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Daniel Pohoryles is a PhD student in Earthquake Engineering. Before joining UCL, Daniel worked as a structural engineer at the London office of Peter Brett Associates LLP.
Daniel has a background in Chemistry, with a BSc from Imperial College, and has completed a Graduate Diploma and MSc in Civil Engineering at UCL. His thesis focused on the mitigation of seismic loading by devising an improved control algorithm for semi-active dampers.
Daniel’s research interest focuses on the retrofit of pre-1970’s
reinforced concrete structures that were found to perform poorly under
recent seismic events and are deemed particularly vulnerable. The aim of
his PhD project is to evaluate different FRP (fibre-reinforced
polymers) retrofit schemes by means of full-scale testing, in order to
inform computational models and develop new empirical design formulae. A
variety of novel monitoring techniques will be employed throughout the
experiments.
