Sensors for Through-Life Engineering

该奖学金将开发新的方法来验证和验证传感器概念，以评估工程产品和系统在其整个生命周期中的完整性和状态，特别是在结构健康管理（SHM）方面。这种状态监测技术对于高价值和安全关键系统和结构的健康管理至关重要。目前还没有统一的核查和确认办法。此外，通过不断增加的细节和渗透性来密切监控工程资产的能力，为革命性的新设计概念提供了一条道路，其中健康监控功能可以纳入基本的制造设计理念。该奖学金涉及这两个主题。在产品的整个生命周期中，它们都需要完全可靠的传感。该奖学金将帮助申请人建立一个强大的学术生涯，同时利用他在制造业核心的知识和长期经验，以及他在制造应用传感器的研究，开发和验证方面的独特专业知识。将开发新的方法，通过与最终用途和操作要求紧密联系的实验和基于模型的方法，有效地验证新兴的传感概念。它将提供一个框架，在这个框架中，处于开发初步阶段的设备和系统可以进行“道路测试”，以帮助在设备开发的早期做出决策。此外，内置传感功能对选定工程产品的基本设计原则和生产/制造技术的影响将在实验室规模上进行探索和演示。在实现这一目标的过程中，该研究将填补英国在大学和工业研发中的传感器技术研究与最终用户要求和限制之间的技术差距。该奖学金将作为一个跳板，在英国克兰菲尔德大学建立一个新的能力，对具有多行业相关性的状态监测传感器进行实验验证和确认。该研究金将允许在传感器验证方面创建一个新的科学知识体系，同时汇集许多当前的临时工业和研究经验。作为工作的一部分，还将揭示和展示内置传感的能力，以改变工程系统（如安全关键结构）的设计和全寿命维持方法。 为期五年的研究计划旨在将申请人确立为学术领袖，并将利用他在行业的长期经验来影响和创造大学环境中的新思维。通过与克兰菲尔德的其他EPSRC和IVHM中心的互动以及教学，他的思想领导力将有助于弥合学术研究和受益人之间的差距，将用户在健康监测技术方面的需求与从设计和制造到寿命延长的整个生命过程的基础联系起来。它将产生进一步的高质量研究，通过生命工程和制造。

This Fellowship will develop new approaches to verifying and validating sensor concepts for assessing the integrity and status of engineering products and systems throughout their lifecycles, in particular with respect to structural health management (SHM). Such condition monitoring technology is vital for health management of high value and safety critical systems and structures. No coherent approach for its verification and validation yet exists. Moreover, the ability to closely monitor engineering assets with increasing detail and pervasiveness offers a path to revolutionary new design concepts where health monitoring functionality can be incorporated into the fundamental manufacturing design philosophies. This fellowship addresses both of these themes. They are linked by the common need for completely dependable sensing throughout the life of the product. The Fellowship will help establish a strong academic career for the applicant while exploiting his knowledge and long experience at the heart of manufacturing industry and his unique expertise in research, development and validation of sensors for manufacturing applications.New approaches will be developed for efficiently validating emerging sensing concepts through experimental and model based methods firmly linked to the end-use and operational requirements. It will provide a framework in which devices and systems at preliminary stages of development can be 'road-tested' to aid decisions early in the device development. In addition, the impact of built-in sensing function on fundamental design principles and production/manufacturing techniques for selected engineering products will be explored and demonstrated at laboratory scale. In achieving this, the research will fill a perceived gap in the UK between technology focussed research in sensor techniques in universities and industrial R&D and the end user requirements and constraints. The Fellowship will act as a springboard for creating a new capability in the UK at Cranfield University for experimental verification and validation of condition monitoring sensors with multi-industry relevance. The Fellowship will allow creation of a novel body of scientific knowledge in sensor verification while drawing together many of the strands of current, ad-hoc industry and research experience. The capacity of in-built sensing to transform approaches to design and through-life sustainment of engineering systems such as safety critical structures will also be revealed and demonstrated as part the work. The five year research programme is intended to establish the applicant as an academic leader and will exploit his long experience in industry to influence and create new thinking within the university environment. His thought leadership exercised by interaction with the other EPSRC and IVHM centres at Cranfield as well as teching, will help bridge the gap between academic research and beneficiaries by linking user needs in respect of health monitoring technologies with the fundamantals of through-life processes from design and manufacture to life extension. It will generate further high quality research relating to through life engineering and manufacture.