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 […]
Presentation of research results and discussion From 5th to 7th October, the second annual meeting of THREAD took place in the beautiful city of Seville, hosted at the facilities of the University of Seville (USE). During this time, each ESR presented their research results to the consortium as well as the current status of their […]
In less than two weeks, from 5 to 7 October, the THREAD consortium will meet in beautiful Seville for the second annual meeting, organised by the University of Seville. We will discuss not only the progress we have made so far in terms of research, training and communication but also the plan for the remaining […]
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 […]
I was looking forward to the secondment at SPACE-SI from the start of the project. They are breaking new ground in Slovenia and elsewhere with their space application technology. I saw this as an opportunity to learn a lot about the specifics of this field but also as part of the so needed networking that […]
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 […]
THREAD‘s industrial workshop with LEITNER ropeways will be held on February 25-26, 2021. Due to the pandemic, it will be fully online and the organisers will do their best to provide insights into ropeway systems. Talks by LEITNER on the first morning will be followed by an afternoon workshop with ESRs to place their research […]
The annual informal workshop, Manifolds and Geometric Integration Colloquia (MaGIC) is organized by the Numerical Analysis groups in Bergen and Trondheim. This year MaGIC will be organised in a hybrid digital / physical setting in the week March 1 to 5, 2021. Due to recent travel restrictions the organisers invite all the non Norwegian participants […]
On Monday, February 1st the online course on Geometric integration and Lie group methods (nwt6) will start at NTNU. The local website is now online. It is still under construction and will be regularly updated with new information.
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.
The next network-wide training will be organised by NTNU in Trondheim as an online event from 1 to 9 February 2021. The participants will learn about geometric integration (Elena Celledoni, NTNU) and Lie group integration (Brynjulf Owren, NTNU) with lectures in the morning and exercises in the afternoon. There will be an intermediate day with […]
The core research training nwt 2 “Virtual product development with interactive simulation of flexible structures” has come to an end and we all had a great experience. The training started with an introduction to the IPS product portfolio, with a general overview to the simulation software and the development teams behind it: Fraunhofer ITWM, fleXstructures, […]
THREAD has been included by Net4Mobility+ as a successful example of an MSCA project partly conducted in widening countries. Net4Mobility+ stands for facilitating transnational cooperation among the National Contact Points (NCP) in Horizon 2020: https://www.net4mobilityplus.eu/widening-countries-success-stories. For more details, read the success story of THREAD fellow Jan Tomec (ESR 9) and the success story of his […]
The next network-wide training will be organised by Fraunhofer ITWM as an online event from 7 to 11 December 2020. The participants will learn about cutting-edge CAE technology used in industry in early product design phases and gain insights how simulation models can be applied in practice. Hands-on sessions with studies performed on industrial use […]
Narges Mohammadi (ESR 7) went to Lille for her first on-site network-wide training. This is what she experienced: “nwt 1 part 2 was a different course for me since it was my first on-site nwt and my first in-person meeting with other THREAD members. I was the only external ESR in this nwt but I […]
“After THREAD’s Annual Meeting and Mid-term Check, we took part in our first industrial workshop organized by fleXstructures GmbH at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern. Mr. Daniel Dengel, application engineer of the company, showed us their activities and collaborations with other industries all around the world and the main research projects they are working on. Mr. […]
From 19 to 22 October, the consortium met for our first annual meeting, combined with the mid-term check meeting but, due to the pandemic, only four ESRs, three PIs and the management team were able to meet at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany in person. Everyone else joined online. Nevertheless, we made the best out […]
In the middle of September my secondment in Croatia started. I spent a month in the University of Rijeka. I tried to gain the most out of my experience working in an inspiring environment and being surrounded by researchers working on state-of-the-art finite element techniques on non-linear dynamics and computational mechanics. The PhD group of […]
The science festival in Rijeka is an annual event in Rijeka that tries to bring science closer to the general public. Usually it consists of lectures delivered by the volunteering researchers and professors all around the city of Rijeka and beyond. This year however, we were confined to the more (or less) comfortable chairs of […]
We’re happy to be the guests at Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany for our first annual meeting which will take place between 19 and 22 October 2020. On the second day, we will have the mid-term check meeting. Our project officer from the Research Executive Agency will join in virtually from Brussels to meet the consortium […]
The first part of nwt 1 took place in summer and due to the pandemic as a pure online event. The second part will now take place from 26-28 October 2020 at Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, Lille, France. A live video stream will be available for those participants who cannot attend personally because […]
The objective of the nwt 5 has been to train participants on the advanced simulation of ropes and cables. The contents included the absolute nodal coordinate formulation, ALE formulation, geometrically exact beams, and the efficient computer implementation, specifically with regards to open source simulation codes. Additionally, the local frame approach and Lie group methods have […]
Stefan Hante, a PhD student from Martin Luther University Halle, took part as an external participant in nwt 5 and shares his experience of the week in Austria. “The network wide training nwt5 took place in the first week of September 2020. Not only did everybody learn a lot about beam models, Lie groups and […]
The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) presented THREAD in its annual report. Highly flexible slender structures like yarns, cables, hoses or ropes are essential parts of high-performance engineering systems. The complex response of such structures in real operational conditions is far beyond the capabilities of current modelling tools that are at the core […]
I spent the 3rd month of my Ph.D. project in Kaiserslautern. My experience there was amazing, and I learned so much during the four weeks I stayed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM. During this secondment, I had the opportunity to learn about a different way to research, which I never came in […]
Guest Scientist at Fraunhofer ITWM and Virtual Network-wide Training Promote Scientific Exchange International networks enrich the scientific exchange. Within the framework of the European Union’s THREAD doctoral program, this is currently lived out twice at the Fraunhofer ITWM: In July, the institute welcomes THREAD doctoral student Denise Tumiotto, who will spend four weeks as a […]
The first part of nwt 10, organised by Prof. Dejan Zupan of the University of Ljubljana, took place online this week. With a lot of practical exercises, the ESRs learned methods and instruments to write good scientific texts and to present themselves and their research to different target audiences. The workshop was facilitated by Dr. […]
This week, the first part of the first network-wide training took place. Our ESRs joined the lectures and practical exercises on non-linear beam theory and flexible multibody dynamics online. Here are some impressions from the ESRs: Davide: “The first nwt was an exciting experience, especially because we had the chance to face and solve exercises […]
The first on-site network-wide training will take place from 1 September to 5 September 2020 in Obergurgl, Austria. It is organised by Prof. Johannes Gerstmayr from the University of Innsbruck. The ESRs will hear lectures from Prof. José Escalona, Prof. Olivier Brüls and Prof. Johannes Gerstmayr and learn about the modelling and simulation of ropes […]
