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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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CV
{% include base_path %} Education ====== * Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected) * M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014 * B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012 Work experience ====== * Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator * GitHub University * Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template * Supervisor: The Users * Fall 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Merging pull requests * Supervisor: Professor Hub * Summer 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Tagging issues * Supervisor: Professor Git Skills ====== * Skill 1 * Skill 2 * Sub-skill 2.1 * Sub-skill 2.2 * Sub-skill 2.3 * Skill 3 Publications ======{% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
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Teaching ======{% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Service and leadership ====== * Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams
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{% include toc %} ## Locations of key files/directories * Basic config options: _config.yml * Top navigation bar config: _data/navigation.yml * Single pages: _pages/ * Collections of pages are .md or .html files in: * _publications/ * _portfolio/ * _posts/ * _teaching/ * _talks/ * Footer: _includes/footer.html * Static files (like PDFs): /files/ * Profile image (can set in _config.yml): images/profile.png ## Tips and hints * Name a file ".md" to have it render in markdown, name it ".html" to render in HTML. * Go to the [commit list](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/commits/master) (on your repo) to find the last version GitHub built with Jekyll. * Green check: successful build * Orange circle: building * Red X: error * No icon: not built * Academic Pages uses [Jekyll Kramdown](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/markdown/), GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) parser, which is similar to the version of Markdown used on GitHub, but may have some minor differences. * Some of emoji supported on GitHub should be supposed via the [Jemoji](https://github.com/jekyll/jemoji) plugin :computer:. * The best list of the supported emoji can be found in the [Emojis for Jekyll via Jemoji](https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2021-08-16-emojis_for_Jekyll/#computer) blog post. * While GitHub Pages prevents server side code from running, client-side scripts are supported. * This means that Google Analytics is supported, and [the wiki](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/wiki/Adding-Google-Analytics) should contain the most up-to-date information on getting it working. * Your CV can be written using either Markdown ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv/)) or generated via JSON ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv-json/)) and the layouts are slightly different. You can update the path to the one being used in `_data/navigation.yml` with the JSON formatted CV being hidden by default. ## Resources * [Liquid syntax guide](https://shopify.github.io/liquid/tags/control-flow/) * [MathJax Documentation](https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/) ## MathJax Support for MathJax Version 3.0 is included in the template: $$ \displaylines{ \nabla \cdot E= \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0} \\\ \nabla \cdot B=0 \\\ \nabla \times E= -\partial_tB \\\ \nabla \times B = \mu_0 \left(J + \varepsilon_0 \partial_t E \right) } $$ The default delimiters of `$$...$$` and `\\[...\\]` are supported for displayed mathematics, while `\\(...\\)` should be used for in-line mathematics (ex., \\(a^2 + b^2 = c^2\\)) **Note** that since Academic Pages uses Markdown which cases some interference with MathJax and LaTeX for escaping characters and new lines, although [some workarounds exist](https://math.codidact.com/posts/278763/278772#answer-278772). In some cases, such as when you are including MathJax in a `citation` field for publications, it may be necessary to use `\(...\)` for inline delineation. ## Markdown guide Academic Pages uses [kramdown](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/index.html) for Markdown rendering, which has some differences from other Markdown implementations such as GitHub's. In addition to this guide, please see the [kramdown Syntax page](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html) for full documentation. ### Header three #### Header four ##### Header five ###### Header six ## Blockquotes Single line blockquote: > Quotes are cool. ## Tables ### Table 1 | Entry | Item | | | -------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | [John Doe](#) | 2016 | Description of the item in the list | | [Jane Doe](#) | 2019 | Description of the item in the list | | [Doe Doe](#) | 2022 | Description of the item in the list | ### Table 2 | Header1 | Header2 | Header3 | |:--------|:-------:|--------:| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | ce ll5 | cell6 | |-----------------------------| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | cell5 | cell6 | |=============================| | Foot1 | Foot2 | Foot3 | ## Definition Lists Definition List Title : Definition list division. Startup : A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. #dowork : Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher "Big Black" Boykins, "Do Work" works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends. Do It Live : I'll let Bill O'Reilly [explain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c "We'll Do It Live") this one. ## Unordered Lists (Nested) * List item one * List item one * List item one * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four ## Ordered List (Nested) 1. List item one 1. List item one 1. List item one 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four ## Buttons Make any link standout more when applying the `.btn` class. ## Notices Basic notices or call-outs are supported using the following syntax: ```markdown **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ``` which wil render as: **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ### Footnotes Footnotes can be useful for clarifying points in the text, or citing information.[^1] Markdown support numeric footnotes, as well as text as long as the values are unique.[^note] ```markdown This is the regular text.[^1] This is more regular text.[^note] [^1]: This is the footnote itself. [^note]: This is another footnote. ``` [^1]: Such as this footnote. [^note]: When using text for footnotes markers, no spaces are permitted in the name. ## HTML Tags ### Address Tag 1 Infinite Loop
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United States### Anchor Tag (aka. Link) This is an example of a [link](http://github.com "GitHub"). ### Abbreviation Tag The abbreviation CSS stands for "Cascading Style Sheets". *[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets ### Cite Tag "Code is poetry." ---Automattic ### Code Tag You will learn later on in these tests that `word-wrap: break-word;` will be your best friend. You can also write larger blocks of code with syntax highlighting supported for some languages, such as Python: ```python print('Hello World!') ``` or R: ```R print("Hello World!", quote = FALSE) ``` ### Details Tag (collapsible sections) The HTML `` tag works well with Markdown and allows you to include collapsible sections, see [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_details.asp) for more information on how to use the tag. Collapsed by default
This section was collapsed by default! The source code: ```HTML Collapsed by default
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This section is open by default thanks to open in the <details open> tag! ### Emphasize Tag The emphasize tag should _italicize_ text. ### Insert Tag This tag should denote inserted text. ### Keyboard Tag This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the `` tag. ### Preformatted Tag This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}
### Quote Tag Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer ### Strike Tag This tag will let you strikeout text. ### Strong Tag This tag shows **bold text**. ### Subscript Tag Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the "2" down. ### Superscript Tag Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton's E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up. ### Variable Tag This allows you to denote variables. *** **Footnotes** The footnotes in the page will be returned following this line, return to the section on Markdown Footnotes. </div> </article> </div> Page not in menu
This is a page not in the menu. You can use markdown in this page. Heading 1 ====== Heading 2 ======
Page Archive
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Projects (Since Ph.D in NUS)
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.portfolio %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Publications
{% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %} </div> --> {% if site.author.googlescholar %}You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.{% endif %} {% include base_path %} {% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %}
Sitemap
{% include base_path %} A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there, there is an [XML version]({{ base_path }}/sitemap.xml) available for digesting as well.Pages
{% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}Posts
{% for post in site.posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% capture written_label %}'None'{% endcapture %} {% for collection in site.collections %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %} {% if label != written_label %}{{ label }}
{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Tags
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="tags" %} {% for tag in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ tag }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Talk map
This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.
Talks & Conference presentations
{% if site.talkmap_link == true %}{% endif %} {% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk.html %} {% endfor %}
Eduacation & Employment
2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
Supervisor – Wentao Yan: mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
- 2011-2015: Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (2012 China National Scholarship)
Teaching
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Terms and Privacy Policy
{% include base_path %} {% include toc %} ## Privacy Policy The privacy of my visitors is extremely important. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used. First and foremost, I will never share your email address or any other personal information to anyone without your direct consent. ### Log Files Like many other websites, this site uses log files to help learn about when, from where, and how often traffic flows to this site. The information in these log files include: * Internet Protocol addresses (IP) * Types of browser * Internet Service Provider (ISP) * Date and time stamp * Referring and exit pages * Number of clicks All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable. ### Cookies and Web Beacons When you visit this site "convenience" cookies are stored on your computer when you submit a comment to help you log in faster to [Disqus](http://disqus.com) the next time you leave a comment. Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. This site has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so can be found on the specific web browsers' websites. #### Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics tool I use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read [Google Analytics Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html).
Scholarship, fellowship & awards
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Jupyter notebook markdown generator
# Jupyter notebook markdown generator These .ipynb files are Jupyter notebook files that convert a TSV containing structured data about talks (`talks.tsv`) or presentations (`presentations.tsv`) into individual markdown files that will be properly formatted for the academicpages template. The notebooks contain a lot of documentation about the process. The .py files are pure python that do the same things if they are executed in a terminal, they just don't have pretty documentation.
