National Structural Integrity Research Center
The National Structural Integrity Research Center (NSIRC) is a British engineering institution in Granta Park , Great Abington, near Cambridge . The NSIRC was founded in 2012 and aims to conduct basic research and application development for the safe operation of engineering structures .
Goal setting
The National Structural Integrity Research Center (NSIRC) promotes basic research and application development for the safe operation of engineering structures , as well as other structures and products. It develops innovative technologies, industry standards and guidelines and finds solutions to the challenges of long-term asset management e.g. B. of machines , industrial plants , infrastructure facilities and buildings . The focus is on structural integrity , structural health monitoring and service life extension through user-specific application software .
The ten-year program had the following objectives with regard to industrial-academic vocational training:
- 330 PhD - doctoral students in 10 years
- 200 MSc - Master Andes in 10 years
- 60 vocational students in technical professions in 10 years
After five years, a total of 100 students were enrolled in the various categories at the NSIRC, and the first 17 doctoral students should have completed their PhD in 2017.
The doctoral, master and vocational students come from over 25 countries. 30% of them are female, significantly more than the UK average of 9%. In the first five years of the program, NSIRC students have published their research in more than 100 articles for peer-reviewed journals and conferences. You have also won over 30 awards and completed internships at leading international institutes.
organization
It is a collaboration between TWI (The Welding Institute) and Brunel University London and more than 35 universities worldwide. It has been supported by sponsors BP and the Lloyd's Register Foundation since its inception .
The ten-year program has a budget of £ 150 (€ 167 million) from March 2012 to March 2022, broken down as follows:
- £ 55 million (€ 61 million) for R&D buildings and their infrastructure
- £ 45 million (€ 50 million) for R&D programs from three industrial sponsors, BP, Loyd's Register Foundation and TWI
- £ 15m (€ 17m) for facilities complementing TWI's own R&D facilities
- £ 35 million (€ 39 million) through collaborative research projects funded by the European Commission and the UK Government
Partner universities
- Brunel University London
- Coventry University
- Cranfield University
- Denmark's Technical University
- Lancaster University
- London South Bank University
- Loughborough University
- National University of Singapore
- Pusan National University
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Kaunas University of Technology
- Tianjin University
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Greenwich
- University of Kuala Lumpur
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Manchester
- University of Nottingham
- University of Oxford
- University of Southampton
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Surrey
- Wuhan University of Technology
Web links
- TWI: NSIRC - The National Structural Integrity Research Center (German)
- NSIRC - Driving engineering excellence (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b TWI: NSIRC - The National Structural Integrity Research Center (German)
- ↑ NSIRC - Research.
- ↑ a b Aamir Khalid: University research within an industrial environment. In: 'Bringing safety to life' ... because life matters. Lloyd's Register Foundation, November 4, 2016. Accessed December 16, 2018. 3: 15-3: 40.
- ↑ Five years of NSIRC on the NSIRV site
- ↑ Natasha Kaplinsky and Duncan Golestani: Responding to the needs of industry and academia TWI. September 17, 2018. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ Structural Integrity Research Foundation - The National Structural Integrity Research Center. In: TWI - Business Review July 2018. Page 27.