Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration
Academic Division: Mechanics, Materials and Design
Research group: Applied Mechanics
Telephone: +44 1223 3 32730
Email: hemh1@eng.cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Prof Hunt's research interests include:
- SPICE - Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering
- Pipe-in-Pipe model for ground vibration from railways PiP
- Failure of wind-turbine gearboxes: A dynamic model to predict the occurrence of skidding in wind-turbine bearings
- Vibration of turbocharger wheels – mistuning
- Vibration generated by railways
- Sustainable Energy - wind and wave power
- Pipeline inspection: detecting free spans and measuring depth of cover
- Design of an underground 'metro' using small-bore tunnels for short-distance commuter travel
- Modelling of the loosening of bolted fasteners in vibration environments
- Vibrating Pig used to identify the support condition of offshore pipelines
- Measurement of rail impact forces using an instrumented fish-plate
- Torsional vibration of marine-engine drive trains
- Blade vibration of automotive turbocharger wheels
- Measurement of rail-pad performance under impact loading
- Dynamic in-situ measurement of material properties
- Track settlement in the vicinity of bridge abutments
- Pneumatic hammer design for reduced hand vibration
- Fault identification using neural networks
- Measurement of dynamic performance of rubbers for vibration isolation
- Vibration of church towers due to swinging bells