Category: Event

On 2nd and 3rd of June, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation and European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry organized Math meets Industry, an event with an opportunity to bring together the doctoral researchers and faculty members from Norwegian math departments with industry representatives. In this […]

After an exciting period of secondment in Halle for one month, Indrajeet’s scientific expedition continues further to Kaiserslautern for the nwt3 event, which was immediately followed by a warm welcome in Erlangen, Germany by the team of LTD in Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) for the secondment period of 07.05.2022 – 31.05.2022. The first day started with […]

ESR10, Martina, had the possibility to test the unloaded shafts provided by Karl Storz Estonia during her previous secondment. The purpose of this secondment was indeed the investigation of the stiffness parameters of such complex devices like endoscopes with the use of MeSOMICS at ITWM Fraunhofer. It was interesting and challenging to do some hands-on […]

At the beginning of May, Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern hosted a five-day training on experimental data acquisition for modelling and validation in industrial applications as part of THREAD’s core research training. A consistent part of the training was dedicated to the study of test rigs that are useful to perform torsion and bending experiments on […]

It has been an amazing journey with Indrajeet (ESR 2), Konstantina (ESR 8) and Ergys (ESR 5) together for the secondment in Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale), Germany. Each of the ESRs worked diligently in their part of doing collaborative research work, along with taking back great memories together from social events. Prof. Martin Arnold […]

Our one-month secondment at the University of Liège has passed very quickly. Working together with a local team of experts on robotics and dynamics was a very pleasant and beneficial experience. We had the opportunity to collaborate closely with ESR2 Indrajeet Patil and Prof. Olivier Brüls on topics related to our projects, namely contact mechanics […]

From the end of November to the end of March I had the opportunity to do my secondment at CentraleSupélec, working in close contact with Dr. Damien Durville and ESR 6 Ali Saadat. My secondment was focused on simulation of bending and torsion experiments of cables using the code Multifil. I visited the premises and […]

Another THREAD network-wide training was successfully completed. The Manifold and Geometric Integration Colloquia (MaGIC) took place in Ilsetra, Norway, from 28 February to 4 March 2022. From the THREAD consortium, Denise Tumiotto (ESR1), Indrajeet Patil (ESR2), Andrea Leone (ESR4), Ergys Çokaj (ESR5) and Martina Stavole (ESR10), together with the PIs Elena Celledoni and Brynjulf Owren, […]

From February first until March, I did my secondment at the University of Innsbruck. In the first days, I visited the university and all the facilities such as the mechatronic lab. On the other hand, I started to become familiar and know how to work with Exudyn, which was an elaborated software with many interesting […]

The THREAD team at University of Liège invites the consortium to its Annual meeting from 26 September to 28 September 2022. The 14 fellows (ESRs) will report on the progress of their research projects and the consortium will discuss next steps in the research workpackages as well as with respect to dissemination and communication activities. […]

On 18 October, my industrial secondment in fleXstructures started. The company fleXstructures, based in Kaiserslautern, dedicates itself to the commercial and technical services of the software IPS cable simulations developed in Göteborg (Sweden). During my stay, I worked under the supervision of Michael Koch and Jiajun Gu. They both welcomed me and helped me learn […]

Year 2022 starts with a series of research secondments within the network. In a few days, Narges (THREAD’s ESR 7 from Seville) will go for one month to the University of Innsbruck. Afterwards, the MaGIC 2022 Colloquium on Manifolds and Geometric Integration in Ilsetra (Norway) will be the next highlight at network level. In March, […]

Here we come to a successful end of an exciting industrial experience in Centexbel, Belgium. The hands-on experience with the circular braiding machine, its cutting-edge performance, the limitations as well as facing difficulties even to the extent of witnessing its breakdown has been a remarkable experience in the scientific pursuit. The secondment had been split […]

From 20 September to 20 December I had the luck to complete a three-month-long secondment in LEITNER company. LEITNER, a top manufacturer of ropeway systems, was the ideal environment for me to get an industrial experience in a field directly linked to my research topic. Investigating highly flexible axially moving beams with co-moving discrete masses, […]

From 12 December – 15 December, 2021 the 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics was held at the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary. Because of the pandemic situation in most European countries, the conference with its three plenary lectures and more than 140 contributed papers had to be organised in a […]

The period of 20 October to 19 November 2021 marks a successful end to the first period of my secondment to GDTech, Belgium. Despite the constraints due to the measures of teleworking advised by the Belgian authorities, a healthy conduct of scientific developments, exchange of ideas and communication could be achieved. The implementation of the […]

CentraleSupélec, in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, was host to the one-week training (15 to 19 November) on “Modelling and simulation of contact-friction interactions in assemblies of rods / beams”. During this training, participants learned about different available approaches to treating frictional and non-frictional contact. During the first two days and a half, lectures were given by Damien […]

My industrial secondment at Karl Storz ended. The aim of the internship was to study the stiffness parameters of endoscopes for modelling purposes through an experimental campaign carried out on several endoscopes. During these three months I learnt a lot more than what was planned at the beginning. The engineers and the workers from every […]

In August of 2021, I was fortunate to start my secondment with our industrial partner in Ljubljana. Here at Chair of Mechanics, UL FGG, we have a strong industrial cooperation with the building materials research institute Igmat d.d. and I had the privilege to learn a lot through experimentation at their test facilities under the […]

CentraleSupélec will be the host of nwt8 from 15 to 19 November 2021. The ESRs will learn about the modelling and simulation of contact-friction interactions in assemblies of rods / beams. The training consists of courses, practical work and a round-table discussion about the challenges in the choice of models for frictional contact interactions, and […]

