Core Capital for NXCT facility 2022

2022 年 NXCT 设施的核心资本

• 批准号: EP/X034941/1
• 负责人: Timothy Burnett
• 金额: $ 61.66万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX034941%2F1
• 关键词: Core; Capital; NXCT; facility; 2022

The National lab X-ray computed tomography (CT) facility (NXCT) is a national research facility (NRF) that provides access and support to users to perform X-ray CT experiments and analyse their data. We enable researchers from academia and industry to exploit the 3D, 4D and beyond imaging capabilities of X-rays. The capabilities we provide allow, for example, to watch how an additive manufacturing metal component fails under tensile testing or how a medical implant degrades when exposed to the human body. We can also measure the damage inside composites used for wind turbines and aeroplane fuselages as well as internal defects and design aspects of newly constructed batteries. This grant will upgrade many of our existing systems providing new capabilities in addition to increased bandwidth, in many cases. Investments in computing are needed to keep pace with the latest hardware, software and algorithm advances and are crucial to providing a valuable service to our users who typically spend much longer analysing their data than collecting it. The new computing resources requested will help address this major challenge for handling 3D and 4D data, not to mention the additional dimensions of phase, colour and diffraction data which we can collect in our facility. This latest grant will allow for a new lab space to be built at Warwick creating a single work space bringing together all of their X-ray capabilities which are currently spread across multiple labs, creating a great place to work for staff and users as well as achieving new benchmarks in sustainability.

国家实验室X射线计算机层析成像(CT)设施(NXCT)是一个国家研究设施(NRF)，为用户提供进行X射线CT实验和分析其数据的通道和支持。我们使学术界和工业界的研究人员能够利用X射线的3D、4D和更高的成像能力。例如，我们提供的功能允许观察添加剂制造的金属部件在拉伸测试下如何失效，或者医疗植入物在暴露于人体时如何退化。我们还可以测量用于风力涡轮机和飞机机身的复合材料内部的损伤，以及新制造的电池的内部缺陷和设计方面。这笔赠款将升级我们现有的许多系统，在许多情况下，除了增加带宽外，还提供新的功能。在计算方面的投资是跟上最新硬件、软件和算法进步的需要，对于向我们的用户提供有价值的服务至关重要，这些用户通常花费比收集数据更长的时间来分析他们的数据。所需的新计算资源将有助于解决处理3D和4D数据的这一重大挑战，更不用说我们可以在我们的设施中收集的额外维度的相位、颜色和衍射数据。这笔最新的赠款将允许在华威建造一个新的实验室空间，创建一个单一的工作空间，将他们目前分布在多个实验室的所有X射线能力集中在一起，为工作人员和用户创造一个很好的工作场所，并实现可持续发展方面的新基准。