Industrial Design and Manufacturing Processes
This theme explores the impact of significant engineering technology advances on the optimisation of industrial design and manufacturing processes. Of particular interest are measurement, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, Particulate solids handling and pneumatic conveying, Industrial maintenance modelling and energy assets management.
Research Leader: Professor Don McGlinchey
Project title
- Improving the integrity of wind turbine blade through development of a structural health monitoring system
- Fatigue Analysis, Reliability and Sustainability of Composite Materials
- Probalistic Modeling and Analysis of Oman Fibre Optic System
- Automatic Fault Detection of Centrifugal Pump using Wavelet Analysis and Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
- An investigation into the role of customers and suppliers in a servitised industrial environment
- 3D Modelling of large scale urban environments
- Modelling and measurement for future oil & gas multiphase flows - experimental investigation and CFD based simulation
- Study of the Failure Mechanisms of Cold Roll Bonded Al Sn/Steel Bimetals
- A Risk-Based Modelling Approach to Maintenance Optimisation of Railway Assets
- The impact of stress based upon the pressure of individual cognitive barriers, on the decision making behaviour and the resulting coping strategies
- Investigation into the Performance and Optimisation of Pneumatic Conveying Systems with Stepped Pipelines
- Investigation into the design, operation and maintenance of DFIGs Wind Turbine Control Systems
- Sustainability study of unconventional machining processes: EDM & ECM
- Design and development of health ready subsea production systems and their through-life support solutions
- Computational intelligence aided modelling and optimization of cross-scale heat transfer for industrial design, process and manufacturing
- Simulation of the Polishing Process of Optical Components
- Derivation benefits from the automotive industry for the rail vehicle industry
- Preparation and characterisation of novel soft magnetic nanocomposites as artificial ferrites for high frequency and high temperature applications
- Tailoring the Properties of interpenetrating Composites by Microstructural Design for Functional Applications
- Passive Acoustic diagnostics of Particle Iaden oil and gas multiphase flows
- The creation and application of a comprehensive finite element analysis model of the equine foot
- An investigation into transport phenomena in fluidised dense phase horizontal pneumatic conveying
- Investigations into the influence of Nano-additives on corrosion behaviour of various coatings on steel pipes
- Implementation of lean thinking in public hospital in Saudi Arabia
- The development of a micro-grid renewable energy management system based on load prediction strategy for power balancing
- Novel pipeline design for high viscosity oil transport in multi-phase pipelines with application to the Oil & Gas industry
- Modelling of the failure process for cost effective maintenance scheduling of MV XLPE cables with consideration of operating temperature and earth leakage
- An Investigation of the use of the discrete element method in screw conveyor design
- Investigation of Factors and Mechanisms Relating to the Development of Surface Defects on Powder Coated Galvanised Steel and the Development of Effective Solutions
- An investigation into assistive technology in the HE context.
- Performance and cost-benefit analysis of some reliability models of a cable plant
- Innovation and Ethics: Responsible Management of the Innovation Process - Management ethics in service and process innovation
- Smart Robotics for Sustainable Manufacturing
- Ageing Phenomena and Mechanisms in Innovative High Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Dynamical model development for simulating the anaerobic co-digestion of Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor (ASBR)