Presentations
Introduction
RMA undertake R&D in a variety of projects and present this work to undergraduate engineers at university and to bodies like the IStructE.
2021
Efficient Design through Lower-Bound Limit Design - paper to be presented at the NAFEMS World Congress (NWC21) later this year in Salzburg.
2019
Strong Equilibrium in FEA – An Alternative Paradigm? to be presented at the 5th International Conference on Mechanical Models in Structural Engineering,CMMoST, 23-25 October, 2019, Alicante, Spain.
2018
EFE in the Education of Engineers, presented at the Academic Symposium during the NAFEMS UK Conference in Milton Keynes on 18th July 2018.
2017
Equilibrium: Fact or Fiction, presented to the Structures Group in the Department of Engineering's Structures Research Seminars at the University of Cambridge on 12th May 2017.
2016
Research & Development at Ramsay Maunder Associates. Presented at the University of Surrey, 9th November 2016.
2015
An Equilibrium Approach to Finite Element Modelling of Plates and Shells. Presented at the First International Conference on Shells, Plates and Beams held in Bologna, Italy, 9th - 11th September 2015.
NAFEMS Beyond FEA Seminar - RMA presented a paper on Equilibrium Finite Elements for the Safe Limit Analysis of Plates. Presented at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK, 14th May 2015.
LimitState Workshop - RMA Presentation on EFE as a Complementary Technology Lower-Bound Tool. Presented at IStructE HQ, London, 26th February 2015.
2011
Limit Analysis using Finite Element Techniques. Seminar for the Advanced Structural Engineering Module College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, 6th December 2011
2010
Shades of Equilibrium. Institution of Structural Engineers (Devon & Cornwall Branch – Technical Meeting), University of Exeter, 14th October 2010.
2009
Equilibrium Finite Elements. Presented at a Research Seminar at the University of Sheffield, 7th September 2009.