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Investigation of 3D-printed amorphous polyether ether ketone (PEEK) fatigue life 

Investigation of 3D-printed amorphous polyether ether ketone (PEEK) fatigue life 

Investigation of 3D-printed amorphous polyether ether ketone (PEEK) fatigue life 

Investigation of 3D-printed amorphous polyether ether ketone (PEEK) fatigue life 

Aula Foscolo from 10th to 11th February 2025 and counted 90 registrants, four keynote speakers, 20 contributed talks, and 20 posters.

The workshop included talks on topics such as spline models, point-could fitting, isogeometric variational formulations, adaptivity with hierarchical splines, and optimization, among others. Moreover, there were several hands-on sessions and discussions on current and future developments of the G+Smo library.

5th International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing

Investigation of 3D-printed amorphous polyether ether ketone (PEEK) fatigue life 

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 25 January at 12:00 in room MS1 of the DICAr. University of Pavia, Italy

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 25 January at 12:00 in room MS1 of the DICAr. University of Pavia, Italy

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 25 January at 12:00 in room MS1 of the DICAr. University of Pavia, Italy

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

The COURSE – An introduction to the mechanics of soils will be held, held by Prof. Angelo Amorosi, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome.

Seminar organized by the group of Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials entitled “Implementing instabilities inside architected materials”, held by Prof. Davide Bigoni (University of Trento)

First edition of the Workshop “Biomeccanica dei Trattamenti Endovascolari: Gli aspetti clinici e gli approcci di modellizzazione biomeccanica a confronto” took place on April 5.

Material Selection and Modeling of a Bio Stent
Time:
October 19, 2022
11 AM EDT / 4 PM BST / 8:30 PM IST

Venue:
Online

Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) is an innovative technology used for sintering advanced materials. We use the finite elements method (FEM) to understand how it works, and how to improve and optimized heat distribution and energy consumption. This will allow to process bigger objects and to further enable the integration and the implementation with 3D printing.

Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations of NPs generation process inside a microfluidic chip.

Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) to evaluate the severity of PVL in the clinical case.

Ansys multiphysics leverage the robustness of the recently developed numerical methods to investigate the mechanical response of a microfluidic valve interacting with an incompressible viscous fluid in a complex configuration.

In medical field, topology optimization and additive manufacturing could be used to realize patient specific hip prosthesis to reduce prosthetic failures and, consequently, surgical revisions.

First edition of the Workshop “Biomeccanica dei Trattamenti Endovascolari: Gli aspetti clinici e gli approcci di modellizzazione biomeccanica a confronto” took place on April 5.

Have you ever wondered if the industrial design can be improved through additive manufacturing? This news discusses the pros and cons of additive manufacturing and how we created a full additive optimized redesign.

Prof. Auricchio’s online interview for the SPS Italia “Know-how” project, dedicated to additive technologies and the additive manufacturing sector.

Application of uncertainty quantification analysis to thermomechanical part-scale simulations of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing processes.

First digital infusion controller presented at Regione Lombardia.

We are pleased to announce that our CompMech Group member, Dr. Giulia Scalet, was awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

We are extremely glad to announce that the NL Course is back. Next edition of our course on “Nonlinear Computational Solid & Structural Mechanics”, will be held in Pavia (Italy) on May 16-20, 2022.

“Challenges in ECMO-Advanced Course” @ Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Pavia.

During the Joint Challenge 2021 Conference, Prof. Auricchio gave a lecture entitled “3D printing: overview of its clinical application in surgery”.

Within the series of Invited Lectures on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, on October 19, 2021 at 16:30 (CEST), Prof. Ernst Rank (TUM) will held a seminar on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing – The challenge of scales.

New article published in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials: Finite element analysis of transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Insights on the modelling of self-expandable devices.

Caregivers successfully tested the digital infusion controller developed within the Digital Smart Fluidics project.

Within the series of Invited Lectures on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, on July 15, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. (CEST), Prof. Michele Chiumenti (CIMNE) will held a seminar on “Developments in Additive Manufacturing Processes: Industrial Technologies and Numerical Analyses”.

