QUANTIFY will be implemented through a coherent set of staff exchanges between the members of the consortium. QUANTIFY qualifies as a partnership with an international dimension: secondments will take place from European Member/Associated States (MS/AS) to Third Countries (the USA), all between academic organizations. The secondments will allow to develop new collaborative works, to share scientific knowledge based on the development of scientific discussions, to exchange information, analytical and numerical models and the access to experimental resources.
Besides the development of new scientific progresses based on the synergistic cooperation planned in QUANTIFY, the other key point of the project is to develop clear mechanisms to transfer the knowledge obtained during the secondments to the sending organization.
A full detailed description of each secondment is provided here.
Shmuel Osovski, from the Technion, has spent one week visiting Ankit Srivastava, from TAMU, in March 2018. They started to plan the dynamic tensile experiments on oligocrystalline light-weight metallic specimens!
Guadalupe Vadillo and José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, spend one month, March-April 2018, in TAMU, visiting Ankit Srivastava. A paper on localization and coalescence in porous materials subjected to complex loading states is already being prepared! Great news!!
José A. Rodríguez-Martínez visited Professor Oana Cazacu, from UF, one week in May 2018. They started to plan the analytical modelling of shear bands inception in anisotropic light-weight metals subjected to dominated shear.
Ankit Srivastava, from TAMU, has spent one month visiting Guadalupe Vadillo and José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, in May-June 2018. The paper on localization and coalescence in porous materials subjected to complex loading states is close to be finished! Great collaboration between UC3M, TAMU and TECHNION.
Oana Cazacu from UF, visited Christophe Czarnota and Sébastien Mercier, from UL, for one month, during June-July 2018. A very promising collaboration on modelling dynamic voiding in anisotropic light-weight metals has started!!
Oana Cazacu from UF, visited José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, Guadalupe Vadillo and Álvaro Vaz-Romero, from UC3M, for two months, during September-October 2018. We have the first preliminary results on the effect of anisotropy on the plastic localization in light-weight metals! We acknowledge the support of Carlos III University which awarded Oana Cazacu and José A. Rodríguez-Martínez with a reciprocal Chair of Excellence funded by Banco Santander during academic year 2018–2019.
Álvaro Vaz-Romero, from UC3M, will be hosted by Prof. Waisman, from the University of Columbia in the City of New York, for 4 months. Several researching lines will be opened in the computational study of shear banding inception under dominated shear conditions, phase field modeling in porous plasticity, etc.; using the open finite element code FEAP.
José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, will be hosted by Prof. Oana Cazacu, from the University of Florida, for 1.75 months. They continue working on modelling the development of necking bands in anisotropic materials subjected to uniaxial tension. In addition, they have started a discussion to address the problem of shear localization in anisotropic materials .
Shmuel Osovski, from the Technion, is visiting Profesor Oana Cazacu, from the University of Florida, for 10 days. They have just started a collaboration to model the mechanical behavior of magnesium alloys under wide ranges of strain rates and loading paths. Amazing experimental results and great modeling work!
Christophe Czarnota, from UL, was hosted by Dr. Ayoub Soulami, from PNNL in Washington State for 1 month. They have started a collaboration to investigate, through numerical simulations using Ls-Dyna and Abaqus, the effect of initial porosity, void size, number of voids on the macroscopic response of porous materials.
Guadalupe Vadillo, from the University Carlos III of Madrid, is visiting Professor Ankit Srivastava, from Texas A&M University, for 17 days. Together with Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska from Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT), they have started a collaboration on modelling ductile damage and fracture in anisotropic materials using microstructural-type approach.
Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT) has visited Professor Ankit Srivastava, Texas A&M University for two weeks. They started the collaboration on modeling the localized deformation and fracture in low lattice symmetry metal-ceramic nanolaminates within the crystal plasticity framework. They have also started to work on modelling the influence of strain-induced microstructure changes on the yield stress and strain hardening modulus of anisotropic microstructures using crystal plasticity full-field finite element calculations.
José A. Rodríguez-Martínez from the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) has visited Professor Ankit Srivastava, Texas A&M University for 1 month. They continue with their fruitful collaboration on the role of anisotropic on the ductile failure of lightweight metals. A new paper is about to be released!
Ankit Srivastava, from TAMU, has spent two weeks visiting Guadalupe Vadillo and José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, in May 2019. Ankit attended the EUROMECH Colloquium Damage and failure of engineering materials under extreme loading conditions organized by QUANTIFY members. In addition, he continued the on-going collaboration with Guadalupe Vadillo on localization and coalescence in porous materials subjected to complex. Moreover, he started to work with José A. Rodríguez-Martínez on the effect on porosity and anisotropy on the formation of adiabatic shear bands.
Oana Cazacu, from UF, has spent one month visiting José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, in May-June 2019. Oana attended the EUROMECH Colloquium Damage and failure of engineering materials under extreme loading conditions organized by QUANTIFY members. In addition, she continued the on-going collaboration with José A. Rodríguez-Martínez on the effect of the yield criterion on the formation of localization bands in lightweight metals. They have obtained new results during the secondment that will be the core of their next joint paper!!
José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, from UC3M, has been seconded in June-July 2019 at the University of Florida, collaborating with Oana Cazacu. They have kept on collaborating on the effect of the yield criterion on the formation of localization bands in lightweight metals. They have written a paper that is going to be submitted for publication very soon!
Álvaro Vaz-Romero, from UC3M, has been seconded in September-December 2019 at the University of Columbia in the City of New York, collaborating with Haim Waisman. They have kept on collaborating on the effect of microstructure on shear banding under high strain rates.
The NSM group, formed by 3 researchers and 4 PhD students, is part of the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis at the University Carlos III of Madrid. Research lines include mechanical characterization at high strain rates, formulation of constitutive theories and analytical models for instabilities in ductile materials, nonlinear vibration in elastic structures, etc. The group has 5 on-going competitive grants, 2 National and 3 European, including an ERC Starting Grant.
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