February 8, 2013

It's official. President Barack Obama has chosen Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering (MIT) Dean Subra Suresh to be the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prof. Suresh is member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific Council of IMDEA Materials.

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February 8, 2013

Researchers from IMDEA Materials and the Materials Science Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), members of the ESTRUMAT programme (Advanced Structural Materials), participate in the European project MAAXIMUS, which aims to develop new simulation techniques to design aircraft structures fabricated from composite materials.

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February 8, 2013

Carlos Cabeza Barrantes, has been awarded with the FOINDESA 2010 prize for the best EUITA (UPM) bachelor thesis in the Equipments and Aerospace Materials specialty. The project “Nanoindentation for in-situ characterization of composites”, was carried out at IMDEA Materials facilities advised by the researchers M.Rodriguez and J.Molina within the framework of the collaboration agreement between EUITA and IMDEA Materials.

February 8, 2013

On July 13th, three EUITA (UPM) students defended their bachelor theses, carried out at IMDEA Materials Institute, obtaining the maximum grade with Honors.

February 8, 2013

Hotnano will work on overcoming the instrumental limitations to apply nanoindentation, nanocmechanics characterization technique, at high temperatures to a range of structural materials, from advanced composites to nanostructured metals and ceramics.

Link to Project: HOTNANO.-High temperature nanoindentation

February 8, 2013

IMDEA Materials Institute will collaborate with AIRBUS ESPAÑA and GAMESA in the research projects TARGET and AZITMUT respectively within the framework of the Strategic National Consortiums for Technical Research Programme (CENIT 2010), recently approved by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

SIMUCOMP, Advanced Numerical Simulations of Inter- and Intralaminar Failures in Composite

February 8, 2013

The Computational Mechanics of Materials group of IMDEA Materials Institute leads the European project SIMUCOMP which aims to help design and stress engineers assess the structural integrity and the damage tolerance of lightweight composite structures through provision of new accurate and predictive multi-scale failure models combined with original and computationally efficient novel numerical methods.

RADINTERFACE, Multiscale Modelling of radiation damage in materials for nuclear reactors

February 8, 2013

IMDEA Materials Institute participates in the FP7 European project RADINTERFACE, which aims at constructing a bottom-up framework (advanced predictive tool) allowing discovery and quantifications of materials damage mechanisms and effects on mechanical properties for novel crystalline materials with large interfacial areas for nuclear reactor applications.

Kickoff of the European project VANCAST, coordinated by IMDEA Materials Institute

February 8, 2013

On November 11^th, the kickoff meeting of the European project VACAST was held at IMDEA Materials facilities. The objective of the project is to develop the next generation of Ni-based superalloy nozzle guide vane (NGV) design and manufacturing capability for low pressure turbines of advanced aircraft engines. The consortium is lead by IMDEA Materials Institute and includes ITP, Precicast Bilbao, Calcom-ESI, University of Applied Sciences of Switwerland and Precicast Novazzano.

February 8, 2013

To explore the deformation and fracture mechanisms of materials in the nm-μm range, IMDEA Materials’ research line on Advanced Characterization of Materials has developed the capability to perform in-situ mechanical tests inside scanning electron microscope.