Advanced Nonlinear Finite Elements For The Design and Assessment of Complex Concrete Structures
Event details
| Date | 20.02.2015 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dr Mahdi BEN FTIMA, École Polytechnique of Montreal, Québec, Canada / Visiting Professor at ENAC-MCS |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Nonlinear finite elements for concrete structures have seen a remarkable advancement in the last half century with more emphasis on constitutive modelling or reinforced and non-reinforced concrete. Applications were restricted to the analysis of simple structures (beams, columns, slabs ...etc.), comparisons to experimental tests, and rarely extended to the design of complex structures. The reasons behind this fact and solutions to them will be addressed by the lecturer. A general methodology with computational, probabilistic and validation frameworks will be the core issue of the seminar. Applications from the industrial field of hydraulic structures, in which the author was involved in the last ten years, will be presented. Finally, the lecturer will provide an overview of his future research objectives as a newly hired professor at the École Polytechnique of Montréal.
Bio:
Mahdi BEN FTIMA is an assistant professor at the École Polytechnique of Montréal, in the civil, geological and mining engineering department, Group of Research in Structural Engineering (GRS group). He graduated from the École Polytechnique de Tunisie in the year 2000 and received his master and Ph.D degrees from the École Polytechnique of Montréal, respectively in 2004 and 2014. During the last ten years, he was involved as a structural engineer in the design of different large and complex hydraulic structures within the international SNC-Lavalin engineering firm (Hydro division of Montreal).
Bio:
Mahdi BEN FTIMA is an assistant professor at the École Polytechnique of Montréal, in the civil, geological and mining engineering department, Group of Research in Structural Engineering (GRS group). He graduated from the École Polytechnique de Tunisie in the year 2000 and received his master and Ph.D degrees from the École Polytechnique of Montréal, respectively in 2004 and 2014. During the last ten years, he was involved as a structural engineer in the design of different large and complex hydraulic structures within the international SNC-Lavalin engineering firm (Hydro division of Montreal).
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Dr Nikolas Geroliminis & Katrin Beyer
Contact
- Prof. Dr Eugen Brühwiler