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Vesna Jaksic

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Civil Engineering
MaREI Centre Beaufort Building - Environmental Research Institute (ERI) University College Cork
Haulbowline Rd
Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork

T: +353 21-4864379
E: v.jaksic@ucc.ie
W: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vesna-jaksic-58b12123?trk
Assistant Lecturer
Civil Engineering
Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering
Cork Institute of Technology
Rossa Avenue
Bishopstown, Cork

E: vesna.jaksic@cit.ie

Vesna Jaksic graduated in 2000 and obtained a MSc in structural engineering in 2001 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She obtained a MSc in environmental engineering in 2004 (“Observations and modelling of carbon dioxide and energy fluxes from an Irish grassland for a two year campaign.”) and PhD in structural dynamics in 2014 (“Bridge-vehicle interaction for structural health monitoring: potentials, applications, and limitations”) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC, Ireland. She worked in both civil engineering industry and academia sectors. She has ten years experience in Ireland and abroad in the structural engineering sector. Working as project engineer she contributed to a wide variety of structural projects (over 45) in a range of different industries. Her work in academia includes tutorials and labs for the undergraduate courses (Engineering Structures, Solid and Structural Mechanics I, II, and III) and co-supervision of internship, final year, and master students. She acted as presenter and demonstrator (exhibitor) for UCC Department of Civil Engineering in collaboration with IEI, at Discovery, Cork Science Festivals. She contributed to the creation of Hydromet Research Group and Dynamical System and Risk Laboratory at UCC. During her research carrier she produced publications, participated in conferences, and contributed to numerous projects, such as COFORD (National Council for Forest Research and Development) Programme and STRIVE (Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for the Environment) Programme 2007-2013, LEANWIND (Logistic Efficiencies and Naval Architecture for Wind Installations with Novel Developments) EU FP7 project, and various industry collaboration projects. Vesna was a senior post-doctoral researcher in MaREI Research Institute, UCC, from 2013-2017 where she was involved in MARINCOMP EU FP7 project (Marie Curie IAPP programme), FloTEC H2020 project and Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1406. Currently, se is assistant lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology which is part of the MaREI.

She was awarded EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and Teagasc Walsh (The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) Fellowship (2002 - 2004), IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology) PhD scholarship (2010 - 2013), and SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) Advance Award (2014-2016).

Research Interests

  • Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection, System Identification and Control
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Time Frequency Analyses Techniques
  • Wind Turbines and Wave Energy Devices Support structures
  • Bridge Structures
  • Composite materials and structures
  • Wind and Tidal turbine blade design and optimization
  • Soil-Structure interaction

