Routine Superman - Contemporary capabilities and opportunities in X-ray computed tomography, from Rockets to Relics - Prof Ian Sinclair, University of Southampton
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NOTE CHANGE OF DATE - LECTURE IS NOW ON TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2023
Professor Ian Sinclair Professor of Engineering Materials, University of Southampton Routine Superman - Contemporary capabilities and opportunities in X-ray computed tomography, from Rockets to Relics
Tuesday 5th December 2023 at 18:00 Trevithick Room T2.09, Queen's Buildings, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
The lecture will also be streamed live as a Zoom webinar. If you would like to join the webinar, you will need to register with this link:
cardiff.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jgt9EAdJSwGJFCg11HCsvg
There is no need to register for the live lecture. All are welcome and there will be free pizza afterwards.
*** Please note that you now need to pay to park in the Queen’s Buildings car park – see the signs for details.***
The dream of Superman's instant X-ray vision of the undisturbed interior of objects has become a substantial reality across a tremendous range of contemporary science and engineering. In particular, the three-dimensional (3D) imaging of X-ray computed tomography (XCT) has seen the appearance of technologies and hardware for rapid, high-resolution 3D visualisation, with capable commercial equipment that is within the reach of individual universities and companies. This demonstrably offers tremendous opportunities for innovation in quantitative characterisation and morphometry, leading to new knowledge and refinement of insights and understanding in many domains. Whilst taking high-resolution three-dimensional images may now approach the speed and convenience of a taking polaroid photograph, there is a price for scientists and engineers concerned with using the technique, for example the enormous volumes of information that are produced and the extensive analysis required. This talk will provide an underpinning understanding of XCT imaging, with a view to practical understanding, illustrated via the capabilities and examples taken from the µ-VIS X-ray Imaging Centre at Southampton (www.muvis.org), and associated activities of the EPSRC National X-ray Computed Tomography partnership (NXCT, nxct.ac.uk). Examples will be drawn from areas such as manufacturing, materials engineering, geotechnics, and biomedical research. Practicalities of the NXCT's Free Beamtime Access Scheme (available to universities, not-for-profit organisations, and SMEs) will also be discussed, along with remarkably diverse capabilities offered by the four NXCT sites. Ian Sinclair is Professor of Materials Engineering at Southampton, Founding Director of the μ-VIS Xray Imaging Centre, and a Co-Director of the EPSRC National Research Facility for XCT (NXCT), with expertise in 3D X‐ray imaging for a wide range of engineering, bioengineering and natural materials (ISI/Web of Science h=43). Relevant international recognition includes visiting Chair appointments at INSA, Lyon and Kyushu University, along with a wide variety of EU and wider international collaborations on the application of XCT. Relevant recent UK funded activities focusing on XCT for engineering and manufacturing purposes include ‘Manufacturing By Design,’ ‘ProjectCAN,’ and ‘Certification for Design - Reshaping the Testing Pyramid’, representing over £9M of collaborative UKRI support. Prof Sinclair was a panel member in the 2018 EPSRC X-ray Tomography Roadmap exercise.
