SFI_CASA_Annual_Report

Contents

What is an SFI, what is SIMLAb, what is CASA �� 2

...and what is this?�� 3

Contents �� 3

The Glass Manager �� 4

How to Replace Stainless Steel with a Hybrid�� 6

New Girl on the Block�� 8

Partner Tools save Millions�� 10

A Perfect Match �� 12

John, Yann, Avensis and Polymers�� 14

Hunter Inside �� 16

Solid may be Dangerous �� 18

Don’t read this �� 20

…and what

is this?

This is the popularized part

of the annual report.

This is a glimpse of what CASA is all about

for those of us who don’t deal with precipitate

free zones or constitutive models on a daily basis.

The aim is the same as the rest of this report: to explain

what goes on in CASA and why it is important to society.

The articles here come in two categories; stories and profiles.

THE GLASS MANAGER

PhD Candidate Karoline Osnes is the complete opposite of Laura

Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie”. Wingfield polishes her little

glass objects. Osnes subjects hers to destructive blasts.

The next profile is also new to CASA. Professor Randi

Holmestad’s physicist expertise is needed to understand on

atomic level how aluminium behaves under attack.

The lucky guy appearing on the pages between these two

has well deserved his position. After all, he sits on CASA’s

Scientific Advisory Board. David Embury has news about hybrid

and architectured materials.

Thereafter you will learn how NTNU and SINTEF have joined

forces to give the business partners in CASA a tool box. These

tools help industry transform scientific findings into safer, less

costly and more eco-friendly products and processes.

THE PERFECT MATCH

Alexandra Bech Gjørv became a household name when she

headed the fact-finding commission after the 2011 terrorist

attack in Norway. Now she is SINTEF’s new CEO. Her thorough

insight in aluminium, automotive industry and anti-terror makes

her a

perfect

match for

CASA.

In the following

story, you’ll learn how

the master’s students at

CASA may each spend half a year

with one of our partner’s. John Fredrick

Berntsen got the chance to join Toyota

Motor Europe in Brussels and has no regrets.

Then there’s the boss. About time he was portrayed.

Thanks to his wife, he never took over the family farm.

He became a professor. As most readers of this report already

know, he has no small part in his research group’s position as

world leaders in their field. And still, come late September, he’s

gone. Every year.

Following that, you’ll learn why the Ministry of Local

Government and Modernisation decided to join CASA. Deputy

director general Christian Fredrik Horst shares the insight that

CASA’s expertise simply cannot be bought elsewhere.

Finally there’s a story you shouldn’t read. So stay away, please.