{"id":17701,"date":"2026-04-16T07:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/?p=17701"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:46:18","slug":"new-phd-in-the-group-joan-ninyerola-gavalda-successfully-defends-his-doctoral-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/new-phd-in-the-group-joan-ninyerola-gavalda-successfully-defends-his-doctoral-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"New PhD in the Group: Joan Ninyerola Gavald\u00e0 successfully defends his Doctoral Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 27, 2026, <strong>Joan Ninyerola Gavald\u00e0<\/strong> successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled <em>\u201cValidated High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Design Allowables in Composite Damage Modeling under Uncertainty.\u201d<\/em> The defense took place at the <em>Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Economics (University of Girona)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thesis was supervised by <strong>Dr. Albert Turon Travesa<\/strong> and <strong>Dr. Aravind Sasikumar<\/strong> and focuses on improving the reliability of simulation-based approaches for the design and analysis of composite structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research develops a methodology based on <strong>Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification (VV&amp;UQ)<\/strong> to validate composite structural models under uncertainty. By comparing experimental and numerical results at the <strong>distribution level using quantitative metrics<\/strong>, the proposed framework allows high-fidelity simulations to reproduce the statistical variability observed in structural testing, providing more robust support for engineering design decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the main contributions of the thesis are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; A systematic <strong>VV&amp;UQ methodology for high-fidelity composite models<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; A <strong>non-deterministic validation framework<\/strong> using quantitative comparison metrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Uncertainty-aware calibration<\/strong> of bilinear translaminar softening laws<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; A <strong>sensitivity-guided dimensionality reduction strategy<\/strong> for high-fidelity models<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his doctoral research, Joan also contributed to the publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1359836824007212\"><em>\u201cA validated simulation methodology for determining single lap shear allowable strength in thermoplastic polymer composites\u201d<\/em><\/a> in <em>Composite Structures Part B<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 27, 2026, Joan Ninyerola Gavald\u00e0 successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled \u201cValidated High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Design Allowables in Composite Damage Modeling under Uncertainty.\u201d The defense took place at the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Economics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17703,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions\/17703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amade.udg.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}