Past Projects
Much of the our work is commercial
in confidence and some has been performed under other confidentiality
agreements that do not permit listing here.
- High power ultrasound processing
project 2007.
- Medical ultrasound project 2007.
- High power ultrasound project
2007.
- Microwave amplifier system construction
2007.
- Microwave amplifier system development
2006.
- Medical instrument development
2006.
- Critical analysis of computer
controlled equipment on production line.
- Technical audit of university
research project 2006.
- Structural monitoring system
2005.
- Flow monitoring system 2005.
- Development of a rivet inspection
system 2005.
- Development of dispersion measurement
equipment for use in an offshore geotechnical laboratory 2005.
- Visualization of ultrasound
for cylindrical objects. 2004.
- Non-linear ultrasound. 2004.
- Novel airborne ultrasound system
for tag identification. 2004.
- Windows XP software in C++ for
ultrasonic monitoring system using Visual Studio .Net. 2004.
- Full hardware design of a novel
ultrasonic monitoring system using DSPs. 2004.
- Development of a novel, high
sensitivity array for airborne ultrasound. 2003.
- Visualization tests on rivetted
panels. 2003.
- Evaluation of commercial ultrasonic
imaging system. 2003.
- Concept design of new ultrasonic
monitoring system. 2002.
- Improve ultrasonic processing
system. 2002.
- Develop 2 new ultrasonic inspection
systems for concrete. 2002.
- Develop novel high power ultrasond
transducer for processing. 2001/2.
- Develop novel ultrasonic system.
2001/2.
- Develop new high power ultrasonic
transducers. 2001.
- Develop new processing system
using high power ultrasound. 2001.
- Build new web-site for Institute
of Physics East Anglian branch.
- Proposal to the European Union
on new methods for inspecting concrete. 2001.
- "Development of ultrasonic
system". Commercial in confidence 2001.
- "Development of ultrasonic
system". Commercial in confidence 2001.
- "Development of transducer".
Commercial in confidence 2001.
- "Evaluation of transducer
phased array". Commercial in confidence 2000.
- Proposal to the European Union
on new E-commerce for financial services sector. Commercial in
confidence 2000.
- Proposal to the European Union
on new methods for inspecting concrete. 2000.
- Marketing services for new E-commerce
business in financial services sector. Commercial in confidence
2000.
- "Development of a new high
power transmitter for sonar applications" Commercial in
confidence 2000.
- "4-D ultrasound" Marconi
Applied Technology 2000.
- "An investigation of ultrasonic
transducers for inspecting oil-well risers". Commercial
in confidence 1998-9.
- "A program for controlling
an inspection system in an industrial enviroment - application
to quality assurance of automotive parts". Commercial in
confidence 1999.
- "Evaluation of state-of-the-art
inspection systems for concrete structures" Taywood Engineering
and W.S.Atkins for Highways Agency 1997-8.
- "Investigation of computer
hardware, database and accounting methods used in a small business
in the car wholesale market". Commercial in confidence.
1997-8.
- "An investigation of ultrasonic
transducers for inspecting oil-well risers". Commercial
in confidence 1997.
- "Investigation of sonic
communication method" Commercial in confidence. 1997.
- "An investigation of ultrasonic
transducers for inspecting oil-well risers". Commercial
in confidence 1996.
- "Investigation of ultrasonic
resonance method for determining the volume fraction of mixed
gases". Commercial in confidence.
- "New inspection systems
for refractory materials". CRAFT Collaborative research
and development project supported by the European Commission.
1995-7. Numerous partners.
- Supply of ultrasonic transducers
for testing concrete to BAM, Germany. 1994.
- "Resonance spectroscopy for quality assurance
of concrete, automotive and aerospace components". Collaborative
research and development project supported by the European Commission.
1993-6. BE-5029-92. Cambridge Ultrasonics was the prime proposer,
one of the principle developers and the co-ordinator. Other partners
were: Taywood Engineering, Rendel Palmer & Tritton, Alcatel
Espace, Technsonic, I So Test Engineering, University of Uppsala
and King's College London. The project was sponsored by the European
Commission and the Petroleum Science & Technology Institute
(now Centre for Marine & Petroleum Technology).
- "A novel ultrasonic inspection
system for concrete". Sponsored by the German Concrete Association,
the German Institute of Standards and twelve German construction
companies. 1992-5. Prime contractor was the Institut für
Massivbau, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. Cambridge Ultrasonics
was the principal sub-contractor providing: overall concept,
all transducers, all custom electronic circuits, software drivers
and concept for signal processing.
- Supply of ultrasonic transducers
for concrete testing to British Petroleum. 1992.
- "Development of a high
performance programmable delay generator on an ISA plug-in card"
King's College London. 1991-3.
- "Investigation of ultrasonic
sensors for coin recognition" Commercial in confidnce. 1992-3.
- "Investigation of inspection
methods for measuring the quality of fill of oil-drums used for
containing hazardous waste" 1991.
- "Investigation using visualizing
methods of the scattering of ultrasound in concrete of various
compositions". 1990.
- "Improvements to visualization
methods to assist in the characterisation of ultrasonic transducers"
Feasibility research and development project supported by the
European Commission 1990-1.
- "Investigation of ultrasonically
attenuating materials". Commercial in confidence. 1991.
- "Application of shear waves
to inspecting concrete." Sponsored by the Science &
Engineering Research Council of the UK, sub-contracted by King's
College London. 1991-4.
- Supply of visualization system
to Atomic Energy Authority Technology, Risley. 1991.
- "A novel mechanically steered
transducer for inspecting concrete". Collaborative research
and development project supported by a North Sea oil company
and the UK government through the Department of Transport. 1990-2.
- "A fast ultrasonic range-finding
system for guiding robots in air". Science and Engineering
Research Council. 1989-93.
- "The Wigner distribution
for analysing dispersion results in concrete using parallel computing"
Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan.
- "Investigation of aspects
of medical transducer performance". Hewlett Packard. 1990.
- Supply of visualization system
to King's College London. 1989.
- "Concrete Offshore in the
Nineties - 10". Project to initiate research into improved
ultrasonic inspection of concrete. Spnsored by several Oil Majors
and the Marine Technology Directorate (now Centre for Marine
& Petroleum Technology), sub-contracted by King's College
London. 1986-9.