{"id":213,"date":"2018-03-23T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/templategdr.dii.unipd.it\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:51:00","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-label=\"Content\" data-id=\"content--1\" data-export-id=\"content-5\" data-category=\"content\" class=\"content-5 content-section content-section-spacing\" id=\"content-1\"><div class=\"gridContainer\"> <div class=\"row text-center\"><div class=\"section-title-col\" data-type=\"column\"> <h2 class=\"\">Computational mechanics for a sustainable development<\/h2> <p class=\"lead\">Computational Engineering and Science is now regarded as the third pillar of scientific enquiry alongside theory and experimentation. Computational engineering and science have strong economic implications by improving product quality, decreasing time to market and allowing the numerical simulation of phenomena which are not tractable using physical models. Computational mechanics allows for an optimisation of the structures, an increase in their reliability and ultimately a saving in the resources required with a clear intention to steer design in the direction of sustainable development.<\/p><\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"row middle-sm\"> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom-xs\"> <div class=\"row space-bottom content-holder\" data-type=\"column\"> <h3 class=\"color2\">Crack propagation.<\/h3> <p class=\"\">Crack propagation in solids and structures is one of the most common factors compromising industrial hardware: this is particularly critical for aerospace applications. Our team investigates computational methods to simulate crack propagation and damage.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"row space-bottom\" data-type=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"> <i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">NON-CONVENTIONAL MECHANICS<\/h5> <p class=\"\">We exploit the latest and most promising theories to overcome the limitations of the classical theory of continuum mechanics.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">COUPLED APPROACH<\/h5> <p class=\"\">We develop models that couple the FEM method and advanced theory-based approaches to benefit from the advantages of the different methods.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">MULTIPHYSICS ANALYSIS<\/h5> <p class=\"\">The modelling of multiphysical phenomena is the key to the investigation of complex damage phenomena.<\/p><\/div>  <\/div><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 flexbox around-xs top-xs space-bottom-xs\"><div class=\"overlay-box flexbox middle-xs center-xs overlay-holder\"> <div class=\"overlay-box-offset offset-background shadow-medium bg-color2 hide-xs\"><\/div> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flexbox shadow-large img1\" data-size=\"485x632\" src=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\" title=\"cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div><div data-label=\"Content\" data-id=\"content--2\" data-export-id=\"content-5-2\" data-category=\"content\" class=\"content-5-2 content-section content-section-spacing\" id=\"content-2\"><div class=\"gridContainer\"> <div class=\"row text-center\"><div class=\"section-title-col\" data-type=\"column\">  <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"row middle-sm\"> <div class=\"col-sm-6 flexbox around-xs top-xs\"> <div class=\"overlay-box flexbox middle-xs center-xs overlay-holder\"> <div class=\"overlay-box-offset offset-background shadow-medium bg-color2 hide-xs\"><\/div> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flexbox shadow-large img1\" data-size=\"485x632\" src=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaCaschi_2.jpg\" title=\"cropped-ComplessivaCaschi_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom-xs\"> <div class=\"row space-bottom content-holder\" data-type=\"column\"> <h3 class=\"color2\">Study of personal protective equipment.<\/h3> <p class=\"\">Numerical simulation of the behaviour of protective devices under operating conditions enables their optimised design. Furthermore, thanks to an innovative numerical model representing the mechanical behaviour of the brain, it is possible to estimate brain damage following impact.<\/p><a class=\"button color1 round\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rediphe-unipd.it\" target=\"_self\" data-cp-link=\"1\" data-icon=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Do you know the REDIPhe project?<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"row space-bottom\" data-type=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"> <i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">PROTECTIVE HELMETS<\/h5> <p class=\"\">UG started the work on PPE in the Aero Department of Imp. Col. London. Initially protective helmets were the main topic of the research carried out within two ITN projects (MYMOSA and MOTORIST).<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT<\/h5> <p class=\"\">Then the research field widened by addressing the assessment of neck and back protectors and by including biomechanical models of the relevant body parts.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">BRAIN MODEL<\/h5> <p class=\"\">Very recently, a collaboration with the BIOMECH group produced a very detailed model of the human brain to explore, at the tissue level, the protective performance of the helmets.<\/p><\/div>  <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><div data-label=\"Content\" data-id=\"content--3\" data-export-id=\"content-5\" data-category=\"content\" class=\"content-5 content-section content-section-spacing\" id=\"content-3\"><div class=\"gridContainer\"> <div class=\"row text-center\"><div class=\"section-title-col\" data-type=\"column\">  <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"row middle-sm\"> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom-xs\"> <div class=\"row space-bottom content-holder\" data-type=\"column\"> <h3 class=\"color2\">Damage detection techniques.