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ERC Starting Grant Research Group recruiting 3 post-doctoral fellows

The European
Research Council funded RealTCut Research Group is seeking three Research
Assistants/Associates over a 5 year period on project: “
Towards real time multiscale simulation of cutting in
non-linear materials with applications to surgical simulation and computer
guided surgery.

 

“ERC grants aim to support
"frontier research", in other words the pursuit of questions at or
beyond the frontiers of knowledge, without regard for established disciplinary
boundaries.”

 

Key idea of the project The goal of the project is to advance significantly
the field of surgical simulation by enabling the simulation of cuts in
heterogeneous materials and the computation of accurate force feedback in
quasi-real time.

 

Methodology We propose to
develop algorithms and implement them within a professionally crafted software
toolbox which will enable to simulate real time cutting in surgical simulation
through a novel multiscale approach. Instead of realizing real time results
through explicit methods and vastly simplified geometries, we will use implicit
methods and novel discretisation schemes able to handle very complex geometries
and cuts easily (XFEM, meshless methods). This can only be done through severe
reductions in the computational complexity (we aim to reduce this complexity by
up to three orders of magnitude without sacrificing accuracy and have already
achieved, for model problems, two orders of magnitude savings). The savings are
expected to be such that we aim at, for the first time, predicting in real time
the initiation of cuts at the organ level from the effects of surgical
instruments on the meso/microstructure.

 

Key fields of competences involved

 

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advanced discretisation techniques (implicit
boundaries, extended finite elements, meshless methods)

-      
model order reduction (proper orthogonal
decomposition) for non-linear problems, localization, cracking

-      
error estimation for non-linear problems, in
particular fracture and large deformations

-      
multiscale methods for fracture

 

Environment

 

The successful candidate will join the vibrant ERC Research
Group (RealTCut), led by Prof. Stéphane Bordas and Dr. Pierre Kerfriden within
the institute of Mechanics and Advanced Materials (iMAM), at Cardiff School of
engineering. http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/research/resInstitute.asp?InstNo=13

 

The group, led by Prof. Bordas is currently composed of 7
PhD students (from 7 different countries), two post-docs and a number of
visiting scientists.

 

The project will be cross-fertilised by the Initial Training
Network (ITN)
“Integrating Numerical
Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST)” (13 Early Stage
Researchers and 2 Experienced Researchers).

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Mike Ciavarella's picture

I guess really helping the surgeons is a long/term goal.... How far are we?

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