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Automatic assisted design for assembly (AssistedDfA_icon). University of Antwerp

Moharram Challenger
Antwerp Systems and software Modelling (AnSyMo)
The design of mechanical assembly products has become a complex task in which design engineers have to rely on Computer Aided Design, software to correctly assess pricing and performance of their product. However, unlike performance and cost, assembly-related knowledge is hard to formalize and current commercial CAD tools do not provide adequate support to evaluate assemblability in an accurate and company specific way. This means companies ...

ICON project Assisted_DfA - Automatic Assisted Design for Assembly Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Tom Verstraten
Applied Mechanics, Daikin Europe N.V., Siemens, University of Antwerp, Flanders Make
Current commercial CAD tools do not provide adequate support to evaluate assemblability in an accurate and company specific way. This means companies still have to rely on iterative interactions between the designers and assembly experts, which lead to an inefficient design process and a delayed time-to-market. The goal of the project is to incorporate automated assemblability evaluation in the early stages of product design to reduce the number ...

Automated Concept Design for Automatic Automotive Transmissions KU Leuven

Wim Desmet
Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation (PMA) Section, Mecha(tro)nic System Dynamics

Introduction / Objective

The design of early stage concepts has a crucial impact on all following developments and optimization of a product. Generative engineering aims to support designers in discovering and choosing these concepts through computational means. A methodology for the generative discovery of planetary transmission designs is presented which supports efficient architecture (i.e. concept) generation, an automated synthesis ...

Tissue engineering for conjunctival reconstruction: Introducing self-assembled collagen-like-peptide scaffolds for the expansion of human conjunctival-derived cells in a xeno-free and serum-free environment. University of Antwerp

Carina Koppen
Translational Neurosciences (TNW), Human molecular genetics
English Title: Tissue engineering for conjunctival reconstruction: Introducing self-assembled collagen-like-peptide scaffolds for the expansion of human conjunctival-derived cells in a xeno-free and serum-free environment. The human eye is a unique, biological complex but vulnerable entity. It lacks protection of keratinized epithelium against infection and desiccation, as seen in almost every other area of the body. However, the ocular surface ...

Tissue engineering for conjunctival reconstruction: Introducing selfassembled collagen-like-peptide scaffolds for the expansion of human conjunctival-derived cells in a xeno-free and serum-free environment. University of Antwerp

Carina Koppen
Translational Neurosciences (TNW)
The human eye is a unique, biological complex but vulnerable entity. It lacks protection of keratinized epithelium against infection and desiccation, as seen in almost every other area of the body. However, the ocular surface is specialised to protect the ocular structures and respond rapidly upon injury, while maintaining a smooth refractive surface to ensure visual acuity. One of the specialised cellular layers contributing to ocular tissue ...

Static and dynamic countermeasures for implementation-level vulnerabilities. KU Leuven

Frank Piessens
Informatics Section

Modern-day imperative programming languages such as C++, C# and Java offer protection facilities such as abstract data types, field access modifiers, and module systems. Such abstractions were mainly designed to enforce software engineering principles such as information hiding and encapsulation, but they can also be used to enforce security properties of programs. Unfortunately, these source-level security properties are typically lost ...

OPERA4FEV: OPerating RAck For Full-Electric Vehicle Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Maarten Messagie, Joeri Van Mierlo
Electromobility research centre, Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics
The OPERA4FEV project aims to develop thermoplastic battery racks on two functional demonstrators: one for a large scale vehicle from FIAT and one for a "niche" car, the F-City from FAM .To improve deployment of electrical vehicles in Europe, large scale production processes for Rack and electrical components need to be developed.
The innovative solutions proposed by OPERA4FEV will integrate electrical, hydraulic connections and component ...

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing KU Leuven

Marie-Francine Moens
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

As the amount of unstructured text data grows dramatically, the need to intelligently process those text data and extract different types of knowledge from it is also remarkably increasing. One of the goals in natural language processing is to develop general and scalable methods that have the ability to jointly solve tasks like extracting information from big unstructured data, sentiment analysis in social networks and grammatical analysis ...

Development of new cycling helmet standard test for improved head impact protection KU Leuven

Jan Ivens
Structural Composites and Alloys, Integrity and Nondestructive Testing (SCALINT)

Cycling is a popular sport and an easy way of commuting with many health benefits, but also involves risks, like head injuries. Medical data and studies on accident reconstruction have established the common understanding that most cycling accidents involve oblique impacts which lead to injuries due to rotational loading conditions induced on the brain. Conventional helmets lack dedicated mechanisms that aim at rotational acceleration ...

Advanced Monte Carlo estimation and variance reduction for kinetic plasma edge neutral modelling in fusion reactors KU Leuven

Giovanni Samaey
NUMA, Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics Section, Applied Mechanics and Energy Conversion Section

Fusion energy reactors on Earth have the potential of providing relatively clean and inexhaustible electricity to mankind. The challenge is enormous however, since the required conditions for such reactors involve temperatures ten times higher than at the core of the Sun. One way to achieve the ambitious goal of fusion power plants is intense international cooperation such as in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, ...