I’m pleased to announce details for the 2020 Tribomechadynamics Research Camp (TRC). This seventh installment of our joints-centric graduate student summer research experience (though it has gone by three different names over the years) will be hosted by Malte Krack from August 3rd through September 4th, 2020, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The goal of the TRC is to bring together participants with diverse technical backgrounds from around the world to work in small teams on projects germane to interfacial mechanics and the dynamics of coupled structures. It is our hope that this experience will help form lasting collaborations and make significant progress towards solving several of the major challenges in these research areas. There is no registration fee, and free accommodation will be provided. For more information, please see the attached flyer. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Matthew Brake, Malte Krack, or Christoph Schwingshackl.
In brief, the three projects this year are:
- Resonance Decay versus Resonance Tracking – Limitations and Opportunities
- Minimizing Shaker-Structure Interactions in Free Decay Testing
- Training-Based Hyper-Reduction for Reduced Order Modeling
Given the increasing number of applicants that we’ve been seeing the last few years, we are trying to make the application procedure slightly more rigorous. So, if any of you are interested (or interested in sending your students), you can apply by emailing Malte Krack (krack@ila.uni-stuttgart.de) a copy of your CV, a letter of recommendation by your advisor including a statement that your home institution covers your travel expenses, and a cover letter detailing your research interests and project preference. Applications are due by March 16, 2020.