Senior Scientist

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Background

Trond Kvamsdal has been a Senior Scientist for more than a decade at SINTEF ICT, Department of Applied Mathematics, whereas since 2007 his main affiliation has been Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He is educated in both structural engineering (M.Sc at Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and mathematics (M.A at University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, USA).

He was elected as the President of the Nordic Association for Computational Mechanics (NoACM) in 2008, and is a member of the General Council of IACM. He was awarded the IACM Fellow Award in 2010. The IACM Fellows Award recognizes individuals with a distinguished record of research, accomplishment and publication in areas of computational mechanics and demonstrated support of the IACM through membership and participation in the Association, its meetings and activities.

Research Interests

Trond Kvamsdal has made original contributions to reliable calculation of sectional forces and surface tractions relevant for structural engineering. The so-called virtual work consistent post-processing of sectional forces and surface tractions is making use of finite element adapted classes of output functionals and duality based error estimators. Another main area of research has been fluid-structure interaction (FSI) were he has been leading an activity for developing FSI simulation tools for vortex induced vibration of slender structures as bridges and offshore pipelines and risers.

Knut Morten Okstad , Trond Kvamsdal and Kjell Magne Mathisen (1999) ,Automated Superconvergent patch recovery for plate problems using statically admissible resultant fields, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 44:697-727, 1999..