📅 Friday, September 26, 2025 🕚 2:00 pm CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building (1st floor), UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT This thesis advances finite element-based tools to improve atherosclerosis analysis by addressing current computational limitations....
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CIMNE serves as a catalyst for the global engineering research community. From informal talks and seminars to workshops and major events by our Congress Bureau, we strive to inspire innovation and collaboration worldwide.


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CIMNE serves as a catalyst for the global engineering research community. From informal talks and seminars to workshops and major events by our Congress Bureau, we strive to inspire innovation and collaboration worldwide.
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PhD Thesis Defense – “Advancing Decision Support: Content Management, Ecommerce, and the Challenge of Interoperability for Integrated Modeling” by Laurence Sigler
📅 Thursday, July 24, 2025 🕚 11 am CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building (1st floor), UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona + 💻 Barcelona Connect to the livestream ABSTRACT Computational modeling helps us understand how decisions influence outcomes by replicating complex...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Enhanced Inherent Strain Modelling for Powder-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing” by Iñaki Setien
📅 Thursday, June 5, 2025 🕚 11 am CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building (1st floor), UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona + 💻 Barcelona Connect to the livestream ABSTRACT Metal additive manufacturing (MAM), particularly powder bed fusion using a laser beam (PBF-LB), has...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Towards shock absorbing hyperelastic metamaterial design” by Alejandro Núñez
ABSTRACT This thesis explores the possibilities and benefits of computational tools to be used in the analysis and design of shock absorbing metamaterials for industrial applications. The research is organized into two complementary chapters. The first part focuses on...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Transport Planning Strategies in the Context of Autonomous Vehicles” by Samra Sarwar
📆 Tuesday, December 17, 2024 🕐 12:00 pm CET 📍 ETSECCPB, Sala Tesines C1-002 (C/Jordi Girona 1-3, mòdul C1, Campus Nord, Barcelona) ABSTRACT With the constant advancements in autonomous drive technologies and the growing popularity of tactical urbanism in street...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Computational analysis and design of metamaterial-based panels for high-performance acoustic applications” by Gastón Sal
ABSTRACT The concept of metamaterials has emerged as an exciting frontier. These are engineered structures designed to possess unique properties, often unattainable in nature. This concept has not only captured the imagination of the scientific community but has also...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Numerical modelling of non-Newtonian shallow flows” by Marcos Sanz
ABSTRACT Numerical modelling of natural phenomena, particularly weather-related which are the 90 % of global disasters, is essential to analyse and predict hazardous situations for the people, the economy and the environment. The evolution of these numerical tool,...
PhD Thesis Defense – “The Impacts of Main Trends on the Port Sector. Evolution towards a New Generation of Green and Digital Ports” by Francisco Javier Garrido
📆 Monday, December 2, 2024 🕐 11:00 am CET 📍 ETSECCPB, Sala Tesines C1-002 (C/Jordi Girona 1-3, mòdul C1, Campus Nord, Barcelona) ABSTRACT Trends in logistics and more broadly across technology and energy are resulting in changes on the traditional business...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Low-order face-based approaches for incompressible computational fluid dynamics” by Luan Malikoski
ABSTRACT The fast and accurate simulation of laminar and turbulent incompressible flows is crucial in science and engineering. Low-order numerical strategies, particularly finite-volume (FV) methods based on cell-centred and vertex-centred approaches, remain essential...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Continuous-discrete numerical modeling of the thermomechanical behavior of granular media supported by experimental campaign” by Rafael Rangel
📆 Friday, November 8, 2024 🕐 12:00 pm CET 📍 OCZ Room, C1 building, 2nd floor, CIMNE Barcelona (UPC Campus Nord) ABSTRACT Granular materials, ranging from soils and food grains to construction aggregates and pharmaceutical powders, are prevalent in both natural and...
PhD Thesis Defense – “A Novel Computational Homogenization Theory for Multilayered Plates: The Multiscale 2D+ Approach” by Pablo N. Wierna
📆 Thursday, October 17, 2024 🕐 5:00 pm CET 📍 OCZ Room, C1 building, 2nd floor, CIMNE Barcelona (UPC Campus Nord) ABSTRACT This doctoral thesis presents a novel multiscale theory for the analysis of multilayered plate structures, termed the "Multiscale 2D+ approach"...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Evaluation of potential hazard due to off-stream reservoir failure using Machine Learning techniques” by Nathalia Silva Cancino
📆 Friday, October 11, 2024 🕐 11:30 am CET 📍 ETSECCPB, C/Jordi Girona 1-3, building C1, room 002, Campus North, Barcelona ABSTRACT Hazard classification for dams and off-stream reservoirs, which entails identifying potential damages in the event of structural failure,...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Computational Multiscale Analysis for Additive Manufacturing” by Iván Rivet
📆 Monday, April 22, 2024 🕐 11 am CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT This thesis aims towards the understanding and optimization of Additive Manufacturing (AM) components through the application of accurate computational...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Development of a unified fatigue constitutive model: from high to low cycle regime” by Sergio Jiménez
📆 Friday, April 5, 2024 🕐 12 pm CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona + 💻 Online Link for the online session ABSTRACT In a context in which research lines such as optimised design, smart design, use of new materials, weight reduction,...
PhD Thesis Defense – “Definition of multidimensional reduced order models for the elastic analysis of large composite structures” by Francesc Turón
📆 Tuesday, March 5, 2024 🕐 11 am ─ 1 pm CET 📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona + 💻 Online Link for the online session ABSTRACT Modern composite materials, primarily based on the union of polymeric matrices and fibers of glass, carbon...
Arnau Fabra obtains his PhD in structural analysis
In mid-October, CIMNE researcher Arnau Fabra defended his doctoral thesis entitled Modeling of the mixed form of wave problems with correcting terms based on training artificial neural networks: Application to acoustic black holes. Professors Ramon Codina and Joan...