The University of Pavia (Italy) organises a summer school on "Propagation of Mechanical Waves in Deformable Solids and Meta-Materials" from 5 to 9 September 2022. SFB 1313 project leader Professor Holger Steeb is one of the lecturers.
Date: 5 to 9 September 2022
Place: Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Pavia
Registration: open until 30 July 2022
About the Summer School
The exploitation of the properties of mechanical waves propagating in the interior and along the boundary of a deformable solid is the basis of fundamental achievements in science and engineering. To mention a few, in seismology what we currently know about the interior structure of the Earth is to a large extent drawn from the interpretation of earthquake recordings. In geophysics, mechanical waves are used to explore the depths of the Earth's crust in search of oil and gas reservoirs or large geological cavities for CO2 storage. In seismic engineering, earthquake disasters are often caused by the amplification of ground motion which is a typical wave-related phenomenon. In civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering, ultrasonic techniques are used as non-invasive diagnostic tools for detecting defects of structural components and they are based on exploiting the properties of high-frequency surface and bulk mechanical wa-ves. Lastly, when a high-speed train exceeds a critical velocity, shock mechanical waves are generated and they are conceptually similar to the ones sparked by a supersonic aircraft with all the implications for the vibrational impact induced in the surroundings of the rail-way line.