The calibration of Nitinol constitutive parameters of TAVI devices starting from experimental radial force tests is important to perform in-silico tests.

Within the series of Invited Lectures on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, on June 22, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. (CEST), Prof. Greg Wagner (Northwestern University – Evanston (IL), US) will held a seminar on “Multiphysics and Data-Driven Process-Structure Simulations for Additive Manufacturing in Metals”.

The article “An immersed boundary approach for residual stress evaluation in selective laser melting processes” has been recently published on Additive Manufacturing journal.

Within the series of Invited Lectures on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, on June 8, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. (CEST), Prof. Julia Mergheim (Friedrich-Alexander Üniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg) will held a seminar on Multiscale Simulation of Selective Beam Melting: Process – Mesostructure – Properties.

The first prototype of the innovative intravenous infusion device created within the DSF project has been successfully tested.

A series of invited Lectures on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing is organized by the CompMech group. The first invited lecturer was Prof. Albert C. To (University of Pittsburgh).

Development of an optimized decellularized extracellular matrix-based bioink for liver 3D printing applications.

Experimental evaluation of stent-graft implant on the aortic biomechanics.

The focus of 3D printing is shifting towards innovative and advanced materials. To cope with it, equally innovative 3D printing technologies should be developed. Robocasting could be an answer to this problem.

Our PhD student, Ahmed AISSA BERRAIES, compares the Quasi-Newton QS-LS stabilization method against the Fixed-point method in the partitioned approach for solving a fluid-structure interaction problem with high added mass effect. The Quasi-Newton method shows robustness and superior performance, which allows for solving more complex problems of high non-linearity.

Biofabrication is a great chance for converting agro-industrial waste into renewable materials, alternative to petroleum-based ones. The mechanical characterization of myco-materials is fundamental for the design of targeted industrial products.

3D printing polycaprolactone and hydroxyapatite composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Object shape changes during the Spark Plasma Sintering process. A challenging problem is the identification of the pre-process shape, for the desired post-process one.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio has been elected as the new president of ECCOMAS.

Predictive Maintenance of an external gear pump using Machine Learning algorithms, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer Perceptron.

Efficient stress recovery strategy to model Kirchhoff laminated plates via isogeometric analysis and equilibrium. By Alessia Patton, Dr. P. Antolin, Dr. J.E. Dufour, Prof. J. Kiendl, and Prof. A. Reali.

We are pleased to announce that our CompMech members, Prof. Michele Conti and Dr. Simone Morganti, were awarded two “Ricerca Finalizzata – Giovani Ricercatori” grants.

We are pleased to announce that our CompMech member, Dr. Giulia Scalet, has been awarded the 2020 Young Researchers Prize.

Our CompMech Group members Anna Ferrarini and Rodrigo Romarowski worked on a computational model of transcatheter aortic root repair in order to explore the impact of the endovascular procedure on the coronary circulation.

Our CompMech member, Gaetano Aran, worked on correlation of calcium burden in the aorta with hemodynamics calculated by Computational Fluid Dynamics.

First online edition of the 5th Bioprinting Workshop.

Our CompMech member, Sai Chandana Divi, is working on image segmentation of stenotic carotid and immersed isogeometric flow problems.

Our efforts on modeling spatiotemporal spread of COVID19 have been recently published in the journal Applied Mathematics Letters, showcasing the vast range of applications in in computational mechanics

Analysis of lower limb postoperative angio-CTs to investigate intra-stent thrombotic apposition and its relationship with hemodynamics features.

Digital Smart Fluidics for Life Science project: a new project funded by Regione Lombardia within the POR FESR 2014-2020 program

Our CompMech member Ahmed Aissa Berraies is working on a numerical approach to simulate the actuation of a microfluidic valve designed by Dolphin Fluidics company.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio has been awarded the 2019 Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize

Our CompMech member Karim El-Ghamrawy is working on finding the best fibre orientation in composite laminates using PGD-based solutions.

