UK RESEARCH CENTRE IN NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (RCNDE) 2014-2020

英国无损评估研究中心 (RCNDE) 2014-2020

• 批准号: EP/L022125/1
• 负责人: Peter Cawley
• 金额: $ 689.47万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FL022125%2F1
• 关键词: UK; RESEARCH; CENTRE; NON; DESTRUCTIVE

Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) employs sensor and imaging technology to assess the condition of components, plant and engineering structures of all kinds during manufacture and in-service. The UK Research Centre in NDE (RCNDE) is a collaboration between 6 universities led by Imperial College and 16 large full member companies who are end users of the technology, with over 30 associate members largely drawn from the technology supply chain. The centre undertakes adventurous research in this technology area which is key to the safe and sustainable future of a broad cross-section of UK industry including high value manufacturing, aerospace, power generation, defence and oil & gas. The centre has now successfully established the UK as a world leader in multi-disciplinary Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) research and delivered a wide range of new technology, expertise and people into an area that had been fragmented for some decades. RCNDE has attracted over £7.5M of industry cash and generated a pipeline of more than 50 exploitable NDE outputs at different stages of development. This has already delivered impact through improved technology for today's advanced manufacturing and plant operation requirements. The industrial members have now developed a cross-sector vision for the radical new approaches to NDE that will be needed to provide the inspection and qualification capabilities to meet their future business ambitions over the next 20 years and beyond. This proposal is therefore aimed at meeting these new long term research challenges, building on the successful track record of the centre to date. The Centre will include a wide portfolio of activities from feasibility studies and longer term, higher risk adventurous research, through medium term application research and development to short term practical projects and technology transfer activities with end-users and the supply chain.The EPSRC funds that are the main subject of this proposal will support longer term, adventurous research in 4 key priority themes: (i) Enhanced imaging - focussed around improving reliability, automation and extracting maximum information from inspection data; (ii) Accurate characterisation - to make optimum use of the inspection data obtained from the imaging technology to quantify component condition; (iii) New techniques for new challenges - developing new modalities, techniques and sensor technologies for high value gaps in the capabilities needed for long term industry requirements and (iv) Permanent monitoring technology to provide a step improvement in the reliability of NDE.55% of the cost of the centre over the 6 year programme will be met by industry and university contributions and 45% is requested from EPSRC. Industry funding will be used to partially support the first 4 years and fully fund the final two years of research; it will also fund feasibility studies, technology transfer and public engagement activities together with all of the centre running costs. The feasibility studies, horizon scanning workshops and outputs from the initial 4 year research programme will inform the choice of topics for the industry funded research in the final 2 years. The implications of research success will be profound in terms of enabling the use of new engineering designs, optimising high value manufacturing processes, improving operational efficiencies and reducing production and running costs which will all contribute to UK competitive advantage.

无损评估 (NDE) 采用传感器和成像技术来评估制造和使用过程中各种组件、设备和工程结构的状况。英国 NDE 研究中心 (RCNDE) 是帝国理工学院牵头的 6 所大学与作为该技术最终用户的 16 家大型正式会员公司之间的合作项目，其中 30 多家准会员主要来自技术供应链。该中心在这一技术领域进行大胆的研究，这对于英国各个行业的安全和可持续未来至关重要，包括高价值制造、航空航天、发电、国防以及石油和天然气。该中心现已成功使英国成为多学科无损评估（NDE）研究领域的世界领先者，并向数十年来各自为政的领域提供了广泛的新技术、专业知识和人才。 RCNDE 吸引了超过 750 万英镑的行业现金，并在不同的开发阶段产生了 50 多个可利用的 NDE 输出。这已经通过改进技术满足当今先进制造和工厂运营要求产生了影响。行业成员现在已经为 NDE 的全新方法制定了跨部门愿景，需要提供检查和资格认证能力，以满足他们未来 20 年及以后的业务目标。因此，该提案旨在以该中心迄今为止的成功记录为基础，应对这些新的长期研究挑战。该中心将包括一系列广泛的活动，从可行性研究和长期、高风险的冒险研究，到中期应用研究和开发，再到短期实际项目以及与最终用户和供应链的技术转让活动。作为本提案主要主题的 EPSRC 基金将支持 4 个关键优先主题的长期、冒险研究： (i) 增强成像 - 重点是提高可靠性、自动化和从检查数据中提取最大信息； (ii) 准确表征 - 充分利用从成像技术获得的检测数据来量化部件状况； (iii) 应对新挑战的新技术 - 开发新的模式、技术和传感器技术，以弥补长期行业要求所需的能力方面的高价值差距；(iv) 永久监测技术，以进一步提高 NDE 的可靠性。在 6 年计划中，该中心成本的 55% 将由行业和大学捐款支付，45% 则由 EPSRC 请求。行业资金将用于部分支持前 4 年的研究，并全额资助最后两年的研究；它还将为可行性研究、技术转让和公众参与活动以及中心的所有运营费用提供资金。可行性研究、地平线扫描研讨会和最初 4 年研究计划的成果将为行业资助的最后 2 年研究主题的选择提供信息。研究成功将在支持新工程设计的使用、优化高价值制造工艺、提高运营效率以及降低生产和运营成本方面产生深远的影响，这些都将有助于英国的竞争优势。

项目成果

Hardware and software implementation of a novel Quantum Well Hall Effect (QWHE) sensor based 2D array magnetic field camera for NDT/NDE applications

用于 NDT/NDE 应用的基于二维阵列磁场相机的新型量子井霍尔效应 (QWHE) 传感器的硬件和软件实现

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Balaban, E

A finite element approach to modelling fractal ultrasonic transducers

• DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxv012
• 发表时间: 2015-12
• 期刊: Ima Journal of Applied Mathematics
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: E. A. Algehyne;A. Mulholland

The use of full-skip ultrasonic data and Bayesian inference for improved characterisation of crack-like defects

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2021.102467
• 发表时间: 2021-05-21
• 期刊: NDT & E INTERNATIONAL
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Bai, Long;Zhang, Jie;Drinkwater, Bruce W.
• 通讯作者: Drinkwater, Bruce W.

Structural health monitoring: Closing the gap between research and industrial deployment

• DOI: 10.1177/1475921717750047
• 发表时间: 2018-09-01
• 期刊: STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
• 影响因子: 6.6
• 作者: Cawley, Peter

Ultrasonic Defect Characterization Using the Scattering Matrix: A Performance Comparison Study of Bayesian Inversion and Machine Learning Schemas.

使用散射矩阵进行超声缺陷表征：贝叶斯反演和机器学习模式的性能比较研究。

• DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2021.3084798
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
• 作者: Bai L