Academic members: Profile
Engineering and Medical Technology (EMT)
The Engineering and Medical Technology research centre (EMT), based at the Universiy of the West of England, Bristol, performs research to benefit society and industry and particularly in health-related areas - underpinned by fundamental work. Much of EMT's work focuses on: improved understanding of processes at the nm-scale; generation of generic multiphysics solution algorithms in finite element and related analyses by artificial intelligence and other means. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the work, EMT members include academics from the schools of Bristol Institute of Technology, Health and Social Care, Applied Science and the Built and Natural Environment.
The group has many years of research experience in the study of sustainable energy; prediction of mechanical behaviour and life of components; studies on bridge instabilities; avoidance of occupational and sports injury; physiological modelling; innovation in finite element and related methods. Notable experimental facilities available to the Centre include those for sound and vibration, testing of materials including elastomer and concrete composites and physiological measurements.
Engineering and Health Technologies Laboratory (EHTL)
EHTL is a core member of the Engineering and Medical Technology Research Group.
The Engineering and Health Technologies Laboratory (EHTL) has extensive experimental and computational facilities and expertise. EHTL has many years' of research experience in: the study and application of sound, shock and vibration (in condition monitoring and in earthquake base isolation for example); innovation in finite element and related methods; and rubbery materials and their applications (including force deformation, and long term behaviour – creep, stress relaxation, fatigue and wear).
Research to health-related areas has included engineering in urology (for example modelling dynamic and hydrodynamic behaviour of the human bladder and associated devices) and notably hand-arm-vibration syndrome (HAVS). More recently, areas of research have been extended to including the study of soft body tissue (with particular reference to interaction with soft devices and to muscle-tendon-units). The group has also many years of research experience in the study of soft and smart materials (biological and synthetic), avoidance of occupational and sports injury; physiological modelling.
EHTL members include academics from the Faculties of Environment and Technology and Health and Life Sciences. More widely we have collaborated and worked with the following companies and industries: Football Association, Health and Safety Executive, KeyMed ( Olympus group), North Bristol NHS Trust, SSL International, DSTL, Universit é Joseph Fourier, Grenoble .
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