The first seminar in the summer semester 2021/2022 will be inaugurated by Dr. Anna Szczurek. The topic of the speech will be:

Internship at the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies CNR — scholarship of NAWA program Iwanowska

During the seminar, she will describe her experiences from the first months of work at Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie CNR-IFN, Trento. A certain part of the presentation will be devoted to the grant application procedure itself and to technical issues related to the trip.

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Dr. Patrick Dieckhoff from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will be the speaker at the next seminar. The theme of the meeting will be:

Case Study; Bioeconomy: What’s new in bioeconomy and what’s not? Strategic drivers and research policies around the world. Application examples from biomaterials to biological data.

Dr. Patrick Dieckhoff is Secretary General Science Policy of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. In this role he coordinates the political activities for the President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer, in Berlin. The chemist and microbiologist with a doctorate is particularly interested in aspects of research and innovation, sustainability and social issues. Since he headed the office of the German Bioeconomy Council, Patrick Dieckhoff has been interested how the potential of natural renewable resources and knowledge about nature can be used and how new sustainable materials, processes and products can be created. As a former journalist, communication, the application of research results and international cooperation are particularly important to Patrick Dieckhoff. There have been close ties between the Technical University of Breslau and the Fraunhofer Society for decades. Patrick Dieckhoff is looking forward to further intensifying these relationships.

This Wednesday (December 16, 2020) Prof. Hermes Carvalho will present the paper

The challenges of rehabilitating the Hercílio Luz suspension bridge

The Hercílio Luz suspension bridge, built-in 1926, has been out of service since 1991 due to high corrosion levels and structural element impairment. A complete rehabilitation project was developed which included the replacement of the impaired items and foundation strengthening. For this, an auxiliary structure was employed to support the central span during the rehabilitation process. A carefully studied load transfer process, where the central span loading is transferred from the eye-bar towards the auxiliary structure will be performed. For this purpose, a synchronized jacking sequence will be used, which was predefined by means of numerical model analysis. All structural elements had their designs evaluated and some geometric changes were implemented.

This lecture will present all the methodology developed in the rehabilitation project of Hercilio Luz bridge, as well as the development stages up to the end of the work.

Hermes Carvalho received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Brazil, in 2007, the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the same university, in 2010. Ph.D. degree in structural engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Brazil, in 2015.

He is currently a Professor of the Structural Engineering Department — Federal University of Minas Gerais. Researcher in Structural Engineering, mainly in the fields of Steel and Composite Structures, Offshore, Bridges and Structural Mechanics. He has experience in the design and execution of civil and mechanical structures, teaching, and research related to Structural Engineering. He is a coordinator of research projects at VALE, PETROBRAS, CAPES, FAPEMIG, CEMIG / ANEEL, FCT.

The reviewer of international journals in his area of research (International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Failure Analysis, Journal Performance and Facilities, Structures, Maritime Engineering, among others). He is a member of the European technical committee ESIS-TC12 – Risk analysis and safety of large structures and components and works with the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) in the elaboration of technical codes for structures.

Another guest at the Dynamics Seminar will be prof. Shun-Peng Zhu from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).

The theme of the meeting will be

Fatigue reliability design and assessment under uncertainty

Below is the Professor’s short bio:

Dr. Shun-Peng Zhu, Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UESTC in 2011 and was honored as PIF Fellow of Politecnico di Milano, Italy from 2016 to 2018 and a research associate at the University of Maryland, the United States in 2010.

His research which has been published in scholarly journals and edited volumes, over 100 peer-reviewed book chapters, journals, and proceedings papers, explores the aspects: fatigue reliability design; probabilistic Physics of Failure modeling; multi-physics damage modeling and life prediction for engineering components/materials.

He received the Award of Merit of ESIS-TC12 in 2019, Polimi International Fellowship in 2016, 2^nd prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China in 2014, Hiwin Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2012, Best Paper Awards of several international conferences and Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Awards.

He is an Elsevier Most Cited Chinese researcher in the field of Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality since 2018, and serves as guest editor, editorial board member of several international journals, and Springer book series.