Conference Publications

YearPublication
(2017)12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC)
Jaksic, V., F. Wallace, and C.Ó. Brádaigh (2017) Upscaling of Tidal Turbine Blades: Glass or Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers? 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) Cork, Ireland, , 25-AUG-01 - 31-AUG-17 , pp.1-5 [Details]
(2016)24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2016)
Phoebe Watson, Tadhg Buckley, Paul Cahill, Vesna Jaksic & Vikram Pakrashi (2016) Scaled Experiments on Tuned Liquid Column Damper-Wind Turbine-Soil Interaction 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2016) Montreal, Canada, , 21-AUG-16 - 25-AUG-16 [Details]
(2016)8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2016)
Cahill, Paul; Hanley, Ciaran; Jaksic, Vesna; Mathewson, Alan; Pakrashi, Vikram (2016) Energy harvesting for monitoring bridges over their operational life 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2016) Bilbao, Spain, , 05-JUL-16 - 08-JUL-16 , pp.1-11 Globe icon [CORA Link] [Details]
(2016)2nd IFREMER-ONR: Durability of Composites in a Marine Environment Workshop
Brádaigh, C.M.Ó.; V. Jaksic; C.R. Kennedy; S.B. Leen; (2016) Influence of composite fatigue properties on marine tidal turbine blade design 2nd IFREMER-ONR: Durability of Composites in a Marine Environment Workshop , 24-AUG-16 - 25-AUG-16 Globe icon [Details]
(2016)Oxford Tidal Energy Workshop, OTE2016
Vesna Jaksic, Ciaran R. Kennedy, Sean B. Leen, Conchúr M. Ó Brádaigh (2016) Tidal Turbine Blade Design from a Fatigue Point of View . In: Richard Willden, Christopher R. Vogel eds. Oxford Tidal Energy Workshop, OTE2016 Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, UK, , 21-MAR-16 - 22-MAR-16 Globe icon [Details]
(2015)Performance of a Single Liquid Column Damper for the Control of Dynamic Responses of a Tension Leg Platform
Jaksic, V,Wright, C,Chanayil, A,Ali, SF,Murphy, J,Pakrashi, V, (2015) 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES (DAMAS 2015) Performance of a Single Liquid Column Damper for the Control of Dynamic Responses of a Tension Leg Platform [DOI] [Details]
(2013)11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, New York, USA
Jaksic V, O’Connor A and Pakrashi V (2013) Effects of Vehicle Speed in Structural Health Monitoring from Operational Conditions of Bridges 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, New York, USA [CORA Link] [Details]
(2012)EMPLOYING SURFACE ROUGHNESS FOR BRIDGE-VEHICLE INTERACTION BASED DAMAGE DETECTION
Jaksic, V,Pakrashi, V,O'Connor, A, (2012) PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, 2011, VOL 9 EMPLOYING SURFACE ROUGHNESS FOR BRIDGE-VEHICLE INTERACTION BASED DAMAGE DETECTION , pp.785-793 [Details]
(2012)ANCRiSST 2012 Conference - Asia Pacific Network of Centres for Research in Smart Structure Technology
J.P.Keane, A.O'Sullivan, V.Jaksic, V.Pakrashi and S.F. Ali (2012) Energy Harvesting from Beam-Moving Oscillator Interaction ANCRiSST 2012 Conference - Asia Pacific Network of Centres for Research in Smart Structure Technology [Details]
(2012)Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland (BCRI)
Jaksic V, Pakrashi V and O'Connor A (2012) Effect of Road Quality in Structural Health Monitoring under Operational Conditions Bridge and Concrete Research in Ireland (BCRI) [CORA Link] [Details]
(2012)5th European Conference on Structural Control
Jaksic V, Pakrashi V, Basu B and Ryan K (2012) Experimental Detection of Sudden Stiffness Change in a Structural System Employing Laser Doppler Vibrometry 5th European Conference on Structural Control [CORA Link] [Details]
(2011)ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2011)
Jaksic V; Pakrashi V; O'Connor A; (2011) Employing Surface Roughness for Bridge-Vehicle Interaction based Damage Detection ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2011) [Details]
(2003)EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly
Jaksic V., G. Kiely, J. Albertson, and T. Scanlon (2003) Carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes for one year above a temperate grazed grassland EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly , 06-APR-03 - 11-APR-03 Globe icon [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

