Invitated by Professor Pengwan Chen, Dr David A. Cendón Franco from Technical University of Madrid Professor visited BIT in June 2014. He gave a series of courses on the impact and blast protection ( 8 hours in total). He also gave two seminars: one talk entitled "Impact and protection of structures against shock and impulsive loading" the 16th June and another talk entitled "Cohesive Crack Models" the 19th June.
(Lab tour with Prof Pengwan Chen)
Short bio of Dr. David A.Cendón Franco:
David A.Cendón Franco is an associate professor (tenure track) at Department of Material Science, Technical University of Madrid. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Technical University of Madrid in 2002. His fields of specialty include structural integrity, dynamic behavior of materials and development of material model. He has published more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences. He was the member of the Scientific Committee of FRAMCOS-8 and the paper selection committee of the 27th International Symposium on Ballistics. Currently he is Secretary of the Spanish Society for Structural Integrity and the Reviewer of several International Journals. He is also expert evaluator of research projects for the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Economy.
