Laboratory Facilities
The DVU group employs state-of-the-art sensors, data acquisition systems, dynamic and acoustic forcing instrumentation, miscellaneous mechanical and electronic equipment, and computing facilities.
The experimental campaigns carried out are focusing on:
validation of physics-enhanced machine learning strategies
dynamic performance analysis of structural components or systems under frictional contacts, damping treatments and complex dynamic loading;
implementation and verification of monitoring strategies;
assessment of the reliability of monitoring systems;
integrated approaches for experimental characterization of
mechanical properties of structural components
effects of manufacturing variability
damage
Remaining Useful life of systems
The very first DVU group laboratory was the Dynamics, Vibration and Uncertainty lab that was opened in September 2017 (18/09/2017). It was located in the Thom Building (4th floor) in the Engineering Science Department of the University of Oxford. We were sharing a small lab with another research group. Bruno Di Dato was the first student to work in the lab. That year we reached a period with 5 people working simultaneously in that lab, and group meetings without a table were fun.
The DVU lab moved to the Engineering Technology Building (Engineering Science Department of the University of Oxford) in September 2018. We finally had a laboratory facility only for our group, and a (foldable!) table for meetings. Felipe Igea was the first student to start experiments in the new lab. During the academic year 2018-2019 we had up to 6 people working simultaneously in the lab, and group meetings with 8 people. The Dynamics, Vibration and Uncertainty Lab at Oxford was closed down in June 2021.
The Monitoring Vibration and Uncertainty lab @ TU Delft was setup for small experimental campaigns between 2020 and 2023.
The Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Laboratory is currently being setup at the Cambridge University Engineering Department!