Internal Events
CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Earthquake Engineering with a Social Commitment: Are We Doing Enough?” by Dr Gustavo Palazzo
ABSTRACT This talk invites us to rethink earthquake engineering from a perspective of social commitment. It offers a reflection on the role of civil and structural engineering in addressing today's challenges in seismic risk reduction. Beyond structural design and...
[VIDEO AVAILABLE] CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Numerical Simulation of Nuclear Buildings under Earthquake” by Dr. Fernando Rastellini & Cristhian Padilla
ABSTRACT The seismic assessment of structures and components in nuclear power plants is a key challenge for structural and earthquake engineering, especially in the post-Fukushima context, which demands advanced models capable of capturing the nonlinear dynamic...
CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Rotational behaviour in granular media from a macroscopic perspective” by Max Winkelmann
ABSTRACT In granular materials, friction and particle shape at the microscale strongly influence the bulk response, particularly the material's rotational behaviour. These factors affect how grains rotate, interact, and dissipate energy. Using discrete-to-continuum...
[VIDEO AVAILABLE] CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Numerical application in tunnel leakage problems” by Jiachong Xie
ABSTRACT This presentation showcases a numerical simulation approach for real-world tunnel leakage problems, developed through Abaqus user-subroutine programming to capture the hydro-mechanical coupling at segmental joints caused by gasket ageing and joint...
CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Conclusions and learnings from the road mapping exercise”, by Jordi Jiménez and Javier Marcipar
ABSTRACT During 2024, a roadmapping exercise was carried out in CIMNE. It was a first pilot experience with the idea of scoping the future needs of industry and government to improve technology transfer, align research interests with market needs and find application...
[VIDEO AVAILABLE] CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Updates on GiD Simulation Developments” by Javier Gárate
ABSTRACT The GiD Team presented the new features of GiD Cloud Services, as a checkpoint between GiD Conventions, in order to bring a better product to the CIMNE customers.The talk was done in Spanish. SPEAKER CV Mr. Javier Gárate is a Computer...
CIMNE Coffee Talk: “High fidelity simulation of pathogen propagation in the built environment”, by Rainald Löhner
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic renewed worldwide interest in pathogen propagation, transmission and mitigation. In particular, the relative impact of transmission via large droplets' versussmall droplets' or aerosols, as well as possible changes to existing...
[VIDEO AVAILABLE] CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Topological derivative in constrained optimization problems via the null-space algorithm”, by Jose Antonio Torres
ABSTRACT Topology optimization has become a key element in achieving efficient and lightweight structural designs. Besides, the use of topological derivatives within level-set frameworks has proven to be highly effective, especially when considering fix-point...
CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Ready for the 2025 Work Program Calls” by Dr. Alba Mingorance
ABSTRACT This Coffee Talk aims to provide key information and prepare potential participants from CIMNE for the upcoming calls of the Horizon Europe Pillar II Clusters, with the opening of this work program expected in May 2025. The new work program will focus on...
[VIDEO AVAILABLE] CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Phase-field modeling of fracture via homogenization”, by Gerard Villalta
ABSTRACT In this talk, we present a novel phase-field modelling approach for brittle fracture that incorporates computational homogenization techniques to characterize the microstructural degradation of the material. Traditional phase-field models often implement...