Industry-academia Partnership Program – Royal Academy of Engineering
Under its remit as a delivery partner of the Newton Fund, the Academy has partnered with RISTEKDIKTI to enhance engineering teaching, research and innovation outcomes in Indonesian universities through building bilateral industry-academia linkages. This programme also aims to foster greater ties between engineering research and innovation stakeholders in both countries. Through this Programme the Academy aims to support case studies of excellence in bilateral collaboration which in themselves will generate significant long term benefit, as well as produce models replicable by others and generate lessons which can help inform bilateral and national-level higher education, research and innovation policy.
Partner University
The aim of this research project is to develop an integrated and robust multi-scale constitutive modeling capability suitable for simulating the material behaviour of advanced ultralight metal alloys, e.g. high strength steels and hexagonal closed-packed (HCP) alloys, which will then be vital to identify and optimise the emerging alloys’ incredible potential applications in the Partner Country and UK supporting both countries’ strategic theme. The results and insights obtained from the project will be expected to help leaping forward the current limited design quality of ultra-light railway vehicle structures.
Mechanical testing and characterisation of high strength steels will be performed to study their strain-rate dependencies, from which damage modeling of the associated alloys are then to be developed. The effect of manufacturing process to the ultra-light structures and dynamic performances will also be part of the investigation. This will be contemplated by using a real-scale railway vehicle structure and conducting dynamic tests at a range of spectrum reflecting their design conditions, for which the following integrated constrains will be taken into account: alloys selection, manufacturability toward ‘right the first time’, and cost. The research case study will be conducted by our industrial partner, Indonesian Railway Manufacturer (INKA), with an intended financial aid from the Ristekdikti Innovation Incentive Program.
The creation of knowledge expected from the project will lead to newly designed structure of railway vehicles expected to substantially improve and contribute to the reduction of energy consumption, without losing the materials strength, which will contribute to the concerted efforts in tackling the pressing issues of sustainable transportation problems.
To achieve the abovementioned project objectives, a series of lectures and workshops contributed by Oxford and ITB will be conducted at ITB and INKA, to improve capacity of researchers and engineers in the railway vehicle sector both in the Partner Country and UK.
The aim of this research project is to develop an integrated and robust multi-scale constitutive modeling capability suitable for simulating the material behaviour of advanced ultralight metal alloys, e.g. high strength steels and hexagonal closed-packed (HCP) alloys, which will then be vital to identify and optimise the emerging alloys’ incredible potential applications in the Partner Country and UK supporting both countries’ strategic theme. The results and insights obtained from the project will be expected to help leaping forward the current limited design quality of ultra-light railway vehicle structures.
Mechanical testing and characterisation of high strength steels will be performed to study their strain-rate dependencies, from which damage modeling of the associated alloys are then to be developed. The effect of manufacturing process to the ultra-light structures and dynamic performances will also be part of the investigation. This will be contemplated by using a real-scale railway vehicle structure and conducting dynamic tests at a range of spectrum reflecting their design conditions, for which the following integrated constrains will be taken into account: alloys selection, manufacturability toward ‘right the first time’, and cost. The research case study will be conducted by our industrial partner, Indonesian Railway Manufacturer (INKA), with an intended financial aid from the Ristekdikti Innovation Incentive Program.
The creation of knowledge expected from the project will lead to newly designed structure of railway vehicles expected to substantially improve and contribute to the reduction of energy consumption, without losing the materials strength, which will contribute to the concerted efforts in tackling the pressing issues of sustainable transportation problems.
To achieve the abovementioned project objectives, a series of lectures and workshops contributed by Oxford and ITB will be conducted at ITB and INKA, to improve capacity of researchers and engineers in the railway vehicle sector both in the Partner Country and UK.
The aim of this research project is to develop an integrated and robust multi-scale constitutive modeling capability suitable for simulating the material behaviour of advanced ultralight metal alloys, e.g. high strength steels and hexagonal closed-packed (HCP) alloys, which will then be vital to identify and optimise the emerging alloys’ incredible potential applications in the Partner Country and UK supporting both countries’ strategic theme. The results and insights obtained from the project will be expected to help leaping forward the current limited design quality of ultra-light railway vehicle structures.
Mechanical testing and characterisation of high strength steels will be performed to study their strain-rate dependencies, from which damage modeling of the associated alloys are then to be developed. The effect of manufacturing process to the ultra-light structures and dynamic performances will also be part of the investigation. This will be contemplated by using a real-scale railway vehicle structure and conducting dynamic tests at a range of spectrum reflecting their design conditions, for which the following integrated constrains will be taken into account: alloys selection, manufacturability toward ‘right the first time’, and cost. The research case study will be conducted by our industrial partner, Indonesian Railway Manufacturer (INKA), with an intended financial aid from the Ristekdikti Innovation Incentive Program.
The creation of knowledge expected from the project will lead to newly designed structure of railway vehicles expected to substantially improve and contribute to the reduction of energy consumption, without losing the materials strength, which will contribute to the concerted efforts in tackling the pressing issues of sustainable transportation problems.
To achieve the abovementioned project objectives, a series of lectures and workshops contributed by Oxford and ITB will be conducted at ITB and INKA, to improve capacity of researchers and engineers in the railway vehicle sector both in the Partner Country and UK.
Motorcycle is a dominant mode of transport in Indonesia with nearly three-quarters of vehicles being motorcycles in cities such as Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya among others. Due to high proportion of motorcycles, the road networks are highly congested with average speeds dropping below 10kph during peak hours and emissions due to two-stroke engines are a real problem in terms of air quality. Despite major policy initiatives in developing alternative modes of transport such as Bus Rapid Transit and MRT in Jakarta, motorcycles continue to grow due to the ease of purchase and lack of license checks. The objective of this research is to develop a system dynamic model of uptake of e-motorcycles for the case of Bandung and investigate the impact on CO2 and other emissions, and the sensitivity to subsidies, availability of charging point, range etc. This research will adapt the system dynamic model developed for UK passenger cars (Shepherd et al 2012) and a simpler model of Taiwan by Trappey et al (2012) which looked at e-motorcycles to the Indonesian context by calibrating the diffusion model to the uptake of e-motorcycles in Bandung. The adaptation will consider similar experiences as revealed in Kunming, China (Cherry et al 2016) where a panel of surveys was conducted over a period of six years through a series of interview. In order to build the local context, this research will conduct sample-based interviews in Bandung to understand the local preferences. A novelty of this work will be to link the outcomes of system dynamic model with a SATURN traffic simulation model of Bandung to investigate the impact on both emissions and congestion. Combined modelling approach will facilitate testing of policy sensitivity to various scenarios involving subsidies, availability of charging points, battery range on emissions based on sophisticated traffic/emission modelling approaches.
Report Highlight
NCSTT-RaEng Progress Report
External Link
IAPP RaEng Official Website