报告时间：2017年11月6日（周一）下午14:00—16：00
报告地点：浙江大学紫金港校区蒙民伟楼402会议室
报告人：Prof. Fred van Keulen
主持人：高曙明　教授
Title: Topology Optimization for High-Tech Production Tools and Instruments

Abstract: High-tech production tools and instruments share the very tight requirements on precision and accuracy under which they operate. At the same time, demands on operation speed are getting more demanding. As an example, for extreme precision advanced thermomechanical design and control become paramount. In this presentation it will be demonstrated how Topology Optimization (TopOpt) techniques can help designing high-tech equipment components. As the resulting designs are complex in terms of shape and layout, Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the obvious choice for manufacturing. To ensure manufacturability, AM-based constraints should be embedded in TopOpt. Several examples of which will be demonstrated.

Bio: Prof. Fred van Keulen received his M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering (Cum Laude, 1987) and his doctorate (Cum Laude 1993) both from the Delft University of Technology. In 1999 he was rewarded an “Antoni van Leeuwenhoek” chair. From 2005 to 2010 he was the first chairman of the new Department PME at TU Delft and was scientific director of the Delft Centre for Mechatronics and Microsystems. He was the PI of the national research programme MicroNed, total budget 58MEuro, 25+ partners from industry and academia. Currently, he is vice chair of the NanoNextNL programme on Micro- and Nanotechnology, total budget 250MEuro, 100+ partners from industry and academia. Present research activities focus on mechanics and optimization with typical applications such as micro/nano devices and the associated high performance tools and instruments. In his research manufacturing aspects play a key role.