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El clúster de Simulació de sòlids i fluids per a processos industrials del CIMNE ha participat en un estudi que proposa un mètode numèric per simular la impressió 3D d’estructures de formigó i les capes que el conformen. Aquest model és una eina valuosa per...
The ResilMob project, a pioneering initiative to bolster the resilience of geostructures in Catalonia’s Road network, is yielding its first results through a beta system placed in the mountainside of Barcelona’s Montjuïc Mountain, opposite the Ronda...
The IX International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. The conference is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied...
The 16th Conference on Evolutionary and Deterministic Methods for Design, Optimization, and Control with Applications (EUROGEN 2025) has officially opened its Call for Submissions. Organized by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences...
The BIOntier research project, aimed at advancing sustainable, circular biocomposites with high-performance features for multi-sector applications, officially kicked off this week with a working meeting at the FORTH research centre in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The...
The XII International Conference on Adaptive Modelling and Simulation (ADMOS 2025), set to take place from 9-11 June 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. Researchers and professionals can submit their contributions through the official conference website...
The XVI National Congress on Composite Materials (MATCOMP25), which will be held 8-10 July 2025 in Barcelona, is now accepting abstracts. The submission form is accessible through the congress website and will remain open until December 20. Experts interested in...
Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) is looking for postdoctoral researchers who are interested in joining the Centre through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. The CIMNE Project Management Office is now...
Researchers at CIMNE's Machine Learning in Civil Engineering Research Group and the Flumen Institute have developed a new machine-learning based tool to classify off-stream reservoirs based on their potential risk of rupture. The work, carried out as part of the...
The International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) has published a “one-stop reference guide” summarizing all funding opportunities for researcher careers at CIMNE, ranging from junior PhD students to established faculty. The document,...
Researchers from the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) and other Catalan and Spanish institutions have developed a novel methodology to identify threats to...
Researchers from the Machine Learning in Civil Engineering group at CIMNE have developed a new machine-learning based software to predict structural behaviour of dams, allowing for enhanced decision-making and minimizing safety risks of these critical infrastructures....
Doctor Juan Marcelo Gimenez, from the Structural Mechanics research group at CIMNE, has unveiled a new methodology to improve simulation of the powder coating process, an eco-friendly finishing technique used across various industries to create a hard finish...
CIMNE researchers Oluwakemi Akinwehinmi and former head of CIMNE-Nature, Dr. Pedro Arnau del Amo, have presented a novel image augmentation technique to enhance the capability of artificial intelligence (AI) models to detect abandoned pets in the wild....
A group of researchers from the International Centre of Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a new methodology for improving Machine Learning-based model forecasting of gound-level ozone (O3), a pollutant of photochemical origin that...
The SuPreAM research project, which aims to optimise manufacturing processes in the steel industrial sector, held its 1st General Assembly at the DRT Rapid facilities in Leiria, Portugal, last December. Professors Josep Maria Carbonell and Fernando Rastellini, from...
The FIBRE4YARDS project, which aims to maintain Europe's global leadership in shipbuilding and ship maintenance through advanced and innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) manufacturing technologies, draw to a close with a final dissemination event in Nantes,...
A group of four CIMNE researchers, led by Dr. Michele Chiumenti as senior author, have developed a new Mechanism-Based (MB) orthotropic damage criterion for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), a popular and affordable 3D printing technology of Additive Manufacturing...
A group of international researchers, led by CIMNE director Prof. Javier Bonet as senior author, has presented a series of new refined schemes to improve the accuracy and stability of the updated Lagrangian SPH (ULSPH) method for structural modelling in a scientific...
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Professor Karen Willcox, director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and member of the Scientific Advisory Council at CIMNE, believes digital twin technology has the potential to “revolutionise decision-making” across...
Researchers from the Bio-medical Engineering Research Group at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) have proposed a special type of Finite Element (FE) technology in a new paper entitled Empirical Interscale Finite Element Method...
Dr. Gabriel Barbat has been awarded a UPC 2023 Special Doctoral Award in the category of Civil and Environmental Engineering for his thesis "Mixed finite elements with independent strain interpolation for isotropic and orthotropic damage", developed at the CIMNE...
Do you want to start a top scientific career with us? Apply now with us for an INPhINIT fellowships from “La Caixa Foundation”!! We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated candidate interested in STEM disciplines (science, technology,...
On October 9th, the Abertis Chair Spain, associated with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, awarded its 20th Abertis Awards for research into sustainable mobility to the best master's and doctoral theses on road infrastructure management and road...
We look forward to receiving your proposal and collaborating with you in this exciting research opportunity. We are looking for researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD. The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed...
Would you like to be part of a centre of excellence in numerical methods in engineering and develop your research career with the support of AGAUR? If so, we invite you to submit your application for the Joan Oró 2024 grants, which aim to promote the...
Fibregy, a pioneering European research project dedicated to revolutionizing offshore energy platforms through the utilization of Fibre-Reinforced Plastics (FRP), recently hosted another highly successful open-door industrial day. This event took place in La Ciotat...
The article "A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flows and fracturing solids" coauthored by CIMNE scientists Alejandro Cornejo, Alessandro Franci, Francisco Zárate and Eugenio Oñate has been awarded...
On 15th June, 2023, CIMNE community gathered in a technical session entitled “Computational Mechanics: Past and future at CIMNE and UPC”. The event hosted a tribute to Professor Eugenio Oñate, founder of CIMNE and general director of the centre...
A publication co-authored by CIMNE researcher Fernando Salazar “CALA: Mejora de la seguridad hidrológica” (CALA: Improvement of the Hydrologic security) on the magazine Revista de Obras Públicas. The article explains the results of a...
The CIMNE researcher Andrés Reyes has been awarded with the Cerdà Futur Award for his Master's thesis. 'Life cycle analysis of electric and hydrogen buses to improve decision making' is the title of the awarded work. Sergi Saurí,...
It is about to open (expected to be launched in October 2022) the call for applications to FPI, aids to predoctoral contracts for the training of doctors funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Agency State of Research. There are two type...
The researcher Samra Sarwar from CENIT, the group for Innovation in Multimodal Transport of CIMNE, will be presenting her work at the European Transport Conference 2022 that will take place in Milan (Italy). Sarwar will participate in the area of Transport, Economics,...
From 25 to 27th May, 2022, the Second International CIMNE Classroom Symposium was held online. More than 50 researchers from seven different countries participated in the Symposium: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Chile and Guatemala, represented by the...
CIMNE's PostDoc Advisory Unit Severo Ochoa is organizing today a workshop with 20 CIMNE postdocs at the main premises of CIMNE at the UPC North Campus. The objectives are create community and to have a glimpse of postdocs' work. The event consists on a...
On November 18th 2020, Pere-Andreu Ubach has successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled: "BEST: Bézier-Enhanced Shell Triangle. A new rotation-free thin shell finite element". The thesis has been developed in the framework of the PhD Programme in Structural...