M34Impact Multi-scale, Multi-disciplinary Modelling for Impact
August 2024 – July 2029
The M34Impact project has received funding from the Expanding Excellence in England (E3) fund of Research England
UoG awarded funding: £9,080,177
The Fire Safety Engineering Group are delighted to announce that, from August 2024, we, in partnership with colleagues from the Computational Science & Engineering Group will embark on an ambitious project, with local, national and international significance.
M34Impact will harness FSEG and CSEG world-leading expertise in computational fire engineering and materials science to the next level by utilising High-Performance Computing (HPC) enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) for large-scale, interactive real-time simulations.
Building from our core disciplines, M34Impact will focus and link three cross-cutting themes: Safety and Security (S&S) taking large-scale disaster, fire and evacuation modelling across scales encompassing cityscapes, incorporating real-time interactivity through Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality (VR/MR), and expanding modelling to include two-way dynamic coupling for fire and evacuation; Digital Cities / London (DCL), an emergent theme where interdisciplinary research will develop the evidence-base to protect UK cities/populations from pollution, pathogen dispersal, natural/ anthropogenic disasters and to support policy decisions (e.g., Ultra Low Emission Zones implementation) and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), focused on lighter, stronger materials for transport and aerospace (targeting recyclability, low waste and energy efficiency).