Multidisciplinary Underpinning Instrumentation investment

多学科支撑仪器仪表投资

• 批准号: EP/V035940/1
• 负责人: Elizabeth Towns-Andrews
• 金额: $ 50.2万
• 依托单位: University of Huddersfield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV035940%2F1
• 关键词: Multidisciplinary; Underpinning; Instrumentation; investment

The University of Huddersfield will use this award to fund the acquisition of 3 key pieces of technical laboratory equipment, whose use and application cover a broad range of research areas spanning novel functional materials, advanced metrology, and clean growth. The equipment will be used to support a broad range of researchers and disciplines, as well as help ensure high utilisation rates. The applicants seek to purchase (i) a Leica Absolute Tracker ATS600, the first ever portable direct scanning laser tracker, which can operate without the need for traditional reflective optics to measure the surfaces of large structures; (ii) a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) AIP6-30H to design resilient next generation materials through the manipulation of defects and microstructures; and (iii) a HERU Pyrolysis Unit which generates clean energy from domestic waste for industrial applications.The Leica Tracker will facilitate scientific and innovative research in the area of freeform and micro/nano-structured surface measurement of large structures and artefacts in multiuser applications (e.g., rail, automotive, advanced manufacturing). For example, the device will enable absolute measurements required in the EU funded Shift2Rail In2Track2 project, led by Network Rail, thus eliminating alignment issues currently being experienced with existing measurements.The second instrument is a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) System to support researchers working in the areas of materials design and investigation technologies and deliver research against key identified EPSRC Priority Research areas including: materials characterisation, functional materials, measurement and sensing, photonic materials, metamaterials and plasmonics, integrative technologies (from mobile technologies to radar technologies) and ICT for manufacturing. The ability to design next-generation materials from defects and microstructures will deliver a step change in the development of materials resistant to temperature, defects and extreme conditions. The HERU Pyrolysis System is a first of its kind demonstrator, with the capacity to valorise everyday domestic waste into clean reusable energy. This will underpin critical research into the development of environmentally sustainable gas feedstocks for fuelling micro-turbines; thus, contributing to EPSRC's prosperity outcomes for a productive and resilient nation.All three instruments will be used as a platform to develop interdisciplinary collaborative research across faculties at the University of Huddersfield and with external collaborators and to support established researchers as well as early career researchers and research students.

哈德斯菲尔德大学（University of Huddersfield）将使用该奖项来资助收购3个关键的技术实验室设备，其使用和应用涵盖了涵盖新型功能材料，高级计量和清洁增长的广泛研究领域。该设备将用于支持广泛的研究人员和学科，并有助于确保高利用率。申请人寻求购买（i）Leica Absolute Tracker ATS600，这是有史以来的第一个便携式直接扫描激光跟踪器，它可以在不需要传统的反射光学元件来测量大型结构表面的情况下运行； （ii）通过操纵缺陷和微观结构来设计弹性的下一代材料，热等静态压力机（HIP）AIP6-30H； （iii）一个Heru热解单元，该单元从用于工业应用的家庭废物中产生清洁能源。Leica Tracker将促进自由形式和微型/纳米结构的大型结构和型号的多源应用程序中的自由形式和微型/纳米结构的表面测量的科学和创新性研究（例如，多源应用程序中的大型结构和人工货架（例如，铁路，自动性，自动型，自动性，高级制造）。 For example, the device will enable absolute measurements required in the EU funded Shift2Rail In2Track2 project, led by Network Rail, thus eliminating alignment issues currently being experienced with existing measurements.The second instrument is a Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) System to support researchers working in the areas of materials design and investigation technologies and deliver research against key identified EPSRC Priority Research areas including: materials characterisation, functional materials, measurement and sensing,光子材料，超材料和等离子原料，集成技术（从移动技术到雷达技术）和ICT进行制造。从缺陷和微观结构中设计下一代材料的能力将在抗温度，缺陷和极端条件的材料的发展方面发生变化。 Heru热解系统是首次同类演示者，可以使日常家庭废物变成可重复使用的能源。这将支持对环境可持续的气体原料开发用于加油微型涡轮的研究；因此，为EPSRC的繁荣成果做出贡献，为一个富有成效和韧性的国家而言。所有三种工具将被用作一个平台，以开发哈德斯菲尔德大学和外部合作者以及与既定的研究人员以及早期职业研究人员以及早期的研究人员和研究人员的跨学科合作研究。