World-Leading Dynamics and Control Research

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The dynamics and control research activity at the University of Bristol is concerned with research problems relating to modelling, simulation and control of civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering systems.

New laboratory facilities were established in 2004 as part of the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering (BLADE), providing state-of-the-art laboratories for Automatic Control and Testing, Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.

Engineering Dynamics >>

including flight dynamics, bifurcation analysis, active vibration control, rotating structures, earthquake engineering, laser measurement and nonlinear modal testing

Fluid Dynamics >>

including computational fluid dynamics and experimental aerodynamics

Control Engineering >>

including adaptive, distributed and autonomous control systems

 

NEWS

13th March 2011 Professor Colin Taylor is interviewed on BBC News.  Japan: How do you build for an Earthquake?

After much of Japan's north-east coast was devastated by the earthquake and tsumami can the country be rebuilt to withstand similar events in the future?