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Since Watt, a Scottish, invented the steam engine, human civilization relies more and more on energy supply. The re-rise as an international superpower and the global energy crisis are challenging China and the world. We are at a transitional age. On the one hand, we see the technology advances in exploration and development of oil and gas, a depleting resource; and the growth in handling ageing and decommissioning. On the other hand, we see ideas and plans for new energy structure in the future. This symposium is about energy challenges and roles of mechanics as a means for seeking solutions, involving multiple disciplines in technology, science and management. The topics cover both sides; we will look at applications in various energy resources including fossil fuels, and many different forms of renewable energy. In addition, we will discuss roles of mechanics in issues relate to energy efficiency, safety and environment. The venue of the symposium is in Aberdeen, Scotland, the energy capital of Europe.

Official conference website

Conference flyer in English, in Simplified Chinese, or in Traditional Chinese.

Keynote Speakers include:
• Professor Zhong Lin Wang, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of European Academy of Sciences
• Professor George W. Crabtree, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Professor Ian Gordon Bryden FRSE
• Professor David Cardwell FREng
• Professor Huajian Gao, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Professor Peter G. Bruce FRS FRSE
• Professor Robert M. McMeeking FREng, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Professor Akhil Datta-Gupta, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Professor John Irvine FRSE
• Professor Bill Clyne FRSE
• Professor Jing Zhu, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Themes of sub-symposiums

I. Fossil fuels, geological storage and exploration

1.        Mechanics in subsea engineering
2.        Mechanics in geophysical exploration
3.        Drilling and well integrity
4.        Rock mechanics and reservoir geomechanics
5.        Flow in porous media and in naturally fractured reservoirs
6.        Mechanics for carbon capture and storage

II. Renewable energy

1.       Mechanics for energy harvesting and storage
2.       Mechanics in advanced devices for energy development
3.       Mechanics for wind energy development and applications
4.       Mechanics for hydro-power
5.       Mechanics for marine energy
6.       Nano-mechanics for energy applications
7.       Mechanics of hydrogen-storage material
8.       Electromechanical energy

III. Energy efficiency, safety and environment

1.       Porous materials and structures for energy applications
2.       Mechanics / mechanical engineering for energy efficiency
3.       Safety and life extension, brownfield oil and gas
4.       Safety in nuclear power
5.       Environmental impacts of energy acquisition, transport, production and use

Opening Lecture, R&D Programs in Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoir Development and Production
by Professor John Chen, University of Calgary, Canada.
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Dr. Zhangxing (John) Chen is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, currently holds the NSERC/AI-EES/Foundation CMG Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation and AITF (iCORE) Industrial Chair in Reservoir Modeling, and is Director, iCentre for Simulation & Visualization, University of Calgary.

His Ph.D. (1991) is from Purdue University, USA. He was a professor and reservoir engineer at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Peking University, University of Minnesota, Texas A&M University, Mobil, and Southern Methodist University (SMU). Dr. Chen held the Gerald J. Ford Professorship at SMU, Dallas, Texas, USA, and was awarded the Chang Jiang Chaired Professorship by the Chinese Ministry of Education and “Qian Ren Plan Expert” by the Chinese Government. Other significant appointments include Director of the Center for Scientific Computation, SMU, and Director of the Center for Advanced Reservoir Modeling and Simulation, Peking University, and President of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Texas.

He has published 4 books and over 300 research papers, edited 7 books, and has given over 290 invited (plenary and keynote) presentations worldwide. He has received numerous prestigious awards such as The Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award and Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship Award. His research interest is in Reservoir Engineering and Numerical Reservoir Simulation.

