Core Capital for NXCT facility 2022

国家实验室X射线计算机断层扫描（CT）设施（NXCT）是一个国家研究设施（NRF），为用户提供访问和支持，以执行X射线CT实验并分析其数据。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和超越成像能力。例如，我们提供的功能允许观察增材制造金属组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降解。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坏，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。我们需要对计算进行投资，以跟上最新的硬件、软件和算法的发展，这对于为我们的用户提供有价值的服务至关重要，这些用户通常花费更长的时间来分析数据，而不是收集数据。所要求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，更不用说相位的额外维度，颜色和衍射数据，我们可以收集在我们的设施。这项最新的拨款将允许在沃里克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射线能力汇集在一起，为员工和用户创造一个工作的好地方，并实现可持续发展的新基准。

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.