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FRITEK-Teknologi

OPTICAL FUNCTIONS AND LAB-ON-A-CHIP FOR MICROPARTICLES AND BIOMEDICINE

Photons do not have mass, but they have momentum. This momentum can be used to move objects. However, the momentum is very small, and intense laser beams are necessary to move microparticles. In this project, light propagating in an optical waveguide will be used to move microparticles and cells...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRITEK-Teknologi

Numerical modelling of erosion damages during floods

Numerical algorithms for computing local erosion due to flood damages will be developed and tested in the project. The work will be based on existing 3D CFD programs capable of computing water and sediment transport in rivers. The models are based on solu tion of the Navier-Stokes equations and t...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Optical and mechanical characterization of human tissue with a special focus on forensic applications

Determining the age of injuries on a victim's body is an important aspect of forensic medicine, for example in cases of abuse. Visual assessment is most commonly used to estimate the age of a bruise. However, interpretation of the finding is purely subjec tive and relies strongly on the skills an...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Integration of electronics and mechanics in next generation ultrasound transducers in medical imaging.

Internationally several research groups work to develop CMUT, Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers, for medical imaging purposes. In an ongoing NFR-project, SMiDA, at our department aiming at development of CMUT arrays for intravascular 3D imag ing at 30 MHz it has become clear that pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Roughness and rotating fluid turbulence

Turbulent flows in rotating systems are of major practical concern in gas turbines and hydraulic machinery. It is well known that system rotation affects not only the mean fluid motion but also the turbulence field. The Coriolis force arising from the rot ation of the frame-of-reference gives ris...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Creating robust and flexible logistics solutions using optimization

Transportation and logistics are vital activities for the development, organization and operation of human society. Most social and economic activities involve transportation and depend upon the timely and efficient movement of people, goods and informati on. Logistics focuses on the planning and...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Møre og Romsdal

FRITEK-Teknologi

Multimodal User-interfaces for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MUMIS) - Haptic and Tactile feedback for robotic surgery

A research project in minimally invasive surgery aimed at methods in haptic and tactile feedback for robotic surgery is proposed. The project partners will be The Interventional Centre at Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norwegian University of Science and Technolgy (NTNU), Katholieke Univers...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Oslo

FRITEK-Teknologi

Optimization in Maritime Transportation and Logistics

Background The demand for maritime transport services is increasing consistently, and there are no signs that the world economy will rely less heavily on maritime transport in the future. There is an increased need for optimization-based decision support systems (DSS) to handle the complex ship r...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Signal Processing for Landmine Detection

The project is based on new innovative radar technology which has been developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and 3d-Radar AS since 2001. The field-proven radar system has demonstrated unique capabilities for detecting buried obje cts such as cables, pipes etc. For effici...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Wave-Current Interactions and Transport Mechanisms in the Ocean

The project aims to develop and apply a Large Eddy Scale ocean model capable of calculating the three-dimensional turbulent ocean flow from the bottom to the free surface, where the latter forms part of the solution. Such a solver will be able to resolve the large three-dimensional turbulent stru...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Ph.D. at The University of Newcastle on Robust model predictive control

Christian Løvaas will pursue a PhD in controlsystems technology at The University of Newcastle. The topic of research, robustness in MPC, falls within the fascinating general area of control systems technology, which is an internationally recognized area of research at The University of Newcast...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

The 18th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems

This application is seeking funding to invite six key-note speakers and four session chairmen/panelists to the Conference ECOS 2005 in Trondheim. We are also asking support to have technical assistance for production of the Proceedings. This conference on energy technology with focus on the env...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Effect of snowmelt and climate change on design of urban storm water system

Snowmelt in urban areas is known to have strong influence on flooding in urban storm sewer systems. It has been argued that a change in climate can lead to even more flooding. To reduce the risk of incorrect design criteria it is important to study effect s of snowmelt and climate change on urban...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Seminaret "16th Nordic Seminar in Computational Mechanics (NSCM XVI)", 16.-18. oktober 2003

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet skal arrangere et nordisk seminar "16th Nordic Seminar in Computational Mechanics" (NSCM XVI), som arrangeres over to dager. Dette er et årlig seminar som går på omgang mellom de nordiske universitetene og so m normalt trekker ca. 100 deltakere avhen...

