Noise and Vibration Research Group (mod)

KU Leuven

• KU Leuven

• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Division of Production engineering, Machine design and Automation (PMA)
• Noise and Vibration Research Group (MOD)

• Research staff

• 5 academic, 1 associated academic, 1 industrial research manager
• 9 postdoctoral researchers  3 Marie Curie ER + 3 vacancies
•  1 IWT OZM, 1 IWT IM
• 44 PhD, 5 res., 10 industrial PhD.  2 IWT Baekeland  8 bilateral industrial PhD’s  10 Marie Curie ESR + 3 vacancies
• Since the year 2000: hosted 44 ESR/ER Fellows and seconded 2 Fellows in IAPP

• Areas of research

• identification and analysis of dynamic systems
• active noise and vibration control
• numerical modelling (vibro-acoustics, aero-acoustics, multi-body, mechatronics)
• intelligent lightweight structures
• vehicle mechatronics

ITN

• ITN

11 Marie Curie ITN/EID/IAPP projects running/under negotiation

• 11 Marie Curie ITN/EID/IAPP projects running/under negotiation

• 8 ITN (2 as coordinator)
• 1 EID (1 as coordinator)
• 2 IAPP (1 as coordinator)

• For a full list of ongoing and past projects:

• http://www.mech.kuleuven.be/mod/projects

FP7 ITN MID-FREQUENCY (no. 214909), 01/10/2008 – 31/09/2012

• FP7 ITN MID-FREQUENCY (no. 214909), 01/10/2008 – 31/09/2012

• Main Topic: Mid-frequency vibro-acoustic simulation tools

• Development of enhanced mid-frequency simulation methods
• Benchmarking on academic and semi-industrial cases
• Validation on industrial automotive and aerospace applications

• Website: http://www.midfrequency.org

• Project Partners: (12 partners – 8 countries)

• Universities: K.U.Leuven (coord.: Wim Desmet, Bert Pluymers), ENSCachan, Univ. Cambridge, ECL, INSA Lyon, KTH, SAPIENZA Rome, ISVR
• R&D Institutes: ViF
• Industrial partners: EADS Astrium ST, LMS, Daimler

Recruited 19 ESR’s and 4 ER’s

• Recruited 19 ESR’s and 4 ER’s

• 15 different nationalities (Brazilian(2), Chinese, Colombian, Czech, Egyptian, French(2), German, Greek, Indian, Italian(6), Romanian, South Korean, Spanish, Tunisian, Turkish)

FP7 IAPP TIRE-DYN (no. 251211), 01/09/2010 – 31/08/2014

• FP7 IAPP TIRE-DYN (no. 251211), 01/09/2010 – 31/08/2014

• Main Topic: Experimental and Numerical Analyses of the Dynamic Behavior of Rolling Tires in order to Improve the Tire Modeling Accuracy

• Development of appropriate test procedures for tire dynamics
• Validation of complex numerical models
• Development of simplified numerical models

• Website: http://www.tiredyn.org

• Project Partners: (3 partners – 2 countries)

• Universities: K.U.Leuven (coord.: Wim Desmet, Paul Sas, Bert Pluymers)
• Industry: LMS, Goodyear

strong interaction industry-research centres-academia is looked for

• strong interaction industry-research centres-academia is looked for

• relevant university partners

• relevant industrial partners and active involvement

• industrial PhD’s (now emphasized with EID)

• clearly stipulated training/ToK programme and strong transferable skills programme via Doctoral School and applied training via on site industry training

• ‘clearly’ and ‘detailed’, yet sufficient flexibility in view of Fellow’s profile/training needs (PhD research is difficult to plan)

• training of the Fellow is a crucial project outcome

• 100% funding, also for industry

• initiate long-lasting relationships  follow-up projects

• with network partners
• with Fellows!!

• organizations and Fellows can get to know each other without long term commitments  often resulting in a successful continuation

• added value of inter-sectoral PhD’s is strongly acknowledged by both sectors

• mobility of researchers  opportunities for both Fellows and organizations

• We gratefully acknowledge the European Commission for its support of the Marie Curie program, including the running FP7 Marie Curie ITN projects MID-FREQUENCY, VECOM, IMESCON, FLOWAIRS, ANADE, GRESIMO and the FP7 Marie Curie IAPP projects TIRE-DYN and INTERACTIVE

Questions ??

• Questions ??

• Contact:

• Bert Pluymers Celestijnenlaan 300B – box 2420 3001 Heverlee, Belgium [phone] [e-mail]