11-10-2022
Student Filipa Cunha, supervised by Professor José Xavier and Professor Telmo G. Santos, participated in the 16th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics at the University of Oxford, organized by the British Society for Strain Measurement, where she was one of four finalists in the Young Stress Analyst Competition, a competition whose main objective is to reward students for their research and is sponsored by Airbus UK.
The award-winning work, titled "On material identification of Pinus pinaster Ait. at high strain rate loading by the image-based inertial impact test," aimed to identify the constitutive properties of wood from the Pinus pinaster Ait. (maritime pine) species, subjected to high strain rates, using the inertial impact test.
This research was developed in collaboration with the University of Southampton, as part of the PhotoDyn: Innovative photomechanical approaches in material testing project, coordinated by Professor Fabrice Pierron.
