The Crashworthy Newsletter
12 March: Status report on how the coronavirus affects people and activities at SFI CASA.
Neither students nor staff should stay in NTNU’s buildings, due to the extraordinary coronavirus situation.
The 3rd International Conference on Impact Loading of Structures and Materials to be held on 23-26 June 2020 in Trondheim is postponed to 16-19 March 2021.
18 students are now set out to work on master´s theses at SIMLab and SFI CASA. See the full list of this spring´s names and topics.
The executive board of Trondheim municipality, including the mayor Rita Ottervik, have witnessed a crash test in the kicking machine.
The road from research to innovation was on the agenda when representatives from Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products and Extrusion Europe visited CASA.
CEO of Hydro ASA, Hilde Merete Aasheim, recently got a quick course in how the close collaboration with CASA leads to competitive advantages for the aluminium company.
Media interest: There have been several media reports on SFI CASA lately.
The 12th European LS-DYNA Conference in Koblenz is said to be a big success. Eight SIMLab and SFI CASA people took the opportunity to present their work.
Century Fracture Mechanics Summit 2019 recently gathered three generations of fracture researchers and experts under one roof in Singapore.
Recruitment is a never-ending story. A Master´s thesis at SIMLab means a lot of destruction. Watch the video.
Guest Lecture: By invitation of SFI CASA, senior manager Alessandro Rossini at PWC gives a guest lecture on NTNU 6. June.
Early in November a large delegation from China paid a visit to the Gas Gun and Shock Tube facilities.
SFI CASA is soon to meet with industrial partners, Board, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and other friends in Oslo. Plenary sessions start on Wednesday morning, 19 September.
SIMLab researcher Martin Kristoffersen has done it again. In a new video about the ferry-free E39 from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, he plays a major role.
SFI CASA is happy to welcome Multiconsult on board. The leading Norwegian engineering and designing consultancy represents a valuable addition to CASA’s partner mosaic.
While SFI CASA’s shock tube is a valuable tool for investigating plated structures subjected to blast-like loading, nothing beats actual field tests using live explosives.
SFI CASA’s meetings in Munich in November showed significant progress on implementation of CASA models into commercial codes and no results in the hunt for females.
