08:30 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome addresses
10:00 – 11:15 Multifunctional materials (D.C. Lagoudas)
- Active Materials: shape memory alloys, shape memory polymers, magnetic shape memory alloys
- Multifunctional composites
- Technical problems in the sector
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:30 Porous materials and 3D scaffolds (N. Michailidis)
- Introduction to porous materials and scaffolds, and their applications
- Classification of porous materials and manufacturing processes
- Characterization of the porosity and pore reconstruction methods
- Mechanical properties and testing
- Technical problems in the sector
12:30 – 13:00 Introduction to Educational Assessment (J. Henderson)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Laboratory hands on session PART 1
- Mechanical Testing
20:00 – 22:00 Welcome dinner
Visit to Alumil headquarters and CFT.
09:00 – 09:30 Presentation of Alumil–CFT activities
09:30 – 10:15 Continuum Thermodynamics (Th. Baxevanis, D.C. Lagoudas)
- Conservation principles
- 2nd law of thermodybnamics
- Constitutive relations
- Internal state variables
- Elastic–plastic materials
- Shape memory alloys (SMAs)
10:15 – 11:15 Micromechanics / Thermomechanical behavior of active materials PART 1 (D.C. Lagoudas, F. Meraghni)
- Eshelby solution
- Effective properties
- Strain and stress concentration tensors
- Self-consistent; Mori Tanaka approximations for effective properties
- Experimentation and modeling
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Micromechanics / Thermomechanical behavior of active materials PART 2 (D.C. Lagoudas, F. Meraghni)
- Experimentation and modeling
12:15 – 13:15 Corrosion of SMAs (H. Castaneda-Lopez)
- Introduction to the corrosion of SMAs
- Electrochemical corrosion
13:15 – 13:45 Light lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Industrial visit to CFT
15:30 – 19:00 Small excursion and Dinner
Visit for training to BETA CAE SYSTEMS.
09:00 – 10:00 Company profile presentation - Introduction to CAE
10:00 – 11:30 Introduction to pre-processing – Composites modelling
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 14:00 Pre & Post processing for composites
14:00 – 15:15 Lunch
15:15 – 16:00 Computational Fluid dynamics for Engineering applications
16:00 – 16:45 Design Optimization using Fluid-Structure Interaction and Kinematics Analysis
Free time
09:00 – 11:15 Introduction to homogenization methods
(T. Baxevanis, N. Charalambakis, F. Meraghni)
- Basic concepts
- Periodic unit cell problem; boundary conditions
- Elasticity problem, microequations and macroequations
- Computational scheme and examples for various unit cell problems
- Thermoelasticity
- Inelastic unit cell problems
11:30 – 14:00 Computer hands on session PART 1
(T. Baxevanis, N. Charalambakis, F. Meraghni)
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00– 17:00 Laboratory hands on session PART 2
- Corrosion
Free time
09:00 – 11:00 Computer hands on session PART 2
(N. Charalambakis)
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 13:00 Work on technical projects
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Educational Assessment
Free time for preparation of final presentationsPresentation of projects
09:00 – 11:00 Technical project presentations PART 1
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:30 Technical project presentations PART 2
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Educational Assessment
20:00 – Dinner and presentation of certificates to participantsKEDEA: Aristotle University’s Research Dissemination Center, 3is Septemvriou – Panepistimioupoli GR 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece
AUTH: 1) Physical Metallurgy Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
2) Institute of Mechanics of Materials, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
3) CompLab: Computer Lab, Civil Engineering Department, Thessaloniki, Greece
BETA: BETA CAE Systems S.A., Kato Scholari, Thessaloniki, GR–57500 Epanomi, Greece
ALUMIL: Alumil S.A., Aluminium extrusion, Showroom, Evosmos–Thessaloniki–Greece
CFT: CFT LTD, Carbon fiber technology, Industrial area, Kilkis, Greece