Dr Yum Ji CHAN 陳任之

Dr. Chan graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 2004 with first class honours. Afterwards, Dr. Chan studied computational mechanics at the Technical University of Munich, where he was admitted to the Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering (BGCE) and awarded MSc (Hons) degree with distinction in 2006. Dr. Chan obtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London in 2009, after investigating vibrations of mistuned bladed discs (i.e. bladed discs with non-identical blades) in gas turbines. Dr. Chan also carried out postdoctoral research on active noise control, electronic control of loudspeaker properties and related topics.

Dr Chan's main research fields are vibration engineering, structural dynamics and rotordynamics. His specific research interests include nonlinear mechanics of bolted joint assemblies, computational mechanics of materials, techniques in experimental and operational modal analysis, vibration measurement technology and multiphysics analysis of spindles. Besides academic value, Dr Chan's research meets the needs of industrial sector in central Taiwan, in terms of improving research and development capabilities. Dr Chan has carried out joint projects with industry to investigate machines of >50t mass, automatic optical inspection (AOI) equipment, gantry machine tools and aerospace components. These projects have increased the value of products, such as by improving machine tool rigidity and/or measurement techniques.