Life-like Resilient Materials for Mitigating Liquid-Solid Impact Damage (LSIMPACT)

The collision between a high-velocity liquid mass and a solid can generate destructive stress waves. Predicting the damage caused by liquid-solid impact (LSI) is a longstanding multidisciplinary challenge with important implications, from leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades, and bird strikes on aircraft to traumatic brain injuries in crash events. In order to reduce the LSI damage on materials, a fundamental understanding of the liquid impact damage mechanisms, and radically new impact-resistant materials are required.

PALPABLE: Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Aeroacoustics of Dynamic Stall

iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioning

iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (Airbus) Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation

DISTOPIA - Distorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: Operational Integration of Autonomy on Titanium (TS/Y016548/1)

Innovate UK - Eureka collaborative R&D: smart advanced manufacturing Cluster (Project number 10086469)

Solar-powered VTOL UAS-based Intelligent Sensing/Monitoring Applications of Precision Agriculture (S&E Industry Studentship Model)

Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing” in collaboration with Airbus

The project aims to develop next generation wing structures for future passenger jets . The project is led by airbus and the QMUL team will develop novel wing topologies and advanced simulation and modelling approaches .

Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3D (EP/X014614/1)

EPSRC Equipment Business Case: Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3D (EP/X014614/1: £2,501,463, 1 Oct 2022 – 31 Aug 2025) More info: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X014614/1

Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing”

EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing Call - Circular economy elastomer products

Hydrogen Heavy-duty Engine-out NOx Emissions Modelling and Prediction using a Deep Learning Framework

In this project, a physics-based deep learning (DL) framework will be developed to predict and analyse trends in transient hydrogen engine-out NOx emissions using data from 0D- 1D engine simulations.

Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation

Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation in nuclear environments

Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) Award

Collaborative research project between Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) in Japan and QMUL to concentrate on next-generation additive manufacturing technologies.

Design by additive manufacturing of Innovative nanocomposites for biomedical application (IES\R3\223167)

Royal Society International Exchange has brought together research expertise from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in the UK and National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. The exchange research programme will seek collaborative effort in the area of innovative digital technology. Laser-based powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) is one of the additive manufacturing (AM) processes, which employs high-power laser source to melt pre-deposited powder on the basis of a layer-by-layer build principle. The use of the nanocomposites of meta-material structure will be studied for biomedical application.

Marine mussel plaque-inspired anchorages for floating offshore wind platforms (EP/X017559/1)

Marine mussels can survive the harsh marine environment at intertidal zones by anchoring themselves to various wet surfaces through adhesive plaques. Recent research progress has highlighted that, in addition to the interaction of protein-based chemistry at the adhesion sites, the unique adhesive structure of a mussel plaque plays an important role. Motivated by this natural phenomenon, the proposal aims to establish the knowledge on the underwater adhesive behaviours of mussel plaque-inspired anchoring systems for the applications of the offshore floating structures.

Circular economy elastomer products

The sustainability of elastomer industry is under huge scrutiny as many polymers are derived from fossil fuels and a large amount of rubber waste generated annually is not recycled. This research programme will develop novel circular economy elastomer products from renewable biobased feedstocks, with zero waste and high resource efficiency.

Mechanics and biomimicking of marine mussel plaques (RPG-2020-23 )

To survive the turbulent marine environment, mussels anchor themselves to various wet surfaces via adhesive plaques. Motivated by the unique mechanical behaviours of the plaques, the project will (i) develop the fundamental understanding on how the stiffness and the surface texture pattern of an underlying surface influence the adhesive structure and adhesive behaviour of a mussel plaque; and (ii) establish the principles to design plaque-inspired lightweight porous materials of high load bearing capacity and ductility as well as plaque inspired approaches for joining the materials with distinct mechanical properties.

UKRI FLF Development Network Pathway programme

This is a tailored programme to support the professional development of future leaders fellows. The network delivers specialised leadership training, access to networks and mentors, and collaborative opportunities, so that members can pursue world-class interdisciplinary, cross-sector research and innovation.

Cheniere co-sponsorship of EPSRC PhD studentship equipment budget

CELLCOMP: Data-driven Mechanistic Modelling of Scalable Cellular Composites for Crash Energy Absorption

The project funded by EPSRC will create an intelligent data-driven virtual testing tool to assess an emerging type of lightweight materials, known as synthetic cellular composites (CCs).

