Marija Kušter Marić (project leader) visited University of Stuttgart – Institute of construction materials (IWB) on 11-14 June 2018 for the purposes of project meeting, laboratory experiments: Brazilian splitting tests and permeability of cracked concrete. The travel costs were fully covered by UKF grant.

The achieved results of laboratory testing, non-destructive testing of bridges and numerical modelling using 3D chemo-hygro-thermo-mechanical model were analysed and further tasks were agreed by Marija Kušter Marić (project leader), prof. Joško Ožbolt (project co-leader) and Luka Lacković (project co-worker).

During her stay at the University of Stuttgart, a meeting was held with dr. sc. Josipa Bošnjak, employed at Materials Testing Institute (MPA), during which Marija Kušter Marić presented the project activities and the planned research goals and potential collaboration on the current and future projects have been discussed.