We have a range of facilities and equipment suited to sports engineering research, including wind tunnels and motion capture systems.

　　Sports engineering laboratory

　　Our sports engineering laboratory enables the study of sports performance, aerodynamics, injury prevention and rehabilitation. It features a range of equipment, including:

　　3D analysis system for modelling and simulating human movement

　　3D Vicon 12 camera high-speed motion capture system

　　oxygen analysis system for measuring uptake and output during exercise

　　electromyography analysis to measure muscle activity

　　force platform for measuring ground reaction forces

　　Kistler force plate for gait and balance analysis

　　Delsys EMG system to study motor control

　　WattBike

　　Cosmed portable metabolic system for metabolic and clinical exercise testing

　　high-speed camera

　　thermal imaging camera

　　Natural Point 3D Motion Capture System to measure movement

　　Sensorize 3D inertial measurement sensors (with GPS).

        Wind tunnels

　　We have access to an industrial scale wind tunnel for testing aerodynamics.

　　The APSB Wind Tunnel research and testing facility is South Australia’s only industrial-scale wind tunnel, and the second largest in Australia.

　　The state-of-the-art facility has a wide range of purposes and can be used for all kinds of wind engineering and aerodynamics testing.

　　Other sports engineering facilities and equipment

　　Through the School of Mechanical Engineering, we have access to a range of facilities and equipment for sports engineering research. These include:

　　water tunnels

　　full range of fluid velocity and pressure measurement systems

　　spectrum analysers

　　microphones, accelerometers, displacement transducers, strain gauges

　　polytech scanning laser vibrometers - 3-D and 1-D

　　numerous vibration shakers, strain measurement and development tools

　　ANSYS Fluent and OpenFoam CFD software

　　instrumentation and mechanical workshops.