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TRACK PLENARY
Model-based simulation is attractive for the reliability analysis
of systems that are too large and complex for full-scale
testing. However, model-based simulation involves many
approximations and assumptions, and thus confidence in the
simulation result is an important consideration in risk-informed
decision-making. Sources of uncertainty are both aleatory
and epistemic, arising from natural variability, information
uncertainty, and modeling approximations. The presentation
will discuss recent advances in the following directions: (1)
quantifying and aggregating the effects of multiple data
uncertainty and model uncertainty sources on the reliability
assessment of multi-physics, multi-scale systems; (2)
integrating heterogeneous information from multiple sources
(models, tests, experts) in multiple formats using Bayesian
networks; and (3) decision support for risk management
throughout the life cycle of engineered systems. The
techniques will be illustrated with a number of examples
from mechanical and aerospace components.
Biography: Professor Sankaran Mahadevan
has thirty years of research and teaching
experience in reliability and risk analysis,
design optimization, structural health
monitoring, model verification and validation, Director of the Ronald E. McNAIR Center for Aerospace
and uncertainty quantification. His research
has been extensively funded by NSF, NASA, FAA, DOE, DOD,
DOT, NIST, General Motors, Chrysler, Union Pacific, American
Railroad Association, and Sandia, Idaho, Los Alamos and Oak
Ridge National Laboratories. His research contributions are
documented in more than 600 publications, including two
textbooks on reliability methods and 250 journal papers. He
has directed 40 Ph.D. dissertations and 24 M.S. theses, and
has taught many industry short courses on reliability and risk
analysis methods. He is currently serving as Managing Editor
for the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (Part B:
Mechanical Engineering), and as Associate Editor for three
other journals. His awards include the NASA Next Generation
Design Tools award (NASA), the SAE Distinguished Probabil-
istic Methods Educator Award, and best paper awards in the
MORS Journal and the SDM and IMAC conferences. Professor
Mahadevan obtained his B.S. from Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY, and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA.
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Track 15: Design, Systems And Complexity
15-5-1: DESIGN, SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY PLENARY
Wednesday, November 8, 8:00am–9:45am
Room 7, Tampa Convention Center
Non-Conventional Materials in the Future of Aerospace
(IMECE2017-73551)
Michael Van Tooren
University of South Carolina
Abstract: The keynote will present materializing the future of
aerospace, focusing on non-conventional composites including
3D printing of carbon fiber reinforced polymer.
Biography: Michel van Tooren is Professor
Aerospace Systems Design and Structures at
the College of Engineering and Computing
(CEC) of the University of South Carolina,
SmartState Endowed Chair in the Center for
Multifunctional Materials and Structures, and
Innovation and Research. Michel has a BSc, MSc and PhD
in Aerospace Engineering and joined CEC in September 2013.
Before joining USC he worked for Fokker Aerostructures in
the Netherlands as Manager New Concept Development. He
combined this position in industry with a part-time appointment
at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University
of Technology. Prior to that he worked ten years as professor
Systems Integration Aircraft at the same University, building
a group specialized in Aircraft Design, Flight Mechanics and
Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization. This group became
well-known for its work in MDO, Aircraft Design, KBE and
Truck Aerodynamics. He combined the research activities with
a position in the management team of the faculty of Aerospace
Engineering as vice dean. All this followed a previous ten years
of research, education and innovation in design of composite
structures. His research focus at CEC is on design and manu-
facture of composites structures, especially thermoplastics.
In addition he serves as the Program Director Aerospace
Engineering Studies for CEC.