Optimising efficiency through innovation
Optimising efficiency through innovation
Automotive research benefits from an off-road vehicle dynamics facility, instrumented autonomous vehicle test track, vehicle workshops and electrification, autonomy, simulation, mechatronics and control systems laboratories.
Our suite of wind tunnels allow testing and development of both air and land vehicles as well as wind loading on buildings, structures and people.
Our design thinking facilities support innovative developments with a prototyping workshop, computer-aided design laboratory, ideation laboratories and 3D and 2D printing services.
We are at the forefront of innovation enabling manufacturing to become smart, clean and green. We have one of the most extensive large-scale metal additive manufacturing facilities in the world. A materials characterisation suite for electron and field ion microscopy. The capability to model and simulate manufacturing processes and whole factories including human behaviours. We are home to the National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre with multi-source coating machinery for the rapid prototyping of novel alloys. Nanomaterials laboratories for the development and application of nanomaterials.
We have one of the best equipped facilities in the UK for the development and testing of large-scale structural materials and components used in the energy sector. Our process systems engineering laboratory is equipped with industrial-scale single phase and multi‑phase flow facilities to study the behaviour of complex flows found in oil and gas and also home to a 30m wave tank facility used to research marine structural concepts and behaviours.