Professor Anthony Croxford
M.Eng., Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Ultrasonics and Dynamics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
Guided wave structural health monitoring; defect classification and quantification using ultrasound; dynamics and control of fluidised beds.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) - Improving soil characterisation through acoustic emission and machine learning
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The project aims to explore a novel machine learning (ML) based technology capable of processing soil-emitted acoustic signals and enhance the accuracy in characterising geomaterials’ mechanical properties.Managing organisational unit
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design EngineeringDates
03/06/2024 to 29/11/2024
USES of novel Ultrasonic and Seismic Embedded Sensors for the non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2027
USES of novel Ultrasonic and Seismic Embedded Sensors for the non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2027
USES of novel Ultrasonic and Seismic Embedded Sensors for the non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring of critical infrastructure
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2027
Numerical modelling of nonclassical nonlinearity
Principal Investigator
Description
This project develops computer models to understand how cracks in components respond to ultrasound to enhance their detectionManaging organisational unit
Dates
01/11/2016 to 28/02/2017
Thesis supervisions
The development of non-collinear non destructive evaluation of aircraft materials
Supervisors
Development of NDT Knowledge Systems to Improve the Robustness of Inspection of Composite Products
Supervisors
Towards Arbitrary Acoustic Force Fields
Supervisors
Structural health monitoring for marine applications using adhesively bonded piezoelectric transducers
Supervisors
Detection of kissing bonds with non-collinear nonlinear ultrasound
Supervisors
Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring of Complex Aerospace Components
Supervisors
A tamper indicating toolbox
Supervisors
An ultrasonic array system for long-term localised structural health monitoring
Supervisors
Imaging and defect characterisation using multi-view ultrasonic data in nondestructive evaluation
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2026A dual-resolution acoustic-sensing robot for autonomous in-pipe inspection
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
2D Laser-Induced Phased Arrays for Large-Area Scans Using Poisson-Disk Layouts
Structural Health Monitoring 2025
Self- and Domain-Awareness for Machine Learning in NDE and SHM
Structural Health Monitoring 2025
A contribution by gradient explainability method for 1D-CNNs on ultrasonic data
NDT and E International
A framework for the performance evaluation of reconfigurable ultrasonic sparse array networks
Structural Health Monitoring
Related people
Professor Bruce Drinkwater
Professor of Ultrasonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Jie Zhang
Senior Research Fellow
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Paul Wilcox
Professor of Dynamics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Sergio Cantero Chinchilla
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Alex Towlson
Research Associate in Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) for ATIProject on Advanced Landing Gear
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering