China

Academician

Chinese Academy of Engineering

Professor Xiaodong He is expert in composite material structures and engineering mechanics in special environments, engaged in research on composite material mechanics, lightweight structural design, manufacturing, and evaluation. His achievements have been applied to launch vehicles, hypersonic aircraft, weapons and equipments. Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, candidate of the National Advanced Talents Program, head of the innovation team of the Ministry of Education, expert of the 8th Mechanical Discipline Review Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and representative of Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress. Received 2 second prizes for national technological inventions (all ranked first), 1 third prize for national scientific and technological progress (ranked third), as well as 6 first prizes at the provincial and ministerial levels, a special award from the provincial governor (ranked first), and the highest science and technology award in Heilongjiang Province (the only one of that year) in 2014. Published 5 monographs and over 350 SCI papers, with over 11000 citations from SCI. The H-factor is greater than 50, and the paper has been covered by journals such as Advanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and Carbon. Authorized over 150 invention patents and obtained 9 software copyrights.

Titie: Design of composite multifunctional armor structure

China

Academician

Chinese Academy of Engineering

Professor Wang Haifu is an expert in weapon damage technology and ammunition engineering, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, Chief Professor of the Armament Science and Technology discipline, and also a winner of the May 1 Labor Medal. He also serves as an subject matter expert for the Central Defense Development Commission, the Science and Technology Comission and the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, deputy director of the Special Committee on Warhead and Damage Technology of the Chinese Society of Astronautics, and deputy editor-in-chief of Defence Technology of China Ordnance Society. He has won 2 second prizes of the State Technological Invention Award, National Innovation Award (first session), 4 first prizes of the National Defense Science and Technology Award, 1 Grand Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Ordnance Society. He has published 5 academic monographs in the series “Research on Reactive Damage Science and Technology”.

Title: Development of new damage technology

China

Principal Scientist

Northwest Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Linfang Qian is the Strategic Scientist and Research Fellow of NORINCO GROUP. He is the vice-director of a specialized group of CMC Equipment Development Department, and the associate editor-in-chief of Defence Technology and Acta Armamentarii. He was also the Chief Engineer of Northwest Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, member of a certain field committee of CMC Science and Technology Commission, and director of a certain expert group of SASTIND. He has been engaged in theoretical research, technological innovation, equipment development, and talent cultivation in modern artillery field. He is the chief scientist of 973 and 173 projects, and the chief designer of 4 types of vehicle-mounted artilleries and 1 type of large-caliber naval artillery. He has made great contributions and innovative achievements in the reliable all-domain high-mobility, long-range precision multi-functional strike, and rapid response ability of modern artillery system. The developed vehicle-mounted artilleries have been mass-equipped and become the new generation of main artillery of CPLA, and have also achieved mass exports, becoming star products of international vehicle-mounted artilleries, greatly enhancing the level of Chinese artillery technology and its international status. He has won several remarkable honors such as the National Engineer Award, the National Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Talent Award of National Defense Science and Technology Industry. He won the Second Prize of the State Technological Innovation Award, the Special Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Advancement Award, and the First Prize of the National Defense Technological Innovation Award (all as the first complete person). He is the holder of 78 patents in his areas of interest, the author or co-author of more than 247 technical papers and 4 books.

Title: Study on stochastic motion for shell in bore based on probability density evolution method

China

Professor

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Professor Li Baoming is now the director of National Key Laboratory of Transient Physics of Nanjing University of Science ＆Technology, Changjiang Distinguished Professor (prestigious titles awarded by the Ministry of Education). He has been devoted to research in the fields of weapon launching theory and technology, electrothermal and electromagnetic launching technology, pulsed power system, low-temperature plasma technology etc. for over 20 years. Under his leadership, an innovative research team featuring industry-university-research institute has been built, dozens of key projects at national, provincial and ministerial levels have been undertaken, and outstanding achievements have been made in the research of new concepts and theories and key technologies in launching, as well as system integration and test evaluation.  He has published over 240 papers in the peer reviewed journals. 70 innovation patents have been applied or authorized. He is now a Council Member of China Ordnance Society (COS), Executive Vice Director of the Specialized Committee on Ballistics under COS, and Executive Vice Director of the Specialized Committee on Directed Energy Technology under COS. He is also the Board Member of International Ballistics Society (IBS), IBS Publications Committee Chair, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Defence Technology Journal.  Li enjoys government allowances from the State Council and has cultivated more than 80 graduate and PhD students.

