Prof. Dr. Michel Guillaume

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Head Centre for Aviation
Professor for Systems Integration and Structural Integrity
Lecturer for Aerodynamics and Fatigue & Structural Integrity, Systems Engineering, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Project Coordinator for Master MSE in Aviation, MSE Course Advanced Aircraft System Design

Further Lecture Activities
ETHZ: Lecture for Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Analysis
TEKO: Lecture for Aircraft Structural Design and Repair
HSG-CFAC: Lecture for Project Management in Aerospace

zhaw.ch/zav

Expertise and research interests

Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Fatigue Analysis, Damage Tolerance and Structural Integrity

Ageing Aircaft

Aircraft Design, Aerodynamics, Structures and Repairs

Project Management in Aeropsace

Educational background

1985 - 1990: Study of Physics at ETH Zürich; dipl. phys. ETHZ
1991 - 1994: PhD at ETH Zürich, Thesis Neutron scatering in high Temperature Superconductors; Dr. sc. nat. ETHZ
1998 - 1999: Study Business Administration, NDS at Fachhochschule
Nordwestschweiz in Baden / CH

Professional milestones

2004 - 2012: General Manager Aerodynamics Center at RUAG Aviation, Emmen Switzerland

1999 - 2004: Project Manager F/A-18 Full Scale Fatigue Test at RUAG Aerospace, Emmen Switzerland

1994 - 1999: Fatigue Engineer in the Engineering Departement of Federal Swiss Aircraft factory F+W in / RUAG Aerospace Switzerland

Membership of networks

• Swiss Aerospace Cluster
• International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity (ICAF)
• Schweizerische Vereinigung für Flugwissenschaften (svfw)
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Schweizerische Physikalische Gesellschaft (SPS)
• Aviation Research Center Switzerland (ARCS)

Projects

• LINA: Shared Large-scale Infrastructure for the Development and Safe Testing of Autonomous Systems / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Risiken aus Radardaten / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Geschäftsstelle Aviation Research Center Switzerland (ARCS) / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Engineering Documentation for Junkers Ju-52 (Product Data Base) / Project leader / Project completed
• Safety Analysis for the Structural Integrity of Ageing Airplanes / Project leader / Project completed
• Ausbildungskonzept für Piloten von unbemannten Luftfahrzeugen / Team member / Project completed
• Historic Ageing Airplane / Project leader / Project completed
• Nutzung Mobilfunk für Drohnen / Project leader / Project completed
• Structural Integrity for Ageing Airplanes using Damage Toleramce Analysis / Project leader / Project completed
• Technology Study for Civil Drones for TA-SWISS Foundation / Project leader / Project completed
• Advanced Aviation Meteorology / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• CleanLE2: Demonstration of a Decontamination Device Prototype for Business Jets and Experimental Validation / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Christen, Markus; Guillaume, Michel; Jablonowski, Maximilian; Lenhart, Peter Marcus; Moll, Kurt,

  2018.

  Drohnen als Partner im Luftraum.

  Technikfolgenabschätzung - Theorie und Praxis.

  27(3), pp. 20-26.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.27.3.20

• Molinari, Giulio; Arrieta, Andres F.; Guillaume, Michel; Ermanni, Paolo,

  2016.

  Aerostructural performance of distributed compliance morphing wings : wind tunnel and flight testing.

  AIAA Journal.

  54(12), pp. 3859-3871.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J055073

• Previtali, Francesco; Molinari, Giulio; Arrieta, Andres F.; Guillaume, Michel; Ermanni, Paolo,

  2015.

  Design and experimental characterisation of a morphing wing with enhanced corrugated skin.

  Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.

  27(2), pp. 278-292.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389X15595296

• Guillaume, Michel; Schläpfer, Elias; Schmid, Marcel,

  2015.

  Structural analysis of ageing Pilatus P-3 engine mount.

  Procedia Engineering.

  114, pp. 583-589.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.108

• Christen, Markus; Guillaume, Michel; Jablonowski, Maximilian; Lenhart, Peter Marcus; Moll, Kurt,

  2018.

  Zivile Drohnen : Herausforderungen und Perspektiven.

  1. Auflage.

  Zürich:

  vdf Hochschulverlag.

  ISBN 978-3-7281-3894-1.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3218/3894-1

• Guillaume, Michel; Uebersax, Andreas; Mandanis, Georges; Huber, Cyril,

  2014.

  Structural integrity : yesterday - today - tomorrow [paper].

  In:

  11th International Fatigue Congress, Melbourne, 2-7 March 2014.

  Trans Tech Publications.

  pp. 1053-1058.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.891-892.1053

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2014.

  Structural integrity for aging airplanes [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings / 29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences : St. Petersburg, Russia, September 7 - 12, 2014.

  29th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-12 September 2014.

  Bonn:

  International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3916

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2019.

  Review of aeronautical fatigue investigations in Switzerland, March 2017 - April 2019 [paper].

  In:

  36th Conference & 30th Symposium of the International Commitee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity ICAF, Krakow, Poland, 2-7 June 2019.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2017.

  Review of aeronautical fatigue investigations in Switzerland, April 2015 - March 2017 [paper].

  In:

  International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity (ICAF), Nagoya, Japan, 5-6 June 2017.

