💫 About Me:

🔬 I'm currently working on a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, focusing on Numerical modeling of the Ilizarov external fixation device.

👨‍🏫 Alongside my studies, I am a Junior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University.

🎓 Qualifications

🎓 BEng (Mechanical)
🎓 MEng (Mechanical) Cum Laude
🔧 My master's involved non-linear FEA, meta-modeling (from simple polynomials to RBFs and Neural networks), and optimization.

📚 Publications

📖 A Hierarchical Design Framework for the Design of Soft Robots
📖 On the Complexity of Internal Chambers in Soft Pneumatic Actuators
📖 A Meta-Model for The Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators Using Neural Networks and Finite Element Analysis

Courses

Published a 23 exercise course on FEA using MSC Apex and Nastran in collaboration with Hexagon AB (freely available)

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