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Areas of Expertise
Continuing Education and Training
Key Projects
Wackett Aerospace Centre Research
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Capabilities
Aerospace Structures and Materials
- Metallic & composite
- Fatigue, fracture, and damage tolerance
- Modelling and simulation
Through-Life Management Technologies
- Multifunctional air vehicle technologies
- Health monitoring and prognostics
- Repair and joining technologies
Dynamic Aerospace Systems
- Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs)
- Aerodynamic loading
- Dynamics, modelling, control and optimisation
Aerospace Design and Manufacturing Processes
- Virtual and knowledge-based engineering
- Advanced machining processes
- System support engineering
Aircraft Design and Analysis
- Conceptual aircraft configuration design and analysis
- Structural design and stress analysis, durability and damage tolerance analysis, and finite element modelling
- Aeroelastic design analysis
- Avionic and mission system design and analysis
- Mechanical systems design and analysis
- Vehicle crashworthinesss design and analysis
- Noise and vibration analysis
Aircraft Testing
- Flight testing for certification
- Static and dynamic structural testing
- Static and dynamic material testing
- Aerodynamic testing
- Ground vibration and flutter testing
Flutter and Vibration Testing
- Experience in flutter certification of light aircraft to FAR 23, JAR-VLA and JAR 22
Civil Aviation Approval and Certification
- Approval of modification and repairs against CAR 35/36
- Oversight of Type Certificate and Supplemental Type Certificate projects
- Expertise in certification and compliance, flight and ground test schedules, flight manuals and flight manual supplements, maintenance manuals
Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences
- Numerical and Analytical techniques for Modelling
- Control and Optimisation
- Cryptography and Information Security
- Operations Research and Stochastic Modelling
- Software Reliability Modelling
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Design, analysis and synthesis of innovative avionics systems
- Safety and control systems
- Communication and network engineering technologies
Facilities
Computer Aided Design
The Wackett Aerospace Centre has CAD facilities and experience in CATIA v5, AutoCAD and rapid prototyping.
Experimental Facilities
The Wackett Aerospace Centre has access to a range of experimental testing facilities.
These include:
- Wind tunnels
- MTS structural testing machines for static and fatigue testing
- Composite manufacture and testing
- Data collection and analysis
- Dynamic and vibration measurements
Computer Facilities
The Wackett Aerospace Centre has a network of engineering workstations, hosted by a Silicon Graphics Origin 200 processor and server. Software codes available include AAA, ANSYS, FLUENT, VSAERO, NASTRAN, PATRAN, DYTRAN, FATIGUE, VISTA, MODAL SE, MATRIXx, MATLAB. Access to the Ormond High Performance Computing Facility may be arranged.
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