<\/h3> <p class=\"\">In recent years scientific research in the structural engineering field has developed smart structures which are able to continuously monitor their health state to detect if structural damage is being generated. Our goal is to develop computational methods for a real-time prognosis system for structures.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"row space-bottom\" data-type=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"> <i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">NUMERICAL APPROACH<\/h5> <p class=\"\">We consider non-linearities to develop more realistic models. We can reconstruct the impact force and the position where the impact occurred.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">TESTS<\/h5> <p class=\"\">Experimental tests provide data for the validation of the methods studied.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 space-bottom\"><i class=\"fa icon fa-codepen medium color1\"><\/i> <h5 class=\"\">ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS<\/h5> <p class=\"\">The use of neural networks considerably reduces the number of sensors required for an accurate impact analysis.<\/p><\/div>  <\/div><\/div> <div class=\"col-sm-6 flexbox around-xs top-xs space-bottom-xs\"><div class=\"overlay-box flexbox middle-xs center-xs overlay-holder\"> <div class=\"overlay-box-offset offset-background shadow-medium bg-color2 hide-xs\"><\/div> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flexbox shadow-large img1\" data-size=\"485x632\" src=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaDamageDetection.jpg\" title=\"cropped-ComplessivaDamageDetection.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computational mechanics for a sustainable development Computational Engineering and Science is now regarded as the third pillar of scientific enquiry alongside theory and experimentation. Computational engineering and science have strong economic implications by improving product quality, decreasing time to market and allowing the numerical simulation of phenomena which are not tractable using physical models. Computational&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pro\/page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Research - AERSTRU<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research - AERSTRU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Computational mechanics for a sustainable development Computational Engineering and Science is now regarded as the third pillar of scientific enquiry alongside theory and experimentation. Computational engineering and science have strong economic implications by improving product quality, decreasing time to market and allowing the numerical simulation of phenomena which are not tractable using physical models. Computational&hellip; Leggi tutto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AERSTRU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-31T13:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tempo di lettura stimato\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minuti\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/\",\"name\":\"Research - AERSTRU\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/55\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-23T08:58:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-31T13:51:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/55\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/55\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg\",\"width\":511,\"height\":666},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/research\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Research\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/\",\"name\":\"AERSTRU\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/research.dii.unipd.it\\\/aerstru\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Research - AERSTRU","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"it_IT","og_type":"article","og_title":"Research - AERSTRU","og_description":"Computational mechanics for a sustainable development Computational Engineering and Science is now regarded as the third pillar of scientific enquiry alongside theory and experimentation. Computational engineering and science have strong economic implications by improving product quality, decreasing time to market and allowing the numerical simulation of phenomena which are not tractable using physical models. Computational&hellip; Leggi tutto","og_url":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/","og_site_name":"AERSTRU","article_modified_time":"2023-03-31T13:51:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Tempo di lettura stimato":"2 minuti"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/","url":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/","name":"Research - AERSTRU","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg","datePublished":"2018-03-23T08:58:42+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-31T13:51:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"it-IT","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"it-IT","@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/03\/cropped-ComplessivaPD_2A.jpg","width":511,"height":666},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/research\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Research"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/#website","url":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/","name":"AERSTRU","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"it-IT"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.dii.unipd.it\/aerstru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}