University of Cambridge
The Department of Engineering at Cambridge (http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/energy/energy/energy_gp_themes.html) is one of the largest engineering departments in the UK. It covers all branches of engineering, with particular interests in vehicle noise (aircraft and ground based). The Department has in-house codes for tyre vibration which predict the dynamic response of a tyre with a general distribution of tread blocks moving over a arbitrary rough surface. The vibration models include a multi-layer tyre structure and the horn effect.
Participants
Professor Ann Dowling is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Division of Fluids, Energy and Turbomachinery. She has been involved in numerous EU projects and has research activities in jet, helicopter and aircraft noise, as well as the noise of ground transportation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is a Foreign Associate of the French Academie des Sciences.
Dr Will Graham is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He has specific experience in modelling tyre noise, and also broader experience of problems involving mechanical vibration and sound scattering and propagation, with related expertise in aeroacoustics as well as the noise of ground transportation.
Dr Dan O’Boy obtained his Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol in 1999. He subsequently worked at DERA on a range of dynamic models. He completed his PhD on tyre-road interaction noise at the University of Cambridge in 2005 and is currently a post-doctoral research associate on the Q-CITY project at Cambridge.