IIW 2019 Booklet of Awards

HENRY GRANJON PRIZE Sponsored by the Institut de Soudure (French Welding Institute)

Rewards a young professional or student for their paper devoted to research into welding and related technologies.

CATEGORY A – Joining and Fabrication Technology

Dr JinSong Chen ‘Weld penetration dynamic evolution and control’

Dr JinSong Chen (USA) received his BSc degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China, MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from University of Kentucky, USA. His PhD research work was on real-time sensing and control of weld penetration. His current research interests include welding process control, sensor, robotics, machine vision/image processing, dynamic system modelling, and adaptive/predictive control of dynamic systems. He has authored and co-authored over 10 peer reviewed journal and conference papers in welding process, modelling and control. He holds two US patents. His works have been cited more than 220 times according to Google Scholar. He re- ceived the 2018 AWS A. F. Davis Silver Medal Award – Machine Design.

CATEGORY A – Joining and Fabrication Technology

Dr Hisaya Komen ‘Development of hybrid particle method for visualization of weld pool formation and slag formation processes in submerged arc welding’

Dr Hisaya Komen (Japan) graduated from Osaka University in 2019 and earned his PhD degree from the Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science. His PhD research included X-ray observation and direct observation of the submerged arc welding process, and numerical simulation of weld pool and slag formation processes in the welding pro- cess. He used a hybrid method combining discrete element methodology and smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Komen held the Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2017 to 2019. He is currently wor- king as an Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University, Japan.

2019 AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

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