February 8, 2013

The Board of Trustees of the IMDEA Materials Institute approved, during its last meeting, held on November 19th, the appointment of four new scientists with a well-established international reputation in the research areas of the Institute, as members of the Scientific Council. The four scientists are Prof. Dr. John R. Willis from Cambridge University, Prof. Dr. Yiu-Wing Mai from the University of Sidney, Prof. Dr. William A. Curtin from Brown University and Prof. Dr. John E. Allison from the University of Michigan.

February 8, 2013

This is the first facility of this kind to be installed in the Comunidad de Madrid and the third in the country. The system arrived in November 2010 to the Leganes facilities and will be fully operative by January 2011. It will open a full range of new opportunities for innovation in the field of processing of advanced metallic alloys. The GLEEBLE 3800, supplied by Dynamics Systems Inc., is a physical simulation system which performs laboratory scale simulation of casting, welding, diffusion bonding and hot deformation processing (rolling, forging, extrusion) of a wide range of metallic alloys (steels, Ni-based superalloys, Ti, Al and Mg alloys, etc), as well as their thermo-mechanical characterization.

February 8, 2013

Dr. Jon M. Molina-Aldareguia, Senior Researcher of the IMDEA Materials Institute and member of the ESTRUMAT network, and Dr. Reyes Elizalde, Senior Researcher of the CEIT in San Sebastián, have been appointed as Invited Editors of a special issue of the Composites Science and Technology journal on metal matrix composites reinforced with nano-sized reinforcements (CST, vol 70, issue 16). Composites Science and Technology is one of the most relevant international journals in the area of Composite Materials (impact factor of 2.901)

Link to the press release: Madri+d

February 8, 2013

A multidisciplinary research team of IMDEA Materials Institute (Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies of Materials) has developed a nitrogen plasma surface treatment to improve the mechanical behaviour of PBO fibres under axial compression.

Simulation of composites performance for windmill applications

February 8, 2013

The collaboration between Gamesa and IMDEA Materials Institute within the framework of the AZIMUT project (CENIT programme) has already started. The objective of this collaboration is the development of advanced simulation tools to predict the mechanical behavior of composite materials for wind turbine blades in order to improve offshore reliability.

February 8, 2013

Researchers at IMDEA Materials Imstitute investigate the in-situ deformation of magnesium alloys using a tensile testing micromachine coupled to a scanning electron microscope.

February 8, 2013

Two predoctoral researchers of the IMDEA Materials Institute presented part of their research in the Aerodays 2011 event (The sixth European Aeronautics Days), which took place in Madrid from 30 March to 1 April. One of the posters won the second prize in the PhD Students category.

February 8, 2013

Institute staff could see the progress of the construction of the IMDEA Materials Institute headquarters during their visit on 4th May. The structure is already completed and the building is expected to be finished by November 2011.

IMDEA Materials and AIRBUS keep their collaboration to design the A30X protection shields

February 8, 2013

IMDEA Material Institute and AIRBUS Operations has strengthened their scientific partnership with a new R&D contract. The project aims at developing advanced numerical simulations for metallic small fragments impacts on composite fuselage and shields for critical systems protection.

Digital Image Correlation

February 8, 2013

IMDEA Materials Institute has installed a Digital Image Correlation System (DCI) to perform non-contact full-field displacement mapping by means of images acquired by an optical system of stereographic cameras.