Staff Profile

Clinton Chee - Computational Scientist

Address:	Room 2075 The Red Centre University of New South Wales New South Wales, 2052 Australia.
Telephone:	61-2 9385 6915(Intl) 02 9385 6915(local) 61-4 0205 8983(Intl) 04 0205 8983(local)
Email:	[email protected] (Remove fake) [email protected] (remove fake)

Education:
PhD 2001 - Aeronautical Engineering - University of Sydney
BSc 1997 - Mathematics / Physics - University of Melbourne
BE 1997 - Mechanical Engineering - University of Melbourne

Experience:
Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Programming

Piezoeletric and Composite models, Smart / Intelligent structures, Finite Element development, Modal Analysis
Fortran 95/90, C/C++, Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, Macsyma.

Commercial E-Business skills

Java, HTML, Javascript, XML, XSL, RMI, N-tier client-server programming
SQL database language

Current Projects:
Porting of Shape Control and Finite Element program
Recently the PIEZFEP program was ported to various supercomputer platforms including the NEC-SX5 vector supercomputer and SGI's SMP parallel supercomputers. The PIEZFEP program is a finite element program which couples electro-mechanical behaviour for intelligent structures using piezoelectric actuators or sensors. Significant improvement in efficiency was noted.
The next step is to port the SCONFEP program - the shape control part which uses PIEZFEP libraries. This would allow Actuator Orientation Shape Control simulations on real, large scale structures such as aircraft wings or adaptive telescope mirrors.

Creating and maintaining HPCSU site
The HPCSU website is undergoing a major revamp. The website explains the role of HPCSU and available services, plus some show-case of recent projects. The site is intended to be the first point of contact for existing and potential users of the HPCSU as well as a promotional tool.

Research Interests:
Object Oriented and Symbolic Scientific Programming
Interest in investigating numerically intensive scientific algorithms using object oriented approaches, which may lead to more easily parallelisable algorithms. Also the use of symbolic approaches such as symbolic integration with Finite Element programs, may ease the overall computational effort.

FEM, BEM, FVM with HPC
Investigating possible optimizations of computationally intensive engineering algoritms on high performance computer platforms, including parallelization and vectorization.

Shape Control of Intelligent Structures
Application of shape control techniques to achieve near perfect shape control of real-life strctures by optimizing actuator and sensor parameters such as their location, size, angular orientation and magnitude of actuation input.

Publications:

C.Chee, L.Tong and G.P.Steven, " A Review on the Modelling of Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators Incorporated in Intelligent Structures, " Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 1998 Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 3-19.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven "A Mixed Model for Composite Plates with Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators, " Proceedings of the Second Australian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM-99), , Canberra, 10th - 12th, Feb., 1999.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " A Mixed Model for Composite Beams with Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors, " Smart Materials and Structures, 1999 Vol.8 pp 417-432.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " Shape Functions Generation using Macsyma ," Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2000 Vol. 16, No. 10 pp705-715.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, "A Mixed Model for Adaptive Composite Plates with Piezoelectric for Anisotropic Actuation, " Computers and Structures, 2000 Vol. 77, No. 3 pp253-268.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " A Buildup Voltage Distribution(BVD) algorithm for shape control of smart plate structures, " Computational Mechanics, 2000 Vol. 26, No. 2 pp115-128.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " Static Shape Control of Composite Plates Using a Slope-Displacement Based Algorithm, " 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference and Exhibit, April 3rd - 7th, 2000. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " Static Shape Control of Composite Plates Using a Slope-Displacement Based Algorithm, " AIAA Journal, in press.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, "Static Shape Control of Composite Plates Using a Curvature-Displacement Based Algorithm, " International Journal of Solids and Structures 2001 Vol. 38, pp6381-6403.
C. Chee, L. Tong., G. Steven, " Piezoelectric Actuator Orientation Optimization for Static Shape Control of Composite Plates, " Composite Structures, Vol. 55, pp169-184. 2001 Vol. 55, pp169-184.

Personal Webpages:
http://www.geocities.com/cykchee - infrequently updated page - with profile, resume, hobby stuff
http://www.geocities.com/cykchee2 - Selection of published papers - online
http://www.geocities.com/cykchee/phd - PhD - online

Last Updated: 20 June 2002