Capabilities
Our research activity encompasses four capability areas, each supporting several key technologies.
Aerospace materials and multifunctional composite structures
- Through-life support of ageing airframes and life cycle cost
- Integrity assessment and airworthiness
- Damage tolerance, progression and failure
- Structural health monitoring
- Robust design and optimisation
- Smart materials and structures
Unmanned aircraft systems design and field operations
- Architecture and system design autonomy
- Flight operations and airworthiness
- New generation from bio-inspired and MAV to high-altitude long endurance UAS
- UAS integration, sense and avoid
- Safety and regulations
Aerodynamic loading and multidisciplinary design and optimisation
- Flow-structure – fluid-structure interaction and hydrodynamics
- Aeroservoelasticity and vibration suppression
- Advanced solutions to enhance air-platforms performance including manoeuvrability and control effectiveness
- System identification
- Energy harvesting
- Hypersonics
Avionics, air traffic management and mission systems
- Future ATM and avionics systems (CNS+A)
- Key technology enablers and systems for a sustainable aviation
- Mission systems for civil and military aviation
- Human factors engineering solutions
- Sensors, multi sensor systems and data fusion
- Intelligent Transport Systems
Our impact
We work with a range of Australian and global organisations to provide innovative solutions across civil and defence industries. Our partners include:
- ACS Australia
- Airbus
- Air Force (USA)
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
- Boeing Aerostructures and Boeing Defence
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)
- Capability, Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG)
- Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA)
- Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
- Defence Science Institute (DSI)
- DefendTex
- Department of Defence (Australia)
- Department of Defence (USA)
- Flight Data Systems
- Ford Motor Company
- General Electric
- LEAP Australia
- Lockheed Martin
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Northrop Grumman
- Pratt and Whitney
- Thales
Highlights of our current research include:
- multidisciplinary design and optimisation
- development of hydrocarbon fuel system for hypersonic airbreathing vehicles
- development of rotating detonation engines for hypersonic vehicles
- cognitive human-machine interface and interaction for ATM systems
- cost-benefit assessment of future aerospace concepts for defence
- virtual prototyping, digital twin and digital thread
- bragg-grating fiber laser ultrasonic sensors for structural health monitoring
- improved autonomous surveillance for UAV flight in complex urban terrains
- submarine dynamics and control
- innovative multi-physics approach to individual aircraft tracking and aircraft sustainment
- fatigue and structural and material experimentation
Research centres and groups
Our expertise and facilities contribute to many research organisations across Australia.
Facilities
Our work is supported by major state-of-the-art research infrastructure.
- Advanced Manufacturing Precinct
- Composite Fabrication Facility
- Green Engines Laboratory
- Aerospace Intelligent and Autonomous Systems Laboratory
- Flight Simulators
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems Laboratory
- Wind tunnels
- Noise Vibration Harshness Laboratory
Who we are
Aerospace Engineering and Aviation staff
