Materials Group Lunch Seminar Schedule for 2018


These informal seminars are every other week on thursday at 12:00 -- 13:00, in room 216, Perleporten. For details and to volunteer (someone) as a speaker contact Astrid de Wijn or Cristian Torres.


date speaker title, topic, comments
11 Jan. 11:30 Anette and Brage Research exchange during the PhD - practical aspects and benefits
24 Jan. 10:30 Kim Verbeken (Ghent University) Understanding the interaction between a steel microstructure and hydrogen: the key to develop more hydrogen resistant materials
1 Feb. Sarah Hallerberg (Hamburg) Data based prediction of extreme events, critical transitions and critical links in networks
7 Feb. 12:00 Cynthia Volkert (Goettingen) Controlling friction at nanoscale sliding contacts
7 Feb. 12:45 Alexander Hartmaier (Bochum) Atomistically informed continuum models of deformation and failure
15 Feb. Eivind Bering (NTNU physics) Molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric fiber bundles
1 Mar. Rasoul Khaledialidusti The Oil Recovery Process
15 Mar. 12:15 Berend Smit (EPFL) The Materials Genome in Action: understanding the mechanical properties of metal organic frameworks (joint seminar with Applied Theoretical Chemistry)
22 Mar. Motz (Saarbruecken) the Influence of grain boundaries on fatigue damage evolution studied by micro fatigue tests
12 Apr. Xiaofei Guo (Aachen) Improving hydrogen embrittlement resistance by microstructure optimisation -- examples from advanced high strength steels
19 Apr. Andrejs Hygrothermal Aging of Amine Epoxy
24 Apr. Vasily Efremenko (Ukraine) Structure, mechanical and tribological behavior of Fe-C-based alloyed compositions
7 June Degang Xie (Xi'an Jiaotong University) New insights into thermomechanical and chemomechanical problems via in situ quantitative nanomechanical TEM
21 June Mandana Arzaghi (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mcaniquecute et d'Aérotechnique) Fatigue crack growth rate enhancement in Armco iron tested under high pressure gaseous hydrogen: lastic strain analysis in the vicinity of crack tip
Summer! - -
16 Aug. 10:15 Alan Turnbull Corrosion issues associated with additive manufacturing with stainless steel - implications for testing
30 Aug. Jan Inge Dislocation Dynamics simulation of a 2D crack: Hydrogen Embrittlement and the Defactant model
13 Sept. Gaute Oxide surface films on corrosion resistant alloys -- development/composition, characterisation and hydrogen uptake and transport
21 Sept. 10:00 Dirk Engelberg (Manchester) EAC of Corrosion Resistant Alloys - How to Correlate Microstructure with Material Performance, In-situ
27 Sept. Javad Structural Integrity of Ti-6Al-4V parts produced by Additive Manufacturing
11 Oct. Xu Insight into hydrogen effect on a medium manganese steel via in-situ indentation test
25 Oct. Faezeh Molecular dynamics simulations of water/oil mixture near its critical point, and Viscosity of dipolar hard sphere liquid
8 Nov. Di In-situ crack growth and advanced characterization of the fracture process zone in an ESEM
22 Nov. Cristian Effect of W on localized corrosion properties of SDSS


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