This document contains contact information and summaries of research expertise for various professors and researchers at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. Areas of research expertise include combustion and emissions characterization of biofuels, renewable energy, fluid dynamics, micro-cooling systems, polymer engineering, failure analysis, sustainable design, project management, biomechanics, sensors and instrumentation, mechatronics, robotics, and more. Contact information is provided for each research area.
BIGCCS: Integrated multi-criteria CO2 chain assessment - presentation by Simon Roussanaly of SINTEF at the UKCCSRC Natural Gas CCS Network Meeting at GHGT-12, Austin, Texas, October 2014
Development of new products is extremely essential for the success and smooth running of every industry. Companies have to constantly inject innovations and design efforts to make the design processes easy and to attract consumers in a constantly in a evolving and highly competitive market with best quality . Keeping ahead of the competition by bringing new and exciting products to market fast, and at the necessary level of quality, presents a major engineering challenge. A new casting bracket in place of old stamping brackets in snowmobile chassis development process is described, which introduces advanced FEM and Optimization technology into the concept development phase. Detailed predictions of interacting parts in a mechanism assembly are made possible through use of value engineering based process and material selection and advanced simulation technology. Design optimization is then employed using the modeling as a virtual testing ground for design variants. The approach provides clear design direction and helps to improve performance and reduce the unnecessary welding efforts of bracket manufacturing. Design is an intelligent activity that begins with design requirements and ends with a product description. Using Altair Optistruct was able to significantly reduce design time by sub modeling with structural optimization. The resultant casting bracket design showed superior performance characteristics. And finely the manufacturer had to put less efforts in stamping and part welding , which reduced the manufacturing time and cost also.
Recommendation engine and uncertainty techniques for the efficient calibratio...Vform Xsteels
Nowadays, digitalisation and virtualisation are the keys for companies’ success and competitiveness. Thus, numerical simulation tools are essential for engineering analysis and development. The success of a simulated material behaviour prediction depends on the chosen complex constitutive model and the correctness of its parameter identification. These days, it is used several classical mechanical tests to identify the model’s parameters.
BIGCCS: Integrated multi-criteria CO2 chain assessment - presentation by Simon Roussanaly of SINTEF at the UKCCSRC Natural Gas CCS Network Meeting at GHGT-12, Austin, Texas, October 2014
Development of new products is extremely essential for the success and smooth running of every industry. Companies have to constantly inject innovations and design efforts to make the design processes easy and to attract consumers in a constantly in a evolving and highly competitive market with best quality . Keeping ahead of the competition by bringing new and exciting products to market fast, and at the necessary level of quality, presents a major engineering challenge. A new casting bracket in place of old stamping brackets in snowmobile chassis development process is described, which introduces advanced FEM and Optimization technology into the concept development phase. Detailed predictions of interacting parts in a mechanism assembly are made possible through use of value engineering based process and material selection and advanced simulation technology. Design optimization is then employed using the modeling as a virtual testing ground for design variants. The approach provides clear design direction and helps to improve performance and reduce the unnecessary welding efforts of bracket manufacturing. Design is an intelligent activity that begins with design requirements and ends with a product description. Using Altair Optistruct was able to significantly reduce design time by sub modeling with structural optimization. The resultant casting bracket design showed superior performance characteristics. And finely the manufacturer had to put less efforts in stamping and part welding , which reduced the manufacturing time and cost also.
Recommendation engine and uncertainty techniques for the efficient calibratio...Vform Xsteels
Nowadays, digitalisation and virtualisation are the keys for companies’ success and competitiveness. Thus, numerical simulation tools are essential for engineering analysis and development. The success of a simulated material behaviour prediction depends on the chosen complex constitutive model and the correctness of its parameter identification. These days, it is used several classical mechanical tests to identify the model’s parameters.
