IIW 2018 Awards booklet

HENRY GRANJON PRIZE Sponsored by the Institut de Soudure (French Welding Institute)

Rewards a young professional or student for a paper devoted to research into welding and related technologies.

CATEGORY A – Joining and Fabrication Technology

Dr Jinle Zeng ‘Research on machine vision detection method for real-time path control in wirefeed additive manufacturing and multi-pass/multi-layer welding process’

Dr Jinle Zeng (People’s Republic of China) graduated from Tsinghua University in 2017 and received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering. His research field was seam tracking technology, using multiple visual feature acquisition and information fusion methodology, which can be applied in automatic welding using welding robots. There were two main topics of his dissertation research. Firstly, automatic narrow butt joint detection methodology in specular reflection workpieces which is used in the aeros- pace field. Secondly, multi-layer/multi-pass weld position recognition methodology for thick workpieces which is used in the energy and marine engineering fields. Based on his PhD research, he has published five SCIE-indexed and three EI-indexed papers as the first author. He has also been granted nine Chinese invention patents and one Japanese invention patent, and has applied for a US invention patent. Currently Zeng is dedicated to research on smart manufacturing, including ‘Internet of Things’ technology, big data analysis, and industrial cloud platforms.

CATEGORY B – Materials Behaviour and Weldability

Dr-Ing. Peer Woizeschke ‘Interfacial analysis of laser joined hybrid aluminum titanium seams in the submicrometer range’

Dr-Ing. Peer Woizeschke (Germany) studied production engineering at the University of Bremen and received his first degree with distinction in 2010. He then joined the Materials Processing and Processing Systems unit under Prof. Frank Vollertsen at BIAS, the Institute of Applied Beam Technology, in Bremen. He received his doctorate from the University of Bremen’s Faculty of Production Engineering in 2017. His early work dealt with deep penetration laser welding of aluminium sheets in the macro- and micro-range. Subsequently, he focused on laser joining of hybrid seams for multi-material designs with aluminium, titanium, steel, and carbon fibre reinforced plas- tic components, and since 2014 has led the Joining for Lightweight Construction Group. Woizeschke has regularly attended IIW meetings as part of the DVS Young Professional Programme, focusing on Commissions C-IV and C-XVII. He has published five peer- reviewed journal papers and 15 conference contributions, articles, or book chapters as lead author as well as a further 18 publications as co-author.

2018 AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

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