{% if page.xsl %}{% endif %}<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" {% if site.lang %}xml:lang="{{ site.lang }}"{% endif %}>Jekyll <link href="{{ '/' | absolute_url }}" rel="alternate" type="text/html" {% if site.lang %}hreflang="{{ site.lang }}" {% endif %}/>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ page.url | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign title = site.title | default: site.name %}{% if page.collection != "posts" %}{% assign collection = page.collection | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: collection %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign category = page.category | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: category %}{% endif %}{% if title %}{{ title | smartify | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.description %}{{ site.description | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author %}{{ site.author.name | default: site.author | xml_escape }} {% if site.author.email %}{{ site.author.email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author.uri %}{{ site.author.uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% endif %}{% if page.tags %}{% assign posts = site.tags[page.tags] %}{% else %}{% assign posts = site[page.collection] %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign posts = posts | where: "categories", page.category %}{% endif %}{% unless site.show_drafts %}{% assign posts = posts | where_exp: "post", "post.draft != true" %}{% endunless %}{% assign posts = posts | sort: "date" | reverse %}{% assign posts_limit = site.feed.posts_limit | default: 10 %}{% for post in posts limit: posts_limit %}<entry{% if post.lang %}{{" "}}xml:lang="{{ post.lang }}"{% endif %}>{% assign post_title = post.title | smartify | strip_html | normalize_whitespace | xml_escape %}{{ post_title }}
{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.last_modified_at | default: post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.id | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign excerpt_only = post.feed.excerpt_only | default: site.feed.excerpt_only %}{% unless excerpt_only %}<![CDATA[{{ post.content | strip }}]]> {% endunless %}{% assign post_author = post.author | default: post.authors[0] | default: site.author %}{% assign post_author = site.data.authors[post_author] | default: post_author %}{% assign post_author_email = post_author.email | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_uri = post_author.uri | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_name = post_author.name | default: post_author %}{{ post_author_name | default: "" | xml_escape }} {% if post_author_email %}{{ post_author_email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if post_author_uri %}{{ post_author_uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% if post.category %} {% elsif post.categories %}{% for category in post.categories %} {% endfor %}{% endif %}{% for tag in post.tags %} {% endfor %}{% assign post_summary = post.description | default: post.excerpt %}{% if post_summary and post_summary != empty %}<![CDATA[{{ post_summary | strip_html | normalize_whitespace }}]]>
{% endif %}{% assign post_image = post.image.path | default: post.image %}{% if post_image %}{% unless post_image contains "://" %}{% assign post_image = post_image | absolute_url %}{% endunless %} {% endif %}</entry>{% endfor %}</feed>
{% if page.xsl %} {% endif %} {% assign collections = site.collections | where_exp:'collection','collection.output != false' %}{% for collection in collections %}{% assign docs = collection.docs | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' %}{% for doc in docs %} {{ doc.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if doc.last_modified_at or doc.date %}{{ doc.last_modified_at | default: doc.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% endfor %}{% assign pages = site.html_pages | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'doc','doc.url != "/404.html"' %}{% for page in pages %} {{ page.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if page.last_modified_at %}{{ page.last_modified_at | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% assign static_files = page.static_files | where_exp:'page','page.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'page','page.name != "404.html"' %}{% for file in static_files %} {{ file.path | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {{ file.modified_time | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endfor %}
</div> -->
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A variety of common markup showing how the theme styles them.
Single line blockquote:
Quotes are cool.
Entry | Item | |
---|---|---|
John Doe | 2016 | Description of the item in the list |
Jane Doe | 2019 | Description of the item in the list |
Doe Doe | 2022 | Description of the item in the list |
Header1 | Header2 | Header3 |
---|---|---|
cell1 | cell2 | cell3 |
cell4 | cell5 | cell6 |
cell1 | cell2 | cell3 |
cell4 | cell5 | cell6 |
Foot1 | Foot2 | Foot3 |
Make any link standout more when applying the .btn
class.
Watch out! You can also add notices by appending {: .notice}
to a paragraph.
This is an example of a link.
The abbreviation CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”.
“Code is poetry.” —Automattic
You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word;
will be your best friend.
This tag will let you strikeout text.
The emphasize tag should italicize text.
This tag should denote inserted text.
This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code>
tag.
This tag styles large blocks of code.
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Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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{% include base_path %} Education ====== * Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected) * M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014 * B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012 Work experience ====== * Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator * GitHub University * Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template * Supervisor: The Users * Fall 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Merging pull requests * Supervisor: Professor Hub * Summer 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Tagging issues * Supervisor: Professor Git Skills ====== * Skill 1 * Skill 2 * Sub-skill 2.1 * Sub-skill 2.2 * Sub-skill 2.3 * Skill 3 Publications ======{% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
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Service and leadership ====== * Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams
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Sitemap
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{% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}Posts
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Talk map
This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.
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Eduacation & Employment
2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
Supervisor – Wentao Yan: mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
- 2011-2015: Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (2012 China National Scholarship)
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Jupyter notebook markdown generator
# Jupyter notebook markdown generator These .ipynb files are Jupyter notebook files that convert a TSV containing structured data about talks (`talks.tsv`) or presentations (`presentations.tsv`) into individual markdown files that will be properly formatted for the academicpages template. The notebooks contain a lot of documentation about the process. The .py files are pure python that do the same things if they are executed in a terminal, they just don't have pretty documentation.
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</article> </div>
– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
<h2 id="publications" class="archive__subtitle">publications</h2>
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
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Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
Published:
High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
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Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
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Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
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Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-ME1102 - Engineering Principles and Practice I
-ME2112 - Strength of Materials
-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
Student superviosion, , 2022
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-Paper, software and coding supervision assistance for NUS Ph.D, Master and undergraduate students
2022-2023, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA:
-Software and coding supervision assistance for Ph.D students
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
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Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
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High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
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Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
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Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
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Chen, F., Zha, R., Jeong, J., Liao, S., & Cao, J. (2025). Directed energy deposition on sheet metal forming for reinforcement structures. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 144, 339-349.
Deng, Q., Chen, F., Wang, L., Liu, Z., Wu, Q., Chang, Z., ... & Ding, W. (2025). Exceptional strength paired with increased cold cracking susceptibility in laser powder bed fusion of a Mg-RE alloy. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 213, 300-314.
Chen, F., Kozjek, D., Porter, C., & Cao, J. (2025). Acceleration of powder-bed-size thermal simulation considering scanning-path-scale through a pseudo-layer-wise equivalent heat flux model. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 134, 394-409.
Bryndza, G., Tchuindjang, J. T., Chen, F., Habraken, A. M., Sepúlveda, H., Tuninetti, V., ... & Duchêne, L. (2025). Review of the Microstructural Impact on Creep Mechanisms and Performance for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Inconel 718. Materials, 18(2), 276.
Bouffioux, C., Papeleux, L., Calvat, M., Tran, H. S., Chen, F., Ponthot, J. P., ... & Habraken, A. M. (2024). Efficient Representative Volume Element of a Matrix–Precipitate Microstructure—Application on AlSi10Mg Alloy. Metals, 14(11), 1244.
Suarez, D., Chen, F., Kang, P., Forbes, B., Gao, M., Ineza, O., ... & Cao, J. (2024). On the feasibility of an integrated English wheel system. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 74, 665-675.
Xie, Z., Chen, F., Wang, L., Ge, W., & Yan, W. (2024). Data-driven prediction of keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing based on physics-based simulation. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 35(5), 2313-2326.
Li, G., Yang, S., Wu, W., Chen, F., Li, X., Tian, Q., ... & Ren, L. (2023). Biomimetic 4D printing catapult: from biological prototype to practical implementation. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(32), 2301286.
Giam, A., Chen, F., Cai, J., & Yan, W. (2023). Factorial design analytics on effects of material parameter uncertainties in multiphysics modeling of additive manufacturing. npj Computational Materials, 9(1), 51.
Wu, W., Zhou, Y., Liu, Q., Ren, L., Chen, F., Fuh, J. Y. H., ... & Li, G. (2023). Metallic 4D printing of laser stimulation. Advanced Science, 10(12), 2206486.
Chen, F., Yang, M., & Yan, W. (2022). Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 392, 114652.
Grilli, N., Hu, D., Yushu, D. et al. Crystal plasticity model of residual stress in additive manufacturing using the element elimination and reactivation method. Comput Mech 69, 825–845 (2022).
Li, Z., Cui, Y., Yan, W., Zhang, D., Fang, Y., Chen, Y., ... & Wang, Y. M. (2021). Enhanced strengthening and hardening via self-stabilized dislocation network in additively manufactured metals. Materials Today, 50, 79-88.
Chen, F., & Yan, W. (2020). High-fidelity modelling of thermal stress for additive manufacturing by linking thermal-fluid and mechanical models. Materials & Design, 196, 109185.
Wang, G., Ouyang, H., Fan, C., Guo, Q., Li, Z., Yan, W., & Li, Z. (2020). The origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals. Materials Research Letters, 8(8), 283–290.
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• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
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Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Tags
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="tags" %} {% for tag in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ tag }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Talk map
This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.
Talks & Conference presentations
{% if site.talkmap_link == true %}{% endif %} {% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk.html %} {% endfor %}
Eduacation & Employment
2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
Supervisor – Wentao Yan: mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
- 2011-2015: Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (2012 China National Scholarship)
Teaching
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Terms and Privacy Policy
{% include base_path %} {% include toc %} ## Privacy Policy The privacy of my visitors is extremely important. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used. First and foremost, I will never share your email address or any other personal information to anyone without your direct consent. ### Log Files Like many other websites, this site uses log files to help learn about when, from where, and how often traffic flows to this site. The information in these log files include: * Internet Protocol addresses (IP) * Types of browser * Internet Service Provider (ISP) * Date and time stamp * Referring and exit pages * Number of clicks All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable. ### Cookies and Web Beacons When you visit this site "convenience" cookies are stored on your computer when you submit a comment to help you log in faster to [Disqus](http://disqus.com) the next time you leave a comment. Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. This site has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so can be found on the specific web browsers' websites. #### Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics tool I use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read [Google Analytics Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html).
Scholarship, fellowship & awards
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.posts %} {{ post.content | markdownify }} {% endfor %}
{"/about/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/","/about.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/","/resume-json":"https://fanchennus.github.io/cv-json/","/resume":"https://fanchennus.github.io/cv/","/md/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/markdown/","/markdown.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/markdown/","/nmp/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/non-menu-page/","/nmp.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/non-menu-page/","/posts/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/year-archive/"}
Jupyter notebook markdown generator
# Jupyter notebook markdown generator These .ipynb files are Jupyter notebook files that convert a TSV containing structured data about talks (`talks.tsv`) or presentations (`presentations.tsv`) into individual markdown files that will be properly formatted for the academicpages template. The notebooks contain a lot of documentation about the process. The .py files are pure python that do the same things if they are executed in a terminal, they just don't have pretty documentation.
