Congratulations to Sergio Nicoli
for successfully defending his doctoral thesis on High Order Extended Finite Element Methods for Wave Propagation in Damaged Media, at the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at ETH Zurich
By exploiting the synergies and addressing the challenges of combining high-order Finite Element Methods (FEMs) with Partition of Unity enrichment functions and advanced solution algorithms, Sergio delivered a framework to efficiently simulate structures featuring local defects with the intention of facilitating the use of modeling tools for #guidedwave (GW)-based #nondestructiveevaluation.
Sergio was co-supervised by Dr. external page Konstantinos Agathos (University of Exeter).
Thank you to the committee for the insightful inputs and rich discussions:
- Dimitrios Chronopoulos, KU Leuven
- Hauke Gravenkamp, CIMNE
- Paweł Kudela, Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMP PAN)
More details:
- A Moment-Fitted Extended Spectral Cell Method for Structural Health Monitoring Applications, external page LINK
- Moment fitted cut spectral elements for explicit analysis of guided wave propagation, external page LINK