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Norwegian consulting engineering company Norconsult has awarded SIMLab professor Arild Clausen for his teaching abilities. The price is established to draw attention to the need for capable educators. Clausen is honoured for his way of presenting the curriculum. His lectures are always well prepared and he is popular among the students. Read more here:

http://www.bygg.no/2011/11/ntnu-laerer-hedret-som-beste-foreleser
http://www.norconsult.no/?did=9107261

Professor Øystein Grong has been awarded the prestigious international Comfort A. Adams Memorial Award for 2011, presented by the American Welding Society (AWS). Øystein Grong received the price at the FABTECH conference in Chicago in November. He also gave a lecture at the conference titled "Recent Advances in Solid State Joining of Aluminium". This lecture will later be in print in the Welding Journal, published by AWS.

Professor Øystein Grong was awarded for the development of the Hybrid Metal Extrusion and Bonding Method (HYB). 

A new professorship has been established at SIMLab, starting on January 1^st 2012. The position shall contribute to research within testing, modelling and analyses of components and structures subjected to extreme loads from impact and blast loading caused by accidents in the industry, natural hazards and terrorist acts etc. In this context, a basic understanding of the interaction between the response of the material and geometry of the structure is a key issue.

The professorship has been appointed to Tore Børvik, previously Adjunct Professor at SIMLab. The professorship is partly financed by the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency (Norwegian: Forsvarsbygg) for three years.

SIMLab Professor Tore Børvik, with co-authors M.J. Forrestal and T.L. Warren, have received the 2012 Peterson Award for the paper "Perforation of 5083-H116 Aluminum Armor Plates with Ogive-Nose Rods and 7.62 mm APM2 Bullets," Borvik, T, Forrestal, MJ, Warren, TL, Experimental Mechanics Vol 50(7), 969-978, 2010. The Chair at SEM Honors Committee announces:

"The Peterson Award is given for the Best Applications Paper published in Experimental Mechanics in a two-year period; in this case, for the period 2009-2010. Your paper was selected by the SEM Honors Committee from amongst a group of three outstanding papers nominated for this award by the Experimental Mechanics Editorial Board. The selection of your paper is a well-deserved public recognition by your professional peers of the quality and thoroughness of the approach that you took to this highly challenging problem."

The whole announcement can be read here: Announcement 2012 Peterson Award (pdf)
The paper can be found here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/187025g263hn8x33/
Previous award recipients are listed here: http://www.sem.org/HON-Peterson.asp

Cars have put on quite a lot of weight over the last decades, and need to lose weight.  European carmakers are getting Norwegian help with their diets. Heavy cars damage the environment more than light-weight cars, and Audi is slimming down their models with help from Trondheim. (GEMINI article in Norwegian) 

Professor Øystein Grong was awarded the NTNU and SINTEF technological prize for 2009. He was also awarded the Cook/Ablett-prize for 2009 by the Institute of Minerals & Mining, UK. 

Professor Magnus Langseth was honoured with the title of "Docteur Honoris Causa" at the Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis in September 2009. " 

Why is Audi looking to Trondheim as they switch out time-intensive and costly crash testing with computer simulations?  Because it makes for safer cars.  Professor Magnus Langseth maintains that he knows little about cars, but he does know a lot about how things handle impact. For three years Professor Magnus Langseth and his SIMLab research team at NTNU in Trondheim have cooperated with Audi to develop advanced software tools. The Norwegian project will make it possible to cut costly prototypes when a new vehicle model is developed. The goal is for computer simulations to replace expensive full scale collision testing. (Audi magasinet 01/2010). 

Testing crash barriers in full scale is a particularly expensive and time intensive undertaking. Barriers must be designed, produced, mounted, and finally tested with various vehicles. But at SIMLAB, new virtual tests of crash barriers are being developed. This may make it possible to undertake 50 fullscale tests instead of a meager one or two. Virtual tests can save Norway large sums and result in fewer traffic injuries and fatalities. Contact: Henning Fransplass.
Read GEMINI article Simlulerer autovern

A cheap and simple structure made of aluminium can mean the difference between life and death the day that bombs go off. One of SIMLab's research projects is developing aluminium structures for protection against impacts, projectiles and explosions. "We have developed a light, cheap and flexible solution to protect buildings, ammunition magazines and containers", says SIMLab Director, Professor Magnus Langseth.
Read GEMINI article: Safer with light metals