The Bellapart Chair of Light Structures and Glass organizes a series of three lectures, offered within the Master of Science in “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” (MMS) of the Universitat de Girona. The Bellapart company, based in Les Preses (Girona, Spain), has expertise in the engineering...
Within the framework of the Master of Science in “Mechanics of Materials and Structures” (MMS), Dr. Laurent Adam from eXstream company, which belongs to HEXAGON’s company, will give 5 on-line seminars on nonlinear multi-scale material modelling and ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering). In addition to...
When advanced polymer-based composite materials are to be used in aeronautical structural components, a design development program is generally initiated during which the performance of the structure is assessed prior to its use. Typically, the process of design starts with the analysis of a large...
The 3rd AMADE Day was virtually celebrated on January 26, 2021. During the AMADE Day, members of the research group brought updated information about facilities and experimental tests at AMADE laboratories and also about new tests and experiments that currently are being conducted. In addition, other invited...
The research group AMADE has been awarded two of the 18 “Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarships” from the UdG (BTIE Santander 2020) to support the innovation and technology transfer of the research groups, the Technical Research Services and the Office of Research and Technology Transfer...
The Consortium formed by the Universidade do Minho, the University of Girona (AMADE research group), the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (France) have organized the first FRP++ workshop series, which took place on December...
LightAir, a project funded by the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking, has held its final meeting on the 1st of December 2020 with the consortium members, AMADE-UdG, IKERLAN and COMPOXI, the topic manager AIRBUS Helicopters and the project officer Sonell Shroff. AMADE, acting as a...
The new paper “On how unsymmetrical laminate designs with tailored ply clusters affect compression after impact strength compared to symmetric baseline” by AMADE researchers A. Sasikumar, S.M. García Rodríguez, J.J. Arbeláez, D. Trias and J. Costa is accepted for publication in Composite Structures (April 2020). This...
A new contribution by AMADE members Javier Gómez, Lluís Torres and Cristina Barris has been published in the open access journal Materials. “Characterization and Simulation of the Bond Response of NSM FRP Reinforcement in Concrete” tackles both numerically and experimentally the effect of the shape...
The AMADE group is proud to congratulate José Manuel Guerrero for having achieved this PhD degree after the successful defence of his dissertation in the conference hall of the Polytechnic School of the University of Girona last 7th February. His work has focused on an efficient...