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
Contact
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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
8036 GLIMMER
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2021 to 31/12/2024
Ultrasonic Assisted Shape and Position Control of a Micro-Continuum Robot in a Confined Space
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
30/03/2021 to 29/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
Improved Defect Characterisation Using Ultrasonic Arrays
Supervisors
Towards Arbitrary Acoustic Force Fields
Supervisors
Nonlinear Dynamics of Phased Array Levitators
Supervisors
Nonlinear Ultrasonic Imaging Techniques for Non-Destructive Testing
Supervisors
A General Approach To Model Assisted Qualication of Non-Destructive Inspections
Supervisors
A modelling approach to design of ultrasonic tweezers devices
Supervisors
Fabrication of Acoustically Micropatterned Coacervate-Based Hydrogels
Supervisors
An ultrasonic array system for long-term localised structural health monitoring
Supervisors
Dynamic single-beam acoustic tweezers for microparticle manipulation
Supervisors
Multi-frequency nonlinear ultrasonic diffuse imaging for material and defect characterisation
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
11/02/2024Tangible Explorations of Sonolithography
Proceedings of the 2024 Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference
The effects of 40Hz ultrasound stimulation on neuronal function
A Manufacturability-Driven Method for Designing Metamaterial Focusing Acoustical Lenses
Advanced Engineering Materials