AAE’s Yu recognized with dual honors at ASC annual conference
Wenbin Yu, the Milton Clauser Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, recently received two significant honors at the American Society for Composites 39th Annual Technical Conference in San Diego.
During the Oct. 21-24 event, he was named a Fellow and Outstanding Researcher by the ASC. He also is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Yu also gave a talk titled, “Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of Shell Structures Using MSG-Based Beam Model.” He discussed his first wind turbine project, conducted in collaboration with doctoral students Akshat Bagla and Ernesto Camarena, about resolving some of the inconsistent practices in modeling of wind turbine blades in the wind turbine industry.
A Fellow of ASC is a distinguished member who has made genuinely outstanding contributions to the composites community through research, practice, education and/or service.
An Outstanding Researcher is a distinguished member of the composites community who has made a significant impact on the science and technology of composite materials through a sustained research effort over a number of years.
Yu’s expertise is in micromechanics and structural mechanics with applications to composites and smart materials. He serves as the director of the Composites Virtual Factory Hub, associate director of the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB, and CTO of AnalySwift LLC.
He has developed seven computer codes that are being used in government labs, universities, research institutes and companies, and his work has been funded by both federal agencies and private industry.
His discovery of the Mechanics of Structure Genome (MSG) provides a unified approach for modeling of advanced materials and structures. MSG has been implemented in SwiftComp, a general purpose multiscale constitutive modeling code recently commercialized by the Purdue Research Foundation.