News

Secondments

• Secondment of Dr. Manolo Venturin from Enginsoft to AU (18.12.2012 – 17.06.2013)
• Secondment of Mr L. Pryce from AU to Enginsoft (01.02.2013 - 31.01.2014)
• Secondment of Mr M. Jones from AU to SACMI (01.02.2013 - 31.03.2014)
• Secondment of Prof. G. Mishuris from AU to Enginsoft (01.05.2013 - 30.06.2013)
• Secondment of Dr. A. Vellender from AU to SACMI (30.09.2013 - 31.03.2014)
• Secondment of Dr. Manolo Venturin from Enginsoft to AU (07.01.2014 – 06.07.2014)
• Secondment of Dr. Michal Wrobel from AU to Enginsoft (1.06.2014 - 30.09.2015)
• Secondment of Miss D. Andreeva from AU to Enginsoft (01.11.2014 - 31.08.2015)
• Secondment of Prof. Gennady Mishuris from AU to Enginsoft (6.02.2015 - 05.04.2015)
• Secondment of Dr. Maurizio Facchinetti from Enginsoft to AU (1.03.2015 - 30.04.2015)

Recruitments

• Dr A. Zagnetko, recruited in AU (01.05.2013 - 30.04.2015)

Research Visits

• Prof. Enrico Radi (ICAR/08 - SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZIONI): 22/06/2012 - 30/06/2012
• Dr Lorenzo Morini (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy): 22/06/2012 - 30/06/2012
• Dr Matteo Dalla Riva (Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Portugal): 07/2014

Awards

• Mr Morgan Jones won Best physical sciences poster award at Diamond Light Source's annual Synchrotron Radiation User Meeting in September 2012.
• Mr Morgan Jones won the first prize of the 2012 SWMA "Young Person's Lecture Competition" for his talk "Strain Propagation in Nanocrystalline Ceramics" at the South Wales Materials Association (SWMA) in Swansea. He also advanced to the next round of the Institute of Materials Metals and Mining's (IoM3) UK-wide lecture competition.
• Mr Morgan Jones won Best physical sciences poster award at Diamond Light Source's annual Synchrotron Radiation User Meeting in September 2014.

Publications

• During September 2014, the article "Boundary integral formulation for cracks at imperfect interfaces" by G.Mishuris, A.Piccolroaz and A.Vellender was the 5th most read article of The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.