Title: System Integration of Large Capacitor-Based Pulse-Forming Networks(PFNs) with Switched-Battery/Ultracapacitor Energy Storage Module(ESM)

United Kingdom

Professor

University of Essex

Professor Anthony Vickers is currently a professor at the University of Essex and an expert in the field of optoelectronics in the United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Lancaster University in 1984. He is a Fellow of the International Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the British Physical Society, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Engineering Council of the United Kingdom. He has been involved in the organization and implementation of the EU project - Erasmus Programme, leading the cooperation with Russian higher education institutions in the EU (as well as with countries outside the EU) in all fields of education, training and youth sports. He is an advisor to the EU credit exchange system and degree recognition, and an expert in the implementation of the Bologna Process of the EU.

He specializes in the areas of semiconductor laser, integrated optics and terahertz technologies, including nonlinear optics in organic materials, research on semiconductor dynamic mechanism at picosecond scale based on electro-optical sampling, optical radiation devices, photodetectors, etc.

Title: Coming soon

South Africa

Professor

Deputy Director of the BISRU Centre, University of Cape Town

Steeve CHUNG KIM YUEN has worked in the field of structural impact for the past thirty years on various projects ranging from investigating the batting performance of cricket players to the response of “simple” structures to blast loads (5g to 26tons of explosives). His research involves a mix of material characterisation, experimental work, and finite element simulations and focuses on the survivability of the structures. Full-scale experiments are costly and limited. He has, therefore, focussed on small-scale testing investigating different blast loading scenarios which can result in the structure mitigating the high pressure or fragment damage after material failure. Recently he has worked on numerous projects studying the response of structures to blast load with focus on the effect of incorporating foreign objects in the explosive to simulate improvised explosive devices (IED) because of their increased use in conflicts. He has also considered the effects of buried and encased explosives which are associated with landmines, and confined blasts on different types of structures in an urban setting. The work carried out by Steeve is geared towards minimising life-changing injuries and saving lives.

Title：Response of CFRP retrofitted Steel cylindrical tubes to external blast load

Russia

Professor

Dean of Chemical Engineering Department, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

Prof. Valery Sinditskii is a dean of Chemical Engineering Department, head of chair “Chemistry and technology of organic nitrogen  compounds”, and professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia. Prof. Sinditskii graduated Moscow State University, Chemistry Department in 1976, received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1981 and Dr. of Science in Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in 2003. The research interests of Prof. Sinditskii are synthesis, thermal decomposition, combustion and application of energetic materials. Prof. Sinditskii published over 350 publications including 29 patents, and he is a member of editorial boards of  “Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves”, “Central European Journal of Energetic Materials”, “Energetic Materials Frontiers” and Associate Editor of “International Journal of Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion”. Vice-chairman of Special commission of experts at the Higher Certifying Commission in Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. Honorary Foreign Member of the High-energy material Society of India (2013). Visiting professor of Beijing Institute of Technology (2012).

Title：Thermal decomposition and combustion behavior of 1,1 - diamino - 2,2 - dinitroethylene

Russia

Professor

Russian Academy of Sciences

A. Smolin was an invited researcher at Technical University Berlin (Germany) in 1999, Institute “Jozef Stefan”, (Slovenia) in 2002, Shenyang Institute of Technology (China) in 2007, IMWF Stuttgart University and Technical University Munich in 2010 and CIMNE Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2012.

Since 2019 he is an Associate Editors-in-Chief of the journal “Defence Technology” (https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/defence-technology); since 2021 an editorial board member of the journal “Materials” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials).

Field:Computer simulation of advanced materials, mechanics of materials, and materials under mechanical loads

Title：Multiscale Modeling of Friction of Materials with Phase Transformation Mechanisms of Plasticity

Germany

VP Business Development

Impetus Afea AS, Norway

Dr.-Ing. Markus Graswald studied mechanical engineering at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, USA and passed his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering with distinction with his thesis entitled 'Investigations and Assessments of Counter-RAM Systems'. Dr. Graswald then joined the defense industry (TDW, MBDA, and Dynamit Nobel Defence) and gained broad experience from various roles, including business development, project management, technical expert, and as head of R&D department. He recently joined Impetus Afea AS in Norway as VP Business Development. Dr. Graswald has written more than 40 technical reports, published over 40 scientific papers, and holds over 10 patents. Dr. Graswald is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Ballistics Society and chairs the Education Committee and Student Program Committee. Since 2015, he teaches a master’s course at the Armed Forces University in Neubiberg / Munich, Germany. He is also a peer reviewer for Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, and the Defence Technology journal. He was a WP leader of an international project funded by EDA. Dr. Graswald received the Rosalind and Pei Chi Chou Award in New Orleans at the 24th International Symposium Ballistics and various Innovation, Technology, and Patent Awards from MBDA Germany and MBDA Group.

Title：Future trends in computational engineering