"Design of nonconventional composites using lamination parameters" - April 28, 2025, Monday, 3:00 pm, Pavilhão de Mecânica II, room EDAM (Floor 0)

Date: April 28, 2025, Monday
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Pavilhão de Mecânica II, room EDAM (Floor 0, i.e. underground floor)

• Speaker: Gökhan Serhat (Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven)

• Title: "Design of nonconventional composites using lamination parameters"
_{(Seminar delivered in English Language)}

• Abstract:

The use of fibre-reinforced composite materials has been continuously increasing over the recent decades. This trend also gave rise to the development of different laminate modelling and optimization methods. One particular technique is the lamination parameters, which represent the overall stiffness directionality within the structure. This approach eliminates the solution dependency on the initial assumptions about the laminate configuration and yields convex responses in many cases. It also eases the optimization process by reducing the number of design variables and provides graphical information via contour plots in the feasible domain. In this talk, I will highlight the advantages and limitations of using lamination parameters in the design of nonconventional composites. Other than that, I will summarize my previous and current studies on the topic. I will conclude by outlining the major remaining challenges and potential future directions.

• Short Biographic Note:

Gökhan Serhat received the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (2011), the M.S. degree in Computational Mechanics from the Technical University of Munich (2014), and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Koc University (2018). In 2019, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, in Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2022, he has been working as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven, in Belgium. His research interests include computational mechanics, structural dynamics, numerical methods, and composite materials.

This is another Seminar of the "Seminars@DEM" cycle.
Next Seminar, May 9, 2025, Friday, 3:00 pm.