Uniaxial compressive tests are performed on cylindrical samples in order to determine time-dependent compressive behavior and the early-age creep effect on fresh concrete

Our postdoc Alex Viguerie, together with CEO of Innosight Patrick Viguerie, have completed an editorial for the Harvard Business Review: We Need a Rational Approach to Reopening

Effective methods to decrease the computational effort in Multiscale Modeling of materials with heterogeneous microstructure

An article on “Error-estimation-based adaptive integration for immersed isogeometric analysis” from our CompMech doctoral candidate

Implementation of a parametric algorithm using Grasshopper plug-in: geometric reconstruction of real-time editable Mitral Valve model

Development of a new filament deposition algorithm that produces FFF parts tracing arbitrary in-plane orientation fields

4D printing of light-responsive devices has enormous potential. The present project allowed us to design 4D printed optical actuators through the combination of an experimental campaign and numerical finite element simulations

A quick comparison between two different approaches used to test the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the heat advection-diffusion equation

Alice Fantazzini is currently working on deep learning algorithms to perform automatic aortic lumen segmentation from CTA scans accounting for 3D spatial coherence

Our CompMech Group member Massimo Carraturo is currently working on Immersed thermo-mechanical part-scale analysis of complex geometries for laser powder bed fusion processes

CompMech researchers have recently been approved for a supercomputing grant to model the spatio-temporal spread of COVID-19

CFD to investigate how the size of plaque particles released from carotid stenosis may influence their pathway, and thus whether they divert towards the ocular or towards the brain circulation

CFD simulations with immersed approach and local mesh refinement of the post-stenting carotid hemodynamics

Simulatiung additive manufacturing problems is difficult due to their multiscale physics and evolving domains. We propose a new two-level method as a way to address these issues.

Bioprinting is a 3D printing technique used for realizing complex 3D functional in-vitro model system for living tissues, disease and drug screening discovery

Our CompMech member Giovanni Maria Formato has won a Student Travel Grant to participate to the “International School of Imaging, Modelling and Simulation in Biomechanics, Rome 2020”.

Virtual TAVI in a patient with Bicuspid Aortic Valve showing the behavior of different devices currently in the market.

A one-day workshop on “Recent challenges in Finite Cell Method and Isogeometric Analysis” by the key contributors of the community.

Our CompMech Group member, Anna Ferrarini, at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

3D4MED Lab participated in the event “Manifatture Aperte“, organized by Comune di Milano.

In our 3D printing laboratories we assist you in the design and manufacture of components that are now out of production. Our skills in the world of 3D printing are at the service of your company.

Post-Docs positions @ NYU: Prof. Maurizio Porfiri from the Tandon School of Engineering (New York University) is looking for several post-doctoral fellows to join his group as soon as September 1, 2019.

Our CompMech Group Member, Massimo Carraturo, is going to present his results about Applications of Finite Element Simulations in Additive Manufacturing Process Control at the II International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, which will take place in Pavia, Italy, on September 11th-13th, 2019.

Data driven Artificial Intelligence for diagnosis and prognosis of a miniaturised gear pump.

Recent work on the two-way shape memory effect in shape memory alloys has been featured in Mechanics of Materials: A three-dimensional phenomenological model for shape memory alloys including two-way shape memory effect and plasticity

Our CompMech Group Member, Gaetano Aran, is working on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to correlate aging and tortuosity with calcium burden in the aorta.

Our CompMech Group Member, Alessia Patton, is going to present her results on laminated composite structures at the VII International Conference on Isogeometric Analysis – IGA 2019.

A 3D model was built to optimize the fibre orientation in 3D printed components to enhance its structural performance.

Development of a semi-analytical model order reduction strategy for multi-scale analyses which interpolates between the Hashin-Shtrikman theory and a computational approach.

Our CompMech Group member, Anna Ferrarini, is going to discuss the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for vascular biomechanics and in particular Navier-Stokes equations for CFD simulations, in the seminar entitled Computer Simulation of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Verona.

High-order methods are not yet widely used in engineering applications due to their increased computational cost. Our CompMech Group member, Alexandros Karkoulias, seeks to demonstrate that a high-order method for the simulation of fluid flows, is able to accurately capture important flow features, e.g. vortices in a transient flow, and at the same time it can be significantly accelerated in terms of computational time with a view to constructing an attractive computational method for engineering applications.

