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APC7 - RACEFORM (Rapid Aluminium Cost-Effective Forming)

Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: November 2017 - April 2020

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Rade Vignjevic Professor Rade Vignjevic
Honorary Professor
T: +44 (0)1895 268455
E: v.rade@brunel.ac.uk
 +44 (0)1895 268455 v.rade@brunel.ac.uk Howell Building 107
Dr Tom De Vuyst Dr Tom De Vuyst
External Examiner
E: tom.devuyst@brunel.ac.uk
 tom.devuyst@brunel.ac.uk
Dr Kevin Hughes Dr Kevin Hughes
Honorary Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)1895 266436
E: kevin.hughes@brunel.ac.uk
 +44 (0)1895 266436 kevin.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Howell Building 107
Professor Geoffrey Scamans Professor Geoffrey Scamans
Head of Industrial Research
T: +44 (0)1895 268571
E: geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk
 +44 (0)1895 268571 geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001i
Professor Zhongyun Fan Professor Zhongyun Fan
Director - BCAST - (Professor)
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266406
E: zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk
 +44 (0)1895 266406 zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001d

Outputs

Hughes, K., Ramos, J., Vignjevic, R., Krzywoblocki, M., Djordjevic, N. and Campbell, J. (2021) 'MEM vs. FEM: Practical crashworthiness insights for Macro Element Modelling applied to sub-assembly and full vehicle automotive structures'. International Journal of Crashworthiness, 27 (6). pp. 1708 - 1725. ISSN: 1358-8265 Open Access Link

Journal article

Al-Helal, K., Patel, J., Scamans, G. and Fan, Z. (2020) 'Direct Chill Casting and Extrusion of AA6111 Aluminum Alloy Formulated from Taint Tabor Scrap'. Materials, 13 (24). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 1996-1944 Open Access Link

Journal article

Chang, I., Luo, D., Al-Helal, K., Patel, JB., Huang, Y., Scamans, G. and et al. (2020) 'Processing of recycled AA6111 aluminium alloy from two different feedstock of aluminium metal scraps'. Keikinzoku Yosetsu/Journal of Light Metal Welding, 58. pp. 29 - 32. ISSN: 0368-5306 Open Access Link

Journal article

Hughes, K., Djordjevic, N., Vignjevic, R., Campbell, JC. and Liang, CE. (2020) 'Reducing Computational Costs – Practical Insights into a Lower order (Macro-Eleement) Approach for Automotive Crash'.Exploring Explicit Dynamics : Impact, Shock & Crash [NAFEMS Seminar]. Webex, Online.Open Access Link

Conference paper

Liang, CE., Vignjevic, R. and Hughes, K. (2019) 'Part Reduction of Hot Form Quench (HFQ) Automotive structural components'.LightMAT. Manchester, UK. 5 - 7 November.Open Access Link

Conference paper

Vignjevic, R., Liang, C., Hughes, K., Brown, J., De Vuyst, T., Djordjevic, N. and et al. (2019) 'A numerical study on the influence of internal corrugated reinforcements on the biaxial bending collapse of thin-walled beams'. Thin-Walled Structures, 144 (November 2019). pp. 106277 - 106277. ISSN: 0263-8231 Open Access Link

Journal article

Bagherpour, E., Huang, Y. and Fan, Z. (2019) 'Assessment of self-piercing riveted joints using the analytic hierarchy process'. Metals, 9 (7). pp. 1 - 16.Open Access Link

Journal article