On November 20, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” 37th “Cloud Report” was successfully held. This lecture invited Professor Katalin Bagi at the Department of Structural Mechanics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, to give a special report entitled “Granular assemblies: When continuum mechanics cannot be trusted”.
This report was hosted by Associate Professor Jie Xu, School of Civil Engineering. Professor Mingjing Jiang, Vice dean of School of Civil Engineering, attended the report and delivered a welcome speech. In the lecture, Professor Katalin Bagi introduced some recent research results, such as engineering problems involving granular assemblies, continuum-based models, the main types of Discrete Element Method and a few characteristic applications, etc.
After the report, the participating teachers and students had a lively online discussion on related issues and took a group photo (Fig. 1). This lecture attracted lots of teachers and students from different universities. The effect of the lecture was remarkable. Teachers and students responded enthusiastically to this lecture.
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Fig.1. Online group photo of some participating teachers and students |
Introduction to Prof. Katalin Bagi:
Katalin Bagi is currently a full professor at the Department of Structural Mechanics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She has an engineering and a mathematics diploma, and received different university and academic degrees (Ph.D. Dr Habil; CSc, DSc) in computational mechanics. She has three related fields of expertise: (1) granular micromechanics; (2) mechanics of masonry arches and vaults; (3) discrete element modelling. As a world-renowned researcher in these fields, she has organized several conferences, workshops and seminars, and edited different books and journal special issues. She has about 1400 independent citations, with a Hirsch index of 20.
Professor Bagi is highly active in structural mechanics education. She has courses on all levels of Strength of Materials, on Discrete Element Method and on Mechanics of Masonry Structures. She is the organizer of several talent-care activities like nation-wide summer camps and special courses for best students. She has received “Best Teacher Award” three times at the Civil Engineering Faculty of Budapest University of Technology and Economics. She is the president of MOHR, the association of university mechanics educators in Hungary.
(Corresponding：Xingzhi Huang)