{% if page.xsl %}{% endif %}<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" {% if site.lang %}xml:lang="{{ site.lang }}"{% endif %}>Jekyll <link href="{{ '/' | absolute_url }}" rel="alternate" type="text/html" {% if site.lang %}hreflang="{{ site.lang }}" {% endif %}/>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ page.url | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign title = site.title | default: site.name %}{% if page.collection != "posts" %}{% assign collection = page.collection | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: collection %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign category = page.category | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: category %}{% endif %}{% if title %}{{ title | smartify | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.description %}{{ site.description | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author %}{{ site.author.name | default: site.author | xml_escape }} {% if site.author.email %}{{ site.author.email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author.uri %}{{ site.author.uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% endif %}{% if page.tags %}{% assign posts = site.tags[page.tags] %}{% else %}{% assign posts = site[page.collection] %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign posts = posts | where: "categories", page.category %}{% endif %}{% unless site.show_drafts %}{% assign posts = posts | where_exp: "post", "post.draft != true" %}{% endunless %}{% assign posts = posts | sort: "date" | reverse %}{% assign posts_limit = site.feed.posts_limit | default: 10 %}{% for post in posts limit: posts_limit %}<entry{% if post.lang %}{{" "}}xml:lang="{{ post.lang }}"{% endif %}>{% assign post_title = post.title | smartify | strip_html | normalize_whitespace | xml_escape %}{{ post_title }}
{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.last_modified_at | default: post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.id | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign excerpt_only = post.feed.excerpt_only | default: site.feed.excerpt_only %}{% unless excerpt_only %}<![CDATA[{{ post.content | strip }}]]> {% endunless %}{% assign post_author = post.author | default: post.authors[0] | default: site.author %}{% assign post_author = site.data.authors[post_author] | default: post_author %}{% assign post_author_email = post_author.email | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_uri = post_author.uri | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_name = post_author.name | default: post_author %}{{ post_author_name | default: "" | xml_escape }} {% if post_author_email %}{{ post_author_email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if post_author_uri %}{{ post_author_uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% if post.category %} {% elsif post.categories %}{% for category in post.categories %} {% endfor %}{% endif %}{% for tag in post.tags %} {% endfor %}{% assign post_summary = post.description | default: post.excerpt %}{% if post_summary and post_summary != empty %}<![CDATA[{{ post_summary | strip_html | normalize_whitespace }}]]>
{% endif %}{% assign post_image = post.image.path | default: post.image %}{% if post_image %}{% unless post_image contains "://" %}{% assign post_image = post_image | absolute_url %}{% endunless %} {% endif %}</entry>{% endfor %}</feed>
{% if page.xsl %} {% endif %} {% assign collections = site.collections | where_exp:'collection','collection.output != false' %}{% for collection in collections %}{% assign docs = collection.docs | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' %}{% for doc in docs %} {{ doc.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if doc.last_modified_at or doc.date %}{{ doc.last_modified_at | default: doc.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% endfor %}{% assign pages = site.html_pages | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'doc','doc.url != "/404.html"' %}{% for page in pages %} {{ page.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if page.last_modified_at %}{{ page.last_modified_at | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% assign static_files = page.static_files | where_exp:'page','page.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'page','page.name != "404.html"' %}{% for file in static_files %} {{ file.path | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {{ file.modified_time | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endfor %}
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Single line blockquote:
Quotes are cool.
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class.
Watch out! You can also add notices by appending {: .notice}
to a paragraph.
This is an example of a link.
The abbreviation CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”.
“Code is poetry.” —Automattic
You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word;
will be your best friend.
This tag will let you strikeout text.
The emphasize tag should italicize text.
This tag should denote inserted text.
This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code>
tag.
This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title { margin: 0 0 5px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 38px; line-height: 1.2; and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows; }
Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer
This tag shows bold text.
Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the “2” down.
Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton’s E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up.
This allows you to denote variables.
Sorry, but the page you were trying to view does not exist.
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
` tag. ### Preformatted Tag This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}
### Quote Tag Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer ### Strong Tag This tag shows **bold text**. ### Subscript Tag Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the "2" down. ### Superscript Tag Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton's E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up. ### Variable Tag This allows you to denote variables. {% include base_path %} {% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} </div> </article> </div> Posts by Category
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="categories" %} {% for category in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ category }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Collection
{% include base_path %} {% capture written_label %}'None'{% endcapture %} {% for collection in site.collections %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %} {% if label != written_label %}{{ label }}
{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
CV
{% include base_path %}
{% include cv-template.html %}
CV
{% include base_path %} Education ====== * Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected) * M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014 * B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012 Work experience ====== * Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator * GitHub University * Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template * Supervisor: The Users * Fall 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Merging pull requests * Supervisor: Professor Hub * Summer 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Tagging issues * Supervisor: Professor Git Skills ====== * Skill 1 * Skill 2 * Sub-skill 2.1 * Sub-skill 2.2 * Sub-skill 2.3 * Skill 3 Publications ======{% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Talks ======{% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Teaching ======{% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Service and leadership ====== * Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams
/* * This file controls what is imported from /_sass * * Note that the files are processed in the order they are imported, so they are partly sorted by the dependencies. Also, the first two lines of the file are required by Jekyll. */ @import "vendor/breakpoint/breakpoint", "themes", "theme/default", "theme/dark", "include/mixins", "vendor/susy/susy", "layout/reset", "layout/base", "include/utilities", "layout/tables", "layout/buttons", "layout/notices", "layout/masthead", "layout/navigation", "layout/footer", "syntax", "layout/forms", "layout/page", "layout/archive", "layout/sidebar", "vendor/font-awesome/fontawesome", "vendor/font-awesome/solid", "vendor/font-awesome/brands", "vendor/magnific-popup/magnific-popup" ;
Markdown
{% include toc %} ## Locations of key files/directories * Basic config options: _config.yml * Top navigation bar config: _data/navigation.yml * Single pages: _pages/ * Collections of pages are .md or .html files in: * _publications/ * _portfolio/ * _posts/ * _teaching/ * _talks/ * Footer: _includes/footer.html * Static files (like PDFs): /files/ * Profile image (can set in _config.yml): images/profile.png ## Tips and hints * Name a file ".md" to have it render in markdown, name it ".html" to render in HTML. * Go to the [commit list](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/commits/master) (on your repo) to find the last version GitHub built with Jekyll. * Green check: successful build * Orange circle: building * Red X: error * No icon: not built * Academic Pages uses [Jekyll Kramdown](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/markdown/), GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) parser, which is similar to the version of Markdown used on GitHub, but may have some minor differences. * Some of emoji supported on GitHub should be supposed via the [Jemoji](https://github.com/jekyll/jemoji) plugin :computer:. * The best list of the supported emoji can be found in the [Emojis for Jekyll via Jemoji](https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2021-08-16-emojis_for_Jekyll/#computer) blog post. * While GitHub Pages prevents server side code from running, client-side scripts are supported. * This means that Google Analytics is supported, and [the wiki](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/wiki/Adding-Google-Analytics) should contain the most up-to-date information on getting it working. * Your CV can be written using either Markdown ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv/)) or generated via JSON ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv-json/)) and the layouts are slightly different. You can update the path to the one being used in `_data/navigation.yml` with the JSON formatted CV being hidden by default. ## Resources * [Liquid syntax guide](https://shopify.github.io/liquid/tags/control-flow/) * [MathJax Documentation](https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/) ## MathJax Support for MathJax Version 3.0 is included in the template: $$ \displaylines{ \nabla \cdot E= \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0} \\\ \nabla \cdot B=0 \\\ \nabla \times E= -\partial_tB \\\ \nabla \times B = \mu_0 \left(J + \varepsilon_0 \partial_t E \right) } $$ The default delimiters of `$$...$$` and `\\[...\\]` are supported for displayed mathematics, while `\\(...\\)` should be used for in-line mathematics (ex., \\(a^2 + b^2 = c^2\\)) **Note** that since Academic Pages uses Markdown which cases some interference with MathJax and LaTeX for escaping characters and new lines, although [some workarounds exist](https://math.codidact.com/posts/278763/278772#answer-278772). In some cases, such as when you are including MathJax in a `citation` field for publications, it may be necessary to use `\(...\)` for inline delineation. ## Markdown guide Academic Pages uses [kramdown](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/index.html) for Markdown rendering, which has some differences from other Markdown implementations such as GitHub's. In addition to this guide, please see the [kramdown Syntax page](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html) for full documentation. ### Header three #### Header four ##### Header five ###### Header six ## Blockquotes Single line blockquote: > Quotes are cool. ## Tables ### Table 1 | Entry | Item | | | -------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | [John Doe](#) | 2016 | Description of the item in the list | | [Jane Doe](#) | 2019 | Description of the item in the list | | [Doe Doe](#) | 2022 | Description of the item in the list | ### Table 2 | Header1 | Header2 | Header3 | |:--------|:-------:|--------:| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | ce ll5 | cell6 | |-----------------------------| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | cell5 | cell6 | |=============================| | Foot1 | Foot2 | Foot3 | ## Definition Lists Definition List Title : Definition list division. Startup : A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. #dowork : Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher "Big Black" Boykins, "Do Work" works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends. Do It Live : I'll let Bill O'Reilly [explain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c "We'll Do It Live") this one. ## Unordered Lists (Nested) * List item one * List item one * List item one * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four ## Ordered List (Nested) 1. List item one 1. List item one 1. List item one 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four ## Buttons Make any link standout more when applying the `.btn` class. ## Notices Basic notices or call-outs are supported using the following syntax: ```markdown **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ``` which wil render as: **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ### Footnotes Footnotes can be useful for clarifying points in the text, or citing information.[^1] Markdown support numeric footnotes, as well as text as long as the values are unique.[^note] ```markdown This is the regular text.[^1] This is more regular text.[^note] [^1]: This is the footnote itself. [^note]: This is another footnote. ``` [^1]: Such as this footnote. [^note]: When using text for footnotes markers, no spaces are permitted in the name. ## HTML Tags ### Address Tag 1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States### Anchor Tag (aka. Link) This is an example of a [link](http://github.com "GitHub"). ### Abbreviation Tag The abbreviation CSS stands for "Cascading Style Sheets". *[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets ### Cite Tag "Code is poetry." ---Automattic ### Code Tag You will learn later on in these tests that `word-wrap: break-word;` will be your best friend. You can also write larger blocks of code with syntax highlighting supported for some languages, such as Python: ```python print('Hello World!') ``` or R: ```R print("Hello World!", quote = FALSE) ``` ### Details Tag (collapsible sections) The HTML `` tag works well with Markdown and allows you to include collapsible sections, see [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_details.asp) for more information on how to use the tag. Collapsed by default
This section was collapsed by default! The source code: ```HTML Collapsed by default
This section was collapsed by default! ``` Or, you can leave a section open by default by including the `open` attribute in the tag: Open by default
This section is open by default thanks to open in the <details open> tag! ### Emphasize Tag The emphasize tag should _italicize_ text. ### Insert Tag This tag should denote inserted text. ### Keyboard Tag This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the `` tag. ### Preformatted Tag This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}
### Quote Tag Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer ### Strike Tag This tag will let you strikeout text. ### Strong Tag This tag shows **bold text**. ### Subscript Tag Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the "2" down. ### Superscript Tag Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton's E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up. ### Variable Tag This allows you to denote variables. *** **Footnotes** The footnotes in the page will be returned following this line, return to the section on Markdown Footnotes. </div> </article> </div> Page not in menu
This is a page not in the menu. You can use markdown in this page. Heading 1 ====== Heading 2 ======
Page Archive
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Projects (Since Ph.D in NUS)
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.portfolio %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Publications
{% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %} </div> --> {% if site.author.googlescholar %}You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.{% endif %} {% include base_path %} {% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %}
Sitemap
{% include base_path %} A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there, there is an [XML version]({{ base_path }}/sitemap.xml) available for digesting as well.Pages
{% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}Posts
{% for post in site.posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% capture written_label %}'None'{% endcapture %} {% for collection in site.collections %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %} {% if label != written_label %}{{ label }}
{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Tags
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="tags" %} {% for tag in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ tag }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Talk map
This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.
