{"id":1321,"date":"2019-02-12T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2019-02-13T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T12:25:03","slug":"partnership-to-investigate-innovative-inflatable-dam-technology-using-expertise-from-eda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/02\/12\/partnership-to-investigate-innovative-inflatable-dam-technology-using-expertise-from-eda\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership to investigate innovative inflatable dam technology using expertise from EDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-body\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-main\">The University and Kent-based firm Dyrhoff Ltd have signed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), to investigate the development of new technology for inflatable dam engineering.\u00a0 The KTP was developed by Kent Innovation and Enterprise (KIE) which supports and helps deliver partnership projects with academics across the University.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-main\">Providing expertise for this\u00a0ground-breaking\u00a0project are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/739\/yan-yong\">Professor Yong Yan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/people\/671\/efstratiou-christos\">Dr Christos Efstratiou,<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/about\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a>. They will be\u00a0sharing their\u00a0knowledge and expertise\u00a0in inertial sensor arrays for 2D\/3D shape measurement and the application of data analytics and machine learning techniques.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-main\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyrhoff.co.uk\/\">Dyrhoff Ltd<\/a>\u00a0has been designing and supplying inflatable rubber dams and pneumatically-operated spillway gates\u00a0for over 30 years, and to date has completed 184 projects in 27 countries, ranging from run of the river hydropower projects to small in-line sewer applications.The Dyrhoff team\u00a0identified the need to develop a system for measuring the cross-sectional shape, height and vibration of inflatable rubber dams\u00a0and is developing a technology to maximise efficiency by continuously monitoring and controlling rubber dam operating conditions. This technology will be the first of its kind\u00a0in the sector.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-main\">Carole Barron, director of KIE, said: \u2018We are delighted to work with Dyrhoff Ltd. This KTP enables our\u00a0academics to develop innovative solutions and new technologies\u00a0for this vital, specialist engineering sector, supporting the university\u2019s drive to deliver on the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy.\u2019KTPs are a UK-wide government programme helping businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity\u00a0through better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within\u00a0the UK academic knowledge base.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University and Kent-based firm Dyrhoff Ltd have signed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), to investigate the development of new technology for inflatable dam engineering.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/02\/12\/partnership-to-investigate-innovative-inflatable-dam-technology-using-expertise-from-eda\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178002,127028,197045,197042,197040,197049,197057,228804,124,70,179635],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}