CRS4 begins a collaboration with CERN for the design analysis of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The latter, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, will run for the firs time in 2008.
CRS4 carries out a number of numerical simulations with the aim of verifying the structural integrity under the effect of thermoelastic waves stemming from the interaction of dumping materials with the accelerated particle beam.
Thermoelasticity codes developed at CRS4 are used as a decision support system in the design phase of LHC's dumpers, several years before the accelerator itself entries into operation.
