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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
Engineering is vital to the economic well being of nations. The Department's advanced manufacturing and production systems research integrates the disciplines of materials, manufacturing, robotics and control with modern computer simulation to understand, improve and optimise manufacturing processes. Many projects are industrially focused and major elements of the work are carried out at the collaborating company's site. This provides a healthy cross fertilisation between the Department and some of Australia's largest manufacturing companies. Related interests include discrete-event modelling and control and active vision systems.
Materials are the stuff of life and advanced materials are increasingly part of everyday objects as well as space-age applications. The Department's work focuses on polymers and fibre composite materials. These can be carbon-fibre materials for use in aerospace, automotive or high-tech sporting goods. Or they can be wood-wool and cement composite boards for low-cost building materials in the Philippines. The environmental conditioning of composite materials - such as moisture resistance - is one area of interest. Other work includes rubber-toughened polymer alloys in collaboration with researchers in Japan.
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