Projects
Dynamic vibration absorbers with arbitrary connection characteristics for reconfigurable mechanical assemblies Ghent University
Excessive vibrations are detrimental to a mechanical system’s structural integrity, performance and production quality/output. Emerging design trends incorporate light and slender material, reconfigurable and modular assemblies, and have changing loads and propulsion. This leads to vibration susceptible designs with uncertain, time-varying vibratory behavior. To reduce excessive vibrations, a passive device called a dynamic vibration absorber ...
Sabbatical Geert Degrande: Quantifying uncertainty for railway induced vibration KU Leuven
I submitted a Research Proposal entitled “Quantifying uncertainty for railway induced vibration” to the Honorary and Visiting Fellowships Committee of Peterhouse in Cambridge and was elected as Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse for the Michaelmas Term 2021. Due to restrictions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic, this stay is postponed to the Michaelmas Term 2022. During my stay at Peterhouse and the Department of Engineering of the University of ...
Rotational vibration absorber with optimized nonlinear restoring characteristic Ghent University
The objective is to develop a prototype of a rotational vibration absorber with a nonlinear restoring characteristic to reduce multi-frequency torsional vibrations in rotating machinery. The nonlinear restoring characteristic is the promising novel part that enables the absorber to mitigate multi-frequency vibrations.
The feasibility of a design chain from mathematical concept to prototype for a rotational vibration absorber will be ...
Extracting fundamental and astrophysics from Gravitational-wave Detection. KU Leuven
This proposal pursues an ambitious yet timely effort on extracting fundamental and astrophysics from gravitational-wave detection, spanning from data analysis to phenomenology related to ground and space-based interferometric detectors. In particular, I proposed to focus on 1) Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves, 2) Probing General Relativity and exotic compact objects, 3) Uncovering the nature of dark matter, and 4) Core-collapse ...