Talks & Conference presentations
{% if site.talkmap_link == true %}{% endif %} {% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk.html %} {% endfor %}
Eduacation & Employment
2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
Supervisor – Wentao Yan: mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
- 2011-2015: Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (2012 China National Scholarship)
Teaching
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
<h2 id="publications" class="archive__subtitle">publications</h2>
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
<h2 id="talks" class="archive__subtitle">talks</h2>
Published:
Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
Published:
High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
Published:
Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
Published:
Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
<h2 id="teaching" class="archive__subtitle">teaching</h2>
Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-ME1102 - Engineering Principles and Practice I
-ME2112 - Strength of Materials
-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
Student superviosion, , 2022
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-Paper, software and coding supervision assistance for NUS Ph.D, Master and undergraduate students
2022-2023, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA:
-Software and coding supervision assistance for Ph.D students
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
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Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
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High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
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Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
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Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
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-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
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2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
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Chen, F., Zha, R., Jeong, J., Liao, S., & Cao, J. (2025). Directed energy deposition on sheet metal forming for reinforcement structures. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 144, 339-349.
Deng, Q., Chen, F., Wang, L., Liu, Z., Wu, Q., Chang, Z., ... & Ding, W. (2025). Exceptional strength paired with increased cold cracking susceptibility in laser powder bed fusion of a Mg-RE alloy. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 213, 300-314.
Chen, F., Kozjek, D., Porter, C., & Cao, J. (2025). Acceleration of powder-bed-size thermal simulation considering scanning-path-scale through a pseudo-layer-wise equivalent heat flux model. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 134, 394-409.
Bryndza, G., Tchuindjang, J. T., Chen, F., Habraken, A. M., Sepúlveda, H., Tuninetti, V., ... & Duchêne, L. (2025). Review of the Microstructural Impact on Creep Mechanisms and Performance for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Inconel 718. Materials, 18(2), 276.
Bouffioux, C., Papeleux, L., Calvat, M., Tran, H. S., Chen, F., Ponthot, J. P., ... & Habraken, A. M. (2024). Efficient Representative Volume Element of a Matrix–Precipitate Microstructure—Application on AlSi10Mg Alloy. Metals, 14(11), 1244.
Suarez, D., Chen, F., Kang, P., Forbes, B., Gao, M., Ineza, O., ... & Cao, J. (2024). On the feasibility of an integrated English wheel system. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 74, 665-675.
Xie, Z., Chen, F., Wang, L., Ge, W., & Yan, W. (2024). Data-driven prediction of keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing based on physics-based simulation. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 35(5), 2313-2326.
Li, G., Yang, S., Wu, W., Chen, F., Li, X., Tian, Q., ... & Ren, L. (2023). Biomimetic 4D printing catapult: from biological prototype to practical implementation. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(32), 2301286.
Giam, A., Chen, F., Cai, J., & Yan, W. (2023). Factorial design analytics on effects of material parameter uncertainties in multiphysics modeling of additive manufacturing. npj Computational Materials, 9(1), 51.
Wu, W., Zhou, Y., Liu, Q., Ren, L., Chen, F., Fuh, J. Y. H., ... & Li, G. (2023). Metallic 4D printing of laser stimulation. Advanced Science, 10(12), 2206486.
Chen, F., Yang, M., & Yan, W. (2022). Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 392, 114652.
Grilli, N., Hu, D., Yushu, D. et al. Crystal plasticity model of residual stress in additive manufacturing using the element elimination and reactivation method. Comput Mech 69, 825–845 (2022).
Li, Z., Cui, Y., Yan, W., Zhang, D., Fang, Y., Chen, Y., ... & Wang, Y. M. (2021). Enhanced strengthening and hardening via self-stabilized dislocation network in additively manufactured metals. Materials Today, 50, 79-88.
Chen, F., & Yan, W. (2020). High-fidelity modelling of thermal stress for additive manufacturing by linking thermal-fluid and mechanical models. Materials & Design, 196, 109185.
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
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{% include toc %} ## Locations of key files/directories * Basic config options: _config.yml * Top navigation bar config: _data/navigation.yml * Single pages: _pages/ * Collections of pages are .md or .html files in: * _publications/ * _portfolio/ * _posts/ * _teaching/ * _talks/ * Footer: _includes/footer.html * Static files (like PDFs): /files/ * Profile image (can set in _config.yml): images/profile.png ## Tips and hints * Name a file ".md" to have it render in markdown, name it ".html" to render in HTML. * Go to the [commit list](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/commits/master) (on your repo) to find the last version GitHub built with Jekyll. * Green check: successful build * Orange circle: building * Red X: error * No icon: not built * Academic Pages uses [Jekyll Kramdown](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/markdown/), GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) parser, which is similar to the version of Markdown used on GitHub, but may have some minor differences. * Some of emoji supported on GitHub should be supposed via the [Jemoji](https://github.com/jekyll/jemoji) plugin :computer:. * The best list of the supported emoji can be found in the [Emojis for Jekyll via Jemoji](https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2021-08-16-emojis_for_Jekyll/#computer) blog post. * While GitHub Pages prevents server side code from running, client-side scripts are supported. * This means that Google Analytics is supported, and [the wiki](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io/wiki/Adding-Google-Analytics) should contain the most up-to-date information on getting it working. * Your CV can be written using either Markdown ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv/)) or generated via JSON ([preview](https://academicpages.github.io/cv-json/)) and the layouts are slightly different. You can update the path to the one being used in `_data/navigation.yml` with the JSON formatted CV being hidden by default. ## Resources * [Liquid syntax guide](https://shopify.github.io/liquid/tags/control-flow/) * [MathJax Documentation](https://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/) ## MathJax Support for MathJax Version 3.0 is included in the template: $$ \displaylines{ \nabla \cdot E= \frac{\rho}{\epsilon_0} \\\ \nabla \cdot B=0 \\\ \nabla \times E= -\partial_tB \\\ \nabla \times B = \mu_0 \left(J + \varepsilon_0 \partial_t E \right) } $$ The default delimiters of `$$...$$` and `\\[...\\]` are supported for displayed mathematics, while `\\(...\\)` should be used for in-line mathematics (ex., \\(a^2 + b^2 = c^2\\)) **Note** that since Academic Pages uses Markdown which cases some interference with MathJax and LaTeX for escaping characters and new lines, although [some workarounds exist](https://math.codidact.com/posts/278763/278772#answer-278772). In some cases, such as when you are including MathJax in a `citation` field for publications, it may be necessary to use `\(...\)` for inline delineation. ## Markdown guide Academic Pages uses [kramdown](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/index.html) for Markdown rendering, which has some differences from other Markdown implementations such as GitHub's. In addition to this guide, please see the [kramdown Syntax page](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html) for full documentation. ### Header three #### Header four ##### Header five ###### Header six ## Blockquotes Single line blockquote: > Quotes are cool. ## Tables ### Table 1 | Entry | Item | | | -------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | | [John Doe](#) | 2016 | Description of the item in the list | | [Jane Doe](#) | 2019 | Description of the item in the list | | [Doe Doe](#) | 2022 | Description of the item in the list | ### Table 2 | Header1 | Header2 | Header3 | |:--------|:-------:|--------:| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | ce ll5 | cell6 | |-----------------------------| | cell1 | cell2 | cell3 | | cell4 | cell5 | cell6 | |=============================| | Foot1 | Foot2 | Foot3 | ## Definition Lists Definition List Title : Definition list division. Startup : A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. #dowork : Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher "Big Black" Boykins, "Do Work" works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends. Do It Live : I'll let Bill O'Reilly [explain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c "We'll Do It Live") this one. ## Unordered Lists (Nested) * List item one * List item one * List item one * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four * List item two * List item three * List item four ## Ordered List (Nested) 1. List item one 1. List item one 1. List item one 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four 2. List item two 3. List item three 4. List item four ## Buttons Make any link standout more when applying the `.btn` class. ## Notices Basic notices or call-outs are supported using the following syntax: ```markdown **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ``` which wil render as: **Watch out!** You can also add notices by appending `{: .notice}` to the line following paragraph. {: .notice} ### Footnotes Footnotes can be useful for clarifying points in the text, or citing information.[^1] Markdown support numeric footnotes, as well as text as long as the values are unique.[^note] ```markdown This is the regular text.[^1] This is more regular text.[^note] [^1]: This is the footnote itself. [^note]: This is another footnote. ``` [^1]: Such as this footnote. [^note]: When using text for footnotes markers, no spaces are permitted in the name. ## HTML Tags ### Address Tag 1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States### Anchor Tag (aka. Link) This is an example of a [link](http://github.com "GitHub"). ### Abbreviation Tag The abbreviation CSS stands for "Cascading Style Sheets". *[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets ### Cite Tag "Code is poetry." ---Automattic ### Code Tag You will learn later on in these tests that `word-wrap: break-word;` will be your best friend. You can also write larger blocks of code with syntax highlighting supported for some languages, such as Python: ```python print('Hello World!') ``` or R: ```R print("Hello World!", quote = FALSE) ``` ### Details Tag (collapsible sections) The HTML `` tag works well with Markdown and allows you to include collapsible sections, see [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_details.asp) for more information on how to use the tag. Collapsed by default
This section was collapsed by default! The source code: ```HTML Collapsed by default
This section was collapsed by default! ``` Or, you can leave a section open by default by including the `open` attribute in the tag: Open by default
