Mon, 24 January, 2022
The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) is celebrating ten years of pioneering postgraduate industrial research and development in 2022.
Established by TWI Ltd alongside the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and BP, NSIRC opened its doors in 2012 to meet a UK Government call for high-level research to help solve the engineering challenges faced by industry.
Using industry-focused postgraduate programmes, NSIRC and lead academic partner, Brunel University London began to take on PhD and Masters students, whose research topics and dissertations reflected real world challenges being faced by global industries such as aerospace, energy, shipping, transport, and more.
NSIRC students
NSIRC has continued to grow and is now affiliated with more than 50 universities spanning the UK, Europe and Asia as well as being supported by industrial partners like Saudi Aramco Technologies, ADNOC, and BAE Systems, who provide sponsorship and industrial supervision to doctoral students.
Over 500 postgraduate students from 40 different nations have joined NSIRC in the past ten years, including 180 PhD students who have produced the equivalent of 500 years of PhD research to date.
Jan Przydatek, Director of Technologies at Lloyd's Register Foundation, spoke on the valuable work, saying, "The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) has been generating high-quality research and thought leadership for a decade now. Our investment in NSIRC has contributed to creating a legacy of new knowledge and excellent people that both go on to make the world a safer place. We’ll be joining our partners TWI in celebrating ten successful years of NSIRC throughout 2022.”
NSIRC tenth anniversary logo
Highlighting the tenth anniversary, NSIRC Director, Professor Tat-Hean Gan, said, “This year will be a celebration that acknowledges all that our students, staff, sponsors, academics and founding partners have achieved with the success of NSIRC. Our continued collaboration with some of the world’s most prestigious engineering companies and organisations demonstrates the vital bridge NSIRC provides, linking academia and industry to produce award winning academic research that impacts industrial challenges in safety, structural integrity and applied sciences.”
You can find out more about NSIRC on the dedicated website.