
Professor Anthony Croxford
M.Eng., Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
- Professor of Ultrasonics and DynamicsSchool of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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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 - DescriptionThe 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 unitSchool of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering- Dates- 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 unitSchool of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering- Dates- 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2027 
- Numerical modelling of nonclassical nonlinearity- Principal Investigator- DescriptionThis project develops computer models to understand how cracks in components respond to ultrasound to enhance their detection- Managing 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
A generalized method for the reliability assessment of safety–critical inspection
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
A hardware compressed sensing method for ultrasonic imaging
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
A multi-view ultrasonic imaging solution for buried sewer pipe inspection
Ultrasonics
Defect detection and localisation using guided wave images from array data processed by nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model and Gamma statistical operator
Structural Health Monitoring




