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H2020Staff exchange2017–2023

FRAMED · Fracture Across Scales and Materials, Processes and Disciplines

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-09-01 → 2023-10-31
EU contribution
€900,000
Participants
19
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Fracture Across Scales and Materials, Processes and Disciplines

The general research objectives of the project were to establish fundamentals by which models at a lower scale of observation can feed into models at a higher scale of observation and to quantify how randomness affects material behaviour across the scales. The project also intended to develop a modelling framework informed by knowledge of multiple scales and system randomness, assess needs and develop model effectiveness across a range of potential applications and finally to experimentally validate the developed multiscale modelling tool. Despite of COVID and the Russia-Ukraine war resulting to FRAMED suspension period and cancelled plans for secondments to the 3 partners in Russia and 2 in China, the FRAMED project attended career perspectives and prerogatives, emphasising variable career progression opportunities for the senior and junior members of staff, including seconding PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to the best that the aforementioned pandemic and war conditions allowed. Over the project’s duration, grossly interrupted by COVID enforced movement (i.e. secondment) restrictions, the extensive and inherent cross-disciplinary collaboration initiated through FRAMED has led to a holistic modelling framework that not only addresses the low energy carbon footprint as mentioned above, but also a probabilistically modelled framework that can predict low carbon stature and footprint across a wide range of industrial consortia, focusing on the remits outlined by our partners. In addition, economical and safe design depends on our understanding of construction failures, which is often a progressive process. Our research shows that failure can be regarded as a localized bifurcation problem (loss of stability). The traditional design approach based on limit state analysis tends to give either too conservative design by using the residual strength parameters or too risky design by using the peak strength parameters. The bifurcation analysis can provide rational design by striking a fair balance between economy and safety. Given the fact that geomaterials (rock, gravel, sand and clay) are the most widely used construction materials in the world, our research outcome shall have high potential to reduce the construction energy footprint and to contribute to the sustainable development.

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Project objective

Fracture of materials is problematic across many disciplines and scales, from large building collapses and costly preventative engineering fixes to the personal injuries caused by bone fracture. 80–90% of all structural failures occur as a result of fatigue and thus fracture mechanisms. Extensive testing of materials for fracture parameters before use in specific applications can be costly, wasteful and prohibitive when creating large structures. Computer models can be used to assess the probability and impact of fracture for a specific application and material, thus serving as a prediction tool. However, the models used are not accurate and reliable across multiple scales and across varying applications. Fracture across Scales and Materials, Processes and Disciplines (FRAMED) aims to develop a predictive modeling framework for fracture which will be applicable across multiple scales and materials, and across multiple disciplines and processes; the target audience for applications are designers in the engineering field.FRAMED will utilise the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (MSCA-RISE) scheme to create a multi-disciplinary consortium consisting of engineers, chemists, material scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians to create accurate and robust fracture models that can be used across a variety of scales, materials, processes and disciplines. We will enhance the research and development work to be undertaken, providing a solid foundation for long term international and inter-sectoral collaboration. High quality research and development work will be carried out via international and intersectoral secondments, facilitating the creation of professional networks and knowledge transfer.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS · THESSALONIKICoordinatorGreece
  • ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS SRL · San Giuliano VecchioItaly
  • ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamUnited Kingdom
  • BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE · BEIJINGChina
  • COMPOSITE BRAIDING LIMITED · NottinghamUnited Kingdom
  • ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES MINES DE PARIS · ParisFrance
  • ESTIA CONSULTING & ENGINEERING S.A. · THESSALONIKI, MACEDONIAGreece
  • FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG · ErlangenGermany
  • MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · Houghton MiUnited States
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY · Chuo Ku KumamotoJapan
  • NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU · TrondheimNorway
  • NanoResUnited States
  • OSSDSIGN AB · UppsalaSweden
  • Shanghai University · ShanghaiChina
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · SHEFFIELDUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · GainesvilleUnited States
  • UNIVERZITA KARLOVA · Praha 1Czechia
  • UPPSALA UNIVERSITET · UppsalaSweden

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union