Closing Lecture, Nanogenerators as new energy technology and piezotronics for functional systems
by Professor Zhong Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
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Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang received his PhD from Arizona State University in transmission electron microscopy. He now is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents' Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, as well as applications of nanowires in energy sciences, electronics, optoelectronics and biological science. His discovery and breakthroughs in developing nanogenerators establish the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering a personal electronics. His research on self-powered nanosystems has inspired the worldwide effort in academia and industry for studying energy for micro-nano-systems, which is now a distinct disciplinary in energy research and future sensor networks. He coined and pioneered the field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics by introducing piezoelectric potential gated charge transport process in fabricating new electronic and optoelectronic devices. This breakthrough by redesign CMOS transistor has important applications in smart MEMS/NEMS, nanorobotics, human-electronics interface and sensors. Dr. Wang’s publications have been cited for over 59,000 times. The H-index of his citations is 118. Dr. Wang was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, member of European Academy of Sciences in 2002, fellow of American Physical Society in 2005, fellow of AAAS in 2006, fellow of Materials Research Society in 2008, fellow of Microscopy Society of America in 2010, and fellow of the World Innovation Foundation in 2002. He is an honorable professor of over 10 universities in China and Europe. He received 2012 Edward Orton Memorial Lecture Award from American Ceramic Society, 2011 MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society, 1999 Burton Medal from Microscopy Society of America, 2001 S.T. Li prize for Outstanding Contribution in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the 2009 Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society. Details can be found at: http://www.nanoscience.gatech.edu

Plenary Speaker

Professor George W. Crabtree

George Crabtree is Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a consortium of fourteen national laboratories, universities and private companies devoted to developing next generation electricity storage science and technology. He is a Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and a Distinguished Professor of Physics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as the director of Argonne’s Materials Science Division from 2001 to 2008. His research interests include materials science, sustainable energy, nanoscale superconductors and magnets, vortex matter in superconductors and highly correlated electrons in metals.

Crabtree is an internationally recognized expert in superconductive materials. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize in 2003 for his work on the physics of vortices in high-temperature superconductors. He is a four-time recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Solid State Physics and a two-time winner of the University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne. For his pioneering development of Magnetic Flux Imaging Systems, he received an R&D 100 Award. He is an American Physical Society Fellow, a charter member of the Institute for Scientific Information’s Highly Cited Researchers in Physics and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Through his prolific career, Crabtree has delivered more than 100 invited talks at national and international scientific conferences and has led workshops for the DOE on hydrogen, solar energy, superconductivity, materials under extreme environments and science for energy technology. He co-chaired the Undersecretary of Energy’s assessment of DOE’s Applied Energy Program, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on the hydrogen economy and meeting sustainable energy challenges.

In addition to directing JCESR, Crabtree is a Distinguished Professor of Physics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Energy Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to this, he was a professor of physics at Northern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Plenary Lecture: Advanced computation models for the evolution of fracture networks in shale during hydraulic fracturing
by Dr. Tarabay Antoun, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA

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Dr Tarabay Antoun
Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division Leader (Acting)
Physical and Life Sciences Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Until recently, Dr. Antoun was the Computational Geosciences Group Leader in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where research efforts are focused on developing and using computational tools to gain fundamental understanding of the response of geologic materials in a wide range of extreme loading environments. Dr. Antoun has extensive experience in modeling the response of frictional materials (ceramics, glass, concrete and geologic materials) to strong shock waves, and the interaction of those waves with underground structures. Dr. Antoun leads the effort to maintain a world-class computational geomechanics capability for the laboratory with applications to problems in national security, homeland defense and energy and environment.

Dr. Antoun is currently the Acting Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division Leader. He joined the laboratory in 1998, after a six year tenure with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) during which he performed numerical and experimental investigations aimed at understanding dynamic fracture and fragmentation in geologic materials. Dr. Antoun, along with colleagues from SRI and Russia, published a book titled Spall Fracture. This book represented the state of the art in analytical, experimental and computational investigations of dynamic fracture.Throughout his career, Dr. Antoun has delivered many invited talks about the response of geomaterials in extreme load environments, and the computational capabilities needed to simulate and gain insight into this behavior.

Dr. Antoun received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton in 1992, following a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering. Dr. Antoun is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He is also a recipient of many awards, including several achievement awards from Stanford Research Institute and LLNL.

