Ankush Yadav

Applications

Where the research is heading: three components, one for each domain. The drawings are concept illustrations, not photographs of finished products.

Concept illustration: a sensor payload on a six-strut mount whose struts are architected lattices.
Concept illustration: a sensor payload on a six-strut mount whose struts are architected lattices.

Aerospace

Isolation mounts for critical payloads

Seekers, antenna mounts, electro-optics, navigation units and cryocoolers need isolation from low-frequency and micro-vibration, without adding mass, and must still survive launch and shock.

Approach
Lightweight mounts with architected-lattice struts, designed to keep the payload steady across the band where the disturbance lives.
Status
Concept and modelling
Concept illustration: a protective case in cutaway, showing a lattice core around the device it carries.
Concept illustration: a protective case in cutaway, showing a lattice core around the device it carries.

Land

Energy-absorbing cases and panels

Equipment in transport, vehicle panels and protective casings must absorb impact and dissipate energy, and stay ready for the next one.

Approach
Casings and panels with a lattice core that dissipates energy, not only by collapsing once.
Status
Lab-scale experiments on energy-absorbing lattices
Concept illustration: acoustic tiles on a hull section, with one tile enlarged to show its internal cavities.
Concept illustration: acoustic tiles on a hull section, with one tile enlarged to show its internal cavities.

Naval

Acoustic tiles

Hulls and underwater vehicles need treatments that attenuate sound and structure-borne vibration under pressure and in seawater.

Approach
Tiles with engineered internal cavities and architecture, tuned to the frequencies that matter for the platform.
Status
Concept

Discuss a pilot

If one of these problems is yours, write to me with the environment, the constraints and the frequencies or loads involved.

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