This section is open by default thanks to open in the <details open> tag! ### Emphasize Tag The emphasize tag should _italicize_ text. ### Insert Tag This tag should denote inserted text. ### Keyboard Tag This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the `` tag. ### Preformatted Tag This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}
### Quote Tag Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer ### Strike Tag This tag will let you strikeout text. ### Strong Tag This tag shows **bold text**. ### Subscript Tag Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the "2" down. ### Superscript Tag Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton's E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up. ### Variable Tag This allows you to denote variables. *** **Footnotes** The footnotes in the page will be returned following this line, return to the section on Markdown Footnotes. </div> </article> </div> Page not in menu
This is a page not in the menu. You can use markdown in this page. Heading 1 ====== Heading 2 ======
Page Archive
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Projects (Since Ph.D in NUS)
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.portfolio %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Publications
{% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %} </div> --> {% if site.author.googlescholar %}You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.{% endif %} {% include base_path %} {% if site.publication_category %} {% for category in site.publication_category %} {% assign title_shown = false %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% if post.category != category[0] %} {% continue %} {% endif %} {% unless title_shown %}{{ category[1].title }}
{% assign title_shown = true %} {% endunless %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} {% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endif %}
Sitemap
{% include base_path %} A list of all the posts and pages found on the site. For you robots out there, there is an [XML version]({{ base_path }}/sitemap.xml) available for digesting as well.Pages
{% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}Posts
{% for post in site.posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% capture written_label %}'None'{% endcapture %} {% for collection in site.collections %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %} {% if label != written_label %}{{ label }}
{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Tags
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="tags" %} {% for tag in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ tag }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Talk map
This map is generated from a Jupyter Notebook file in talkmap.ipynb, which mines the location fields in the .md files in _talks/.
Talks & Conference presentations
{% if site.talkmap_link == true %}{% endif %} {% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk.html %} {% endfor %}
Eduacation & Employment
2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
Supervisor – Wentao Yan: mpeyanw@nus.edu.sg
2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
- 2011-2015: Bachelor of Engineering, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (2012 China National Scholarship)
Teaching
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %}
Terms and Privacy Policy
{% include base_path %} {% include toc %} ## Privacy Policy The privacy of my visitors is extremely important. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used. First and foremost, I will never share your email address or any other personal information to anyone without your direct consent. ### Log Files Like many other websites, this site uses log files to help learn about when, from where, and how often traffic flows to this site. The information in these log files include: * Internet Protocol addresses (IP) * Types of browser * Internet Service Provider (ISP) * Date and time stamp * Referring and exit pages * Number of clicks All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable. ### Cookies and Web Beacons When you visit this site "convenience" cookies are stored on your computer when you submit a comment to help you log in faster to [Disqus](http://disqus.com) the next time you leave a comment. Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. This site has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so can be found on the specific web browsers' websites. #### Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics tool I use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read [Google Analytics Privacy Policy](http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html).
Scholarship, fellowship & awards
{% include base_path %} {% for post in site.posts %} {{ post.content | markdownify }} {% endfor %}
{"/about/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/","/about.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/","/resume-json":"https://fanchennus.github.io/cv-json/","/resume":"https://fanchennus.github.io/cv/","/md/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/markdown/","/markdown.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/markdown/","/nmp/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/non-menu-page/","/nmp.html":"https://fanchennus.github.io/non-menu-page/","/posts/":"https://fanchennus.github.io/year-archive/"}
Jupyter notebook markdown generator
# Jupyter notebook markdown generator These .ipynb files are Jupyter notebook files that convert a TSV containing structured data about talks (`talks.tsv`) or presentations (`presentations.tsv`) into individual markdown files that will be properly formatted for the academicpages template. The notebooks contain a lot of documentation about the process. The .py files are pure python that do the same things if they are executed in a terminal, they just don't have pretty documentation.
{% if page.xsl %}{% endif %}<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" {% if site.lang %}xml:lang="{{ site.lang }}"{% endif %}>Jekyll <link href="{{ '/' | absolute_url }}" rel="alternate" type="text/html" {% if site.lang %}hreflang="{{ site.lang }}" {% endif %}/>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ page.url | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign title = site.title | default: site.name %}{% if page.collection != "posts" %}{% assign collection = page.collection | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: collection %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign category = page.category | capitalize %}{% assign title = title | append: " | " | append: category %}{% endif %}{% if title %}{{ title | smartify | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.description %}{{ site.description | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author %}{{ site.author.name | default: site.author | xml_escape }} {% if site.author.email %}{{ site.author.email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if site.author.uri %}{{ site.author.uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% endif %}{% if page.tags %}{% assign posts = site.tags[page.tags] %}{% else %}{% assign posts = site[page.collection] %}{% endif %}{% if page.category %}{% assign posts = posts | where: "categories", page.category %}{% endif %}{% unless site.show_drafts %}{% assign posts = posts | where_exp: "post", "post.draft != true" %}{% endunless %}{% assign posts = posts | sort: "date" | reverse %}{% assign posts_limit = site.feed.posts_limit | default: 10 %}{% for post in posts limit: posts_limit %}<entry{% if post.lang %}{{" "}}xml:lang="{{ post.lang }}"{% endif %}>{% assign post_title = post.title | smartify | strip_html | normalize_whitespace | xml_escape %}{{ post_title }}
{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.last_modified_at | default: post.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {{ post.id | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% assign excerpt_only = post.feed.excerpt_only | default: site.feed.excerpt_only %}{% unless excerpt_only %}<![CDATA[{{ post.content | strip }}]]> {% endunless %}{% assign post_author = post.author | default: post.authors[0] | default: site.author %}{% assign post_author = site.data.authors[post_author] | default: post_author %}{% assign post_author_email = post_author.email | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_uri = post_author.uri | default: nil %}{% assign post_author_name = post_author.name | default: post_author %}{{ post_author_name | default: "" | xml_escape }} {% if post_author_email %}{{ post_author_email | xml_escape }} {% endif %}{% if post_author_uri %}{{ post_author_uri | xml_escape }} {% endif %} {% if post.category %} {% elsif post.categories %}{% for category in post.categories %} {% endfor %}{% endif %}{% for tag in post.tags %} {% endfor %}{% assign post_summary = post.description | default: post.excerpt %}{% if post_summary and post_summary != empty %}<![CDATA[{{ post_summary | strip_html | normalize_whitespace }}]]>
{% endif %}{% assign post_image = post.image.path | default: post.image %}{% if post_image %}{% unless post_image contains "://" %}{% assign post_image = post_image | absolute_url %}{% endunless %} {% endif %}</entry>{% endfor %}</feed>
{% if page.xsl %} {% endif %} {% assign collections = site.collections | where_exp:'collection','collection.output != false' %}{% for collection in collections %}{% assign docs = collection.docs | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' %}{% for doc in docs %} {{ doc.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if doc.last_modified_at or doc.date %}{{ doc.last_modified_at | default: doc.date | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% endfor %}{% assign pages = site.html_pages | where_exp:'doc','doc.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'doc','doc.url != "/404.html"' %}{% for page in pages %} {{ page.url | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {% if page.last_modified_at %}{{ page.last_modified_at | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}{% assign static_files = page.static_files | where_exp:'page','page.sitemap != false' | where_exp:'page','page.name != "404.html"' %}{% for file in static_files %} {{ file.path | replace:'/index.html','/' | absolute_url | xml_escape }} {{ file.modified_time | date_to_xmlschema }} {% endfor %}
-->
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A variety of common markup showing how the theme styles them.
Single line blockquote:
Quotes are cool.
Entry | Item | |
---|---|---|
John Doe | 2016 | Description of the item in the list |
Jane Doe | 2019 | Description of the item in the list |
Doe Doe | 2022 | Description of the item in the list |
Header1 | Header2 | Header3 |
---|---|---|
cell1 | cell2 | cell3 |
cell4 | cell5 | cell6 |
cell1 | cell2 | cell3 |
cell4 | cell5 | cell6 |
Foot1 | Foot2 | Foot3 |
Make any link standout more when applying the .btn
class.
Watch out! You can also add notices by appending {: .notice}
to a paragraph.
This is an example of a link.
The abbreviation CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets”.
“Code is poetry.” —Automattic
You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word;
will be your best friend.
This tag will let you strikeout text.
The emphasize tag should italicize text.
This tag should denote inserted text.
This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code>
tag.
This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title { margin: 0 0 5px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 38px; line-height: 1.2; and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows; }
Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer
This tag shows bold text.
Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the “2” down.
Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton’s E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up.
This allows you to denote variables.
Sorry, but the page you were trying to view does not exist.
