Swinburne University of Technology

Address
John Street
Hawthorn Vic 3122

Website
www.swinburne.edu.au/research/defence-research

Company Description
Swinburne University of Technology is an internationally recognised, research-intensive university focused on delivering research that creates economic and social impact. Our innovative researchers are producing groundbreaking solutions to real-world problems across a range of disciplines and sectors. With a vision to bring people and technology together to build a better world, our experts are driven by a shared purpose: to create tomorrow’s technology and the human capital and talent required for a digital, tech-rich future.

Branches

This company offers the following services

Advanced Manufacturing

Capability Description
Swinburne’s state-of-the-art facilities are at the cutting edge of advanced and digital manufacturing technologies. Working with defence primes and small and medium-sized enterprises, Swinburne connects businesses to world-leading experts as well as manufacturing infrastructure for automotive, aerospace, and maritime applications. We offer a wide range of additive and near net shape manufacturing solutions, repair and restoration of worn or damaged parts, composite materials (ceramic, metallic and ceramic-metallic), performance alloys, and functional coatings (including high entropy alloys, high temperature, corrosion resistant and more). In addition, our experts are specialists in Industry 4.0 design and optimisation research, as well as destructive/non-destructive testing, materials characterisation and component verification.
Protective Coating Applications

Capability Description
Swinburne is a world leader in coatings and surface engineering for automotive, aerospace and maritime applications. We work with a wide range of defence industry partners to develop custom metallic, ceramic and ceramic-metal coatings for mechanical, thermal, radiation and other applications. Swinburne’s state-of-the-art facilities are equipped with atmospheric plasma spray, high-velocity oxygen fuel, flame spray, laser cladding, and cold spray additive manufacturing equipment. Our experts are specialists in destructive and non-destructive testing techniques, including mechanical testing, fatigue and durability, fracture mechanics, and experimental stress analysis for additively manufactured structures.
Space Engineering

Capability Description
Swinburne’s Space Technology and Industry Institute (STII) brings together world-class experts on astrophysics, aerospace, instrumentation, chip development and AI. We develop, manufacture and verify functional structures for vehicles facing extreme environments. STII works with industry across a wide range of materials and alloys (aluminium, titanium, stainless steel, Inconel, carbon fibre, CFRP honeycomb and more), and develops custom coatings for composite, polymer and metallic components. Our team specialises in engineering for thermal dissipation, radiation hardening, high-temperature materials and operating in microgravity environments. STII also develops extra-terrestrial resource extraction technologies, including sintering, smelting, material recycling and dust mitigation in lunar and vacuum environments.