Andres Felipe Calderon Hurtado
- HDR Student
- UNSW Sydney
- a.calderonhurtado@student.unsw.edu.au
Thesis Title
Development of advanced data-driven methodology for bridge damage assessment using drive-by bridge inspection
About
Andres Calderon is a researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His work centres on developing advanced data-driven methodologies for structural health monitoring of bridges, with a particular focus on drive-by bridge inspection technology. His PhD thesis, “Development of Advanced Data-Driven Methodology for Bridge Damage Assessment Using Drive-By Bridge Inspection,” explored using vehicle-mounted sensors and unsupervised learning frameworks to detect and evaluate bridge damage through dynamic signal analysis. His research has been published in leading Q1 journals in the field of structural health monitoring.
Andres also has a strong academic foundation in structural design, numerical methods, computational mechanics, and data science, with applications in both infrastructure monitoring and piezoelectric energy harvesting. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), where he worked on the seismic design of laminated bamboo walls, and earned his master’s degree at UNSW, focusing on the topology optimisation of piezoelectric energy harvesters