3DConcrete@UniPV by CompMech (DICAr) made its debut at Made Expo 2019.

Our CompMech Group member, Giulia Scalet, is going to present her results on shape memory alloy modeling at the IUTAM Symposium on Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Materials: Modeling and Applications.

Development of a novel material deposition technique for 3D-Printed structural components.

Numerical simulation of Laser Metal Deposition process for Additive Manufacturing.

A recent work on in-vivo morphological changes of femoro-popliteal artery after endovascular treatment of popliteal aneurysm has been accepted in Journal of Endovascular Therapy.

Our CompMech Group member, Ahmed Aissa Berraies, aims to simulate the Fluid-Structure interaction inside a Smart material shape memory alloys microvalve produced by Dolphin Fluidics Srl. He is working, using Computational Fluid Dynamics, on describing the flow behavior before studying the mechanical response.

Our CompMech Group member, Laura Mazzocchi has published her study results about the investigation of the role of refractory calcifications in late valvular thrombosis after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

3rd edition of the Piola Lecture, taught by Prof. Eugenio Oñate, professor of Structural Mechanics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, founder and director of the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). He is for sure one of the most important researchers in the Computational Mechanics field.

Dr. Guillermo Lorenzo and Prof. Alessandro Reali got their latest article Computer simulations suggest that prostate enlargement due to benign prostatic hyperplasia mechanically impedes prostate cancer growth published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unites States of America.

Our CompMech Group member, Guillermo Lorenzo, has been awarded a Peter O’Donnell Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).

A research activity about 3D model muscle fiber has been published on Cellink AB website

2nd Bioprinting Workshop: from 3D printing set-up to laboratory analysis

A new book chapter has been published on Factories of the Future

Thesis Defense of our PhD students in “Civil Engineering and Architecture”, curriculum in “Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials” (XXX and XXXI Cycles).

Our abstract on the anomalous origin of coronary arteries has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Recent work on algebraic splitting for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations has been featured in Mathematics of Computation and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential.

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The project “Myco-Advanced leaTher matERials (MATER)” has been funded by Fondazione Cariplo and Regione Lombardia. The University of Pavia is the lead institution, with Prof. Dondi (Dept. Chemistry) as Principal Investigator

Meeting: “Stellate Ganglion Block. New Frontiers in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest with Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation” in collaboration with 3D4Med laboratory

3DMetal@UniPV Lab inaugurated at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Pavia.

Prof. Alessandro Reali appears on the list of Highly Cited Researchers for the fifth time!

CompMech Group @ XX IORS (Italian Orthopedic Research Society) Congress.
Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio is both member of Scientific Committee and Chairmen of “3D printing and projects of prosthetic plants” symposium, while Prof. Michele Conti is member of Scientific Committee and Chairmanof “Mechanical stress and articular degeneration” symposium.

New book “3D printing in complex vascular disease” published with two chapters on 3D printing technologies and materials, written by Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio, Dr. Stefania Marconi and Prof. Michele Conti.

Our PhD student, Dr. Giovanni Maria Formato, is working on correlation between the shape of the carotid arteries and hypertension @ Bristol Heart Institute in Bristol University (UK).

3D4MED, the first 3D printing clinical laboratory in Italy, inaugurated @ IRCCS San Matteo Hospital of Pavia!

Ing. Astrid Hoving (PhD Candidate) and Dr. Julia Mikhal (Post-Doc) presented their research activities based on the area of fluid dynamics of stented arterial geometries @ CompMech Group.

Eng. Rodrigo Romarowski (PhD) has received the 2nd “La Bioingegneria” Award for his thesis Moving Computational Tools for Aortic Disease From the Bench to the Bedside.

New theses’ topics in Biomechanics

Dr. Guillermo Lorenzo won the Best Oral Communication Award during the 34th SERAM National Congress in Pamplona, Spain.

Second “Piola Lecture” by Prof. Robert L. Taylor, one of the most famous researchers in the Computational Mechanics field and member of the National Academy of Engineering.

