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Dynamics Group

Modelling

Our group's research covers a wide range of interests in the modelling, measurement and control of structural vibrations.

Part of Engineering

About

We work with industry specialists to study noise and vibration of transportation vehicles, human response to vibration, and condition monitoring of infrastructure.  

Our main research activities are:  

  • dynamic modelling  
  • high-frequency vibrations   
  • human factors research unit  
  • railway noise and vibration  
  • condition monitoring  

Our laboratories incorporate the Human Factors Research Unit (HFRU). This contains a range of equipment for vibration measurement, testing and analysis.  

Through our work with colleagues at ISVR Consulting, we contribute to a number of short courses for industry on vibration modelling, measurement and control. 

People, projects and publications

People

Professor Thomas Blumensath

Professor

Research interests

  • I develop and study advanced algorithms that can solve challenging inverse problems by efficiently exploiting complex prior information. Using techniques from mathematics, statistics and machine learning, my work concentrates primarily on problems in x-ray tomographic image reconstruction and modelling.
  • I work closely with state-of-the-art imaging facilities (µ-VIS, the National Research Facility in Lab-based XCT, the UK’s synchrotron facility at the Diamond Light Source, and ISIS neutron imaging beamline) to find practical solutions to a range of important scientific problems from plant science to manufacturing.
  • My research interests cover areas such as: Theoretical and computational methods for Signal and Image Processing (Machine Learning, Compressed Sensing, Statistical Signal and Image Processing, Quantum Computing, Inverse Problems, Optimisation, X-ray Tomographic Imaging); Advanced tomographic imaging strategies: (limited angle tomography and laminography, Spectral X-ray imaging, Stereo and extreme limited view tomography); Efficient computational methods for tomographic reconstruction, including GPU acceleration, distributed computation and advanced optimisation strategies, Constrained optimisation for ill-conditioned and underdetermined   tomographic inverse problems, Applications of X-ray tomography to the inspection of manufactured components, Multimodal tomographic imaging

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Thomas

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3224

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Professor Tim Waters

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Wave propagation in structures
  • Vibration control
  • Vibration based structural health monitoring

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Tim

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4979

Dr Victoria Watson

Principal Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • person centered care
  • qualitative research
Connect with Victoria

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 2287

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Dr Wenjing Sun

Lecturer in Acoustics

Research interests

  • Rolling noise and interior noise of railway vehicle;
  • Railway vehicle dynamics;
  • Indirect measurement of rail and wheel roughness using AI technology.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Wenjing

Email: [email protected]

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Dr Yi Qiu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Yi Qiu’s main areas of research are biodynamics, vehicle seating dynamics and ride comfort. He is particularly interested in combined human-seat modelling, vibration transmission via multi-input channels and their applications in vehicle dynamics and ride comfort. His other research interests include finite element methods and multi-body dynamics with application in vehicle ride analysis, and combined mechanical and electrical control system modelling and analysis.
  • Details on impact research can be found here.
Connect with Yi

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 9594

Dr Ying Ye

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ying

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4962

ORCID
I'm interested in combined human-seat modelling, vibration transmission via multi-input channels and their applications in vehicle dynamics and ride comfort.
Dr Yi Qiu
Associate Professor