by MARINO QUARESIMIN, MICHELE ZAPPALORTO, PAOLO ANDREA CARRARO, LUCIO MARAGONI*
The 4th edition of the Summer School on Fatigue and Damage od Composite Materials will be held at the Department of Management and Engineering of the University of Padova, based in Vicenza, a beautiful town 60 km from Venice. The event will take place from June 10th to 14th 2024 and has become an international point of reference in the field, with the patronage of several important national and international organizations such as ESCM, Assocompositi, AIAS, IGF, the National Sustainable Mobility Centre, Composite United, Composite Lounge and Composite Mood.
The School is organized by the research group on composite materials of the University of Padova, led by prof. Marino Quaresimin. It aims at providing young scientists and engineers both from Academia and Industry with the unique opportunity to meet and learn from leading international experts about advances in the fatigue and damage mechanics of polymer-based composite materials.
The five-days program was designed in agreement with the damage-based methodological approach adopted by the host research group, but also by an increasing number of other academic and industrial institutions. This approach has its foundations on the characterization of the material behaviour, with the aid of the most advanced experimental techniques for the observation of the damage mechanisms.
Based on these, predictive models are developed through the implementation of efficient multi-scale strategies. The models must consider also the effect of the manufacturing process on the material behaviour. This is always accomplished through the analysis and modelling of the damage mechanisms in the presence of manufacturing-induced defects. Eventually, to close the loop, the development of in-service structural health monitoring techniques is of paramount importance for validating the model predictions obtained in the design phase, as well as to manage unexpected events during the life time of a part. This will contribute to a more efficient and safer maintenance strategy. The lectures will touch each of these aspects in detail, starting from the experimental techniques, discussing modelling, design and monitoring strategies, to conclude with practical aspects and examples of application to real components.
The teaching panel will be constituted of profs. Marino Quaresimin, Michele Zappalorto, Paolo Andrea Carraro and Lucio Maragoni from the University of Padova, together with leading international experts such as prof. Ramesh Talreja (Texas A&M, USA), Soraia Pimenta (Imperial College London, UK), Alberto Barroso (University of Siviglia, Spain). Some lectures will be given by high-level industrial representatives such as Eng. Paolo Fornasiero (Head of Industrial Technology Quality, AIRBUS ) and Dr. Yongxin Huang (Chief Engineer Blade Structure Design, Siemens Gamesa).
Detailed information on the program, registration and feedbacks from some of the numerous participants to the previous editions can be found at the event website: www.gest.unipd.it/damageschool2024/.
* Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova
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24 April 2024
