Prof. Anouar Belahcen
Anouar Belahcen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. (Tech.) and Ph.D. (Tech.) degrees from Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology), Espoo, Finland, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He is currently Professor of power and energy with Aalto University, where he has been the Vice Dean of education within the School of Electrical Engineering since 2020. His research interests are numerical modeling of electrical machines, characterization and modeling of magnetic materials, coupled magneto-mechanical problems, magnetic forces, magnetostriction, and fault diagnostics of electrical machines.
A. Belahcen has published more than 160 journal papers and 150 referred conference papers. He is a member of the steering committees or administrative board of several international conferences COMPUMAG (ICS), CEFC, ICEM, EPNC, he has chaired the editorial board of CEFC 2024 edition and served as Editor in Chief for the post-conference publication in the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. He received several research grants from the Research Council of Finland (RCF) and is now leading a Center of Excellence on High-Speed Electromechanical Energy Conversion Systems (HiECSs), funded by the RCF. He has a substantial experience in research cooperation with academic and industry partners and startups.
Presentation: Characterization and modelling of silicon-steel under multi-axial magnetic and mechanical loading
In this presentation, we expose different aspects related to the characterization and modelling of Silicon-Steel. Indeed, the Silicon-Steel is one of the most used materials for the construction of the magnetic core of electrical machines and transformers, among others. The design and analysis of these devices require deep knowledge of the magnetic and mechanical properties of the material as well as adequate models to be incorporated in the analysis software, e.g., finite element simulation programs. The main interests of the presentation are the vector-properties characterization and modelling as well as the magneto-mechanical coupling in the material. Furthermore, issues such as the effect of plastic deformation and residual stress on the permeability and losses in the material are very important to characterize and model. We will present the developed characterization setups and models as well as some challenges related to the incorporation of these models in the finite element simulations of electrical machines and the validation of these models through experimental setups. The experimental work, besides giving important input for the simulations, can also help gaining better understanding of the underlaying physical phenomena, which might help developing better materials as well.