275, 2008.
  • G. Lombaert and G. Degrande. Ground-borne vibration due to static and dynamic axle loads of InterCity and high speed trains. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 319(3-5):1036-1066, 2009.
  • G. Lombaert and D. Clouteau. Elastodynamic wave scattering by finite-sized resonant scatterers at the surface of a horizontally layered halfspace. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4):2041-2052, 2009.
  • Papadimitriou, C. and Lombaert G. (2011). The effect of prediction error correlation on optimal sensor placement in structural dynamics. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Accepted for publication.
  • Van Beeumen, R., Van Nimmen, K., Lombaert, G., Meerbergen, K. (2012). Model reduction for dynamical systems with quadratic output. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 91 (3), 229-248.
  • Lourens, E., Reynders, E., De Roeck, G., Degrande, G., Lombaert, G. (2012). An augmented Kalman filter for force identification in structural dynamics. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 27, 446-460.