The Eastern Europe Student Award attracted nine excellent submissions in it's first year with the deadline September 2025. The winner was selected by at the November 2025 meeting of the regional steering committee.
Regulations of the 2024-2025 Award
Adam's MSc Thesis was selected for it's well demonstrated technical quality and practical relevance.
The work examined how different descriptions of material anisotropy and yield point determination methods influence forming simulations, using dual-phase steel and a combination of mechanical testing, temperature-based measurements, and finite element analysis. Two commonly used anisotropic yield models were compared, alongside several approaches to identifying the yield point, including a newly proposed temperature-based method. The findings show that a relatively simple anisotropic model can offer reliable predictions when supported by consistent input data, and that maintaining coherent trends in yield strength and anisotropy across directions is more important than adhering to any single yield point definition.
You can download the thesis using the following link.
Influence of Anisotropy Determination on Sheet Metal Forming Simulations.pdf
The following works have been recommended for publishing by the Eastern Europe Steeering Committee, and the authors have granted us the opportunity to share their work.
Finite Element Modeling of an Aluminum Alloy with Large-Strain Thermo-Elasto-Plasticity (BSc Thesis)
Preliminary Design of an Air-Launched UAV System (BSc Thesis in Romanian)
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