CoViD-19 Update

We have been working over the past academic year to get the lab fully up and running.

Before the Coronavirus crisis and lockdown the DIC was fully operational and we were looking at some exciting research on fracture of ceramics to go forward over the summer.

We have also pushed forward the development of the laser safety measures and were waiting for the installation of the interlocks to be finished, in order to start up the PIV system for flow measurements.

Unfortunately the experimental side of EC²M³ is currently locked down. Student projects had to be modified to cope with this.

On the computational side of things, the cluster is fully operational for the time being, and has been working on 80% capacity for the last 4 weeks with research work and student projects. While we do not currently have hardware access, we have full remote access, so will be able to keep this resource available unless a hardware failure occurs.