Non-Destructive Evaluation

Solve real world problems with non-destructive measurement techniques to assess and track the state of health of engineering components and structures

The group is recognised as a world leader within NDE research, having produced  important research which now forms the basis of technology that is exploited by industry, both in the UK and around the world. Since the late 1980s, the group has contributed to many areas within NDE, including ultrasonic guided waves, electromagnetics and imaging, and today has a wide range of projects continuing across a large number of fields. The group is a founding and lead member of the RCNDE, the UK Research Centre in NDE, consisting of 9 UK universities and industrial members, and  helps to steer the direction of UK research through this and other means. In total group members have published over 200 papers in academic journals over 50 PhD students have graduated from the group, more than 10 patents have arisen from the work, 6 spin outs have been formed to commercialise technology and 2 well known pieces of software have been created.