Awarded: NOK 75,000

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Usikkerheter ved gjennomføring av prosjekter i industrien

Målsettingen for doktorgradsprosjektet er å videreutvikle prinsipper, metoder og modeller for usikkerhetsstyring ved gjennomføring av prosjekter der både tekniske, økonomiske, menneskelige, organisatoriske og ledelsesmessige faktorer blir vurdert. Anvende lsesområdet vil være rettet mot prosjekts...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2004-2004

Location: Rogaland

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Impact behaviour of aluminium plates: Interaction between global and local response

Structural impact problems have become increasingly important both for the modern industry and society. One area which is poorly covered in the literature, is the interaction in response between localised indentation/perforation and global response when a projectile impacts a plate. This will no...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Control of vessel and suspended load subject to extreme conditions

Prosjektet tar for seg modellering og regulering av fartøy og neddykket i last i forbindelse med marine operasjoner under ekstreme værsituasjoner. I forbindelse med olje- og gassutbygging på store vanndyp vil behovet helårs vedlikeholds- og intervensjonso perasjoner på undervannsinstallasjoner øk...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Surface acoustic wave devices based on thin film piezoelectric interdigital transducers

In this work, we investigate the case for using an AFM to directly define a piezoelectric transducer in a ferroelectric thin film in order to excite and detect high frequency SAW signals. The wavelength of the SAW signal is given by twice the domain size of the periodically polarized ferroelectri...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Numerical modeling of gas, vapour and dust explosions in pipers and linked vessels

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a tool for simulating gas explosions has matured for the last two decades to the point where it is now considered a valuable tool for quantifying the effects of an explosions in a congested (obstructed) environment, e .g. an off-shore oil and gas producting p...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Virvelinduserte vibrasjoner til sirkulære sylingere ved høye Reynoldstall

Bakgrunn Et viktig begrep innen virvelinduserte vibrasjoner VIV er strømningens Reynoldstall, Re=UD/v. På oljefelt til havs opplever stigerør strømning med vesentlig høyere Reynoldstall enn hva man til nå har klart å reprodusere eksperimentelt i hydrodyna miske laboratorier. Dette er viktig, side...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Point defects and nanoclusters in irradiated high-purity silicon

The proposal addresses some fundamental scientific issues of key relevance for advanced particle detectors based on high-purity low-doped silicon. Fabrication of such devices is a core activity within Micro(Nano)-System-Technology (M(N)ST) and a vital par t of the international 'MST-profile' of N...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Development of improved methods for predicting high frequency noise and vibration levels in aerospace and marine vehicles

The prediction of high frequency noise and vibration levels in a complex structure is an extremely difficult task, and no fully reliable analysis method exists at present. The most commonly used technique, Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA), provides a goo d prediction in some cases, but it cannot...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Electrical characterization of defects and quantum structures in silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)

The request for increasingly smaller structures with adaptive ("smart") performance characteristics in micro- and nano-system technology implies totally new challenges for synthesis and characterization of semiconductor structures with nanoscopic dimensio ns. This proposal deals with two of the m...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Mathematical modelling of macrosegregation formation caused by deformation caused by deformation of the mushy zone

A major cause of unacceptable cast metallic products is macrosegregation, which is encountered in most solidification processes. This defect refers to the uncontrolled redistributon of alloying elements during solidification that leads to large-scale comp osition inhomogeneities. Macrosegregation...

Awarded: NOK 0.47 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Measurement of minimum electric spark ignition energy of dust clouds in the energy range 0.1-10 mJ

Basic context: An electric spark is a complex ignition source, and a dust cloud is a complex fuel. The very hot plasma generated, by dissipating electric energy in the gap between the spark electrodes, transfers heat to the dust particles both by thermal radiation and convection/conduction. The ...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Vestland

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Kaos og ikkelineær stokastisk dynamikk

Prosjektet tar sikte på en teoretisk og numerisk undersøkelse av sammenhengen mellom kaotisk og stokastisk respons av ikkelineære dynamiske systemer. Foreløpige resultater tyder på at denne sammenhengen er slik at det vil la seg gjøre å utvikle alternativ e numeriske løsningsteknikker som kan gjø...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2006

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Dynamic response monitoring of overhead transmission lines using optical fibre sensors

Overhead power transmission lines are subjected to various mechanical loads induced by the environment, including ice load, aeolian vibrations and galloping. These phenomena may damage the lines, and in certain cases (e.g. fjord crossing in areas with a h arsh climate) the electric utlitities see...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2004

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNO-Naturvitenskap, grunnleggende teknologi

Innovative control technologies for vibration sensitive civil engineering structures (CONVIB)

The research activity will focus on emerging concepts like semi-active or hybrid control of civil engineering and industrial structures. In Europe, structural control is moving the first steps towards civil engineering applications. From its creation the European Association for the Control of S...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2006

Location: Oslo