Design for Additively Manufactured Structure An Assessmentijtsrd
"The design of lightweight structures realized via additive manufacturing has been drawing considerable amount of attentions in academia and industries for a wide range of applications. However, various challenges remain for AM lightweight structures to be reliably used for these applications. For example, despite extensive advancement with geometric design, there still lacks adequate understanding with the process material property relationship of AM lightweight structures. In addition, a more integrated design approach must also be adopted in order to take non uniform material design into consideration. In our works, a design approach based on unit cell cellular structure was taken in the attempt to establish a comprehensive design methodology for lightweight structures. Analytical cellular models were established to provide computationally efficient property estimation, and various design factors such as size effect, stress concentration and joint angle effect were also investigated in order to provide additional design guidelines. In addition, it was also found that the geometry and microstructure of the cellular structures are dependent on both the process setup and the feature dimensions, which strongly support the argument to establish a multi scale hierarchical cellular design tool. Deependra Sharma | Prof. Vivek Babele ""Design for Additively Manufactured Structure: An Assessment"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21674.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/mechanical-engineering/21674/design-for-additively-manufactured-structure-an-assessment/deependra-sharma"
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Presentation to students and educators at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2008 on the challenges, and opportunities, facing people in manufacturing.
Multiobjective Design of Micro- and Macrostructures.
"To craft and analyze algorithms that search for optimal structures is the subject of the research in the multiobjective optimization and decision analysis group, and in the talk, we will discuss approaches, their theoretical limits, as well as applications to challenging design problems across multiple scales."
On July 10th Innovate UK and the KTN held a business innovation day to showcase 30 of the Innovate UK projects that are currently active in the area of Additive Manufacturing. The presentations and pitches made on the day are now available to download. Topic 3 focuses on Post Processing
Design for Additively Manufactured Structure An Assessmentijtsrd
"The design of lightweight structures realized via additive manufacturing has been drawing considerable amount of attentions in academia and industries for a wide range of applications. However, various challenges remain for AM lightweight structures to be reliably used for these applications. For example, despite extensive advancement with geometric design, there still lacks adequate understanding with the process material property relationship of AM lightweight structures. In addition, a more integrated design approach must also be adopted in order to take non uniform material design into consideration. In our works, a design approach based on unit cell cellular structure was taken in the attempt to establish a comprehensive design methodology for lightweight structures. Analytical cellular models were established to provide computationally efficient property estimation, and various design factors such as size effect, stress concentration and joint angle effect were also investigated in order to provide additional design guidelines. In addition, it was also found that the geometry and microstructure of the cellular structures are dependent on both the process setup and the feature dimensions, which strongly support the argument to establish a multi scale hierarchical cellular design tool. Deependra Sharma | Prof. Vivek Babele ""Design for Additively Manufactured Structure: An Assessment"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21674.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/mechanical-engineering/21674/design-for-additively-manufactured-structure-an-assessment/deependra-sharma"
B Kindilien-Does Manufacturing Have a Future?jgIpotiwon
Presentation to students and educators at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2008 on the challenges, and opportunities, facing people in manufacturing.
Multiobjective Design of Micro- and Macrostructures.
"To craft and analyze algorithms that search for optimal structures is the subject of the research in the multiobjective optimization and decision analysis group, and in the talk, we will discuss approaches, their theoretical limits, as well as applications to challenging design problems across multiple scales."