From the 6th to the 10th of September, the city of Halle (Saale) in Germany hosted the NUMDIFF-16 conference. During the week, 14 plenary lectures were held, including one from Prof. B. Owren, a PI of THREAD from NTNU, who presented a plenary lecture on “Deep learning as optimal control problems with applications to mechanical […]

From the beginning of May to the end of July, I had the chance to complete my industrial secondment at IPS AB, in Göteborg, Sweden. After having to reschedule due to the pandemic situation, I was very happy to finally proceed with such an important step of my project. At first, I was able to […]

In the spring of 2021, I was fortunate enough to be able to “officially” start my secondment with ENSAM’s industrial partner VALEO. The situation was made a bit more complicated due to the work-from-home mandate, but I was able to collaborate with the team of scientists at VALEO online via Google meets. The experience was […]

Working at the University of Innsbruck has been a wonderful experience. The great team of mechatronics has welcomed us as part of the group since the beginning. During the days at the university, we were able to learn not only from Prof. Gerstmayr and ESR 8 Konstantina Ntarladima but also from the other PhD students […]

A three-day Network wide training programme on Communication, Knowledge transfer and Gender awareness was held at the University of Ljubljana between 30th June and 2nd July. Although the training was held as a hybrid event, most of the ESRs were able to attend it on-site which made it fruitful. On the day 1 we had […]

Our 1-month secondment at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) was a wonderful experience. We learned a lot from everybody at the Chair of Applied Dynamics. Working on discrete mechanics of beams was very useful for our individual projects in THREAD and all the discussions we had with the scientific staff at FAU were very valuable for us as young researchers.  We did […]

The majority of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will attend the courses on Communication and Outreach (nwt 10b, June 30 – July 1, 2021) and on Gender awareness and Minorities (nwt 11, July 2, 2021) in presence. Both courses are organised by the THREAD team at University of Ljubljana with contributions by C3M d.o.o., by THREAD’s […]

THREAD ESRs will contribute two Young Researchers Minisymposia to the scientific programme of an international conference on the numerical solution of differential and differential-algebraic equations (NUMDIFF-16) in September 2021. The first one with up to seven talks will focus on “Interactions of beam like structures in a 3D world” (Call for papers). It is organised […]

At the heart of THREAD’s comprehensive secondment programme are the industrial secondments with a length of three months. They are of high importance to fulfill the main objective of THREAD which is interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training. The series of 14 individual industrial secondments was started by Jan in November 2020. Luckily despite of all known […]

According to Wikipedia, digital twins are virtual representations that serve as the real-time digital counterpart of physical objects or processes. In engineering, they help to get deeper knowledge on existing systems and products and to predict and to optimise the performance of future products. On May 19th, 2021 THREAD’s industrial partner Mevea Ltd. (Lappeenranta, Finland) […]

The industrial workshop of PRINCIPIA SAS, on modelling of offshore wind turbines, was held online on April 15-16, 2021. This workshop was organized by CentraleSupélec and PRINCIPIA SAS. PRINCIPIA is an engineering company specialized in oil & gas engineering, marine renewables energies, naval harbour engineering and nuclear activities. The workshop was focused on the software […]

Here we come to a successful end of the advanced research nwt 7 “Textile engineering and Cable harnesses” program from March 29, 2021 to March 31, 2021 hosted by the Université de Liège along with the industrial partners GDTech and Centexbel.

On April 15 and 16, an Industrial Workshop with THREAD’s partner Principia SAS will be held.

It is the 25th of March, a new training with my international colleagues begins! These courses are the perfect occasion to know each other better, even if we are far away. The training is different from many of the previous ones. It talks about the future of each one of us, the sea of possibilities […]

Two online courses in a row, no joint coffee breaks, no small talk … but goodie bags from MLU‘s Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office that were sent by parcel to all our ESRs. Not all of them arrived in time for unboxing at the closing session of nwt 12 course but finally the parcels found their […]

THREAD’s network wide training programme is continued by online courses on Research ethics, Research valorisation and Entrepreneurship (nwt 12 on March 25, 26 and 27) and Textile engineering and Cable harnesses (nwt 7 on March 29, 30 and 31). The course on Research ethics, Research valorisation and Entrepreneurship is hosted by the Transfer and Entrepreneurship […]

The network wide training nwt 9, Manifolds and Geometric Integration Colloquia (MaGIC), took place during the first week of March 2021. Unfortunately, for most people it was not possible to join it in Norway, but it still was a very interesting training. Throughout the 3 days of talks, we had the possibility of learning about […]

The Manifolds and Geometric Integration Colloquia (MaGIC 2021) started at Ilsetra, Øyer, Norway as a hybrid physical and digital event with contributions by 8 ESRs from the THREAD consortium. The tradition of the MaGIC meeting is to do some skiing in the middle of the day. The organisers encourage everyone, in the good MaGIC style, […]

On February 25 & 26, 2021 the members of the THREAD network participated in an online workshop dealing with ropeway systems: “THREAD Industrial workshop with Leitner”. The event was organized by the University of Innsbruck and the company Leitner. Leitner is a company specialized in rope-hauled passenger transport systems and an industrial partner of the […]

THREAD’s next Industrial Workshop is held on February 25th and 26th. The online workshop is organised by teams from the University of Innsbruck and LEITNER. We are very grateful to the the employees of company LEITNER and its partners for providing us with detailed insight into their technical products, especially during the pandemic which is […]

The advanced research network wide training 6 “Geometric numerical integration and Lie group integrators” organized by our host institution, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), from 1st to 9th February, has been successfully completed. It was a fully digital event divided in two main parts: Structure preserving and geometric numerical integration of differential equations […]

The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) selected THREAD as its featured project on Thursday, January 21st. Andrea and Ergys presented their ESR projects in ECMI’s blog.