Department of ElectroMechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering

Ongoing research topics

The fracture mechanics and fatigue group at Soete Laboratory

Corrosion-fatigue in offshore wind turbine sub-structures
Fatigue and lifetime analysis - Seyed Ahmad Elahi | Farid Mehri Sofiani
Research project Seyed Ahmad Elahi
Fast and reliable prognostic tools for fatigue (re)assessment of OWT substructures for new and existing wind farms
Welded joints, Fatigue assessment, Local stress, As-built data - Jiacheng Qi
Research project Jaicheng Qi
Hydrogen embrittlement in pipelines and welds
Quasi-static fracture and damage mechanics - Laura De Pue
Research project Laura De Peu
MMMD - Multiphysics Modelling of Material Degradation
Material degradation - Fuhui Shen
Research project Fuhui Shen
Structural integrity of WAAM steel components
Joining and additive manufacturing - Robin Motte
Research project Robin Motte
Modelling, prediction, and optimization of properties of low-carbon steel produced by wire arc additive manufacturing using machine learning
Modelling, prediction, optimization, wire arc additive manufacturing, machine learning - Jun Cheng
Research project Jun Cheng
BEL-Float - Fatigue damage assessment and lifetime prediction of a FOWT platform subjected to multiple non-linear stochastic load sources
BEL-Float - Victor Rappe
Research project Victor Rappe
FlexWind - Fatigue Life Extension of offshore Wind foundations
FlexWind - Songhan Zhang
Research project Songhan Zhang
HYSCORE - Hydrogen Storage and Carriage as Opportunity for Renewable Energy Transition
Hyscore - Behzad Vasheghani Farahani
Research project Hyscore
Data-driven lifetime assessment of a wing sail system
Mekete Mebratu
Research project Mekete Mebratu
BLEEPID - Multiphysics Modelling of Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion
Bleepid- Alireza Shadmani, Vinayak Ramachandran Nambiar
Research project Bleepid
Smartweld - intelligence welded together
SMARTWELD - Development of a SMART system integrating automatic/robotic hybrid WELDing technologies, digitaltwinassisted quality monitoring, and WPS predictive tool
Research project Smartweld
Project PIT: Investigating the Mechanisms, Initiation, and Growth of PITting Corrosion and Its Impact on the Fatigue Lifetime of Offshore/Maritime Structural Steels
Fatigue and lifetime analysis - Anil Sudhakar
Research project Seyed Ahmad Elahi