TRC2024
Dear all,
We're excited to announce the projects for the 2024 Tribomechadynamics Research Camp (TRC), which will be hosted by Dr. Christoph Schwingshackl at Imperial College London this summer. The research camp will run from July 1st through August 2nd, and the three projects this year are:
- System Identification of Closely Spaced Modes
In a collaboration with NOMAD and ETEST, we will be working on a community-wide challenge to extract the nonlinear characteristics of systems with closely spaced modes. The work at the TRC will build upon recent progress by Hugh Goyder and others, and will conclude the summer by applying our methods to a blind set of data measured by Sandia/ETEST. More details to come for the community-wide challenge if you're interested.
- Methods for Strongly Discontinuous Contact Events Based on Time Step Integration
One of the pressing needs identified at our recent workshop is the advancement of time integration methods for studying transient and shock events in jointed structures. This project will focus on evaluating the state-of-the-art methods for simulating the physics commonly observed in jointed structures.
- Monitoring the Interface Behavior of Bolted Joints
This experimental project seeks to apply the total internal reflection method to a real structure for the first time. A clear version of the Brake-Reuss beam will be fabricated for testing in which we will directly measure the contact patch evolution during dynamic excitation.
Applications will be due March 15th.
https://tribomechadynamics.blogs.rice.edu/tribomechadynamics-research-camp/
Matthew Brake, Christoph Schwingshackl, and Malte Krack
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