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A Tailormade Approach to the Design of Aluminium Alloys

  • 16. May 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    They are incomprehensibly small but have a significant impact on the safety of aluminium structures. Dr Asle Joachim Tomstad pinpoints the importance of primary particles. 

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    Rannveig Færgestad Awarded Prize for Best Space-related Master´s Thesis

  • 12. May 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Honor and glory to Rannveig Marie Færgestad, who has received the Norwegian Industrial Forum for Space Activities (NIFRO) prize for the best space-related master’s thesis.

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    Vegard Aune Joins Exclusive Group of Young Top Talented Researchers

  • 27. April 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    SFI CASA’s Vegard Aune is among the 25 carefully selected participants in NTNU’s next Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme. The scheme aims to accelerate the international career of the university’s top talented young researchers

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    CASA and NDEA in Close Collaboration on New Close-range Explosion Studies

  • 29. April 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Within a few days this spring, 30 blast loads detonated inside one of the Norwegian Defence Agency’s test facilities. Behind the destruction lies CASA and NDEA’s shared goal to understand more of what happens during close-range blasts in confined spaces.  

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    CASA Focused on the Center Initiative when Members of Parliament Came to Visit

  • 5. April 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    SFI CASA was one of the selected places to visit when the Standing Committee on Education and Research visited NTNU on 4 April.

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    A Master´s in Cracked Windshields

  • 30. March 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Master´s student Einer Herrem´s great interest in cars has led him to destroy 21 windshields.  The aim is to model how the safety glass behave under impact.

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    When Heat Makes Weak – the Challenge of Welded Joints

  • 22. March 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Aluminum makes our modern lives work. Sigurd Aune’s PhD work could help things work even better.

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    The Annual Report is Ready for Download

  • 30. March 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    The 2021 Annual Report is ready for download. New stories, new profiles, new summaries, and new photos. Plus, the usual stuff of facts and figures, projects and publications, cooperation and annual accounts.

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    Into the Secrets of the Soft Zones

  • 28. February 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Research Scientist Anette Brocks Hagen at SINTEF have a fascination for deformation and failure in materials. She delves deep to reveal precisely why and where they occur, and now she is preparing to share news on some exciting findings.

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    Master´s students Face Research Challenges 

  • 15. February 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    How can we minimize the risk of electric vehicle batteries catching fire? How to design maximum safe vehicle security barriers? And how can we utilize 3D-printed components in protective structures? See the list of this years Master´s projects.

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    The SLADE Project – in Video Version

  • 14. February 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    The YouTube channel for Norwegian SciTech News has released a short video-version on the KPN SLADE project.

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    From Glass Research to Consultancy at Multiconsult

  • 28. January 2022
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Karoline Osnes is one of the CASA researchers who has recently changed jobs. She now works at CASA’s partner Multiconsult. Fortunately, the collaboration with the Centre continues, as she has been appointed Associate Professor II.

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    Start the Hunt for Innovation in Technology’s Valley of Death

  • 21. January 2022
  • Magnus Langseth
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Our neighbours are crushing Norway in innovation. The gap between what the business community needs and what the universities deliver is only growing. What can we do about it? asks SFI CASA´s director Magnus Langseth in this chronicle published in the newspaper Khrono.

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    Blasts for Better Aircraft Safety

  • 19. December 2021
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Some people have been busy blowing up composites for aircraft structures in the SIMLab Shock Tube Facility lately. Their urge to destroy may make your future flights safer.

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    SIMLab´s New Postdoc is a Doctor in 3D printed Titanium and Steel 

  • 26. November 2021
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Kinga Somlo knows more than most about how the smallest building blocks in metals affect the behaviour of readymade products.

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    Are You Ready for Christmas? We are.

  • 21. December 2021
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    This video shows that neither this year’s pre-Christmas turned out quite as we had planned. Now it is crucial to stay patient for a while longer, keep calm and take care of each other. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2022!

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    Johan Sverdrup Field Pipelines are put to Tough Impact Tests

  • 29. November 2021
  • Sølvi Waterloo Normannsen
  • The following is an excerpt.

    Equinor and Gassco collaborate with SFI CASA on testing full-scale steel pipelines from the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. Several dynamic tests will be performed during the following weeks.

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