Aerospace
- Resistance of damping materials to impact loading
- Crashworthiness of aircraft materials in high velocity impact
- Soft body impact on components of aeroengines
- Blade release and its effects on aeroengines
- Foreign Object Damage (hard body impact on components of aeroengines)
- High velocity impact on aircraft structures
- Fast fracture in toughened glass
Automotive
- Modelling of behaviour of automotive aluminium materials and jointing systems subjected to impact loading
- Improved failure modelling for car crashworthiness
- Impact engineering with high strength steels
Defence
- Failure modelling for shape charge impact
- Experimental evaluation of composite materials subjected to hydraulic shock
- Impact engineering with ceramic materials for armour applications
- Multi-scale modelling of composite materials subjected to underwater explosion
Software development
- Discrete Elements Simulation Tools (DEST)
- openGJK (link)
- Inverse modelling tools