YearPublication
(2017)'Tuned Liquid Column Damper based Reduction of Dynamic Responses of Scaled Offshore Platforms in Different Ocean Wave Basins'
Deirdre O’Donnell, Jimmy Murphy, Cian Desmond, Vesna Jaksic, Vikram Pakrashi (2017) 'Tuned Liquid Column Damper based Reduction of Dynamic Responses of Scaled Offshore Platforms in Different Ocean Wave Basins'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 842 (1) Globe icon [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Estimation of nonlinearities from pseudodynamic and dynamic responses of bridge structures using the Delay Vector Variance method'
Jaksic, V,Mandic, DP,Karoumi, R,Basu, B,Pakrashi, V (2016) 'Estimation of nonlinearities from pseudodynamic and dynamic responses of bridge structures using the Delay Vector Variance method'. Physica A, 441 :100-120 [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'A comprehensive study of the delay vector variance method for quantification of nonlinearity in dynamical systems'
Jaksic, V., D.P. Mandic, K. Ryan, B. Basu, and V. Pakrashi, (2016) 'A comprehensive study of the delay vector variance method for quantification of nonlinearity in dynamical systems'. Royal Society Open Science, 3 (1) Globe icon [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'A comprehensive study of the delay vector variance method for quantification of nonlinearity in dynamical systems'
Jaksic, V,Mandic, DP,Ryan, K,Basu, B,Pakrashi, V (2016) 'A comprehensive study of the delay vector variance method for quantification of nonlinearity in dynamical systems'. Royal Society Open Science, 3 [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Effect of Road Surface, Vehicle, and Device Characteristics on Energy Harvesting from Bridge–Vehicle Interactions'
Cahill, Paul; Jaksic, Vesna; Keane, John; O'Sullivan, Anthony; Mathewson, Alan; Ali, Shaikh Faruque Pakrashi, Vikram (2016) 'Effect of Road Surface, Vehicle, and Device Characteristics on Energy Harvesting from Bridge–Vehicle Interactions'. Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering, [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Assessment of Structural Nonlinearities Employing Extremes of Dynamic Responses'
Pakrashi V, Fitzgerald P, O’Leary M, Jaksic V, Ryan K and Basu B (2016) 'Assessment of Structural Nonlinearities Employing Extremes of Dynamic Responses'. Journal of Vibration and Control, Globe icon [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Estimation of nonlinearities from pseudodynamic and dynamic responses of bridge structures using the Delay Vector Variance method'
Jaksic V, Mandic DP, Karoumi R, Basu B and Pakrashi V (2016) 'Estimation of nonlinearities from pseudodynamic and dynamic responses of bridge structures using the Delay Vector Variance method'. Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, (441):100-120 [Details]
(2015)'Dynamic response mitigation of floating wind turbine platforms using tuned liquid column dampers'
Jaksic, V,Wright, CS,Murphy, J,Afeef, C,Ali, SF,Mandic, DP,Pakrashi, V (2015) 'Dynamic response mitigation of floating wind turbine platforms using tuned liquid column dampers'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373 [DOI] [Details]
(2015)'Performance of a Single Liquid Column Damper for the Control of Dynamic Responses of a Tension Leg Platform'
V Jaksic C Wright, Afeef Chanayil, Shaikh Faruque Ali, Jimmy Murphy, Vikram Pakrashi (2015) 'Performance of a Single Liquid Column Damper for the Control of Dynamic Responses of a Tension Leg Platform'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 628 (1) Globe icon [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details]
(2015)'A Delay Vector Variance based Marker for an Output-Only Assessment of Structural Changes in Tension Leg Platforms'
V Jaksic, C Wright, D P Mandic, J Murphy, V Pakrashi (2015) 'A Delay Vector Variance based Marker for an Output-Only Assessment of Structural Changes in Tension Leg Platforms'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 628 (1) Globe icon [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details]
(2015)'The Hurst Exponent as an Indicator of the Behaviour of a Model Monopile in an Ocean Wave Testing Basin'
Vikram Pakrashi, Richard O'Shea, Vesna Jaksic, Jimmy Murphy (2015) 'The Hurst Exponent as an Indicator of the Behaviour of a Model Monopile in an Ocean Wave Testing Basin'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 628 (1) Globe icon [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details]
(2015)'Dynamic response signatures of a scaled model platform for floating wind turbines in an ocean wave basin'
Jaksic V, O'Shea R, Cahill P, Murphy J, Mandic DP, Pakrashi V (2015) 'Dynamic response signatures of a scaled model platform for floating wind turbines in an ocean wave basin'. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 373 (2035) [DOI] [Details]
(2015)'Dynamic response mitigation of floating wind turbine platforms using tuned liquid column dampers'
Jaksic V, Wright CS, Murphy J, Afeef C, Ali SF, Mandic DP, Pakrashi V (2015) 'Dynamic response mitigation of floating wind turbine platforms using tuned liquid column dampers'. Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 373 (2035) [DOI] [Details]
(2014)'Damage detection and calibration from beam-moving oscillator interaction employing surface roughness'
Jaksic, V;Connor, AO;Pakrashi, V (2014) 'Damage detection and calibration from beam-moving oscillator interaction employing surface roughness'. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 333 :3917-3930 [DOI] [Details]
(2013)'Robust Skewness-Kurtosis Descriptor for Damping Calibration from Frequency Response'
V.Jaksic, V.Pakrashi (2013) 'Robust Skewness-Kurtosis Descriptor for Damping Calibration from Frequency Response'. Journal Of Aerospace Engineering, 26 (4):887-893 Globe icon [DOI] [Details]
(2006)'Net ecosystem exchange of grassland in contrasting wet and dry years'
Jaksic, V;Kiely, G;Albertson, J;Oren, R;Katul, G;Leahy, P;Byrne, KA (2006) 'Net ecosystem exchange of grassland in contrasting wet and dry years'. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 139 :323-334 [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

 YearTitleAwarding Body
2002Teagasc Walsh Fellowship EPA (The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
2010IRCSET PhD scholarship Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
2014SFI Advance Award Science Foundation Ireland

