Centre for Doctoral Training in Non-Destructive Evaluation

我们建议在非破坏性评估（NDE）博士培训（CDT）中心。该中心将进行大胆的研究，以改善无损检测的工业实践。它将保持熟练的博士工程师和科学家进入NDE领域的流动，并提供知识和技术转移的途径，以最大限度地提高新兴NDE技术的工业和经济影响。无损检测是提高工程材料质量和保证工程结构安全的关键。因此，它是英国工业安全和可持续发展的重要组成部分，包括发电，核能，石油和天然气，航空航天和国防。无损检测也是一个重要的使能技术，为一系列未来的英国业务增长的机会。先进的无损检测使用一系列的物理现象，以检测异常的结构和材料。这就要求其研究基础涵盖广泛的科学和工程技能，因此，该提案以英国无损检测研究中心（RCNDE）的学术机构联盟为中心，并将利用最合适和最高质量的研究人员和主管。我们对CDT的愿景是通过培训下一代NDE工程师进行冒险研究并改善技术和技能转让来振兴英国工业的关键部门。这些对于确保安全和经济的生产和工厂运营至关重要。CDT将在其取代的现有无损检测EngD中心的成功基础上再接再厉，其作用在EPSRC于2007年委托的EngD审查中得到强调，为新员工提供重要培训，以取代该领域投资不足的核心无损检测人员。至关重要的是保持由此获得的势头。新中心将与RCNDE合作并行运行，其工业成员由战略伙伴关系的工业伙伴NDEvR代表。RCNDE成立于2003年，今年有16个工业用户成员，每年支付3.5万美元，加上越来越多的准成员（技术供应商）。它的研究计划得到EPSRC的支持，成员公司也在将技术从大学转移到工业用途的项目上花费了近100万美元。这有力地证明了工业界对可利用的研究和培训的需求，因此，从一开始，CDT就将得到强有力的工业支持，并利用RCNDE学术-工业合作的凝聚力。在NDEvR工业成员的指导下，拟议的CDT将致力于将NDE融入工程生命周期，以加深CDT对每个合作伙伴公司的影响，吸引新公司并吸引更多的毕业生申请者。我们的工业合作伙伴一致认为，将无损检测与状态监测、结构性能、材料工程和设计等学科结合起来至关重要。除了进行出色的研究外，该CDT的核心机构还致力于通过将其研究成果转化为工业技术来利用大学的大量知识和技能。CDT的学生研究工程师将处于一个独特的位置，通过充当技术转让的人力桥梁来协助这一点，他们的项目缩小了研究基地和用户之间的差距。

We propose a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE). The Centre will conduct adventurous research to improve the industrial practice of NDE. It will maintain a flow of skilled doctoral engineers and scientists into the field of NDE and provide a route for knowledge and technology transfer to maximise the industrial and economic impact of new and emerging NDE technologies. NDE is central to raising the quality of engineering materials and safety assurance of engineering structures. It is thus a vital ingredient for the safe and sustainable future of UK industry, including power generation, nuclear, oil & gas, aerospace and defence. NDE is also an important enabling technology for a range of future UK business growth opportunities.Advanced NDE uses a range of physical phenomena to detect anomalies in structures and materials. This requires its research base to encompass a very wide range of scientific and engineering skills and this proposal is therefore centred upon a consortium of academic institutions in the UK Research Centre in NDE (RCNDE) and will utilise the most appropriate as well as the highest quality researchers and supervisors. Our vision for this CDT is to rejuvenate key sectors of UK industry by training the next generation of NDE engineers in adventurous research and by improving technology & skills transfer. These are essential for ensuring safe and economic production and plant operation. The CDT will build on the success of the current EngD Centre in NDE which it replaces, and whose role was highlighted in the EngD review commissioned by EPSRC in 2007 for the provision of vital training for new staff to replace core NDE personnel after a period of under-investment in the area. It is vital to maintain the momentum thus gained. The new Centre will run in parallel with the RCNDE collaboration whose industrial members are represented by NDEvR, the industrial Partner of the Strategic Partnership. RCNDE started in 2003 and this year has 16 industrial user members paying 35k per annum plus a growing number of associate members (technology suppliers). Its programmes of research are supported by EPSRC and member companies also spend approaching 1M pa on projects to transfer technology from the universities into industrial use. This is strong evidence of the industrial need for exploitable research and training.From its start the CDT will therefore have strong industrial support and exploit the cohesion of the RCNDE academic-industrial collaboration. Following the guidance of NDEvR's industrial members, the proposed CDT will aim to integrate NDE into the engineering life cycle in order to deepen the CDT's impact upon each partner company, attract new companies and reach a larger cross-section of graduate applicants. Our industrial partners agree that it is vital to join up the disciplines of NDE with condition monitoring, structural performance, materials engineering and design. In addition to performing excellent research, the core institutions in this CDT are committed to exploiting the substantial knowledge and skills in the universities by transforming their research results into industrial technology. The student research engineers in the CDT will be in a unique position to assist this by acting as a human bridge for technology transfer, their projects closing the gap between the research base and user.