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
Dr. Fan Chen is a computational mechanics and advanced manufacturing researcher with cross-disciplinary expertise in additive manufacturing, AI-integrated modeling, and high-performance simulation. His recent work involves implementing visco-plasticity laws in Lagamine and developing creep models for metallic systems. His technical strengths include advanced numerical simulation and multi-scale modeling for process–structure–property relationships in manufacturing. He also has teaching assistance experience in mechanics and materials science at NUS and mentoring students on computational mechanics in different institutions.
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM
Fan Chen… - Materials & Design, 2020
• Origin of dislocation density in AM
G Wang,…,Fan Chen… - Materials Research Letters, 2020
• 4D metal-based printing
Wu, W.,…,Fan Chen… - Advanced Science 2023
• Data-driven temperature field prediction with rational physic constraints
• Heat accumulation analysis for samples clusters (over 100 AM samples)
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - English wheel
D Suarez, Fan Chen…- Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Incremetnal sheet metal forming - DED on sheet metal
Fan Chen… - Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
• Coupled CFD-FEM modeling for AM – DED
• Colding cracking mechanism in AM
• Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloy in Self-boiling Molds
• Pattern oriented equivalent strain attribution
• Creep modeling framework for 30CrMoNiV11-5 alloy application of Morch phenomenological law and mean-field creep model
` tag. ### Preformatted Tag This tag styles large blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how the PRE tag handles it and to find out how it overflows;
}
### Quote Tag Developers, developers, developers…
–Steve Ballmer ### Strong Tag This tag shows **bold text**. ### Subscript Tag Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the "2" down. ### Superscript Tag Still sticking with science and Isaac Newton's E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up. ### Variable Tag This allows you to denote variables. {% include base_path %} {% for post in site.pages %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} </div> </article> </div> Posts by Category
{% include base_path %} {% include group-by-array collection=site.posts field="categories" %} {% for category in group_names %} {% assign posts = group_items[forloop.index0] %}{{ category }}
{% for post in posts %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
Posts by Collection
{% include base_path %} {% capture written_label %}'None'{% endcapture %} {% for collection in site.collections %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% capture label %}{{ collection.label }}{% endcapture %} {% if label != written_label %}{{ label }}
{% capture written_label %}{{ label }}{% endcapture %} {% endif %} {% endunless %} {% for post in collection.docs %} {% unless collection.output == false or collection.label == "posts" %} {% include archive-single.html %} {% endunless %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}
CV
{% include base_path %}
{% include cv-template.html %}
CV
{% include base_path %} Education ====== * Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected) * M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014 * B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012 Work experience ====== * Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator * GitHub University * Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template * Supervisor: The Users * Fall 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Merging pull requests * Supervisor: Professor Hub * Summer 2015: Research Assistant * GitHub University * Duties included: Tagging issues * Supervisor: Professor Git Skills ====== * Skill 1 * Skill 2 * Sub-skill 2.1 * Sub-skill 2.2 * Sub-skill 2.3 * Skill 3 Publications ======{% for post in site.publications reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Talks ======{% for post in site.talks reversed %} {% include archive-single-talk-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Teaching ======{% for post in site.teaching reversed %} {% include archive-single-cv.html %} {% endfor %}
Service and leadership ====== * Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams
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Markdown
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2024–2025: University of Liege
- Research Scientist/Project Leader, Urban and Environmental Engineering -Funded by European Union,
Principal investigator – Anne Marie Habraken: anne.habraken@uliege.be
2022–2023: Northwestern University
- Postdoc, McCormick School of Engineering, AMPL -supported by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
Principal investigator – Jian Cao: jcao@northwestern.edu
2018–2022: National University of Singapore
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering -supported by Singapore research scholarship – download Transcript / Diploma ,
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2011-2018: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- 2015-2018: Master of Engineering, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure (China Graduate Scholarship)
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# Jupyter notebook markdown generator These .ipynb files are Jupyter notebook files that convert a TSV containing structured data about talks (`talks.tsv`) or presentations (`presentations.tsv`) into individual markdown files that will be properly formatted for the academicpages template. The notebooks contain a lot of documentation about the process. The .py files are pure python that do the same things if they are executed in a terminal, they just don't have pretty documentation.
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</article> </div>
– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
<h2 id="publications" class="archive__subtitle">publications</h2>
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
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Published:
Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
Published:
High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
Published:
Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
Published:
Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
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Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-ME1102 - Engineering Principles and Practice I
-ME2112 - Strength of Materials
-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
Student superviosion, , 2022
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-Paper, software and coding supervision assistance for NUS Ph.D, Master and undergraduate students
2022-2023, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA:
-Software and coding supervision assistance for Ph.D students
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
Published:
Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
Published:
High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
Published:
Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
Published:
Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-ME1102 - Engineering Principles and Practice I
-ME2112 - Strength of Materials
-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
Student superviosion, , 2022
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-Paper, software and coding supervision assistance for NUS Ph.D, Master and undergraduate students
2022-2023, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA:
-Software and coding supervision assistance for Ph.D students
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Currently employed at Red Brick University. Short biography for the left-hand sidebar
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Deng, Q., Chen, F., Wang, L., Liu, Z., Wu, Q., Chang, Z., ... & Ding, W. (2025). Exceptional strength paired with increased cold cracking susceptibility in laser powder bed fusion of a Mg-RE alloy. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 213, 300-314.
Chen, F., Kozjek, D., Porter, C., & Cao, J. (2025). Acceleration of powder-bed-size thermal simulation considering scanning-path-scale through a pseudo-layer-wise equivalent heat flux model. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 134, 394-409.
Bryndza, G., Tchuindjang, J. T., Chen, F., Habraken, A. M., Sepúlveda, H., Tuninetti, V., ... & Duchêne, L. (2025). Review of the Microstructural Impact on Creep Mechanisms and Performance for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Inconel 718. Materials, 18(2), 276.
Bouffioux, C., Papeleux, L., Calvat, M., Tran, H. S., Chen, F., Ponthot, J. P., ... & Habraken, A. M. (2024). Efficient Representative Volume Element of a Matrix–Precipitate Microstructure—Application on AlSi10Mg Alloy. Metals, 14(11), 1244.
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Xie, Z., Chen, F., Wang, L., Ge, W., & Yan, W. (2024). Data-driven prediction of keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing based on physics-based simulation. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 35(5), 2313-2326.
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Giam, A., Chen, F., Cai, J., & Yan, W. (2023). Factorial design analytics on effects of material parameter uncertainties in multiphysics modeling of additive manufacturing. npj Computational Materials, 9(1), 51.
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
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– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
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Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Additive manufacturing; Directed energy deposition; Thermal distortion; Incremental forming; Finite element method; Residual stress
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Laser powder bed fusion; Mg-RE alloy; Cold cracking; High strength; Build height; Thermal stress simulation
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Laser powder bed fusion; Selective laser melting; Part-scale thermal simulation; Temperature history prediction; Melt pool temperature; Scalability
Published in Materials, 2025
Additive manufacturing; LPBF; Nickel-based superalloys; Inconel 718; Creep; Microstructure; Heat treatment
Published in Metals, 2024
Representative Volume Element; 2.5D numerical model; AlSi10Mg; Additive manufacturing; microstructure; Hardening behavior
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
Flexible Metal Forming; Automation; Digital Manufacturing
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
Computational Materials Science; Computer Modelling; Computational Science and Engineering; Data-driven Science; Modeling and Theory Building Machining; Laser Material Processing
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing; Biomimetics; Rapid actuation; Smart materials; Shape transformation; Additive manufacturing; Functional structures
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
Additive Manufacturing (AM); Material Parameter Uncertainty; Uncertainty Quantification (UQ); Full Factorial Design; Variable Selection; LASSO Regression
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing, Additive manufacturing, Laser powder bed fusion, Laser stim-ulation, Metallic shape-morphing structures
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
Additive manufacturing; Data-driven modeling; Grain growth; Thermal stress; Temperature field; Thermal-fluid flow
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Computational Solid Mechanics; Materials Mechanics; Microengraving; Solid Mechanics; Laser Material Processing; Materials Engineering
Published in Materials Today, 2021
Additive manufacturing; Metal Strength; Ductility
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
Additive manufacturing; Finite elementQuiet element; method; Mapping; Thermal stress; Molten pool; Thermal-fluid flow
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
Additive manufacturing; Cu; Microstructure dislocation; Multi-physics modeling
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Authors: Fanglei Hu, Fan Chen, Steve Niezgoda, Tianju Xue, Jian Cao
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Authors: Rojas Ulloa, C. E., Chen, F., Tuninetti, V., Di Giovanni, A., Pensis, O., Duchene, L., & Habraken
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
Authors: Habraken, Anne; Bryndza, Guillian; Chen, Fan et al.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Additive manufacturing; Directed energy deposition; Thermal distortion; Incremental forming; Finite element method; Residual stress
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Laser powder bed fusion; Mg-RE alloy; Cold cracking; High strength; Build height; Thermal stress simulation
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Laser powder bed fusion; Selective laser melting; Part-scale thermal simulation; Temperature history prediction; Melt pool temperature; Scalability
Published in Materials, 2025
Additive manufacturing; LPBF; Nickel-based superalloys; Inconel 718; Creep; Microstructure; Heat treatment
Published in Metals, 2024
Representative Volume Element; 2.5D numerical model; AlSi10Mg; Additive manufacturing; microstructure; Hardening behavior
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
Flexible Metal Forming; Automation; Digital Manufacturing
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
Computational Materials Science; Computer Modelling; Computational Science and Engineering; Data-driven Science; Modeling and Theory Building Machining; Laser Material Processing
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing; Biomimetics; Rapid actuation; Smart materials; Shape transformation; Additive manufacturing; Functional structures
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
Additive Manufacturing (AM); Material Parameter Uncertainty; Uncertainty Quantification (UQ); Full Factorial Design; Variable Selection; LASSO Regression
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing, Additive manufacturing, Laser powder bed fusion, Laser stim-ulation, Metallic shape-morphing structures
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
Additive manufacturing; Data-driven modeling; Grain growth; Thermal stress; Temperature field; Thermal-fluid flow
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Computational Solid Mechanics; Materials Mechanics; Microengraving; Solid Mechanics; Laser Material Processing; Materials Engineering
Published in Materials Today, 2021
Additive manufacturing; Metal Strength; Ductility
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
Additive manufacturing; Finite elementQuiet element; method; Mapping; Thermal stress; Molten pool; Thermal-fluid flow
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
Additive manufacturing; Cu; Microstructure dislocation; Multi-physics modeling
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Authors: Fanglei Hu, Fan Chen, Steve Niezgoda, Tianju Xue, Jian Cao
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Authors: Rojas Ulloa, C. E., Chen, F., Tuninetti, V., Di Giovanni, A., Pensis, O., Duchene, L., & Habraken
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
Authors: Habraken, Anne; Bryndza, Guillian; Chen, Fan et al.
