Centre for Doctoral Training in Non-Destructive Evaluation

我们建议建立一个无损评估博士培训中心（CDT）。该中心将进行大胆的研究，以改善濒死体验的工业实践。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让的途径，以最大限度地发挥新兴的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核心。因此，它是英国工业安全和可持续未来的重要组成部分，包括发电、核能、石油和天然气、航空航天和国防。NDE也是未来英国商业增长机会的重要支持技术。高级无损检测使用一系列物理现象来检测结构和材料中的异常。这要求它的研究基地包含非常广泛的科学和工程技能，因此该提案以英国NDE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导师。我们对这一CDT的愿景是通过在冒险研究中培训下一代无损检测工程师以及通过改进技术和技能转移来振兴英国工业的关键部门。这些对于确保安全经济的生产和工厂运行至关重要。CDT将以现有的NDE工程设计中心的成功为基础，该中心将取代现有的NDE工程设计中心。在2007年EPSRC委托进行的工程设计评估中，该中心的作用得到了强调，该评估旨在为新员工提供重要培训，以取代该地区投资不足的核心NDE人员。保持这样取得的势头至关重要。新中心将与RCNDE合作并行运作，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个工业用户会员，每年支付3.5万美元，加上越来越多的准会员（技术供应商）。它的研究项目得到了EPSRC的支持，成员公司每年也花费近100万美元用于将大学的技术转化为工业用途的项目。这有力地证明了工业需要可开发利用的研究和培训。因此，CDT从一开始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行业成员的指导下，拟议的CDT将致力于将NDE整合到工程生命周期中，以加深CDT对每个合作公司的影响，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、材料工程和设计相结合是至关重要的。除了进行出色的研究外，CDT的核心机构还致力于利用大学的大量知识和技能，将其研究成果转化为工业技术。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的桥梁来协助这一点，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.