Plenary Lecture, Hybrid piezoelectric and electro mechanical energy harvesting from base excitations
by Professor Sondipon Adhikari, College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK
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Professor Sondipon Adhikari is the chair of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering of Swansea University (from April 2007). In 2010 he received the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society (UK academy of sciences). He was an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellow (September 04-August 09) and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2007) in Engineering (given to an outstanding scholar under the age of 35). He received his PhD in 2001 as a Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust scholar at the Trinity College from the University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer at the Bristol University (January 03-March 07) and a Junior Research Fellow in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (September 01-January 03). From July 2009 he was selected as a visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He was a visiting Professor at the Carleton University (Canada, 2006) and a visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA, 2006). From April 2007 he is a research associate and a guest lecturer at the Bristol University. Between May-December 2008 he was an official visitor to the Cambridge University Engineering Department and a visiting Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

Professor Adhikari's research areas are multidisciplinary in nature and include uncertainty quantification in computational mechanics, bio & nanomechanics (nanotubes, graphene, cell mechanics, nano-bio sensors), dynamics of complex systems, inverse problems for linear and non-linear dynamics and vibration energy harvesting. He has obtained more than £1M.25 of competitive research funding as principal investigator, published more than 180 peer reviewed journal papers (h-index=25) and more than 120 conference papers in these areas. Professor Adhikari received the EPSRC advanced research fellowship award in 2004. In 2004 he was included in the Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering (WWCSE). He was invited (2005) to lecture in the prestigious CISM lecture series on probabilistic methods in structural dynamics in Udine, Italy. He was a member of the winning project team in the EPSRC Ideas factory Workshop (January 2006) on Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (awarded £338,591).

Professor Adhikari is an associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member of Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), and The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN). From 2007 he has been a member of the Stochastic Process and Stochastic Analysis Cluster of the Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (WIMCS). Professor Adhikari has been a member of the editorial board of CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (2011-), CMC: Computers, Materials, & Continua (2011-), Modelling and Simulation in Engineering (2010-), International Journal of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace (2009-), Journal of Sound and Vibration (2009-), International Journal of Engineering Under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment and Mitigation (2009-) and The Open Numerical Methods Journal (2008-). He has been an Associate Editor for the Shock and Vibration Journal since 2006. He is a technical reviewer of over 100 international journals, 18 conferences and 13 funding bodies. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Non-Deterministic Approaches Technical Committee (NDA-TC), Uncertainty Quantification and Model Validation (UQMV) technical division of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) and Probabilistic Methods Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Professor Adhikari is a member of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) peer review college.

Plenary Lecture: Alternative fuels: challenges and opportunities of combustion research
by Professor Yiguang Ju, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA
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Yiguang Ju is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor at Princeton University, his bachelor degree in Engineering Thermophyiscs from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994.

He was appointed as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Tohoku University in 1995 and 1998, and as a Changjiang Professor and the Director of Thermophysics Institute at Tsinghua University in 2000. He joined Princeton University in 2001 and became a full professor in 2011. Prof. Ju’s research interests include combustion and propulsion in the area of near limit combustion, microscale combustion, plasma assisted propulsion, alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, multiscale modeling, and functional nano-materials.

He has published more than 140 refereed journal articles. He is an ASME Fellow and a board member of Combustion Institute of Eastern States. He received a number of awards including the Young Investigators Award (1999) at the First Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion, the Best Paper Award (1999) by the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Yangtzi River Scholar Award (2000) by the Chinese Education Ministry, the National Outstanding Young Scholar award from NSFC (2001), the Distinguished Paper Award from the Thirty-third International Symposium on Combustion (2010), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011), and the Hsue-Shen Tsien Professorship of Engineering Sciences of Institute of Mechanics at Chinese Academy of Science (2013).

Plenary Speaker

Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian is the Head of the Leeds University Energy and Technology Innovation Initiative and Director of the Pilot-Scale Advanced Capture Technology (PACT) national facilities.

He holds a chair in high temperature combustion technology and has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology and has received a substantial sum of grants from RCUK-EPSRC, EU, NATO, and industry.

He has published over 356 refereed research papers and has co- authored books on Coal combustion. He played a leading role in developing the NOx post-processing computer codes and subsequently soot/NOx models that were later employed in the commercial CFD software.

He is a member of numerous international and national scientific bodies including a member of EERA Implementation Plan 2013-2015 (contribution to CCS-EII Team, SET-PLAN), a member of Coordinating Group of UKCCSRC, an invited member of the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group, member of technical working group for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (CCS Roadmap UK2050) and Expert-Member in EU-GCC Clean Gas Energy Network.