The Jetting of Complex Inks for Industrial Inkjet Technologies - KTP

Industrial collaboration with Xaar PLC, examining the printing of inks with complex formulation and rheology

Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment

Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment

ESTEEM - Sustainable manufacturing for future composites

With only 1% of energy consumption compared to current manufacturing methods, high performance composites with integrated new functions like deformation and damage sensing as well as de-icing will be manufactured without needs of even an oven. This new method will be tuned to fully comply with the processing requirements of existing high performance composite systems, reducing costs in capital investment, operational, and maintenance aspects. The new functions will also provide real-time health monitoring of components' structural integrity to enable condition based maintenance with high reliability.

Evaluation of hydrogen evolution in pressurised reactor

A number of unusual experiments suggest that there is an intense reaction, at ambient temperature, between certain otherwise inert gases and iron when left to react at high pressures. The processes may or may not involve catalysis. The aim of the project is to understand the mechanism of the reaction by constructing a vessel that is instrumented in order to reveal changes during the course of the reaction.

Spray cooling of electric traction motors with hairpin windings: An experimental and CFD analysis

The project aims to investigate the performance of advanced oil spray cooling of hairpin end-windings by developing a test bench that will shed light on the ongoing detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.

Surface treatments for next generation quiet aerofoils

The project in collaboration with the University of Southampton and the University of Manchester is devoted to high-resolution modelling and experiments aimed to reduce aerofoil noise. Introducing ‘canopies’ into the turbulent boundary layer may produce significant reductions in the surface pressure variation near the trailing edge, and hence similar reductions in the far field noise.

EC Jetting: Towards the Next Generation of Printing Technologies

Small nozzles, which are used to deposit small volume of liquids, are more prone to clogging and breaking and more difficult to manufacture. This project aims to develop a novel technique to produce jets that are 100 times smaller than the nozzle in size (no need for small nozzles) and printing frequency that is one order of magnitude higher than the natural electrojetting pulsation technique (fast printing).

Electroadhesion for Perching and Resting Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Various Surfaces

In this collaborative project, we propose to develop enabling technologies based on electroactive mechanisms for aiding small UAVs to effectively anchor on various surfaces in challenging environments. The novel technology and strategy can find a wide range of industrial applications and has the potential of revolutionizing aerial photography, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance.

Decoding the Material Degradation Mechanisms Under High-velocity Liquid-solid Impact Loadings

This project aims to develop new impact test facilities to unveil the Liquid-solid impact (LSI) damage mechanisms. The specific objectives are (1) To develop new impact systems for measuring LSI behaviours of materials. (2) To reveal the role of heterogeneity, environment and loading conditions on LSI mechanisms.

RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021 - 2 (TSP2021/100366)

The project concentrates on additive manufacturing of metastable materials for biomedical applications. The project title is "Digital Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing for helping patients on bespoke 3D-printed implants"(TSP2021/100366).

Experimental and analytical modelling of micro-fluidic devices for energy and smart machines

Micro-fluidic devices are of significant importance in a wide range of engineering fluid-systems from energy-applications as improving kinetic-turbine performance, noise control, bio-engineering to smart micro-machines design. This project will focus on two-strands of micro-fluidic systems for flow control and modelling of smart micro-machines composed of electro-thermal-kinetic particles. Both aspects are at the forefront of academic-research and innovation with engineering applications in renewables (wind/water), targeted medication delivery, biofluid system-support (e.g. blood-circulation) and morphing structures by controlling building-blocks of electro-thermal-kinetic particles, all being studied by QMUL & TAU. This study is supported by UUKi and DSIT.

RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021 - 1 (TSP2021/100052)

This project is about novel alloy design for additive manufacturing in biomedical applications. The project title is "Novel titanium alloys for biomedical application" (TSP2021/100052).

Disinfecting indoor air against diseases as COVID and TB in cities in the Indian subcontinent

The aim of this project is to develop an air filtration system for the Indian subcontinent with heavy pollution settings, while having air infection risk. Strategies of deployment and usage will be developed along with training of UK and Indian students, and knowledge transfer with industry with overall UK & India budget of £80k.

Energy efficient composite tooling - ECOTOOL

The ECOTOOL project will contribute to achieving the Net Zero with a significantly enhanced energy efficiency during composite manufacturing, with reduced cycle and lead time from traditional tooling.

iCASE Award Industrial Contribution BT

2022 Bridgestone Elastomer Research

Air Cleaning Technologies (ACT): design protocol

ACT is a multi-centred randomised control trial of two air disinfection technologies which have the potential to mitigate the airborne transmission of the Covid-19 virus within schools: Portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters Upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (ur-UVGI) 30 primary schools from across Bradford are trialling these technologies to assess both the feasibility and efficacy of using these in schools, see https://caer.org.uk/projects/air-cleaning-technologies-act/