University of Luxembourg RU Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

Core business

• Additive Manufacturing (AM)/ 3D printing
• Laser joining of dissimilar materials
• Al-Cu; POM; PA-Al; PEEK-Ti; St-
• Heat and Mass transfer
• Thermal process simulation
• Data processing to optimize process speed, product robustness and quality
• Numerical rapid prototyping
• Product geometry optimization
• Product development methods
• Structure-property relationships of polymer-based composites
• Rheological, mechanical and thermal properties
• Nanoparticle suspensions (colloids)
• Self-assembled nanostructures
• Electrospinning of composite fibres
• Electrochemically enhanced soft lithography

Products & services

• Structural and thermal Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Mechanical design
• Part and mechanical system optimization
• Rapid prototypes

Major Materials & Manufacturing projects

• Design optimization
• Rapid prototyping
• Joining know how
• Create defined temperature profiles
• Post-processing
• Product design optimization software
• Software framework for multi-scale and multi-physics modelling and thermal/mechanical simulation

Technical / technological capabilities

• Polymer printing
• Clay printing
• Metal printing
• Dissimilar materials joining
• Strato-Conception
• Property prediction / uncertainty quantification / QA
• CNC
• Laser Cutter
• Various simulation Software: Advanced Simulation Platform

Main customers / collaborations

• Husky
• Paul Wurth
• FabLab

Figure 1: Shape Optimization of clutch system

Figure 2: Shape optimization and validation of sport car wheel rim

Figure 3: Predicted velocity fields of both shielding gas and metallic powder grains including impact with melt pool for Selective Laser Melting (SLM)