Plenary Speaker

T.S. (Tim) Zhao is currently Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at HKUST and the Director of the HKUST Energy Institute. His academic career started with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree, both in Engineering Thermo-physics from Tianjin University, China, followed by a Ph.D. degree at the University of Hawaii, USA, in 1995.

Professor Zhao is an internationally renowned expert in energy engineering and is distinguished for his seminal contributions in the areas of fuel cells, multi-scale multiphase heat and mass transport with electrochemical reactions, and computational modeling.

He is an author/co-author of over 190 journal papers. His scientific research has been recognized by many recent awards, including ASME Fellow award, the Croucher Senior Fellowship Award, the Overseas Distinguished Young Scholars Award (NSFC), and the Yangtze River Chair Professorship.

In addition to his scholastic achievements with outstanding research credential, he has also received many teaching excellence awards, including the Bechtel Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award from the HKUST. In the international community, Prof. Zhao serves as Editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Energy & Environment Series, Regional Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering, and has been a member of the editorial board for more than 20 international journals.

List of Acceted Abstracts

CHAIRMAN
Henry Tan, University of Aberdeen, UK

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Oil and Gas

            Sjoerd Brouwer, Shell
            Michael Celia, Princeton University, USA
            Joseph Emans, Transfield Worley Ltd, New Zealand
            Haiying Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
            Makky S. Jaya, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences , Germany
            Liming Li, SINTEF Petroleum Research , Norway
            Yinghui Liu , Shell
            Choo Yoo Sang , National University of Singapore, Singapore
            Filippo Segatori, Technip
            Lifeng Wang, BP , UK
            Zonggang Wang, SINOPEC , China
            Jon Zhang , Hess Corporation , USA
            Pinggang Zhang, BP , UK

Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources

            John Chen, University of Calgary, Canada
            Weiming Li , Halliburton , USA
            Hamed Soroush, Shell
            HengAn Wu , University of Science & Technology of China

Fires/Corrosion/Integrity/Safety/Risk

            Andrew Duncan, HSE Energy Division - Offshore , UK
            Reza Javaherdashti, ParsCorrosion Consultants, Australia
            Enrique Munoz-Garcia, MMI Engineering , UK
            Yong Wang, University of Manchester, UK
            Valerie Wilson , Kosmos Energy , USA
            Honghui Yu, The City College of New York - CUNY, USA

Energy Storage and Conversion

            Craig B. Arnold, Princeton University, USA
            W. Craig Carter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
            Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University, USA
            Yiguang Ju , Princeton University, USA
            Jiangyu Li, University of Washington, USA
            Teng Li, University of Maryland, USA
            Petr Novak , Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
            Pradeep Sharma, University of Houston, USA
            Zhigang Suo, Harvard University, USA
            Kaiyang Zeng , National University of Singapore
            Sulin Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
            Ting Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

            Sondipon Adhikari, Swansea University, UK
            Long-Qing Chen , Pennsylvania State University, USA
            Daining Fang, Peking University, China
            John E. Huber , University of Oxford, UK
            S. Gopalakrishnan , Indian Institute of Science, India
            Liying Jiang, University of Western Ontario，Canada
            Qingping Sun, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China

Nuclear Energy

            Haofeng Chen, University of Strathclyde, UK
            Shuisheng He, Sheffield University, UK
            Lanru Jing , Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
            Hongbing Lu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
            Nawal K Prinja, AMEC Clean Energy Europe, University of Aberdeen, UK
            Jiyuan Tu , RMIT University, Australia
            Jianlong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
            Shengke Zhi, AMEC , UK

Hydrogen / Fuel Cells

            Rafi Blumenfeld , Imperial College London, UK
            Mingwei Chen, Tohoku University, Japan
            Wei-Hsin Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
            Shengmin Guo, Louisiana State University, USA

Wind Energy

            Erik Lundtang Petersen , Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
            Mohamed Pourkashanian , University of Leeds, UK
            Fotis Sotiropoulos , University of Minnesota, USA
            Tongguang Wang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Nano-Energy

            Jr-Hau He , National Taiwan University, Taiwan
            Bin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
            Caofeng Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
            Yong Qin , Lanzhou University, China
            Zhong Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
            Quanshui Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Solar Cells

            Judith Driscoll, University of Cambridge, UK
            Harley T. Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
            Massimiliano Vasile , University of Strathclyde, UK
            John I B Wilson , Heriot-Watt University, UK

