AMADE DAYS
In January 2020, the AMADE research group celebrated its twentieth anniversary with a small conference and a good meal. The success of the meeting encouraged us to hold a biannual mini-symposium. On this page you can find the presentations of all the AMADE DAYS.
Amade Day Winter 2021
January 26, Virtual
10:00 Welcome, Pere Maimí and Cristina Barris
10:10“Opportunities in automation”, Elio Pajares (invited speaker from Airborne and former Amade member)
10:30 Session 1: Facilities and experimental tests at Amade labs Chairman: Cristina Barris
“New tests and developments during 2020 in the AMADE composites lab”, Carlos Sarrado
“Facilities and capabilities of AMADE structures lab”, Marta Baena
11:20 Coffee break & virtual social meeting
11:40 Session 2: New tests and experiments Chairman: Albert Turon
“Effect of temperature on flexural performance of NSM CFRP-strengthened RC beams”, Younes Jahani
“Mixed mode test setup design & in-situ durability test“, Edwin Meulman
“Determination of a mix-mode cylindrical cohesive law from DCB tests”, Ruben Isaac Erives Anchondo (invited speaker from DTU, Denmark)
“Fatigue-driven delamination in GFRP laminates under mode I variable amplitude loading and G-control cyclic testing”,
Simon Mosbjerg Jensen (invited speaker from Aalborg and visiting student at Amade)
13:00 Closure
Amade Day Summer 2020
July 15, Virtual
10:00 Welcome, Josep Costa
10:10 Rector de la Universitat de Girona, Dr. Quim Salvi i Mas
10:30 “Bellapart Chair in Light and Glass Structures: purposes and objectives”, Dani Trias
10:50 “Amade’soperation during the Covid-19 pandemic”, Cristina Barris
11:00 Coffee break
11:10 Session 1: Mechanical Testing Chairman: Josep Costa
“X-ray tomography applications for composites”, Santiago García Rodríguez (invited speaker from Onera and former Amade member)
“Four ways to measure the J(w) curve”, Pere Maimí
11:50 Coffee break
12:10 Session 2: Design tools Chairman: Pere Maimí
“Complete transverse stress recovery model for linear shell elements in arbitrarily curved laminates”, Pierre Daniel (Btech and Amade)
“Towards the definition of an hybrid experimental/virtual test matrix for the certification of the aeronautical components”,
Albert Turon, Oriol Vallmajó & Ivan Ruíz Cozar
13:10 Closure
Amade Day Winter 2020
January 24, at “Sala d’actes” of the “Campus Centre, UdG” (Emili Grahit, 77)
10:00 Welcome, Pere Maimí and Cristina Barris
10:10 “AMADE, 20th anniversary”, Josep Costa
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Session 1: Additive manufacturing Chairman: Dani Trias
“Additive Manufacturing of Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Transports, Healthcare & Sports”, Norbert Blanco
“3D printing of strong fiber reinforced polymer”, Adi Adumitroaie
11:50 Session 2: Strain rate effects Chairman: Dani Trias
“Strain rate effects: A challenging topic considered in new AMADE’s projects”, Emilio González
“Measuring Mode-I dynamic fracture toughness of composites under intermediate speeds”, Sergio Medina
12:30 Coffee break
12:40 Session 3: Adhesive joints Chairman: Lluís Torres
“Efficient design of bonded joints under different loading and environmental conditions”, Jordi Renart
“A methodology to analyse bonded joints subjected to different environmental conditions”, Said Abdel Monsef
“Near- surface mounted FRP-concrete adhesive joints”, Cristina Barris
“Bond behaviour of NSM FRP strengthening systems on concrete elements under sustained load”, Javier Gómez
14:00 Closure
14:30 Lunch at “la Font del Gat” (Avinguda Lluís Pericot, 12)