报告人：谢亿民 院士（澳大利亚皇家墨尔本理工大学）

讲座时间：2020年12月22日19:30

讲座方式：腾讯会议 165 651 188

讲座题目：Creating Efficient and Elegant Structures

讲座摘要：

Professor Yi Min Xie and his team have developed a simple design methodology to remove under-utilised material from structures, producing highly efficient and strikingly elegant designs. This technique can significantly reduce the weight and the associated energy consumption of buildings, aircraft and motor vehicles. In this presentation, Professor Xie will show a wide range of practical applications of his bi-directional evolutionary structural optimisation (BESO) method, including spectacular buildings and bridges, unmanned aircraft, and structural connections. He will also demonstrate how such organic designs can be effectively realised using advanced manufacturing technologies including 3D printing.

报告人简介：

Yi Min Xie received his bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1984 and earned his PhD degree in computational mechanics from Swansea University in the United Kingdom in 1991. He was the Head of Civil Engineering discipline at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) between 2002 and 2012. Currently he is an Australian Laureate Fellow, a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials at RMIT. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2011. His research impact in the field of structural optimisation was recognised by the 2017 AGM Michell Medal and the 2017 Clunies Ross Innovation Award. In 2019, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for “significant service to higher education, and to civil engineering”. In 2020, he was awarded the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation by the State Government of Victoria, Australia.