As world leaders in structural health monitoring, our extensive facilities for fabricating a wide variety of structural components that integrate or embed smart system components include:
facilities for laying up and manufacturing composite components
smart laboratories, with state-of-the-art apparatus - like micro-bench optics, lasers, interferometers and spectrum analysers - for measuring and assessing the performance of the smart elements.
The main drive of our work is to understand the loading conditions on a structure during its life, and spot early degradation before it fails.