Professor Bruce Drinkwater
B.Eng., Ph.D.(Lond.), A.C.G.I., D.I.C., C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E., F.Inst.NDT, M.Inst.P.
Current positions
Professor of Ultrasonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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Research interests
Ultrasonics; Non-Destructive Testing (NDT); Ultrasonic arrays; Ultrasonic particle manipulation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Symmetry-breaking Technologies for Cerebral Organoid Engineering
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/11/2021 to 31/10/2025
Symmetry-breaking Technologies for Cerebral Organoid Engineering
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/11/2021 to 31/10/2025
8036 GLIMMER
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2024
Thesis supervisions
Improved Defect Characterisation Using Ultrasonic Arrays
Supervisors
Towards Arbitrary Acoustic Force Fields
Supervisors
Nonlinear Dynamics of Phased Array Levitators
Supervisors
Scaling down acoustic manipulation technology and its applications in the biomedical sector
Supervisors
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Imaging Techniques for Non-Destructive Testing
Supervisors
An ultrasonic array system for long-term localised structural health monitoring
Supervisors
A General Approach To Model Assisted Qualication of Non-Destructive Inspections
Supervisors
Dynamic single-beam acoustic tweezers for microparticle manipulation
Supervisors
A modelling approach to design of ultrasonic tweezers devices
Supervisors
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
11/02/2024Tangible Explorations of Sonolithography
TEI 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
The effects of 40Hz ultrasound stimulation on neuronal function
The effects of 40Hz ultrasound stimulation on neuronal function
A Manufacturability-Driven Method for Designing Metamaterial Focusing Acoustical Lenses
Advanced Engineering Materials
Characterisation of coherent ultrasonic nonlinear imaging
NDT & E International