Dr Aurik Andreu
Heating Technologies Theme Lead
Advanced Forming Research Centre
Personal statement
Dr Aurik Andreu is a senior manufacturing engineer at the Advanced Forming Research Centre Forging team within the Forging and Incremental Technologies Team. Aurik is also leading the Heating Technology theme within the centre which is a very relevant area for most of the Tiers 1 and Tiers 2 members of the AFRC.
Aurik’s background consists of a mixture of industrial and commercial research with particular areas of expertise around material science (ceramics, carbon and metals), Gas to liquid (GTL), heating technologies / processes and modelling.
Aurik has led research activities at the AFRC on programmes such as the commissioning of an industrial gas furnace and Emissivity Calibration furnace for validating thermal process FEA modelling, testing new sensors and instruments, characterising furnace behaviour under different loading conditions and informing part-specific heating for the centre’s industrial partners.
Research Gate profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aurik_Andreu
Linkedin page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurik-andreu-a5a0b1aa
Publications
- Transvalor/Bifrangi/AFRC - case study - Simulation of the induction hardening process applied to crankshaft manufacturing
- Andreu Aurik, Huang Jianglin, Coulbeck Teig, Perchat Etienne
- (2025)
- AFRC-PRS03014-CORE06951-D7.2 - Technical notes on the implementation and results of the neural network models
- Andreu Aurik, Huang Jianglin, Azim Safi Sohail
- (2025)
- AFRC-PRS03003-CRAD1716-D2-Training and practice utilising Qobeo software
- Andreu Aurik, Falsafi Javad
- (2025)
- AFRC-PRS02962-CORD07151-D1.2-Recommendations on equipment maintenance and repairs (Preventive Maintenance)
- Andreu Aurik
- (2025)
- AFRC-TRP02932-CORE06951-D6.1b
- Huang Jianglin, Andreu Aurik
- (2025)
- AFRC-PRS02930-CORE06951-D6.1a
- Huang Jianglin, Andreu Aurik
- (2025)
Professional Activities
- 2023 AFRC Intern project - Preliminary development of CFD models for combustion system
- Lecturer
- 1/6/2023
- 2019 AFRC Intern project - Induction heating project / Real-Time Signal Processing, Control, and Simulation
- Lecturer
- 1/6/2019
- 2018 AFRC Intern project - Oxidation & H2 Pick up inTi64 & Induction Heating
- Lecturer
- 1/6/2018
- William Tracey press release - Research furthers initiative that could divert 100,000 tonnes of waste ash from landfill each year
- Recipient
- 1/11/2017
- 2017 AFRC Intern project - Emissivity Measurement Project
- Lecturer
- 1/6/2017
- International Conference on Carbon
- Participant
- 2009
Projects
- Induction Heat Treatment of White Cast Iron
- Espinoza, Ashlee (Principal Investigator) Andreu, Aurik (Co-investigator) Huang, Jianglin (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 14-Jan-2026
- AFRC - CRAD - 1716 Doing More with Less – Cogging Automation
- Krishnamurthy, Bhaskaran (Researcher) Huang, Jianglin (Project Lead) Barbera, Daniele (Researcher) Andreu, Aurik (Researcher) Parolin, Paolo (Researcher) Falsafi, Javad (Researcher) Chalkley, Eleanor (Researcher)
- This project aims to create an integrated platform for the fully automated design, simulation, and digitalization of the cogging process, using advanced tools such as easy2forge, FORGE, and qobeo. The platform will provide engineers with easy access to cogging process design and optimisation. By automating and digitizing the cogging process design, the platform will facilitate better data collection, storage and management, providing fundamental support to the digital transformation of cogging operations.
- 20-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- AFRC_CRAD_1716_Doing More with Less – Cogging Automation
- Andreu, Aurik (Researcher)
- This project aims to create an integrated platform for the fully automated design, simulation, and digitalization of the cogging process, using advanced tools such as easy2forge, FORGE, and Qobeo. The platform will provide engineers with easy access to cogging process design and optimisation. By automating and digitizing the cogging process design, the platform will facilitate better data collection, storage and management, providing fundamental support to the digital transformation of cogging operations.
- 20-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- ThermoSI – Thermometry with embedded SI traceability for industrial applications
- Andreu, Aurik (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Thermometry with embedded SI traceability for industrial applications
- Andreu, Aurik (Principal Investigator)
- Most industrial processes rely on temperature measurement, which directly influences product quality, energy efficiency, and emissions. All conventional temperature sensors exhibit calibration drift leading to inefficiencies. Poor surface thermometry causes process control problems in advanced manufacturing. Poor gas thermometry causes sub-optimal noxious emissions and reduced efficiency. This project will overcome specific process control challenges by implementing embedded traceable thermometry in situ through driftless practical primary thermometry and self-validation, gas/combustion thermometry, and new traceable surface temperature measurement methods. Traceability [1] will be either directly to the redefined SI kelvin [2], or indirectly via the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) [3].
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- DIGF-DIRF-06554_Experiment Design for the Heating of Metal Wind Turbine Bolt
- Jadhav, Sandip (Principal Investigator) Elsayed, Ahmed (Co-investigator) Andreu, Aurik (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Aurik
Andreu
Heating Technologies Theme Lead
Advanced Forming Research Centre
Email: aurik.andreu@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 534 5572