Dr A Starkey, Dr M N Campbell-Bannerman, Dr D Iacopini
Applications accepted all year round
The oil & gas sector has massive data sets in the form of seismic data that it needs to analyse in order to identify the location of hydrocarbons and also to assess the risk for drilling operations in a particular area.
Multi-objective optimisation and multi-criteria assessment and decision making is an indivisible part of the design and planning of hybrid energy systems.
Dielectric elastomers are soft, muscle-like actuators that have seen a great uptake in robotics. The main reasons being the improved manoeuvrability and dexterity they provide.
Dr P Omenzetter, Dr P Dunning, Dr S Sriramula, Dr Amir Siddiq
Applications accepted all year round
Wind turbines are exposed to frequent structural damage increasing the cost of wind energy generation. To drive these costs down, this project will develop new automated methods for detection of structural damage to wind turbines by examining vibration responses measured by sensors attached to the structure.
Controlling systems with nonlinear dynamics is an area of great interest, due to its immediate impact on a number of technological areas such as nanopositioning, vibration isolation / control systems, drill strings, soft robots etc.
New 5G wireless technologies, such as mmWaves (Millimeter Waves), operating in previously unused high-frequency bands promise a massive increase in capacity to mobile users and enable a wide range of new mobile applications.
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a widely used technique to obtain the elemental constituents of a sample. The process uses a short pulse of focused laser light to evaporate a minute volume of a target substance by highly localized heating to temperatures greater than 5000 K.
Dr P Omenzetter, Dr D Van der A, Prof E Pavlovskaia, Dr Amir Siddiq
Applications accepted all year round
Marine risers are critical components of any offshore oil and gas production operations linking subsea field developments with production and drilling equipment atop fixed or floating facilities.
The increasing concerns about the modification of Internet packets as they travel across the network has led to a rapidly increase in the use of encryption to protect end-user privacy [1].
