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RCNDE offers three types of memberships suited to different types of organisations:
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Research
Robotics Research at Strathclyde University: Early work on small mobile robot platforms for delivering ultrasonic and magnetic flux leakage measurements was matured with NNL into an on-site inspection at Sellafield supporting Magnox reprocessing life extension in 2012. Subsequent work on mobile robotics concentrated on bringing classical robotic path planning and location systems (such as SLAM–simultaneous location and mapping) together with novel approaches using ultrasound to provide both NDE and path planning data.
Research
Paul Wilcox is Professor of Dynamics at the University of Bristol. He received an MEng degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (1994) followed by a PhD from Imperial College London (1998). He held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (2007-12), was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2015-18) and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science.
Technology Transfer
Monitoring high temperature plant (exploitation by spin-out): Early RCNDE research on transducer technology led to a novel concept to deal with high temperature inspection through use of strip waveguides to separate the ultrasonic transducer and electronics from hot surfaces. The approach was developed through an Imperial PhD project followed by substantial investment from BP to produce a permanently installed, battery-operated, wireless thickness monitoring system to measure the thickness of pipes and vessels semi-continuously over periods of 5 years or longer.
Technology Transfer
Colin Brett has a Physics degree (1980) and a DPhil (1984) from the University of Oxford for the development of magnetic resonance techniques. He then spent 35 years in the power generation industry working within the NDE and Structural Integrity fields for the CEGB, PowerGen, E.ON and Uniper, including a secondment to the Electric Power Research Institute between 1995-97.
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Whether working to establish a clear roadmap for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) or providing strategic leadership in the field of Non-Destructive Technology (NDT), we ensure that our members are able to influence the sector at the very highest level, both in the UK and internationally.
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RCNDE – an internationally renowned membership-based industrial-academic collaboration that coordinates research into NDE technologies, ensuring research topics are relevant to the medium to longer-term needs of industry.