Prof. Dr. Andreas Taras

Prof. Dr. Andreas Taras

Full Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Head of Institute of Structural Engineering

ETH Zürich

Professur Stahl- und Verbundbau

HIL D 36.1

Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

Constructional Steelwork, Steel Concrete Composite Structures, Bridge Engineering, Stability and Reliability of Structures, Fatigue and Service Life Predictions, Structural Optimization, Structural Glazing and Lightweight Structures

Prof. Dr Andreas Taras has been Full Professor of Steel and Composite Structures at ETH Zurich since October 2019, with overall responsibility for didactics and research in the application of steel as a structural material at D-BAUG. His research activities focus on the stability and fatigue behaviour of metallic elements, on the use of non-linear analysis methods and artificial intelligence in the design of steel , steel-concrete and steel-timber composite structures, on the fire performance of steel-based structural elements, and on the determination of live loads and their effects in road and railway bridges. He is active in various European and national technical standardisation groups and associations, including SIA, DIN, ASI, CEN and the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork, and his work has led to numerous innovations in Eurocodes 3 and 4. Prior to his appointment at ETH, he was at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, where he obtained his PhD in 2010, and at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, where he held the professorship for steel construction from 2016. As an engineering design, peer reviewing engineer and technical expert, he also participated in the realisation of various bridges, large-span roofs and metal structures in hydro and wind power plant construction.

Membership

Since Membership
2020 SIA Commission 264 - Steel Structures
2019 SIA Commission 264 - Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
2018 CEN TC250/SC10 AdHoc Group Reliability Background
2016 DIN NA 005-08-16 AA „Structural Analysis (SpA zu CEN/TC 250/SC 3, ISO/TC 167/SC 1)"
2011 Austrian Standards Institute ASI FNA013 - Steel Structures
2011 CEN TC250/SC3 Working Group 1 - Eurocode 3 - Design of Steel Structures, EN1993-1-1
2011 ECCS Technical Committee 6 - Fatigue
2011 ECCS Technical Committee 8 - Stability
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