On July 10th Innovate UK and the KTN held a business innovation day to showcase 30 of the Innovate UK projects that are currently active in the area of Additive Manufacturing. The presentations and pitches made on the day are now available to download. Topic 3 focuses on Post Processing
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1. Combustion and fuels
Processing technologies
of biofuels from
sustainable materials
Research expertise
Combustion and emissions characterisation of biofuel
blends/additives in various combustion systems
(via experimental and computational approaches)
In-situ emission mitigation
strategies and
environmental pollutant
abatement
Development and application of cost-
effective computational/experimental
solutions for cleaner and more efficient
combustion systems
Contact: Prof Ng Hoon Kiat (hoonkiat.ng@nottingham.edu.my)
2. internal combustion engines
• Research into advanced computational
fluids dynamics (CFD) models for
combustion systems using different fuel
blends
• Provide low-cost solution to elucidating
processes inside combustion systems for
two-phase, reacting fuel spray jets
Contact: Prof Ng Hoon Kiat (hoonkiat.ng@nottingham.edu.my)
4. Fluid Structural Interaction (FSI) using unified particle
method
Development of Particle-based
(meshless) methods in Computational
Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Contact: Dr. Ng Khai Ching (khaiching.ng@nottingham.edu.my)
Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) in mesoscopic solidification modeling
Multiphase Flow (Splashing & breakup) using hybrid mesh-particle method
5. Fluid mechanics and Energy
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Experimental Fluid mechanics analysis
Velocity distribution in a swirled flow - PIV
PIV and numerical simulation on a opposed flow system
Contact: Dr. Gianfranco Scribano (Gianfranco.Scribano@Nottingham.edu.my)
Measurement (top half)
and simulation (bottom
half) of explosion of syngas
mixture in cylindrical vessel
Rainbow Schlieren in heated gas to measure temperature
6. Fluid mechanics and Energy
Numerical simulation of battery pack –
temperature distribution
Numerical simulation of combustion
Contact: Dr. Gianfranco Scribano (Gianfranco.Scribano@Nottingham.edu.my)
Numerical simulation of cavitation in centrifugal
pump – effect of surface roughness
Numerical simulation of blood flow in carotid artery
7. Research on Micro-cooling system
Contact:
Dr Wong Kok Cheong
kok-cheong.wong@Nottingham.edu.my 03-89248117
Area of research as follows:
• Two phase flow boiling, nucleate boiling
• Thermal performance of Microchannel
heat sink (single layer and multi-layer
and non-uniform geometry)
• Convection in Porous media
• Jet impingement cooling
8. Combustion Kinetics and Fuel
Technology
Contact: Dr Poon Hiew Mun (HiewMun.Poon@nottingham.edu.my)
CVCC
Development of Renewable Fuels such as Hydro-
processed Renewable Diesel (HRD) and Hydro-
processed Renewable Jet (HRJ) fuels
GC-MS
chromatogram
of HRD
Experimental investigations to study the fuel
ignition characteristics in a constant-volume
combustion chamber
Construction of fuel kinetic models and multi-
dimensional CFD modelling studies to provide
insights on the fuel ignition and combustion
performances
Inclusion of additives (e.g. alcohol) to improve
fuel combustion and emission performances
Blending with
ethanol
9. Soft materials and biocomposites
Compounding of soft
materials and
biocomposites from
waste materials
Mechanical
characterization of
biocomposites via
various experimental
works
Development and
application of
experimental testing and
modeling for durable
and robust end products
Contact: Dr Chai Ai Bao (AiBao.Chai @nottingham.edu.my)
10. Polymer Engineering
Contact: Dr Tshai Kim Yeow (Albert) (kim-yeow.tshai@Nottingham.edu.my)
Polymer Processing, Characterization, Fibre Reinforced
Composites and Recycling
Aerospace
composites
Polymer
processing &
characterization
Bio composites
Finite element
analysis
Nano
composites
Composite
pipelines
rehabilitation
11. Advanced materials
& Failure analysis
Contact: Dr. How Ho Cheng (HoCheng.How@nottingham.edu.my)
Failure and root cause analysis using
various analytical techniques
Flame synthesis of carbon nanotubes on
metals surface
Lead-free solder materials research and development
for advanced packaging technology
Solder joint failure
Solder joint quality &
reliability
Manufacturing consideration in solder
materials development
Low melting & high
melting
temperature solder
materials
High current capacity of
composite solders
High mechanical strength of
composite solders
12. Advanced Manufacturing
Contact: chinseong.lim@nottingham.edu.my
A
B
X
Y
SRR design parameters:
X & Y – core size
A & B – antenna gap size
(a)
x
y
100 µm
(b)
x
y
100 µm
x
y
100 µm
(d)
(c)
x
y
100 µm
Metamaterialgroup
Sizeof 4 SRRs within a unit cell (µm)
Coresize Gap size
1 24
3
2 28
3 32
4 34
5
32
2
6 4
7 6
8 8
Hybrid 1 24, 28, 32 & 34 3
Hybrid 2 32 2, 4, 6 & 8
Subtrative and Additive Manufacturing
Laser Materials Processing
Optics and Photonics
Micro/NanoFabrication
AVIA Nd:YAG Laser
XY Stage
Sample
Objective
Lens
Mirror
Mirror
Mirror
Z Stage
NC Program
CCD
CCD
Monitor
Intelligent Manufacturing
13. Contact: Dr Ng Kok Weng (kokweng.ng@nottingham.edu.my)
Engineering Design Support Tool
Graphical User Interface
Aggregated scoring of the Inventive Principles
Architecture of the software tool
It is a collaboration research with Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
14. Contact: Dr Ng Kok Weng (kokweng.ng@nottingham.edu.my)
Discrete Optimisation Operators
for PCB Assembly Path Planning
Aggregated scoring of the Inventive Principles
It is a collaboration research with Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
The successful application of TRIZ in solving design, business and software problems
motivated the idea of applying TRIZ inventive principles to derive new optimisation
operators for an intelligent algorithm. Experiments were conducted to test several TRIZ-
inspired operators and strategies. We have obtained better PCB assembly time using the
three novel TRIZ-inspired operators, namely, ‘segmentation’, and ‘dynamisation’ and
‘local quality’, in an existing intelligent algorithm (Bees Algorithm).
