Research project

Keane - Novel active/passive anti-vibration mountings

Research groups:

Computational Engineering and Design Group
Lead researchers:

Professor Andy Keane
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Stephen Elliott
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Andy Keane DSc, FREng

Professor of Computational Engineering

Connect with Andy

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Stephen Elliott

Research interests

Professor Elliott's research interests have been mainly concerned with the connections between the physical world and digital signal processing.
The research was originally related to the active control of sound and vibration. This work has resulted in the demonstration of active control in cars, helicopters and propeller aircraft and the authorship of the books "Active Control of Sound" with P.A. Nelson, "Active Control of Vibration" with C.R. Fuller and P.A. Nelson and, most recently, "Signal Processing for Active Control".The active control research has traditionally involved the reduction of unwanted noise, most recently on luxury yachts, but has recently developed to the reproduction of sound signals, such as music, in specific regions of space, so that, for example, the driver of a car can listen to Radio 4, while a child in the back of the car can listen to a Disney DVD.He is also involved in working on the growing body of work on modelling the mechanics of the cochlea and the functioning of cochlear implants, as below. This is important not only for communication and speech processing systems, but also in order to help understand the causes of hearing impairment and how they might be overcome.

Connect with Stephen

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Computational Engineering and Design Group

Our research group is a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, combining a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.

Research outputs

Novel active and passive anti-vibration mountings

M. Moshrefi-Torbati, J.A. Forrester, A.I.J. Forrester, A.J. Keane, M.J. Brennan & S.J. Elliott, 2012, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 331(7), 1532-1541

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2011.12.005

Type: article

Multi-fidelity optimization via surrogate modelling

Alexander I.J. Forrester, András Sóbester & Andy J. Keane, 2007, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 463(2088), 3251-3269

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1900

Type: article

The effects of internal resonances in vibration isolators under absolute velocity feedback control

Bo Yan, Mike Brennan, Steve Elliott & Neil Ferguson, 2007

Type: conference

Multi-variable geometry repair and optimization of passive vibration isolators

A.I.J. Forrester & A.J. Keane, 2007

Type: conference