Prof.dr.ir. Daniel Rixen

Name: Prof.dr. Daniel Rixen

Affiliation: chair of Applied Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Technical University of Munich (if you only need one line, then Technical University of Munich)

Biography: Daniel Rixen received his MSc. degrees in Electromechanics and in Aerospace Vehicle Design from the Universities of Liége (Belgium) and Cranfield (UK) in 1990. After obtaining his PhD (Liège 1997) as fellow from the Belgium Fund for Scientific Research, he became a research assistant at the University of Colorado. In 2000 he was appointed as professor to head the chair of Engineering Dynamics at the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands). In 2012 he moved to the Technical University of Munich as Chair of the institute of Applied Mechanics. Daniel Rixen has co-authored several books on theory of vibration and over eighty journal articles related to numerical methods in structural and system dynamics, experimental techniques and mechatronical applications.

Title of talk: Model reduction in non-linear structural dynamics: some clarity in the jungle of methods

Abstract: Model Reduction techniques for linear structures have been developed since the 60ies and can be considered as fairly mature and established. For non-linear structural models however, reduction approaches are much more recent: several ideas have been proposed and it is hard to keep track of all the different concepts published. It is a jungle! In this presentation we will try to give a structured overview of the different techniques that are currently used or under investigation, starting from the well-known linear reduction techniques and explaining how they can be extended to non-linear systems.