Design and testing of aviation structures
and propulsions

• Strength-fatigue analysis of engine components
• Experimental investigations of turbojet engine injectors
• CFD techniques
• Prediction of flows in industrial applications
• Simulation of flows in regions with moving and free boundaries
• Grid generation and adaptation
• Fundamental aspects of Computational Fluid Dynamics
• CFD in low-speed aerodynamics
• Aeroelasticity
• Research and design in FEM modelling - 2D, 3D
• Stress analysis
• Heat transfer and thermal stress
• Nonlinear structural mechanics (including buckling)
• Dynamic analysis: eigenmodes and frequencies, transient response
• Optimization techniques
• High level courses in the FEM
• Aircraft design and optimisation
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-UAV design, integration and production
• Micro and Mini Aerial Vehicles research and design
• On-board equipment integration
• Carbon fibre structure design and production
• Aircraft structure design and assembling

Aviation teleinformatics and avionics systems

• Avionics and Aeronautical Systems
• Navigation systems
• Signal processing
• System integration
• Flight control systems, fly-by wire systems
• Rotorcraft Aeromechanics
• Flight mechanics: simulation, stability, control

Modern materials and surface engineering processes

• Low pressure nitriding
• Gas sulphonitriding
• Vacuum carburizing with quenching in gases at elevated pressures FineCarb
• Thermal oxidation and creation of functional gradient layers on titanium and its alloys
• Overaluminising of MeCrAl(Y,Si) by ARC-PVD Method
• Thermal Barrier Coatings
• Out of Pack Aluminising
• PVD Coatings for g-TiAl
• PVD Coatings for Compressor Blades
• Surface engineering methods in forming of aluminium-based composite structure
• Metallurgical factors and technologies affecting microstructure and mechanical properties of alloys for airspace industry (e.g. alloys of Al, Ti, Ni)
• Intermetallic-phases based alloys- technology, structure, properties and application
• Work out of critical elements of aircraft engines from nickel-base alloys with high content of hafnium production technology
• Work out of critical stationary elements of aircraft engines from remelted and vacuum casting cobalt-base superalloys production technology
• Work out of the selected melting and casting parameter and carry out material research of rené77 and rené80 alloys designed for low pressure engine turbine blade

Modern production techniques in the aerospace industry

• Computer modeling and optimization of carburizing process, nitriding and carbonitriding of steels and thermal oxidation of titanium alloys
• Mould and Core Materials Testing
• X-ray and Penetrant Defectoscopy
• Dimensional Measuring
• Quenching modeling
• Pressure die casting modeling
• Simulation software for carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding and quenching for industrial applications
• Modeling and optimization of the residual stresses distribution after different kinds of thermo-chemical treatment
• Optimization of the surface hardening processes and grinding to obtain the synergetic generation of favorable stresses distribution
• Designing and optimization of service properties of metals, composites and sintered metals by means of FEM analysis and ANSYS package
• Theoretical modelling and experimental verification of properties of modern materials under mechanical loading, fracture mechanics of composite materials; research on fatigue and corrosion of materials and aeronautic structures
• Non-linear vibration, chaos and bifurcation theory in application to helicopters and aerospace objects taking into account dynamical properties of new materials with active elements
• Dynamics of high speed cutting process of materials applied to aeronautic objects
• Development of special technologies of metal forming, design of the forming machines and attachments of manufacturing processes; numerical analysis (FEM) of forging, extrusion, drawing, rolling and other processes
• Fluid Mechanics
• Diagnostics and automatics of flow installations - diagnostics of rotating machinery, gas and magnetic bearings, automatics
• Thermal turbomachinery - turbines and compressors, turbopumps, medical apparatus, heat transfer
• Flow metrology
• Rapid prototyping
• Health structure monitoring and non-linear model based identification of aeronautic systems
• Advanced telecommunication technologies
• Superconducting devices, their design and construction
• Contacts modified with ion techniques
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Load Identification (real time data acquisition)
• Adaptive Impact Absorption
• Preserving Structural Integrity in Critical Conditions
• Damping of Vibration
• Manufacturing technology and properties of fabrications made by powder metallurgy methods
• Casting technologies, tests and investigations for airspace products