7th Academia Day of the Zwick Roell Group

7th Academia Day of the Zwick Roell Group

7th Academia Day of the Zwick Roell Group
Materials Testing in the Power Generation
26th April 2016
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Preliminary Agenda
9:00
Registration & Refreshment
9:15
Welcome and opening address and introduction of the Zwick Roell Group
Dr. Jan Stefan Roell (CEO): Zwick Roell Group
Ongoing need of experimental investigation of fatigue of engineering materials
Part I. Prof. Ludvik Kunz, Part II. Prof. Tomáš Kruml,
Institute of Physics of Materials, High Cycle Fatigue Group; Academy of
Science of the Czech Republic
Power generation: Meeting the challenges through advances in fatigue testing and simulation Prof. John Yates, Simuline Ltd.
Experimental infrastucture and methods for the mechanical testing of irradiated NPP materials
Dr. Ondřej Srba, Centrum výzkumu Řež s.r.o., MSc. Radim Kopřiva, ÚJV Řež, a. s.
10:20
Coffee break
Reliable Testing Methods: An Indispensable Prerequiste for Advanced Materials Research
and Component Simulation
Prof. Stefan Weihe, Director of Materials Testing Institute University of Stuttgart (MPA) and Acting Director of Institute for Materials Testing, Materials Science and Strength of Materials (IMWF)
Materials Testing for the Power Generation Industry, from Design to End of Life
Mike Spindler, Materials Engineer , Assessment Technology Group, EDF Energy Generation
11:45
Presentation of the Zwick Science Award and the Paul Roell Medal by Dr. Jan Stefan Roell and judges Presentations by Zwick Science Award Winners
12:30Lunch
13:15
Visit UJV NRI - Nuclear Research Institue, Prague (approx. 4h incl. travel time)
Group 1: Research reactor LVR15
Semi hot cells of UJV
Group 2: Research reactor LR0
Hot cells of SUSEN project