Energy and Environment

            S.K. Chou , Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
            Daniel M. Kammen , University of California, Berkeley, USA
            Henrik Lund , Aalborg University, Denmark
            Abdul-Ghani Olabi , University of the West of Scotland, UK
            Li Shao , University of Reading, UK

Carbon Capture

Wojciech Budzianowski, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Xi Chen, Columbia University, USA

Wave Energy

Torgeir Moan , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Thermal Power

Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza , University of São Paulo, Brazil

Mechanics of Materials and Structures

            Laura De Lorenzis , Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
            Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, USA
            Shuguang Li, University of Nottingham, UK
            Shaoxing Qu, Zhejiang University, China
            Zheng Zhong, Tongji University, China

Energy efficiency

David Reay, Newcastle University and David Reay & Associates, UK

Energy and superconductivity

Quan Li , University of Aberdeen, UK

Important dates:

10 June 2013, iMechanica forum setup for conference planning
10 August 2013, Official announcement
20 September 2013, Deadline for session proposal submission
30 September 2013, Notification of session proposal acceptance / rejection
15 November 2013, Deadline for abstract submission
5 December 2013, Notification of abstract acceptance/rejection
20 February 2014, Deadline for paper submission
20 March 2014, Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
1 April 2014, Deadline for Early Bird Registration
1 June 2014, Deadline for camera-ready full paper submission
8-10 July 2014, Conference

Since James Watt, a Scottish inventor, invented the steam engine, human civilization relies more and more on energy supply. The re-rise as an international superpower and the global energy crisis are challenging China and the world. We are at a transitional age. On the one hand, we see the technology advances in exploration and development of oil and gas, a depleting resource; and the growth in handling ageing and decommissioning. On the other hand, we see ideas and plans for new energy structure in the future.

The discussions here relate to a conference I am chairing, the International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics, held in this summer at Aberdeen, Scotland, the energy capital of Europe. This theme is about energy challenges and the role of mechanics as a means for seeking solutions, involving multiple disciplines in technology, science and management. The topics include both fossil fuels and many different forms of renewable energy. In addition, we will discuss the role of mechanics in issues related to energy efficiency, safety and environment.

The discussion sessions developed include:

I. Fossil fuels related

II. Renewable energy related

III. Energy efficiency, safety and environment

IV. General

Notes for Spall and Fragmentation

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Notes for Spall and Fragmentation

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Tan's lecture notes

explosion engineering dicussion

You are always invited to join our course discussions!

Topics for MACE 61054 Explosion Engineering

Topic: Physics of Explosions
Physics of Explosions – part I
Physics of Explosions – part II
Spalling and Fragmentation –I
Spalling and Fragmentation –II

Topic: High Energy Rate Processes
Energy Related Materials
Explosive Welding

Topic: Underwater Explosion
Underwater Explosion -part I
Underwater Explosion -part II

Course summary

Tutorial questions
Tutorial solutions

Directions for students registered for course unit: MACE 61054 Explosion Engineering
(1) Go to the website node/2979, and read the discussion topics and previous posts.
(2) Register (only once) at user/register
(3) Post you questions, comments.

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foundation year

This Blog is for the foundation year projects on mechanical engineering. Students are encouraged to discuss their projects here.

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Chair in Computational Mechanics
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering

Closing date: 17/04/2009

The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering wishes to appoint a Professor in Computational Mechanics to augment our current world-leading expertise in computational fluids dynamics (CFD) and solid mechanics. With support from Electricité de France (EDF), the School is in the process of developing a Centre for Modelling and Simulation, which will bring together over 30 academics related to various aspects of computational mechanics. The new Chair will have the unique opportunity to fill the role as Director of the new Centre and, together with existing professors in the School, will provide leadership in the development and growth of the Centre.

The School has 80 academic staff delivering main stream education to undergraduate and postgraduate students in Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Its research is centred around five main research groups comprising; Aerospace; Energy, Environment and Climate Change; Extreme Loading and Design; Manufacturing and Laser Processing; and Nuclear Engineering. The new Centre for Modelling and Simulation will work across these research groups as well as working with other Schools/Institutes within the University, EDF and other industrial partners.

