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This Workshop will present the latest advances on multifunctional lightweight materials and structures, their manufacturing methods and their performance for functional and structural engineering applications. These materials are available as closed-cell and open-cell foams, hollow-sphere foams, syntactic foams, periodic and optimized truss structures and honeycombs. They can be used in numerous industrial applications, such as lightweight structures, impact energy absorbers, biomedical devices and implants, filters, electrodes, catalysts and heat exchangers. Some of these examples will be shown in the Workshop, together with different visions on how these materials can (and will) be used in the engineering and medicine of the future. The Workshop will combine a series of lectures given by top researchers in the field, with years of hands-on experimental and/or numerical works.

 

PROGRAMME

14:00 – 14:15	Opening Session Isabel Duarte, António Andrade-Campos, Robertt Valente (GRIDS-TEMA, DEM-UA)
14:15 – 14:45	From metal foams to fused filament fabrication – An augmented perspective João-Dias-de-Oliveira, Department of Mechanical Engineering, GRIDS-TEMA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
14:45 – 15:15	Computational modelling of an aluminium foam sandwich with adhesive bonding Marco Parente, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
15:15 – 15:45	Advanced cellular and hybrid cellular structures – Current status and perspectives Óscar Carvalho, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal
15:45 – 16:15	The structural analysis of the largest lightweight material in the human body: the bone tissue Jorge Belinha, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
16:15 – 16:45	Additive Manufacturing – A rethinking in the conception and production of metallic parts Elsa Sequeiros, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
16:45 – 17:15	Metallic syntactic foam in impact engineering Thomas Fiedler, University of New Castle, Australia

 

The Workshop is proudly organized by

Isabel Duarte (Chairperson, GRIDS-TEMA, DEM-UA)

António Andrade-Campos (GRIDS-TEMA, DEM-UA)

Robertt Valente (GRIDS-TEMA, DEM-UA)

 

Where?

Auditorium of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro

When?

29 June 2017

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For further information please do not hesitate in contacting us: +351.234.370830 (ext.23879); isabel.duarte@ua.pt