General Description |
University
of Liege is one of the six complete Universities in Belgium. It has 23.000
students and a staff of 3.300, with 10 faculties covering all disciplines in
humanities, life sciences, physical sciences & engineering and offering 193
master programmes and 68 complementary masters. University of Liege is an
excellence centre in Europe for its research and its educational offer (several
unique master degrees in Belgium including two Erasmus Mundus programs) in
transportation systems: aerospace, automotive and naval engineering. |
Supervisors and Expertise |
Prof. P. Duysinx, coordinator for ULg, structural and multidisciplinary optimisation, modelling and simulation of drivetrain systems, supervisor of 4 defended PhD theses ; Prof. O. Bruls, flexible multibody system dynamics and mechatronics, supervisor of 1 defended PhD thesis; Prof. J.-C. Golinval, structural dynamics, mechanical vibrations and rotordynamics health monitoring, vibration testing, identification of linear and non-linear structures, supervisor of 10 defended PhD theses ; Dr. A. Rassili, material and process modelling, past-president of one COST action, in charge of Short Time Scientific Mission (STSM) for two other COST actions, supervisor of 2 defended PhD theses. |
Key Facilities and Infrastructure |
The Automotive
Laboratory is equipped with various test beds (chassis, engine and electric
motors dynamometers, battery and supercap test beds) to test and characterise
powertrain and drivetrain system in conventional and electric / hybrid
vehicles. (see www.ltas.ulg.ac.be). |
Previous Involvement in Research and Training Programmes |
In the last decade, the LTAS of ULG has been involved (as active or leading partners) in several EU networks and training programs sponsored by COST office (COST-541, COST-542), by INTERREG 4a (AC-EMR-2012). LTAS has also been the partner of several INTERREG 4 and Regional Funded projects (Walloon Region) projects (e.g. RW-WIST1-IC&C, WIST2-EFCONIVO, RW-DYNAWIND, ARC-MEMS). All projects have produced several PhD theses and Postdocs. |
Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes |
Running EU research and training projects: JU-Hydrogen-SWARM), INTERREG
4a ASTE (Automotive Sustainable Training in EUREGIO), FRED (Rapid Prototyping
and Eco Design) Two on-going COST actions (COST-MP1004 about hybrid energy storage
systems and COST-TU1005 about noise and vibration of electric / hybrid
vehicles). LTAS is also involved in an Erasmus Mundus Program THRUST about Aerospace
Propulsion. |
Publications
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1-
Brüls O., et al. (2010). « Optimization of Multibody Systems and their
Structural Components” In, Multibody Dynamics: Computational Methods and
Applications, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Volume 23, pages
49-68, Springer, 2011. 2-
Bruggi M. & Duysinx P. (2012). “Topology optimization for minimum weight
with compliance and stress constraints”. Structural and Multidisciplinary
Optimization. Vol 46, pp 369–384. |