Conference Contributions

YearPublication
(2016)The LEWIS Symposium Ocean Energy: Theory, Practice and Integration,
Vesna Jaksic (2016) Wind and Tidal Turbine Blades. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The LEWIS Symposium Ocean Energy: Theory, Practice and Integration, Environmental Research Institute Beaufort Building, University College Cork , 29-FEB-16 - 01-MAR-16. [Details]
(2010)IRCSET Globe Forum 2010,
Jaksic V. and V. Pakrashi (2010) Bridge-vehicle interaction for structural health monitoring (SHM): potentials, applications, and limitations. [Poster Presentation], IRCSET Globe Forum 2010, Dublin, Ireland , 17-NOV-10 - 18-NOV-10. [Details]

Committees

 CommitteeFunctionFrom / To
– Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1406 Irish representative/

Employment

 EmployerPositionFrom / To
Cork Institute of Technology Assistant Lecturer01-MAR-17 /
MaREI, Enviromental Research Intitute (ERI), University College Cork Senior Postoctoral Researcher01-JAN-15 / 28-FEB-17
Hydraulics and Maritime Research Centre (HMRC), University College Cork (UCC) Offshore Renewable Energy Post-Doctoral Researcher02-DEC-13 / 31-DEC-14
Hydromet Group, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC Environmental Engineering Research Assistant02-FEB-09 / 19-MAR-10
PUNCH Consulting Engineers (formerly Michael Punch & Partners), Cork, Ireland Project Lead Engineer; Structural Design Engineer; Graduate Engineer18-OCT-04 / 31-OCT-08
Hydromet Group, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC Research Engineer03-MAY-04 / 07-OCT-04
Enterprise Partizanski Put, Consultancy and Contractors, Belgrade, Serbia Graduate Engineer10-JAN-00 / 16-JAN-01

Education

 YearInstitutionQualificationSubject
2014University College Cork PhDBridge-vehicle interaction for structural health monitoring: potentials, applications, and limitations
2010University College Cork DIPLOMAHealth and Safety in Construction
2004University College Cork MScObservations and modelling of carbon dioxide and energy fluxes from an Irish grassland for a two year campaign
2001University of Belgrade MScPrestresed Concrete Bridge - From Idea to Detail Design
2000University of Belgrade BSCCivil Engineering (Structures)

Languages

 LanguageReadingWritingSpeaking
Montenegrian FluentFluentFluent
Slovenian FunctionalFunctionalBasic
Russian FunctionalFunctionalBasic
Macedonian FluentFunctionalFunctional
Serbian FluentFluentFluent
Croatian FluentFluentFluent

Outreach Activities

 Description

Acted as Presenter and Demonstrator (exhibitor):
- Transition year students introduction in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, CIT May 2017
- Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, UCC Open Day 2017
- Sea Fest Festival organised by MaRAI, Environmental Research Centre, UCC, Cork, November 10th to 11th 2015 in Ringaskidy, Cork
- Celebrate Science Festival (in conjunction with Science Week Ireland) organised by SFI’s (Science Foundation Ireland) Research Centre Cork, November 9th to 15th 2014 in Cork
- Department of Civil Engineering in collaboration with IEI, at Discovery, Cork Science Festival, 2011

Journal Activities

 JournalRoleTo / From
Journal Of Bridge Engineering Referee24-JUN-16 -
Ieee Sensors Journal Referee12-NOV-15 -

Teaching Interests

Curently lecturing at CIT the following undergraduate courses:
Structural Analysis (https://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/module/moduleId/9403#programmesDeliveredIn),
Introductory to Land Surveying (https://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/module/moduleId/7432),  
3D Built Environment Modelling (https://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/module/moduleId/11150), and
Structural Steel and Timber Design (https://courses.cit.ie/index.cfm/page/module/moduleId/9410).

As a part of my PhD and postdoctoral training I was privileged to assist Dr Vikram Pakrashi, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCC, with tutorials and labs for undergraduate courses. I was responsible for the creation and presentation of tutorials for undergraduate students, occasional lecturing, creation of assignments and in class testing material, and grading of assignments for the following courses (2010-2015): 

Engineering Structures  (CE 1003)

Solid and Structural Mechanics I (CE 2001)


Solid & Structural Mechanics II (CE 2002)

Solid & Structural Mechanics III (CE 3002)






External Collaborators

 NameOrganisation / InstituteCountry
Prof. Dr Allan O’Connor Department of Civil Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College DublinUNITED KINGDOM
Finlay Wallace Scotrenewables Tidal Power LtdUNITED KINGDOM
Prof. Dr Danilo P. Mandic Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College LondonUNITED KINGDOM
Prof. Dr Conchur O’Bradaigh Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of EdinburghUNITED KINGDOM
Dr Shaikh Faruque Ali Indian Institute of Technology MadrasINDIA
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