The successful applicant would be expected to have held a senior position in academia or in industry. The individual should be a leading authority in his or her field, widely respected internationally with a track record of producing world-class publications and in attracting major research funding. Although we are looking for exceptional candidates in all areas of computational mechanics, expertise in either fluid-structure interaction, solid mechanics, structural integrity, or fracture mechanics is expected.

There is also funding for a research fellow position associated with the development of the Centre, which will be advertised following appointment of the Chair.

research

impact

cellular materials

As the title suggests, there are two focuses of this discussion theme: impact and cellular materials.

Impact protection can be very practical problems in safety, fires and explosions, oil and gas industry, subsea structures, car manufacturing, nuclear industry, rocket space engineering, etc.

Cellular materials are interesting as materials with visualable small structures. Shock wave propagation and interaction; gas, fluid and cell wall interactions; together with catastrophic collapse can be fancy problems to study theoretically and experimentally. In this area, continuum mechanics seems still have many challenging problems unsolved, and is useful.

Nanoscale cellular material? Bio-cellular material? Atomic scale impact? Can be very interesting!

Your comments are welcome!

impact

cellular materials

Lecture note for the course (28 Sept - 2 Oct, 2009) at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy.

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I am teaching Subsea Integrity for the MSc students majoring in Subsea Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. This is a course that combines the fundamental principles (corrosion, fracture, fatigue and material selection) with the industry applications (subsea integrity management and implementation, cathodic protection, case studies on subsea reliability and engineering assurance).

Teaching time schedule

Week 1 (Tuesday, 2/2): Subsea integrity management and implementation (industrial lectures, IICORR Ltd)
Part 1 – Subsea integrity management (Mark Wilson), movie, pdf
Part 2 – Subsea integrity implementation (Dr. George Watson), movie, pdf

Week 2 (Tuesday, 9/2): Corrosion I (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Subsea integrity module, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Electrochemical cell, movie, pdf

Week 3 (Tuesday, 16/2): Corrosion II (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Subsea corrosion, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Corrosion protection, movie, pdf

Week 4 (Tuesday, 23/2): Corrosion III (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Corrosion rate, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Polarization, movie, pdf

Week 5 (Tuesday, 2/3): Fracture I (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Stress intensity factor, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Fracture toughness, movie, pdf

Week 6 (Tuesday, 9/3): Subsea engineering integrity and assurance (industrial lecture, Ji Wen, BP plc), pdf
Part 1 – movie
Part 2 – movie

Week 7 (Tuesday, 16/3): On Project and Tutorial 1 (corrosion) solutions (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Project
Part 2 – Tutorial 1 (corrosion) solutions

Week 8 (Tuesday, 23/3): Cathodic protection (industrial lectures, IICORR Ltd)
Part 1 – Cathodic Protection Monitoring (Richard Holt), movie, pdf
Part 2 – An Industry Perspective on Cathodic Protection Design (Tim Queen), movie, pdf

Week 9 (Tuesday, 20/4): Fracture II / Fatigue I (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Environment assisted cracking, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Fatigue fracture, movie, pdf

Week 10 (Tuesday, 27/4): Subsea integrity (tentative)
(industrial lectures, Martin Harley and Dave Flett, Talisman Energy UK Ltd)

Week 11 (Tuesday, 4/5): Fatigue II (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Corrosion fatigue, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Tutorial 2 (fracture) solutions, movie, pdf

Week 12 (Tuesday, 11/5): Corrosion/Fracture/Fatigue (Dr. Tan)
Part 1 – Tutorial 3 (fatigue) solutions, movie, pdf
Part 2 – Summary

Topic 9: Safety and risk management in oil and gas industry

Topic 12: Post Macondo underwater technology

Topic 28: Your view on iMechanica Safety Engineering and Risk Management Debate

Lastname, Firstname - Subsea Engineering

Topic 41: MyAberdeen versus iMechanica

Topic 70: Take a break, relax

Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries

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Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries

1st International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics

Journal Club Theme of February 2014: Energy Challenges and Mechanics

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spall and fragmentation

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Explosion Engineering (MACE61054) Discussion Blog

Foundation Year Projects (Mechanical Engineering)

Computational Mechanics

Impact of cellular materials

lecture note

Subsea Integrity