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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 teaching and study of the materials used in construction.

The tool is based on the FEM-DEM technique developed at CIMNE, which allows for the easy and adequate modeling of breakage and cracking in brittle materials.

SPEAKER CV

Francisco Zárate is an Associate Research Professor at CIMNE and Associated Lecturer at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), where he teaches Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis undergraduate courses (1997-present) and several courses at the master degree (1999-present).

He is the head of the online version of the Master on Numerical Methods in Engineering of the UPC.

Civil Engineer by the University of Guanajuato, México (1986), and by the Technical University of Catalonia (2004); M.Sc.in Numerical Methods (1991) and PhD in Structural Analysis (1996) by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

He has been involved in several national and European competitive projects and several private consultancies in the field of computational mechanics. He is an expert in plate and shells problems, discrete elements and stochastic analysis.

He is a Board Member of the Mexican Society in Numerical Methods in Engineering and the author of many educational materials and programs like MAT-fem.

Diego E. Aguilera is a mechanical engineer with experience in mechanical design (Inventor, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD y GiD), FEM simulations of stresses/strains and heat transfer (Abaqus and ANSYS), fluid simulations (Abaqus, ANSYS and Autodesk CFD), programming (TCL, Fortran and Python), data analisys with Excel and fabrication of parts, replacements, scale models and prototypes through 3D printing.

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