During the 67th congress of the European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery Eng. Alice Finotello, received the Young Vascular Surgeon Award for the work “Toward the use of patient-specific structural simulations of endovascular repair in the clinical practice”.

Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio has been elected National Member of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze.

Eng. Massimo Carraturo has been selected to receive a travel award to attend the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCMXIII to be held in New York City, July 22-27, 2018.

The ProTechTion project has been funded within the framework of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action – Innovative Training Networks.

Prof. Alessandro Reali has been recently awarded the Bruno Finzi Prize.

Our CompMech Group member, Eng. Massimo Carraturo, has been invited as guest scientist in the field of Civil Engineering to the Oskar von Miller Forum from March 2018 till June 2018.

Poster Award for our group’s work Virtual Endograft Deployment as a Predictor of post-operative TEVAR Outcome during the 10th European Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials (ESVB 2017) held in Strasbourg, France on October 12-14, 2017

First edition of the Piola Lecture, taught by Thomas J.R. Hughes, from the University of Texas at Austin.

The paper An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair on Longitudinal Strain selected as editor’s choice in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS).

New course on Mathematical Modeling for the Circulatory System – Models, Equations, Applications organized by the University of Verona. March-May 2017

First edition of the conference Stampa 3D in Medicina: regole, tutele, mercato e formazione, organized by the CIRSFID of the University of Bologna in March 2017

Through the B-BeST project, our CompMech Group has been awarded over 1.700.000 core hours to work on computational fluid dynamics on CINECA’s state-of-the-art supercomputer MARCONI.

The iCardioCloud project, funded by Regione Lombardia & Cariplo Foundation, is ending in December 2016.
A two-days workshop will be held at I.R.C.C.S. Policlinico San Donato on December 13th and at Palazzo Vistarino on December 14th.

Successful collaboration between the Compmech Group, San Martino Clinical Institute of Genova and Cardiatis Company.

Dr. Michele Conti has been awarded the ESC Research Grants by the European Society of Cardiology.

New research project “STEREO3D: Nuovi Materiali e Tecnologie per la Stampa 3D Stereolitografica” funded by Regione Lombardia & INSTM

New call online to apply for the Progetto Professionalità

Prof. Alessandro Reali has been awarded the IACM Fellows Award

Our CompMech Group member, Eng. Valentina Mercuri, has been accepted as a visiting guest scientist in the field of civil engineering to the Oskar von Miller Forum Programme.

Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio has been awarded the Euler Medal during the ECCOMAS Congress 2016.

Vascular Surgery Symposium organized by Ospedale Maggiore di Lodi, Regione Lombardia and Scuola di Specializzazione in Chirurgia Vascolare of the University of Pavia. June 23-24, 2016 at Cascina Sesmones, Cornegliano Laudense, Lodi.

New course on “Virtual modeling and additive manufacturing” @ Almo Collegio Borromeo (March 30, 2016 – May 12, 2016)

Our group member Eng. Rodrigo Romarowski has been recently awarded the ECCOMAS Scholarship to attend to the ECCOMAS Congress 2016

Prof. Alessandro Reali has been included in the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2015 by ISI Thomson Reuters.

Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio and Prof. Andrea Pietrabissa (Policlinico San Matteo Pavia) were awarded the San Siro Medal for their project PDAC.

Prof. Ferdinando Auricchio, has signed a collaboration agreement with the Distretto Produttivo Meccatronica and the Consorzio Sustainable Island, to develop and transfer new enabling technologies such as 3D printing in the healthcare sector.

The CompMech Group participated in the Mitral Convention in Milan at the San Raffaele Hospital.

The young members of the Rotaract Club Pavia supported 3D printing for surgery crowdfunded project by the CompMech Group organizing a “technological” second-hand book offer.

Another important step for BetaLab research activities.

Bench top model developed by the Beta-Lab to study the changed biomechanics and hemodynamics of the aorta after thoracic endovascular repair.

Interview of Prof. Auricchio who explained the research activity of the group, with a focus on the iCardiocloud project and Beta-lab experiments.

Aortic dissection experiments

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