Research & Consulting
The School is active in a wide range of research activities and can provide expert consulting services in these areas. Navigate via the headings below for more details and contact information. For an overview of ADFA's research activities contact the Research Office and for consulting services contact the Business Development Office.
Human Vibration, Structural and Machine Vibration Measurement, Environmental and Industrial Noise Measurement, Animal Acoustic Behaviour.
Blast Resistant Structural Design, Facility Upgrade, Blast Load Assessment, Blast Structural Damage.
Multidisciplinary Design, Design Theory & Methodology, Design Requirements Development, Conceptual and Preliminary Design in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Computer Aided Design.
Innovative Teaching Methods for Engineering, Etextbooks, Education in Flight, Online Delivery Methods.
Project Management, Maintenance Management, Project Systems Modelling, Systems Dynamics, Decision Methodologies, Construction Claims.
Non-aqueous Phase Liquid (NAPL) Contamination, Coastal Waters and Lake Pollutant Transport, Environmental Policy.
Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), Stability & Control, Aviation Safety, Aircraft Performance Predictions & Modelling, Powerplant Modelling, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Aerospace Applications.
Turbulent Mixing, Information Theory and Thermodynamics, Multiphase Systems, Supersonic Combustion (SCRAMJET), Gas Turbines, Thermal Modelling, Measurement Techniques for Heat Transfer, Image Processing, Hypersonic Flight, Advance Laboratory Imaging Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Microfluidics & Microdevices, Shock Tunnel Testing.
Reinforced Soil, Geosynethics, Soft Soil Engineering, Pavement Materials, Stabilised Soils, Numerical Modelling, Soil Behaviour & Liquefaction.
Steel and Aluminium Alloys, Polymeric Materials, Advanced Composites, "Smart Materials", Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI), High Strength Concrete, Lightweight Concrete, Concrete Durability, Reinforcement/Concrete Bond, Welding, Metallurgy, Micro-end Milling, Corrosion.
Earthquake Effect on Structures, Mechanical Testing, Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue, Corrosion, Mechanically Fastened and Bonded Joints, Dynamic and Impact Testing, Laser Speckle NDI, Infra Red Thermography NDI, Finite Element Methods, Aircraft Structural Integrity, Airframe Structural Analysis and Design, Structural Joining Methods.