Transport and infrastructure
Fast, safe, clean and affordable transportation of people and goods along with resilient, sustainable and effective infrastructure has an undeniable impact on the quality of modern life and underpins our current global economy.
Key research expertise
Aerospace engineering
- Non-linear dynamics
- Vibration suppression
- Experimental testing
- Control
- Aeroelasticity
- Aeroacoustics
- Bio-inspired flight
- UAVs
- Gust load alleviation
- Wind engineering
- Aircraft dynamics
- Hybrid testing
UAVs
- Structures and materials – morphing; bio-mimicry
- Aerodynamics/aeroelasticity
- Acoustics
- Propulsion
- Autonomy
- Flight mechanics; stability and control
- Validation and verification
- Systems – sensing and comms
Electromechanical power conversion
- High performance traction drive motors
- Lightweight electric propulsion
- Aircraft electrical systems
- Electrodynamic actuation technologies
Autonomous vehicles
- 5G connected vehicles
Geotechnical engineering
- Mechanical characterisation
- Continuum constitutive modelling and numerical simulations
- Physical modelling
- Field investigations at real geotechnical system scale
Infrastructure
- Long term dynamic performance of advanced composite bridge decks
- Structural vulnerability
- Wind loading and nonlinear dynamic performance of flexible structures
- Whole systems analysis of the interdependence, vulnerability and resilience of network infrastructure
Structural health monitoring
- Wireless ultrasonic sensors (WAND)
- Embedded sensors
Research groups
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Bristol Composites Institute
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Dynamics and Control
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Earthquake and Geotechnical
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Electrical Energy Management Group
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Engineering Mathematics
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Fluid and Aerodynamics
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Ultrasonics and Non-destructive Testing (UNDT)
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Engineering for International Development
The faculty is involved in many research projects with sustainable development goals. They focus on natural disasters, resource security, sustainable energy and health in developing countries.