Monday, August 2nd
8:30 am – 12:30 pm CDT (GMT-5): Contact Modeling Workshop, hosted by Abaqus
Tuesday, August 3rd
8:30 – 9:50 am CDT (GMT-5): Welcome Address and Session 1
8:35: Alfredo Fantetti, Imperial College London, “A round robin test to measure friction hysteresis measurements on two different fretting rigs at Politecnico di Torino and Imperial College London”
8:50: Matt de Brett, Imperial College London, “Measurement of the damping effect of a seal wire on turbine blade vibration”
9:05: Matias Lasen, Imperial College London, “Control of tangential stiffness and friction damping modifying contact interfaces with piezoelectrics”
9:20: Tong Wei, Imperial College London, “Quantitative optical measurements to investigate the real area of contact in a PMMA to PMMA joint”
9:35: Antonio Papangelo, Politecnico di Bari, “Self-excited vibrations in soft sliding viscoelastic contacts”
9:50 – 10:00 am: Break
10:00 – 10:45 am: Discussion Session 1
Data-driven versus physics-driven modeling? Are there opportunities for ML in joints research, or is it all hype?
Panelists: Keith Worden, …
Moderator: Matthew Brake
10:45 – 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Senior Keynote
Rob Carpick, University of Pennsylvania, “New insights into friction and wear from nanoscale in-situ approaches”
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Virtual Coffee Hour and Mingle
Wednesday, August 4th
8:30 – 9:50 am CDT (GMT-5): Daily Overview and Session 2
8:35: Wolfgang Witteveen, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, “Self-excited vibrations in soft sliding viscoelastic contacts”
8:50: Drithi Shetty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Predicting Nonlinearity in the Benchmark Structure using QSMA and SICE”
9:05: Aabhas Singh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Multi-mode quasi-static excitation for systems with nonlinear joints”
9:20: Yekai Sun, University of Strathclyde, “On the comparison of different methodologies for the computation of damped nonlinear normal modes and resonance prediction of systems with non-conservative nonlinearities”
9:35: Nidish Balaji, Rice University, “Stochastic perspectives on the nonlinear resonance of bolted joints”
9:50 – 10:00 am: Break
10:00 – 10:30 am: Tribomechadynamics Research Challenge Discussion and Overview
Malte Krack, University of Stuttgart
10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am – 11:45 pm: Student Paper Competition
10:45: Zhen-Wah Chew, National Chung Hsing University, “Identification of contact zones of receding contact using image processing techniques”
11:05: Shuyang Zhang, KU Leuven, “A model order reduction method for the dynamic simulation of bolt joints considering contact nonlinearity”
11:25: Michael Lengger, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, “Application of quasi-static modal analysis to the Tribomechadynamics benchmark system”
11:45 am – 12:00 pm: Break
12:00 – 1:00 pm: Early Career Event
What comes next? A mentorship panel Q&A session on preparing for life after graduation (or your next move).
Panelists: Matthew Bonney, Matthew Brake, …
Thursday, August 5th
8:30 – 9:50 am CDT (GMT-5): Daily Overview and Session 3
8:35: Hugh Goyder, Cranfield University, “Some signal processing methods for experimental modal analysis of non-linear structures”
8:50: Hassan Jalali, Northumbria University, “Blind prediction of the displacement-dependent dynamic properties of a JFJF plate with uncertain parameters”
9:05: Michael Kuts, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, “Dynamic properties of filled bolted joints”
9:20: Matthew Bonney, Sheffield University, “Temperature FEA modelling of connected mismatched materials”
9:35: Justin Porter, Rice University, “A rough contact modeling framework for arbitrarily varying normal pressure”
9:50 – 10:00 am: Break
10:00 – 10:45 am: Discussion Session 2
Modal hysteresis modeling: A red herring or part of the path forward for modeling jointed structures?
Panelists: Matt Allen, Matthew Brake, Malte Krack
Moderator: Christoph Schwingshackl
10:45 – 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Junior Keynote
Chiara Gastaldi, Politecnico di Torino, “Designing with and for friction: unexpected findings and things to remember”