1972-1980 Aeronautical Engineering (TU Delft)
1980-1985 Stress engineer at Fokker Space Division (Schiphol-Oost).
1987-current Universiteit Twente, Assistant professor, associate professor of applied mechanics with specialization in thermo-mechanical and plastic forming processes.
2003 PhD, 'Numerical simulation of stresses due to solid state transformations'
2021 Retired
Current Research activities:
Optimization of structures and processes:
Non linear solid mechanics
- Temperatures, stresses and distortions during and after powder bed based and direct deposition additive manufacturing.
- Analysis and simulation of instabilities during cold rolling.
- Analysis and simulation of deep sea pipe laying operations.
Other Research activities:
- Optimum design of composite structures.
- Finite element formulation for steady state problems.
- Analysis of aluminum extrusion.
- Aluminum extrusion with flexible die.
- Friction surface cladding.
- Damage evolution during hot ring rolling.
- Constitutive behavior of austenitic stainless steel.
- Constitutive modelling of austenitic stainless steel.
- Texture and phase transformation in austenitic stainless steel.
- Design of lubricant free piston compressors.
- Stresses due to solid state phase transformations
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2022/2023
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