Students will be familiar with principles of the design and setup, as well as evaluation and interpretation of experimental testing in structural engineering, by attending the experiments in a virtual environment. The students will be encouraged to apply their theoretical knowledge and competences for solving complex practical tasks, and thus, to build their own “mental models”. It will be focused on the special and diverse demands in the elaboration of repeatable and destructive testing. Students will be familiar with instrumental methods and instrumentation requirements to provide structure related parameters and characteristic e.g. force-displacement relationships in support of analytical studies. Students should be able to decide upon appropriate test configuration for particular problems and to formulate the right questions in preparation of experimental studies. Students will be trained in distant group work.Lectures: (hybrid format)Theoretical background about experimental testing based on impact and resistance with focus on wind, fire and earthquake; testing facilities and technical equipment; demands on specimens and scaling requirements; arrangement of sensors; application of equivalent impact/action (e.g. forces) in pseudo static and dynamic testing; physical interpretation and presentation of experimental data;Project:Training of modelling and analysis methods; study of code requirements and their application to different structural systems; evaluation of structural performance for wind and seismic action; Tools: Matlab or Python; SAP2000Presence week:Hands-on training and exercise; networkingDate: from 18thto 22ndof November 2024Place: Osijek, Croatia