More on the THE Award

Professor Chris Bailey, leader of the Greenwich team which has just won the Times Higher Education Award for the Outstanding Engineering Research Team of 2009, writes about the work of his team:

The field of Computational Mechanics and Reliability uses mathematical techniques and software to predict how products (i.e. laptops, aircraft engines, automobiles, ships, etc) will behave when subjected to different environmental conditions and most importantly how long they will survive. This area of research within the school has aided many companies design and maintain reliable products from aerospace electronics to heritage structures.