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Investigación
Descubre nuestros proyectos de investigación
Innovación
Trabajamos con simulación avanzada para afianzar la seguridad nuclear.
Comunidad
La Cátedra UNESCO en Métodos Numéricos lidera la innovación de vanguardia en el Sur global.
Sobre Nosotros
Conoce al talento que lo hace posible.
CIMNE actúa como catalizador para la comunidad global de investigación en ingeniería. Desde charlas informales y seminarios hasta talleres y grandes eventos organizados por nuestro Congress Bureau, trabajamos para inspirar la innovación y fomentar la colaboración a nivel mundial.
CIMNE actúa como catalizador para la comunidad global de investigación en ingeniería. Desde charlas informales y seminarios hasta talleres y grandes eventos organizados por nuestro Congress Bureau, trabajamos para inspirar la innovación y fomentar la colaboración a nivel mundial.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ABSTRACT The Destination Earth Initiative (DestinE) has completed the first phase and the platform is now online. In this Coffee Talk, the CIMNE Team that has implemented two use cases of the capabilities of DestinE's Data Lake will reflect on the initiative,...
ABSTRACT This pre-award unit’s event explored key aspects of efficiency and value in AI-driven enhancements to the research process, focusing on the 4Es: effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and economy. Discussions highlighted strategies for achieving the best...
ABSTRACT In this work, we propose a convex, finite-dimensional and exact relaxation for non-convex, one- dimensional, variational problems given as:where the function 𝑓 is a pretty general rational function in the derivative 𝑢′ and the function 𝑔 is a linear...
ABSTRACT Additive manufacturing techniques, among which 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) and polymer extrusion are revolutionizing the production process, offering unprecedented design freedom and efficiency. To control these technologies and fully exploit their potential...
ABSTRACT This coffee aims to empower CIMNE researchers with a basic insight of both Spanish Science Law and European Commission requirements regarding Open Science. Covering essential topics such as Open Access to scientific publications, the coffee surfaces the...
ABSTRACT This talk is to introduce to the attentive spectator of CIMNE the evaluation process carried out in the Horizon Europe program in the proposals for research innovation action (RIA) and innovation action (IA) modalities. The agenda covers a presentation of the...
ABSTRACT One of the main problems one can encounter when modelling wave propagation in saturated and solid media using Finite Element Model (FEM) is the link between the wavelength of the wave and the size of the elements. For example, in the conventional FEM at least...
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for the online session See on Youtube ABSTRACT Polymeric reinforcement materials are used routinely in geotechnical engineering as...
ABSTRACT Speakers will discuss a study that aims to characterize the coastal dynamics of the beaches of Badalona and Montgat, near Barcelona, through high-resolution numerical simulations using the SWAN and XBeach models. Various wave climate combinations (directions,...
ABSTRACT Recently, in Italy, many catastrophic events have involved bridges and viaducts in transportation networks, with significant losses of human lives and disruption of functionality. A large number of these structures are simply supported, girder-type,...
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023. Time: 12.30 p.m. Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for the online session See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is a polymer-based Additive Manufacturing...
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for the online session See on Youtube ABSTRACT Moving from a data-driven to a model-driven analysis methodology presents a new level of...
Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for the online session ABSTRACT Sandstone, found extensively on Earth, bears a significant connection to the oil and gas industries. A...
Friday, June 30th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See video on Youtube ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to analyse the vulnerability of the Dniester barrier beach located in...
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023. Time: 12h Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session ABSTRACT This talk will focus on the commitment that the centre and its researchers have with society....
Friday, May 26th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See on Youtube ABSTRACT Reservoir simulation is used by practically all oil companies to assess reserves and optimize field development plans....
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT The high precision controllability and versatility of Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) processes...
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT During the manufacturing of thermoset-based Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs), micro-residual stresses are...
Wednesday, April 12th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See on Youtube ABSTRACT Writing successful proposals for European projects is a tough task. Calls are increasingly competitive and the general...
Friday, March 24th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT One of the current challenges of the aerospace industry is the exploration of new...
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session See on Youtube ABSTRACT During the design process of a new vehicle, structural engineers face the challenge of defining...
Friday, February 17th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! Agrobiotech Lleida Park, CeDiCo Building, 1st Floor – Martina Castells Room (Lleida) | Session link! See on Youtube ABSTRACT ReFlex addresses the new role of buildings as agents in the energy system. Buildings...
Wednesday, July 19th, 2023. Time: 15h. Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT On his recent visit to Mexico within the framework of the Severo Ochoa mobility program, Professor Francisco Zárate had the...
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT The objective of the coffee is to disseminate information on the Horizon Europe...
See on Youtube! Wednesday, January 25th, 2023. Time: 15h Hybrid! 116 Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw ABSTRACT The State Research Agency has published the call for research projects in...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. Time: 15hHybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See on Youtube ABSTRACT The modification of the Regulation of the Spanish...
