Technical Papers and Presentations

The good electrical, thermal, mechanical and chemical properties of solid organic dielectrics, such as PTFE, predestine them as good candidates for the electrical insulation of transport devices and systems. In the particular case of power converters involved in the future hybrid and ... Read More

Structural Health Monitoring Systems are being highly investigated to evaluate the health of a structure and detect any damages occurring in real time. Such systems require intensive data analysis which gets even more intricate when working with complex structures due to undesirable ... Read More

Laser beam welding is a key technology in industrial manufacturing as it combines high flexibility and the potential for automation with excellent joint quality and minimal thermal influence of the workpiece. Whereas for materials like steel and aluminium laser beam welding is already ... Read More

Additive Manufacturing is revolutionizing the industrial sector for complex and individualized metallic components. The most limiting factor of the widely established laser beam melting technology is the scan velocity due to inertia of the mirrors [1]. In electron beam melting (EBM), ... Read More

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices which produce electricity from renewable and clean resources, such as hydrogen. Their large-scale exploitation is expected to impact positively our approach to use electric energy in vehicles, buildings and other portable/stationary applications. ... Read More

Arc current welding is a widespread process in heavy industry for the assembly of metallic components. In order to ensure the good quality of assemblies welds, it is appropriate to master the welding process but also to have a deep understanding of interactions with the weld pool and ... Read More

Dielectric elastomers are a promising group of smart materials, which finds application within many fields such as soft robotics, wave-energy harvesting, and loud speakers. A dielectric elastomer consists of a thin, stretchable polymer film sandwiched between two compliant electrodes. ... Read More

Laser cladding is an additive manufacturing process, where a laser beam creates a melt pool, into which powder is fed from a powder nozzle. Due to the feed motion of the laser beam and the powder nozzle relative to the workpiece, coatings and 3D parts can be deposited, which consist of ... Read More

Black-oil simulators are commonly used in petroleum reservoir engineering for the prediction of oil production, especially during the earlier stages of oil-field exploitation, while also serving to guide pressure maintenance strategies in the longer term. Such models account for fluid ... Read More

To assess the safety deep geological repositories for nuclear waste, it is important to have a clear understanding of groundwater flow at the interface between the storage vault and the fractured rock. Traditional approaches for modelling groundwater often consider both the geological ... Read More