Wei-Hong Zhang
Professor
Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Biography: Prof. Weihong ZHANG is currently the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, full professor in Aeronautical & Astronautical Manufacturing Engineering and Vice-President of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received PhD degree from University of Liege, Belgium in 1991. He worked as researcher fellow and Senior Researcher in University of Liege in 1992-1996. He joined Northwestern Polytechnical University and was honored as Cheung Kong Chair Professor (1999) and Distinguished Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2009).
His research interests focus on advanced structure design and manufacturing. He chaired more than 60 projects including National Key Research and Development Program, Key Projects of NSFC, 973 Projects and 863 Projects. He is the director of State Joint Research Center of Aerospace Materials and Structure Design and Additive Manufacturing of Ministry of Science and Technology, recognized as the distinguished expert of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, assessment expert for “Recruitment Program of High-end Foreign Experts” of Chinese government, committee member of the evaluation groups for National Natural Science Foundation of China, and member of Seventh Appraisal committee for Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology Discipline of State Council.
He is also the EC member of ASSMO, editor-in-chief of International Journal for Simulation and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, the associate editor of Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinca, Science China-Technological Sciences, editorial board member of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, etc. He has more than 90 national invention patents and published more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers including papers on CMAME, IJNME, IJMTM and 6 monographs with more than 20000 citations. He obtained Second Prize of National Award for Natural Science and Technological Invention, five First-Prizes of Provincial Awards for Science and Technology, as well as ASSMO Award and Fellow award.
Invited Lecture: Topology optimization and additive manufacturing for advanced structures
Abstract: Structural lightweightness & high-performance are eternal goals in aeronautic and aerospace industries to meet the serious loading conditions. To this aim, topology optimization and additive manufacturing became a promising approach in the past decades and received more and more attention in practice. Nowadays, more and more prosperous applications are made evident. This lecture is to summarize recent achievements of our research team for the above topic. The state of the art is clarified by outlining the progress and achievements in different periods. Especially, the faced challenges concerning the integration of topology optimization and additive manufacturing are addressed. Some representative applications are discussed for the prospects.
