Jafar Amraei in the group of 32 young researchers from across Europe and neighbouring countries participated in the 3rd Edition of the HISTRATE Training School focused on structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing for composite structures.
During past month, Andrzej Katunin implemented his internship at the Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy, where his research activities were focused on thermomechanical response of thermoplastic composites during fatigue loading.
Erasmus+ Bleanded Intensive Programme in SHM in the consortium of leaded by the Riga Technical Univeristy with a participation of the Silesian University of Technology has been launched. More details available here
Jafar Amraei received stipend of the Rector of Silesian Univeristy of Technology for the best PhD students for his exceptional scientific and science popularization activity.
The members of SIA RG, Jafar Amraei, Andrzej Katunin, and Tomasz Rogala received grants of the first degree of the Rector of the Silesian Univeristy of Technology for highly ranked publications and patents.
The members of SIA RG visited the Technical University of Ostrava, where he met the employees of various departments, visited the laboratories, and discussed possible ways of cooperation. During this visit, Andrzej Katunin gave the lecture titled: "Non-destructive testing of composite materials" for university staff and students.
Tomasz Rogala, Dominik Wachla, and Jafar Amraei participated in the lecture of Prof. Ilan Roth (Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley University) ent. "Universality in Physical Processes: from Aurora to Corona, from birth to death of stellar systems" on unearthly phenomena.
During Scientists' Night at the Silesian Univeristy of Technology Andrzej Katunin gave a lecture on vibrations and after lecture Dominik Wachla and Jafar Amraei demonstrated experimentally the phenomenon of mechanical resonance by showing Chladni figures.
Jafar Amraei implemented his research internship at the Politecnico di Milano. His research was focused on damage identification in composite structures using active thermography techniques. The internship was supported from the Excellence Initiative - Research University Program at the Silesian Univeristy of Technology.
Jafar Amraei gave a talk "Rheometric Testing for Simulation of the Self-Heating Effect in Polymer-Matrix Composite Plates" at the Experimental Stress Analysis Conference in Czech Republic and won the Prof. Stanislav Holy Award for his presentation.
Prof. Marcela Rodrigues Machado and Mr. Jefferson Coelho from the University of Brasilia visited our research group to discuss signal processing techniques for SHM of structural elements.
Jafar Amraei peroformed a workshop within the initiative of the European City of Science Katowice 2024 in the Kato Science Center. His workshop was focused on showing connections between fatigue in materials and in human body as well as advices on how to manage stress.
Andrzej Katunin started implementation of his research internship at the Technical University of Kosice. His research is focused on damage identification using digital image correlation technique. The internship is supported from the National Scholarship Programme of Slovak Republic.
We are glad to announce that Prof. Paulo N.B. Reis will implement his scholarship focused on self-heating of composites funded from the National Agency of Academic Exchange within the Ulam programme with the SIA research group in 2024.
During the 7th International Conference on Aeronautical, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the Univeristy of Hong Kong, Andrzej Katunin gave a speech ent. "Improvement of damage identification in GFRP plates using self-heating based vibrothermography and image processing".
Dominik Wachla presented the activities of the research group using Polytec's laser vibrometers during the seminar ent. "Polytec's Doppler vibrometers in non-contact vibration measurements", organized by EC Test Systems in Warsaw.
During the 5th Polish Congress of Mechanics in Gliwice, Andrzej Katunin gave a plenary speech ent. "Towards enhancement and automation of structural residual life evaluation", while Jafar Amraei gave a speech ent. "Inspection of 2D composite structures using self-heating-based vibrothermography".