Luca Palmeira Belotti

RESEARCH PROFILE

Luca Palmeira Belotti is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Mechanics of Materials group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research, supervised by Hans van Dommelen and Johan Hoefnagels, focuses on experimental characterization of large-scale wire+arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) parts. The goal of the project is to obtain a novel phenomenological structure-property relationship for WAAM parts. Other research interests involve welding, tribology, and microscopy.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Luca Palmeira Belotti received his Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Paran谩, Brazil. During his Bachelor鈥檚, he was also a visiting student at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea from 2012 to 2013. He received his Master鈥檚 in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in Tribology at Lule氓 University of Technology, where his thesis was on the effect of hygrothermal aging on the tribological behavior of UHMWPE.

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