Novel materials and manufacturing
- materials characterisation
- advanced alloys
- composite materials
- lattice structures
- residual stresses
- advanced manufacturing
Advances in numerical modelling techniques
- numerical methods (FEM, BEM, IGA)
- multi-scale and multiphysics modelling
- multi-functional and smart structures
- structural optimisation
- inverse methods
- AI-assisted numerical modelling
Physics enhanced machine learning
- Probabilistic Model updating,
- Virtual Sensing,
- Identification of system parameters and non-linear relationships,
- Uncertainty Quantification,
- Reduced Order Modelling of Nonlinear problems
- Physics-informed Neural Networks
- Reinforcement Learning
- Transfer Learning.
- LLMs and foundational models
Damage assessment
- sensor development
- internet of things
- development and application of modal analysis
- full-field optical systems for experimental analysis
- digital twins
Dynamic structures and materials
- damping materials
- friction-induced vibration.
- mechanics of advanced materials under vibro-impact loading
- monitoring and control
- shock physics – high rate impacts