Van den BroekComputational Mechanics

Publications

Research output

Peer-reviewed work on stochastic and nonlinear structural mechanics, composites, additive manufacturing and surrogate modelling. For citation metrics and the latest additions, see ORCID or Google Scholar.

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Journal articles 5

  1. 2026

    Surrogate modeling for realistic early-stage landing gear design load estimates

    S. F. van den Broek, T. Hunns, E. Simpson, S. Coggon, J. E. Cooper

    Aerospace Science and Technology 170, 111475

    doi:10.1016/j.ast.2025.111475
  2. 2022

    Improving the fatigue life of printed structures using stochastic variations

    S. F. van den Broek, J. Wolff, S. Scheffler, C. Hühne, R. Rolfes

    Progress in Additive Manufacturing 7(6), 1225–1238

    doi:10.1007/s40964-022-00296-5Open access
  3. 2022
  4. 2021
  5. 2020

    Enhanced deterministic performance of panels using stochastic variations of geometry and material

    S. F. van den Broek, S. Minera, A. Pirrera, P. M. Weaver, E. Jansen, R. Rolfes

    AIAA Journal 58(5), 2307–2320

    doi:10.2514/1.J058962

Conference papers & talks 6

  1. 2025

    Load spectrum determination for early-stage aircraft design

    S. F. van den Broek, A. E. Yılmaz, T. Hunns, E. Simpson, S. Coggon, J. E. Cooper

    ASME 2025 Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference (SSDM), V001T02A022

    doi:10.1115/SSDM2025-152193
  2. 2025

    Use of surrogate modeling for preliminary aircraft landing gear design

    S. F. van den Broek, E. Simpson, J. E. Cooper, T. Hunns, A. E. Yılmaz, S. Coggon

    AIAA SciTech 2025 Forum, AIAA 2025-1954

    doi:10.2514/6.2025-1954
  3. 2023

    Nonlinear analysis of wind turbine blades using finite elements with anisotropic variable kinematics

    S. F. van den Broek, M. Patni, A. K. W. Hii, P. M. Weaver, P. Greaves, A. Pirrera

    AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum, AIAA 2023-1921

    doi:10.2514/6.2023-1921
  4. 2019

    Enhanced deterministic performance of panels using stochastic variations of geometric and material parameters

    S. F. van den Broek, S. Minera, A. Pirrera, P. M. Weaver, E. Jansen, R. Rolfes

    AIAA SciTech 2019 Forum, AIAA 2019-0511

    doi:10.2514/6.2019-0511
  5. 2018

    Effect of spatially varying material properties on the post-buckling behaviour of composite panels utilising geodesic stochastic fields

    S. F. van den Broek (presenter)

    6th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Bristol, UK

    Talk
  6. 2016

    Modal interaction and mode switching in post-buckling analysis of plates using a multi-mode finite element based reduced order model

    E. Jansen, S. F. van den Broek, T. R. Rahman, R. Rolfes

    19th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS19), Porto, Portugal

    doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.17812.81288Abstract

Book chapter 1

  1. 2019

    Improving the static structural performance of panels with spatially varying material properties using correlations

    S. F. van den Broek, S. Minera, E. Jansen, A. Pirrera, P. M. Weaver, R. Rolfes

    In M. Petrolo (ed.), Advances in Predictive Models and Methodologies for Numerically Efficient Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Composites, PoliTO Springer Series, pp. 143–158. Springer

    doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11969-0_9

Theses 2

  1. 2023

    Tailoring structures using stochastic variations of structural parameters

    S. F. van den Broek

    Dr.-Ing. dissertation, Leibniz Universität Hannover

    doi:10.15488/13560
  2. 2013

    Towards high fidelity aeroelastic analysis of wind turbines: coupling and verification

    S. F. van den Broek

    MSc thesis, Delft University of Technology

Software 1

  1. 2026

    abq2ccx: Abaqus to CalculiX input-deck converter

    S. F. van den Broek

    Dependency-free Python 3; validated against NAFEMS benchmarks and a corpus of 1,022 decks

    github.com/sandervdbroek/abq2ccxMIT licence