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022. Time: 15h | UPC Campus Nord (C1 building, 116 conference room) See Coffee Talk on Youtube ABSTRACT The National Survey on Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco, 2016/2017, notes that 15.6 million Mexicans are active smokers and, by 2030, expect...
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022. Time: 15h Hybrid!Place: UPC Campus Nord (C1 building, 116 conference room) | Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT Symmetries (in my opinion) are the closest concept we have to describe the beauty of...
Thursday, October 13th, 2022. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw ABSTRACT See on Youtube! Considering the new technological contexts, extended reality...
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022. Time: 15h Hybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT This work has required an exhaustive review of the literature on...
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See on YouTube ABSTRACT The technology of low-cost biodigesters will be presented, such as organic waste treatment systems, fertilizer production and biogas....
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022. Time: 15h Hybrid format (OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord) - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT Construction 4.0 is pushing the digitization of the construction sector. The...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. Time: 15h Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 building, UPC North Campus - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw <!--Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw--> See video ABSTRACT Artificial...
Thursday, April 7th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT - FIRST TALK Modeling Arbitrary Shape Particles with the Level Set Discrete Element Method (LS-DEM)Representing the particles as spheres is...
Wednesday, June 22th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT The Government of Catalonia and CIMNE are creating the Piksel model/simulation-oriented GIS++ platform to support decision making and...
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See on Youtube ABSTRACT Multiple departments of the Government of Catalonia and CIMNE are working on the development of a predictive tool to help in...
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See on Youtube ABSTRACT There are about twenty natural parks in which a good quality of ecosystems is ensured in Catalonia. The impacts that affect them,...
See video Wednesday, March 30th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw ABSTRACT The Government of Catalonia and CIMNE are creating the Piksel model/simulation-oriented GIS++ platform to support decision making and...
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT Challenge 0 of the πPlateS project assesses the probable losses due to seismic and flood risks initially in the Pla de Barcelona and...
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video on Youtube ABSTRACT In this CIMNE Coffee Talk we will see what new features have recently been included in the Kratos problemtype in GiD. The talk...
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. Time: 15h See video ABSTRACT Challenge 3 of the Pi-Plates project aims to design objectives tools to help air quality managers in a given region to predict the incidence of episodes when tropospheric ozone immission concentration...
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT Air pollution in urban areas has become a topic of major concern for all relevant institutions. It is well established that living in...
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube Channel ABSTRACT The beaches of the Catalan coast support an intense human and economic activity. To the extent that economic activity...
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT In this talk, we will talk about one of the most recently created AULAS CIMNE: the AULA ‘CIMNE-ETSI UPM’, attached to the...
See video Wednesday, September 29th, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT The Virtual Laboratory of Structures includes in a modeling tool the usual materials testing techniques in order to support the...
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021. Time: 15h Hybrid: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT In the coming weeks, the call for "Public-private...
See video Wednesday, November 10th, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT Open science and, in particular, open access has become a trending topic, as it is a requirement in Horizon Europe calls and...
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021. Time: 15h See video Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT About 5.5 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea underwent a dramatic hydrological, environmental and biological crisis, as its...
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube ABSTRACT The Richards equation models phenomena of great importance in engineering. Said differential equation is a non-linear parabolic...
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT Human resources and knowledge management in tech companies is a key activity for success. It is important to answer the "what, who, and...
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT πPLATES is an ongoing project within the framework of the TDA (Programa de tecnologies digitals avançades de la Generalitat) aimed...
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT Are you interested in getting started in the amazing world of proposal preparation but don't know how? Are you already involved in writing projects and...
CIMNE launches an Special Series of Coffee talks to explain in more detail some research projects. These training events will take place at the Zienkiewicz Conference Room located in the CIMNE premises (UPC Campus Nord, c/ Gran Capità S/N, 08034, BCN)...
CIMNE promotes a programme of seminars that addresses four scientific challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens, related to the development of new materials, construction, transport, manufacturing, environment, energy and security. The Coffee Talks are...
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Prof. Eugenio Oñate will present his personal vision of the history of CIMNE. Its conception and creation in 1987, its...
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Jorge Ignacio Aguadero Casado will interview Dr. Pere Monràs, medical oncologist, about biometrics to solve questions as...
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT Safety in construction is a critical discipline, which not only aims to ensure the integrity of workers but also directly affects the...
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT The development of the infrastructure of the Port of Barcelona is in the process of completion. Planning efforts should focus, from now on, on...
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT GiD is a powerful tool developed at CIMNE more than 20 years ago, and it’s still being improved. It’s 15th version brings a new...
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020. Time: 15h. Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT Slender and thin-walled structures are widely used in the field of engineering. However, to harness their full potential a reliable...
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020. Time: 15h. Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." ― Xun Kuang, Chinese Confucian philosopher...
Wednesday, January 22th, 2020. Time: 15h. Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT In optimization, different methods or techniques can be considered depending on the nature and characteristics of the studied...