Research Output per year
Organization profile
Organisation profile
The Department benefits from the concentration of aerospace industry in the south-west of England and a key feature of the Department's research is its close links with the industry - including Airbus, Rolls-Royce, AgustaWestland, BAE Systems and others further afield.
The Department has also seen burgeoning links with the renewable energy industry. Some of these research links have led to the establishment of formal technology partnerships; the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Composites, the AgustaWestland Helicopters University Technology Centre in Vibration, and a composites technology partnership with Vestas Wind Systems.
The result of this close relationship with industry, associated with substantial research funding from other UK and EU sources, is that the Department's research is industrially relevant and at the leading edge of the aerospace sector as reflected by the high proportion of research found to be internationally excellent and world-leading in the 2008 UK Government Research Assessment Exercise.
We have good collaborative links with organisations such as EADS Innovation Works and DSTL (Defence Science & Technology Laboratory). We are also a founding members of the UK Applied Aerodynamics Consortium, and partners in the Centre for Fluid Mechanics Simulation (CFMS).
We have strong international links with numerous European partners via current EU FP7 grants:
- Future Fast Aeroelastic Simulation Technologies (FFAST),
- Marie Curie Initial Training Network - Self-Healng Materials (SHeMat),
and previous funding such as:
- FP7 Marie Curie Excellence Grant on Morphing Aircraft,
- FP6 project Chiral Smart Honeycomb (CHISMACOMB)
International interest from non-academic centres includes:
- NASA Langley
- Los Alamos National Laboratories
- the US Air Force.
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Profiles
Research Output
Probabilistic Methods for Engineering Problems
Booker, J. D., Hoole, J. & Zentuti, N. A. M., 1 Jan 2022, (In preparation) Oxford: Elsevier Limited. 500 p.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
2D Contour Following with an Unmanned Aerial Manipulator: Towards Tactile-Based Aerial Navigation
Hamaza, S., Georgilas, I. & Richardson, T., 27 Jan 2020, 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 3664-3669 6 p. (Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Workshop on).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
Open Access
File
Abnormal stiffness behaviour in artificial cactus-inspired reinforcement materials
Zampetakis, I., Dobah, Y., Liu, D., Woods, B., Bezazi, A., Perriman, A. & Scarpa, F., 14 Sep 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Projects
AdAPTS - Adaptive Aerostructures for Power and Transportation Sustainability
1/10/20 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
Experimental Flight Dynamics Testing for Highly Flexible Aircraft
1/09/20 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
Next generation fibre-reinforced composites: a full scale redesign for compression (NextCOMP)
1/07/20 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
Student theses
Adaptive Compliant Structures for Fluid Flow Control: A ‘catastrophic’ approach
Author: Arena, G., 7 May 2019Supervisor: Pirrera, A. (Supervisor), Groh, R. (Supervisor) & Theunissen, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Additive Manufacturing of Soft, Functional Structures for Next-Generation Soft Robotics
Author: Kuhnel, D. T., 1 Oct 2019Supervisor: Faul, C. F. (Supervisor), Rossiter, J. (Supervisor) & Richards, A. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Aerial Manipulators for Contact-based Interaction
Author: Hamaza, S., 28 Nov 2019Supervisor: Richardson, T. S. (Supervisor) & Georgilas , I. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
File
Prizes
AIAA/Collier Research Best Structures Paper
Groh, Rainer (Recipient), Jan 2015
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
ASME SMASIS best hardware paper award
Weaver, Paul M (Recipient), 14 Sep 2011
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Award "Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida"
Melro, Antonio R (Recipient), 2004
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
Royal Academy of Engineering (Publisher)
Rainer Groh (Peer reviewer)
2020
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Design and analysis support on an Innovate UK project regarding composite tow-steering for aircraft wing panels
Rainer Groh (Advisor)
1 Apr 2020 → 31 Jan 2021
Activity: Consultancy types › Consultancy › Via UoB
Women's Experiences in Engineering Workshop (WES)
Valeska Ting (Speaker), Steve Eichhorn (Organiser), Maria Pregnolato (Organiser), Hind Saidani-Scott (Organiser), R K Selwyn (Speaker) & Eleni Toumpanaki (Speaker)
22 Jan 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion