8/7/2019 Vehicle Design and Testing

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Transportation lab

Ground Vehicles Design and Testing

Road Vehicle Dynamics

Advanced Design of Mechanical Components

Fitness for Purpose of Mechanical and

Structural Components

Wind Engineering

Vehicle Design and Testing [VDT]

- Optimization of complex systems (automotive engineering)

- Testing (design, construction and employment of testing tools)Road Vehicle Dynamics [RVD]

- Vehicle dynamics: modelling and experimentation of handling/comfort

- Analysis and development of active control systems in road vehicles

- Tire modelling and experimentation (interaction with the vehicle)

- Hybrid vehiclesWind Engineering [WND]

- Aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of bridges and slender civil structures

- Aerodynamics of buildings

- Fluid-excited vibration of cables and circular cylinders

- Aerodynamics of sailing boats

- Aerodynamics of rail and road vehiclesAdvanced Design of Mechanical Components [DMC]

- Fatigue and fracture of gears

- Effects and improvement of surface treatments

- Design with composite materials

- Design of helicopter componentsFitness for Purpose of Mechanical and Structural Components [F4P]

- Defect tolerant design

- Crack propagation modelling

- Multiaxial low-cycle fatigue

- New multiaxial fatigue life prediction models