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Seminar: Prof Suresh G. Advani, University of Delaware, "Emerging Role of Process Models and Simulations in Composites Manufacturing"
Mould Filling Simulation of a Tractor Trailer Bed through a centre line gate injection with last regions to fill at the corners. Such simulations can be integrated in Digital Twin Designs in the Future for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing
Date: Wednesday 1 November 2023 14:00 - 15:00
Location: SEMS seminar room
We are delighted to invite you to attend a talk by Prof Suresh Advani, Unidel Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, from University of Delaware.
This talk is entitled “Emerging Role of Process Models and Simulations in Composites Manufacturing".
This talk will highlight the ever-increasing benefits of process modelling in Composite Manufacturing processes. First, the use of science base approach of materials processing, which integrates material parameters with transport phenomena at various scales during manufacturing to create multi-physics models will be discussed. Next the importance of implementing these models in fast and open architecture simulations that can be seamlessly interfaced with optimization, functional design and process control tools to improve the yield of the process despite the variability in the incoming materials and process parameters will be demonstrated. The use of such simulations in transportation, wind and energy storage applications will be presented. Automation can be introduced with tailored equipment designs that rely on sensors and simulations interfaced with actuators to address variability and disturbances in the process. Examples where this has been demonstrated on a laboratory scale will be presented for Liquid Moulding processes such as Resin Transfer Moulding and Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding. This approach naturally lends itself to Digital Twins and Industry 4.0 Manufacturing and can be extended to other manufacturing processes.
Suresh G. Advani is the Unidel Pierre S. du Pont Chair of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware. He also has Courtesy appointment of Distinguished Professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France. He received his B. Tech degree from IIT Mumbai in 1982 and Ph. D from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987.
His research interests are in modelling rheology; fluid mechanics and heat transfer as applied to composite processing and alternate energy sources such as fuel cells and hydrogen storage. Advani has graduated over 100 Ph.D. and Masters students and published over 350 journal papers and delivered over 150 invited lectures. He is the lead author of a text on Process Modelling in Composite Manufacturing Processes and Simulation Software for Liquid Moulding called LIMS.
Professor Advani is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is the North American Editor for the journal Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. Professor Advani recently received the Outstanding Researcher Award from American Society of Composites and Educator of the year award from Society of Plastic Engineers. He also served as the Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware from 2012 to 2017.
Professor Advani will serve as the Chair of the International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM) in 2025 which will be held in Baltimore August 4th to August 8th.
We look forward to seeing you all there.