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SUMMARY:Efficient Constitutive Model for Crash Analysis of Mineral-filled 
 Polymers - Dr Andrea Codolini\, CUED
DTSTART:20201016T143000Z
DTEND:20201016T150000Z
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CONTACT:Hilde Hambro
DESCRIPTION:Mineral-filled polymers are the candidate materials to manufac
 ture structural safety components of motor vehicles due to the remarkable 
 combination of price\, density\, and toughness. The initiation of void for
 mation enhances their energy absorption capabilities to minimise the destr
 uctive consequence of unavoidable collisions. Although several constitutiv
 e models have been implemented in finite element solvers\, very few are cu
 rrently used by CAE engineers to design the next generation of sustainable
  cars due to their extensive experimental and numerical costs. The seminar
  will present a new elastic-viscoplastic constitutive model that efficient
 ly simulates the mechanical behaviour of mineral-filled polymers when subj
 ected to multi-axial stress states at different strain-rates.\n\n
LOCATION:zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk or hh
 463@cam.ac.uk or jsb56@cam.ac.uk
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