Horst Complex

dr.ing. R. Kromanis (Roland)

Associate Professor
ET-CEM-MD
Horst Complex Z230
r.kromanis@utwente.nl
+31534899331
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I joined the Department of Construction Management and Engineering (CME), Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET) in September 2019 as an assistant professor (tenure track). My position is in a program on the resilient engineering (RE) of the Four Technical Universities (4TU.RE) of the Netherlands. My research role aims to provide monitoring solutions for our civil infrastructure advancing their resilience.

My research predominantly focuses on structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges. One of the tasks of SHM is to use sensing technologies to collect useful information about the performance of man-made (e.g. dykes, bridges, buildings) and natural (e.g. rivers, coastal dunes) components of the infrastructure. The challenge is not only collecting data/information but ā€˜making senseā€™ of it. I seek for resilient monitoring solutions, systems that are enhanced with an artificial intelligence and can recover from shocks, to provide meaningful interpretation of the performance of our civil infrastructure.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Bridges
    • Structural Health Monitoring
    • Measurement
    • Computervision
    • Damage Detection

  • Physics

    • Responses

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Anomaly
    • Detection

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Publications

2025

Advancing Soil Assessment: Vision-Based Monitoring for Subgrade Quality and Dynamic Modulus (2025)Geotechnics, 5(4). Article 67. Faizi, K., Evans, R. & Kromanis, R.https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics5040067Operational data collection and analysis for a smart 3D-printed footbridge (2025)Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 1-29 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Reynolds, T. P. S., Glashier, T., Cameron, J., Kromanis, R., Zhang, P., Wynne, Z., Tessier, A., Shuldiner, A., Cammers-Goodwin, S., Vahdatikhaki, F., Nagenborg, M., Siderius, K. & Buchanan, C.https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-04-2025-0167Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analysis of Adhesives in Block-Glued Laminated Timber (2025)Sustainability (Switzerland), 17(17). Article 8055. Zazo, C. P., Gosselink, P. & Kromanis, R.https://doi.org/10.3390/su171780552D sonar techniques for monitoring the canal bed morphology of entrances to navigation locks (2025)In 13th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, SHMII 2025 (pp. 1189-1198). Technische Universitat Graz from Austria. Bastani, M. & Kromanis, R.https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-99161-057-1-179Overview and Challenges of Computer Vision-Based Visual Inspection for the Assessment of Bridge Defects (2025)In 13th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (pp. 336-344). Graz University of Technology. Khan, R. U. & Kromanis, R.https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-99161-057-1-052Requirements Analysis forĀ aĀ Digital Twin toĀ Increase theĀ Resilience ofĀ Multimodal Corridors: A Case Study inĀ theĀ Twente Region (2025)In Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops - CAiSE 2025 Workshops, Proceedings (pp. 219-230) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 556 LNBIP). Springer. Guizzardi - Silva Souza, R., Piest, J. P. S., Akyazi, A., Ariji, S., Tao, T., Bastani, M., Scheijgrond, A. R., Kromanis, R., Vahdatikhaki, F., Hüllmann, J. A. & Mes, M.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94931-9_18Dynamic Identification of Bridges Using Multiple Synchronized Cameras and Computer Vision (2025)Infrastructures, 10(2). Article 37. Panigati, T., Abbozzo, A., Pace, M. A., Temur, E., Cigan, F. & Kromanis, R.https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures10020037

2024

Designing monitoring system for condition assessment of locks (2024)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Bastani, M.Onderhoud aan de grootste monumentale binnenvaartsluis van Nederland (2024)Otar: tijdschrift voor wegen- en waterbouw, 6(105), 38-41. Kromanis, R., Bastani, M. & Doree, A.Temperature-based Damage Detection for the Commissioning Dataset of the MX3D Bridge (2024)In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024). Glashier, T., Kromanis, R. & Buchanan, C.https://doi.org/10.58286/29866

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In the press

Here is a recent post on 4TU website about the MX3D printed bridge that CEM team is equipping with a sensor network:Ā https://www.4tu.nl/resilience/news-and-events/newsletter-archive/newsletter-december19-interview-rolands-kromanis/

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Horst Complex (building no. 20), room Z230
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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