• Guillaume, Michel; Vannelli, Marina; Liu, Xinying,

  2017.

  Structural integrity for historic Annex II airplanes for continuous airworthiness [paper].

  In:

  International Congress on Fracture (ICF), Rhodes, Greece, 18-23 June 2017.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2015.

  Review of aeronautical fatigue investigations in Switzerland, April 2013 - March 2015 [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the 35th Conference and the 28th Symposium of the International Fatigue and Structural Integrity, 1 - 5 June, Helsinki, Finland.

  34th Conference of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue and Structural Integrity (ICAF), Helsinki, Finland, 1-2 June 2015.

  Helsinki:

  VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2013.

  Structural integrity : yesterday - today - tomorrow.

• Guillaume, Michel; Ferrari, Viola,

  2023.

  Practical application of structural risk assessment with SMART DT.

  In:

  22nd HOLSIP In-Person & Virtual Workshop, Snowbird, USA, 16-19 January 2023.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2020.

  Virtual design and operation for optimization of the life cycle.

  In:

  Towards a New Paradigm: Virtual Testing & Operation in Aviation, swissnex China, online, 21 October 2020.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2019.

  Vernetzte Mobilität.

  In:

  Mobility and Transportation Conference, Bern, 06. November 2019.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2017.

  Zukünftige Technologien der Flugzeuge.

  In:

  Energie- und Umweltforum zum Thema «Luftverkehr der Zukunft », Winterthur, 17. Mai 2017.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2016.

  Future aircraft technologies.

  In:

  SR Technics Workshop, Technikerschule Winterthur, Winterthur, 2016.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2016.

  What does the future hold for unmanned aircraft systems? : gold rush or reality?.

  In:

  Swissnex Boston «Gold Rush or Realities? The Future of Drone Systems», Boston, USA, 29 September 2016.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2015.

  Ermittlung von Materialermüdung : Simulation oder Tests.

  In:

  VPE Swiss Workshop, Rapperswil, 18. Juni 2015.

• Guillaume, Michel; Manfriani, Leonardo,

  2015.

  Low speed wind tunnel at ZHAW.

  In:

  51th Annual SATA (Subsonic Aerodynamic Testing Association) Meeting, Newport News VA, USA, 7-11 June 2015.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2014.

  Innovation in aviation.

  In:

  TransNetAero Meeting, St. Gallen, 25. März 2014.

• Guillaume, Michel; Riedberger, Michael,

  2014.

  New wind tunnel at ZHAW.

  In:

  50th Annual SATA Meeting, Bremen, Deutschland, June 2014.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2013.

  Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Entwicklung in der Aviatik.

  In:

  AERO 2013, Friederichshafen, Deutschland, 24-27 April 2013.

• Guillaume, Michel,

  2013.

  Review of aeronautical fatigue investigations in Switzerland (2011 - 2013).

  In:

  33rd ICAF Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, 3-4 June 2013.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Swiss / Finnish Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation on the F/A-18, Paper & Presentation at 28th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) 2012 in September 2012 (ICAS2012-10.6.1; ISBN 978-0-9565333-1-9)

Moderne Strömungssimulation für Flugzeuge; Schweizerische Vereinigung für Flugwissenschaften am 17. November 2011 an der ETH Zürich

F/A-18 Vertical tail Buffeting Calculation using unsteady Fluid Structure Interaction; The Aeronautical Journal, May 2011, Volume 115, No. 1166

The Challenge of large Composite Transport Airplanes during their Life Cycle; Paper and Keynote Presentation 5th International Conference on Composites Testing and Model Identification; ETH Lausanne Februar 2011

Windbreak? The F/A-18, and the HISAC Projects. His Ultimate Vision is using CFD for virtual Flight Testing; Interview in Aerospace Testing International, September 2009 p47-48

Calculation of Unsteady Loads for the F/A-18 Vertical Tail Buffeting; Paper and Presentation 1st CEAS European Air and Space Conference in Berlin, September 2007

Latest development in RUAG Aerospace’s Wind Tunnels and Balance technology at RUAG Aerospace 43rd Meeting of Subsonic Aerodynamic Testing Association (SATA), June 2007

Calculations of F/A-18 Fatigue Loads and wing Deformation using Computational Fluid Dynamics; 25th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) 2006 in Hamburg

The Swiss F/A-18 Full Scale fatigue Test – Modern and Efficient Testing; ATIO AIAA Conference September 2004 in Chicago

Der F/A-18 – ein Flugzeug, das so nie fliegen darf; Paper & Präsentation Automotive Day; 12. November 2003 an der HTI Biel

Crack Initiation and Crack Growth Tests and Analysis at Center Hole Specimen for 7050-T7451, 7075-T7351;Ti-6Al-4V (RA); Paper & Presentation at 8th International Fatigue Congress 2002 in Stockholm

Swiss F/A-18 Full Scale Fatigue Test; Paper & Presentation at ICAF Conference 2001 in Toulouse, ICAF-Doc 2289

A residual Stress Model for Spectrum Crack Growth Analysis; International Journal of Fracture 1997, Vol 85, No. 2

Influence of Thickness on Crack Growth Life of Coldworked Holes; Paper & Presentation at ICAF 1997 in Edinburgh Scotland; ICAF-Doc 2177

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