The ‘Manufacturing, Materials & CAD Research Group’ is a Cross-School Interdisciplinary clustering of Researchers from across the Schools of Mechanical & Design Engineering and Electrical & Electronic Engineering. External collaboration, with both industry and academic institutions, is a central tenet of the Group with established working partnerships across a vast breadth of research activity. In addition to fundamental research, there is a strong application-driven focus to our research and we are always very open to the development of collaborations that increase the breadth, depth and impact of our work. The sustainability and evolution of our work is assured through the education and support of our young researchers, the promotion of opportunities at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and engagement with established and distinguished researchers both nationally and internationally. Researchers, and an impressive range of physical and computing infrastructure, are located across the TU Dublin campuses.

 

The work of the ‘Manufacturing, Materials & CAD Research Group’ is extremely diverse with expertise and activity within the following areas;

• Design & FEA
• Lean-Six Sigma
• Statistical methods
• Engineering Education Research
• Electric Vehicle Research [incl. Torque-Monitoring Algorithms]
• Autonomous Vehicle Development
• Microbial Properties of Copper
• Computer-Aided Manufacturing
• Low-grade Heat Recovery Systems
• Modelling of Dry-ice Blasting
• Particle-based Modelling [Parallel Computing]
• Strain Measurement in Bone
• Robotics [Kinematics]
• System Modelling & The Process of Modelling
• High-Scale Manufacturing & SPC, Robust/Capable Systems
• Modelling of Small-Scale Micro-Moulding, Micro-Manufacturing
• 3D Printing, Replication/Fabrication
• Sports Engineering: Footwear etc.
• Additive Manufacture [Resin-based, Polymers]
• Design for Additive Manufacturing
• 3D printing of One-Off or Optimised Shapes
• Destructive Testing of Bone Cements
• Fabric Expansion Joints
• PTFE Pipes in Clinical Applications
• Technical Ceramics, including Mullite, Alumina
• Electronic Ceramics, ZnO Varistors
• Bio-ceramic materials, CaP and CaP-based ceramics, porous ceramics,
• Chemically-derived powders processes,
• Formation of powders for consolidation [including the organic and inorganic materials used]
• Consolidation processes [including Compaction, Iso-static compaction, Additive Processes]
• Sintering,
• Finishing processes [including metal electrodes]
• Mechanical, Electronic and Bio-compatibility of Ceramics

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