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2024 Additive Manufacturing
2024 Journal of Materials Processing Tech
2023 Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering: Additive Manufacturing Frontiers
2022 Smart Manufacturing
Chinese, English, French (A1, A1+, A2 level passed)
Software: ABAQUS (User subroutines), COMSOL Multiphysics, FLOW 3D
Programming languages: FORTRAN, Python, MATLAB
Funded by European Union,
-in Urban and Environmental Engineering, University of Liege
Funded by USA Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship award,
-in Northwestern University
Singapore research scholarship,
-in National University of Singapore
Internship
-Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore - display board
“China Graduate Scholarship”,
-in Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Design & Manufacture of Ships and Marine Structure
“2012 China National Scholarship”,
-in department of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
A Novel Inherent Strain Modelling Tool to Predict Thermal Stress and Distortion in Additive Manufacturing. ILO Ref: 2020-156. Yan Wentao, Fan Chen.
– corporation with ANSYS
Linked the high-fidelity molten pool dynamics model with the finite element solver for thermal stress simulation.
– corporation with Shanghai Jiaotong University
Demonstrated that thermal stresses are the origin of high-density dislocations in additively manufactured metals using the coupled CFD-FEM simulation.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
High accuracy and significantly faster computation speed for the track-scale AM modeling based on the data-driven prediction (CNN, GPR, QR) of the isotherms and the isotherm-reconstructed temperature attribution on FEM model.
– corporation with Singapore A*STAR
Efficient large-scale AM modeling approaches with sound physical basis, where the layer-wise element progressive activation is applied with base strain pattern attributed onto the sample layers.
– corporation with The OHIO State University and so on.
High-fidelity English wheel simulation: distortion analysis of the sheet metal under rolling of two wheel of different size and curvature.
Heat transfer analysis of liquid materials in multiple self-boiling molds for micro-casting.
– corporation with Nissan
Deformation prediction using bulking analysis under the residual stress pattern achieved by track-scale DED simulation.
Funded by European Union
– corporation with Fraunhofer, IWM and IMDEA et al.
Fortran-based self-developed Lagamine coding platform for implementation of H. Morch visco-plasticity law & Development of the mean field creep model on Gitlab using Python.
Published in Materials Research Letters, 2020
The origin of dense dislocations in many additively manufactured metals remains a mystery. We here employed pure Cu as a prototype and fabricated the very challenging high-purity (>99.9%) bulk Cu by laser powder-bed-fusion (L-PBF) technique. We found that high-density dislocations were present in the as-built samples and these high-density dislocations were introduced on the fly during the L-PBF process. A newly developed multi-physics modeling was further employed to interpret the origin of these pre-existing dislocations, demonstrating that the compression-tension cycles rendered by the localized heating/cooling heterogeneity upon laser scanning are responsible for the residual high-density dislocations.
Published in Materials & Design, 2020
The prediction of thermal stress and distortion is a prerequisite for high-quality additive manufacturing (AM). The widely applied thermo-mechanical model using the finite element method (FEM) leaves much to be improved due to their oversimplifications on material deposition, molten pool flow, etc. In this study, a high-fidelity modelling approach by linking the thermal-fluid (computational fluid dynamics, CFD) and mechanical models (named as CFD-FEM model) is developed to predict the thermal stress for AM taking into account the influences of thermal-fluid flow. Profiting from the precise temperature profiles and melt track geometry extracted from the thermal-fluid model as well as the remarkable flexibility of the quiet element method of FEM, this work aims at simulating the thermal stress distribution by involving physical changes in the AM process, e.g., melting and solidification of powder particles, molten pool evolution and inter-track inter-layer re-melting. Unlike the conventional thermo-mechanical analysis, in this approach, thermal stress calculation is purely based on a mechanical model where the thermal loads are applied by using a linear interpolation function to spatially and temporally map the temperature values from the thermal-fluid model’s cell centres into the FEM element nodes. With the proposed approach, the thermal stress evolution in the AM process of single track, multiple tracks and multiple layers are simulated, where the rough surfaces and internal voids can be well incorporated. Moreover, a conventional thermo-mechanical simulation of two tracks with predefined track geometry is conducted for cross comparison. Finally, the simulated thermal stress distribution can rationally explain the crack distribution observed in the experiments.
Published in Materials Today, 2021
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of creating high-performance metallic materials with unique microstructure. Ultrafine dislocation cell structure in AM metals is believed to play a critical role in strengthening and hardening. However, its behavior is typically considered to be associated with alloying elements. Here we report that dislocations in AM metallic materials are self-stabilized even without the alloying effect. The heating–cooling cycles that are inherent to laser power-bed-fusion processes can stabilize dislocation network in situ by forming Lomer locks and a complex dislocation network. This unique dislocation assembly blocks and accumulates dislocations for strengthening and steady strain hardening, thereby rendering better material strength but several folds improvements in uniform tensile elongation compared to those made by traditional methods. The principles of dislocation manipulation and self-assembly are applicable to metals/alloys obtained by conventional routes in turn, through a simple post-cyclic deformation processing that mimics the micromechanics of AM. This work demonstrates the capability of AM to locally tune dislocation structures and achieve high-performance metallic materials.
Published in Computational Mechanics, 2021
Selective laser melting is receiving increasing interest as an additive manufacturing technique. Residual stresses induced by the large temperature gradients and inhomogeneous cooling process can favour the generation of cracks. In this work, a crystal plasticity finite element model is developed to simulate the formation of residual stresses and to understand the correlation between plastic deformation, grain orientation and residual stresses in the additive manufacturing process. The temperature profile and grain structure from thermal-fluid flow and grain growth simulations are implemented into the crystal plasticity model. An element elimination and reactivation method is proposed to model the melting and solidification and to reinitialize state variables, such as the plastic deformation, in the reactivated elements. The accuracy of this method is judged against previous method based on the stiffness degradation of liquid regions by comparing the plastic deformation as a function of time induced by thermal stresses. The method is used to investigate residual stresses parallel and perpendicular to the laser scan direction, and the correlation with the maximum Schmid factor of the grains along those directions. The magnitude of the residual stress can be predicted as a function of the depth, grain orientation and position with respect to the molten pool. The simulation results are directly comparable to X-ray diffraction experiments and stress–strain curves.
Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
The process-structure–property relationship for additive manufacturing (AM) is typically derived starting from the temperature profile which can be achieved by the meso-scale thermal-fluid flow simulation with huge computational cost. We propose a data-driven prognostic approach with specialized physical constraints to rapidly predict the temperature profiles. The dataset is constructed from the physics-based thermal-fluid flow simulation results under different manufacturing parameters. The temperature field around the molten pool region is statistically characterized by the function parameters of the individual isotherms, which are essentially the output of the data-driven model based on the input manufacturing parameters, while the temperature field is reconstructed using the interpolation approach based on the predicted isotherms. The data-driven predicted temperature profiles are validated against those from the thermal-fluid flow simulations, and then further applied in the thermal stress and grain growth simulations, of which the results are compared with those using the temperature profile directly from thermal-fluid flow simulations. The results demonstrate that our data-driven approach is highly feasible in predicting the geometry features of the isotherms and temperature profiles around the molten pool regions.
Published in Advanced Science, 2023
4D printing of metallic shape-morphing systems can be applied in many fields, including aerospace, smart manufacturing, naval equipment, and biomedical engineering. The existing forming materials for metallic 4D printing are still very limited except shape memory alloys. Herein, a 4D printing method to endow non-shape-memory metallic materials with active properties is presented, which could overcome the shape-forming limitation of traditional material processing technologies. The thermal stress spatial control of 316L stainless steel forming parts is achieved by programming the processing parameters during a laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process. The printed parts can realize the shape changing of selected areas during or after forming process owing to stress release generated. It is demonstrated that complex metallic shape-morphing structures can be manufactured by this method. The principles of printing parameters programmed and thermal stress pre-set are also applicable to other thermoforming materials and additive manufacturing processes, which can expand not only the materials used for 4D printing but also the applications of 4D printing technologies.
Published in npj Computational Materials, 2023
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics modeling has been used, but the effectiveness is limited by parameter uncertainties and their interactions. We propose a full factorial design and variable selection approach for the analytics of main and interaction effects arising from material parameter uncertainties in multi-physics models. Data is collected from high-fidelity thermal-fluid simulations based on a 2-level full factorial design for 5 selected material parameters. Crucial physical phenomena of the L-PBF process are analyzed to extract physics-based domain knowledge, which are used to establish a validation checkpoint for our study. Initial data visualization with half-normal probability plots, interaction plots and standard deviation plots, is used to assess if the checkpoint is being met. We then apply the combination of best subset selection and the LASSO method on multiple linear regression models for comprehensive variable selection. Analytics yield statistically and phyiscally validated findings with practical implications, emphasizing the importance of parameter interactions under uncertainty, and their relation to the underlying physics of L-PBF.