16. Engineering Management and Policy
Contact: Dr Lee Chan Wai (Chan-Wai.Lee@nottingham.edu.my)
Research targeted at the
intersection of Engineering
and Business, to create
better systems and
processes to drive better
performance in all
organisations
Multi-disciplinary, bespoke
research that help drive
operational efficiency and
setting organisational
strategy to understanding
industries, markets and the
policies that affect
organisations and their
ecosystems
Work across industries including Aerospace, Agribusiness,
Banking, Construction, Consulting, Education, Electronics,
Energy, Food & Beverage, Information Technology,
Manufacturing, Retail, Telecommunications, Transport
17. Project & Energy Management
Contact: Dr Christina Chin (Christina.Chin@nottingham.edu.my)
Project management
Common? Essential. The KEY essence to
soft skills as an engineer for FUTURE
Energy management
How sustainable are we? Is it secure? What
is our usage? How to restore? EVs?
Solution…
Methods?
Tools?
Techniques?
Skills
Knowledge
areas
19. Nonlinear Dynamics
Contact: Dr Ko-Choong Woo (Woo.Ko-Choong@nottingham.edu.my)
Electro-vibroimpact system
Rotations of a pendulum
Experimental techniques and analytical
methods in nonlinear dynamics
20. Biomedical Signal and Gait Analysis
Contact: Dr. Veronica Jauw (Veronica.Jauw@Nottingham.edu.my)
EMG Signal Acquisition
Tracking Marker Acquisition and Skeletal Model
Construction
Tracking markers
defining the upper
limb s joint
Tracking cameras
with infrared
Static position of the
upper arm
180 degrees abduction of
the upper arm
Skeletal model
construction – static
position of the upper
body
Skeletal model
construction – elbow
flexion at an angle
EMG readings of biceps during shoulder
abduction adduction
EMG readings of lateral deltoid during shoulder
abduction adduction
Data integration between biomedical signal and gait
trajectory as control signal for intelligent automation
Gait Analysis Biomedical Signal
21. Integrated Automation System
Contact: Dr. Veronica Jauw (Veronica.Jauw@Nottingham.edu.my)
Acquired Data Control Signal
Trained via Artificial
Learning
Integrated
System
22. Biomechanics of Heart
Contact: Dr Chan Bee Ting (BeeTing.Chan@nottingham.edu.my)
MRI scan MRI images
Image segmentation Computational Modelling
Digital Image Processing
23. Sensors and Instrumentation
Contact: Dr Ho Jee Hou (JeeHou.Ho@nottingham.edu.my)
Motion sensor network Compressive sensing for IoT devices
Biomedical signal processing (EMG and ECG) Gait trajectory computation
24. Mechatronics, Robotics and
Automation
Contact: Dr Ho Jee Hou (JeeHou.Ho@nottingham.edu.my) Dynamics and control of robotic systems
Machine/Structural health condition monitoring
Machine vision for impurities detection on
edible bird nest
Energy harvesting
