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What is...
What is an SFI,
what is SIMLab,
what is CASA...
COVER
30 potential project and master’s students turned up
at SIMLab’s presentation in May. Here some of them
listen to CASA Director Magnus Langseth in the lab after
seeing the kicking machine hit a shock absorber.
PHOTOS THIS SECTION
Cover: Albert H. Collett. Pp. 4-11: Lena Knutli.
Page 12: Ole Morten Melgård.
Page 15: Leif Arne Holme.
Page 16: Øyvind Hagen, Statoil.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
NTNU Grafisk senter
SFI IS A FUNDING SCHEME
SFI, Centre for Research-based Innovation, is a funding scheme
administered by the Research Council of Norway (RCN).
The main objective for the SFIs is to increase the capability of
business to innovate by focusing on long-term research. The
idea is to forge close alliances between research-intensive
enterprises and prominent research groups.
The host institution for an SFI can be a university, a university
college, a research institute or an enterprise with a strong
research activity.
The partners (enterprises, public organisations and other
research institutions) must contribute to the centre in the
form of funding, facilities, competence and their own efforts
throughout the life cycle of the centre.
The life cycle is eight years. On the average, each centre
receives roughly 12 MNOK per year from RCN. The host
institution and partners must contribute with at least the same
amount.
SIMLAB IS A RESEARCH GROUP
Structural Impact Laboratory, SIMLab, is a research group at
the Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU. From 2007 to
2014, SIMLab hosted an SFI with the same name, SFI SIMLab.
This double use of the name sometimes causes confusion, but
now you know:
SFI SIMLab is history; the SIMLab research group is alive and
kicking. All the more comforting, since the group carries with
it all the expertise that brought SFI SIMLab to a world-leading
position in the design of crashworthy and protective structures.
CASA IS AN SFI
CASA, Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis, is the name
of the new SFI hosted by the SIMLab research group. It was
officially established on 1 July 2015.
The vision of SFI CASA is to establish a world-leading centre
for multi-scale testing, modelling and simulation of materials
and structures for industrial applications.
In doing so, CASA goes further down in scale to nano level and
wider in scope than SFI SIMLab did. New materials such as
glass are included.