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2023
4D printing technologies are currently suffering from the inability to produce rapid motions, which limit their applications that require fast shape transformation such as rapid unlocking and deployment of aerospace equipment. Herein, inspired by the shooting mechanisms of Viola verecunda fruit for seed dispersal, the 4D-printed biomimetic catapult is developed. Based on the structure change characteristics of gradient fan-shaped cells of the fruit pods during seed ejection, the biomimetic smart catapult is processed via the programming of spatial distribution of heterogeneous materials with various storage modulus enabled by additive manufacturing. This catapult can achieve high-speed ejection with the logically stimuli of external force, temperature, light, humidity, or electricity. The proposed biomimetic 4D printing strategy has broken through the limitations in motion speed, which helps fully unleash the potential of 4D printing.
Published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2023
The defect formation is closely related to molten pool and keyhole features in metal additive manufacturing. Experimentation and physics-based simulation methods to capture the molten pool and keyhole features are expensive and time-consuming. A data-driven method is proposed in this work to efficiently predict the molten pool and keyhole features characterized by a series of fitting curves under given manufacturing parameters, instead of simply predicting the molten pool and keyhole sizes. The database consists of simulation cases with the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow model. Molten pool melting regime, keyhole stability and keyhole type are recognized with the neural net pattern recognition. With the Gaussian process regression model, the keyhole dimensions are predicted and the keyhole contour is reconstructed. The comparison between predicted data and physics-based simulation results demonstrates the feasibility and accuracy of our data-driven model. Meanwhile, the predicted results can guide the selection of manufacturing parameters in actual production, and are also helpful to the further study of pores in additive manufacturing in academic research.
Published in METALLIC MICROSTRUCTURES EUROPEAN LECTURES ONLINE, 2024
At high temperature, metallic material creep is difficult to avoid. The understanding of the creep mechanisms helps metallurgists to design optimal alloy compositions and the prediction of a component life is a key input to manage safe maintenance and to define operational cost of any production line (solar plant parts, heat exchanger, any turbine parts loaded at high temperature…).
Published in European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, Spain. , 2024
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2024
The English wheel is a highly flexible traditional metalworking tool that allows skilled craftsmen to form compound curves on sheet metal panels. Historically, geometric accuracy and repeatability of formed panels using the English wheel have been tied to the operator leading to limited industrial adoption. This paper presents a novel framework for an integrated English wheeling system that leverages robot forming with a newly developed adaptable gripper/end-effector, metrology for deformed geometry tracking and tolerance measurements, integrated sensors for real-time forming force measurements and control, computational modeling for tracking pattern/toolpath generation, and virtual reality (VR) for seamless integration. Sample panels are formed using the integrated system revealing new insights on the forming forces during the process – highlighting why an integrated system is desirable. Concepts from the proposed framework can be applied to other robotic forming processes and its merit is discussed under current digital manufacturing and industry 4.0 literature.
Published in TMS Specialty Congress 2024, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2024
Published in Metals, 2024
In finite element models (FEMs), two- or three-dimensional Representative Volume Elements (RVEs) based on a statistical distribution of particles in a matrix can predict mechanical material properties. This article studies an alternative to 3D RVEs with a 2.5D RVE approach defined by a one-plane layer of 3D elements to model the material behavior. This 2.5D RVE relies on springs applied in the out-of-plane direction to constrain the two lateral deformations to be compatible, with the goal of achieving the isotropy of the studied material. The method is experimentally validated by the prediction of the tensile stress–strain curve of a bi-phasic microstructure of the AlSi10Mg alloy. Produced by additive manufacturing, the sample material becomes isotropic after friction stir processing post treatment. If a classical plane strain 2D RVE simulation is clearly too stiff compared to the experiment, the predictions of the stress–strain curves based on 2.5D RVE, 2D RVE with no transversal constraint (called 2D free RVE), and 3D RVE simulations are close to the experiments. The local stress fields within a 2.5D RVE present an interesting similarity with 3D RVE local fields, but differences with the 2D free RVE local results. Since a 2.5D RVE simplifies one spatial dimension, the simulations with this model are faster than the 3D RVE (factor 2580 in CPU or taking into account an optimal parallel computation, a factor 417 in real time). Such a discrepancy can affect the FEM2 multi-scale simulations or the time required to train a neural network, enhancing the interest in a 2.5D RVE model.
Published in Materials, 2025
Inconel 718 (IN718) is a polycrystalline nickel-based superalloy and one of the most widely used materials in the aerospace industry owing to its excellent mechanical performances at high temperatures, including creep resistance. Interest in additively manufactured components in aerospace is greatly increasing due to their ability to reduce material consumption, to manufacture complex parts, and to produce out-of-equilibrium microstructures, which can be beneficial for mechanical behavior. IN718’s properties are, however, very sensitive to microstructural features, which strongly depend on the manufacturing process and subsequent heat treatments. Additive manufacturing and, more specifically, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) induces very high thermal gradients and anisotropic features due to its inherently directional nature, which largely defines the microstructure of the alloy. Hence, defining appropriate manufacturing parameters and heat treatments is critical to obtain appropriate mechanical behavior. This review aims to present the main microstructural features of IN718 produced by LPBF, the creep mechanisms taking place, the optimal microstructure for creep strength, and the most efficient heat treatments to yield such an optimized microstructure.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
Part-scale modeling of the temperature field in metal powder bed additive manufacturing (AM) is critical for predicting mechanical properties of the AM-ed parts. Track-by-track heat transfer analysis is impractical due to the extensive number of layers and the intricate design of scan strategies for the heat source, particularly in the fabrication of specimen clusters or parts with complex geometry, where multiple regions in the powder bed are manufactured simultaneously. Many part-scale modeling approaches only focus on the thermal behavior of a single part without considering the thermal interaction from the surrounding parts to reduce computational cost. However, experimental observations have revealed that the temperature distribution along the building direction can vary among samples with identical local geometries. This discrepancy can be attributed to the heating effects from neighboring samples. In this study, we propose an integrated part-scale modeling framework that combines layer-wise equivalent heat flux attribution with layer-wise element activation. Before the layer-wise attribution, we justify the equivalent heat flux of individual layers through high-fidelity track-scale simulations. Unlike traditional heat transfer analysis for single parts, our analysis incorporates heat conduction effects through the powder bed between different fusion zones. The temperature data obtained from each equivalent layer using our approach shows consistency when compared to the experimental observations. This research presents an efficient, physically grounded method for modeling the thermal behavior of large AM specimen clusters, enhancing our understanding of temperature field evolution in AM and supporting the design of optimized scanning path strategies for large samples.
Published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) of high-strength metallic alloys frequently encounters detrimental distortion and cracking, attributed to the accumulation of thermal stresses. These issues significantly impede the practical application of as-printed components. This study examines the Mg-15Gd-1Zn-0.4Zr (GZ151K, wt.%) alloy, a prototypical high-strength casting Mg-RE alloy, fabricated through laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Despite achieving ultra-high strength, the GZ151K alloy concurrently exhibits a pronounced cold-cracking susceptibility. The as-printed GZ151K alloy consists of almost fully fine equiaxed grains with an average grain size of merely 2.87 µm. Subsequent direct aging (T5) heat treatment induces the formation of dense prismatic β’ precipitates. Consequently, the LPBF-T5 GZ151K alloy manifests an ultra-high yield strength of 405 MPa, surpassing all previously reported yield strengths for Mg alloys fabricated via LPBF and even exceeding that of its extrusion-T5 counterpart. Interestingly, as-printed GZ151K samples with a build height of 2 mm exhibit no cracking, whereas samples with build heights ranging from 4 to 18 mm demonstrate severe cold cracking. Thermal stress simulation also suggests that the cold cracking susceptibility increases significantly with increasing build height. The combination of high thermal stress and low ductility in the as-printed GZ151K alloy culminates in a high cold cracking susceptibility. This study offers novel insights into the intricate issue of cold cracking in the LPBF process of high-strength Mg alloys, highlighting the critical balance between achieving high strength and mitigating cold cracking susceptibility.
Published in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
While incremental forming processes can inexpensively create complex geometries from sheet metal, they struggle with adding sharp out of plane features for stiffness enhancement. With the implementation of directed-energy deposition (DED), an additive manufacturing process that locally deposits metal onto metallic substrates, reinforcement structures can be formed on the sheet metal. Furthermore, a design engineer may take advantage of the high residual stresses of DED to directly alter shapes in the substrate metal sheet. This hybrid forming-deposition process, as well as the application of local reinforcement, requires a good understanding of the process mechanism to predict expected shapes and minimize undesired deformations. In this work, numerical approaches are applied to evaluate heat transfer, thermal stress, and buckling of thin sheets under the stresses of deposition. These results are compared to analogous experiments conducted on an open-architecture laser-powder DED machine. The results of the thermal-mechanical analysis resemble the deformation trends observed in the experiments. However, the small-displacement formulation in the simulation used for ease of convergence does not fully capture the magnitude of the observed deformations. Nevertheless, the simulations effectively illustrate the effect of different scan strategies on the final deformed shape of the sheet metal.
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Free vibration characteristics analysis of rectangular plate with central opening used in arbitrary boundary conditions
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High-fidelity Modelling of Thermal Stress for Additive Manufacturing by Linking Thermal-fluid and Mechanical Models
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Data-driven prognostic model for temperature field in additive manufacturing based on the high-fidelity thermal-fluid flow simulation (slides below)
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Enhanced Large-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing: Layer-wise Equivalent Heat Flux Attribution for Thermal Interaction Analysis across Multiple Fabrications (slides below)
Undergraduate course, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-ME1102 - Engineering Principles and Practice I
-ME2112 - Strength of Materials
-ME2115 - Mechanics of Machines: Vibration Lab
Student superviosion, , 2022
2018-2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore:
-Paper, software and coding supervision assistance for NUS Ph.D, Master and undergraduate students
2022-2023, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA:
-Software and coding supervision assistance for Ph.D students