We are now recruiting for students intending to start in autumn 2022. If you are interested in starting before then, please enquire at find-cdt@bristol.ac.uk
We have a range of PhD and EngD projects and industrial sponsors for applicants to choose from. Projects fall into three broad themes:
Applications are open for the following projects:
EngD studentship
EngD students will receive a generous further top-up from their sponsor company of at least £5,000 a year.
- Eddy-Current Characterisation of Carbon Fibre Composite Structures – University of Bristol & University of Manchester – supervisors: Dr Rob Hughes & Prof Anthony Peyton – industrial sponsor: EtherNDE
- Eddy-Current Inspection for Automated Manufacture of Complex Carbon Fibre Composites – University of Bristol & University of Manchester – supervisors: Dr Rob Hughes & Prof Anthony Peyton – industrial sponsor: TWI
- Feasibility Study into the Use of Augmented Reality for Non-Destructive Testing – University of Manchester – supervisor: Prof Anthony Peyton – industrial sponsor: Jacobs
- Guided Wave inspection of pipe sections covered by support structures – Imperial College London – supervisor: Prof Mike Lowe – industrial sponsor: EDF
- Non-Destructive Evaluation of Aerospace Composites at the Manufacturing Stage – University of Strathclyde – supervisors: Dr Ehsan Mohseni & Prof Gareth Pierce – Industrial sponsor: Spirit Aerosystems
PhD studentships
- Advancing quantitative imaging routines for NDE – Imperial College London – Dr Peter Huthwaite
- Combined Electromagnetic and Ultrasonic NDT University of Manchester – Supervisors: Dr Wuliang Yin, Dr Michael O’Toole & Prof Anthony Peyton
- Development of instrumentation for optical generation and detection of ultrasound for adaptive Laser Induced Phased Arrays – University of Strathclyde – Dr Theodosia Stratoudaki
- Electromagnetic Inspection of Additive Manufacturing Process – University of Manchester – Supervisors: Dr Wuliang Yin & Prof Anthony Peyton
- High temperature focused EMAT arrays – University of Warwick – Dr Rachel Edwards
- In-process ultrasonic inspection of additively manufactured components with complex geometries – University of Strathclyde – Dr Katy Tant, Dr Charles Macleod
- Industrial implementation of new techniques for inspection of rough defects – Imperial College London – Supervisors: Prof Mike Lowe & Prof Richard Craster
- Measuring the Crystallographic Orientation and Elastic Constants of Multigrain Material – University of Nottingham – Supervisors: Prof Richard Smith & Prof Matt Clark
- Modelling Ultrasound Waves in Additively Manufactured Metallic Components – University of Bristol & University of Strathclyde – supervisors: Prof Tony Mulholland & Dr Katy Tant
- NDE of Li-ion batteries – Imperial College London – Dr Bo Lan, Dr Frederic Cegla
- Quantitative characterisation of metals using multiple scattering of ultrasonic waves – University of Bristol – supervisors: Dr Alexander (Sasha) Velichko & Prof Anthony Croxford
- Smart Metallurgy University of Nottingham – Supervisors: Prof Richard Smith & Prof Matt Clark
- SRAS++ University of Nottingham – Supervisors: Prof Richard Smith & Prof Matt Clark
