Dr Jie Zhang
BEng, MSc., Ph.D. (Harbin)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Development Of Low-cost Ultrasonic Array Systems For Monitoring Crack Growth In Safety-critical Metallic Infrastructures
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/03/2025 to 31/10/2025
Quantitative Ultrasonic Array Nondestructive Testing applied to micro-scale defects in metallic components (QUANT)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2027
Ultrasonic array inspection for surface integrity of metallic components and incipient defects in composite components
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/05/2024 to 31/03/2026
Automated ultrasonic array imaging of structures with complex geometries
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
31/03/2024 to 30/03/2026
Exploration of industrial applications for initial screening material grain size using ultrasound
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/06/2023 to 30/06/2025
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/10/2008Defect characterization using an ultrasonic array to measure the scattering coefficient matrix
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Defect detection using ultrasonic arrays: The multi-mode total focusing method
NDT and E International
Monte Carlo inversion of ultrasonic array data to map anisotropic weld properties
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Ultrasonic oil-film thickness measurement
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Recent publications
01/04/2025A hardware compressed sensing method for ultrasonic imaging
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
A multi-view ultrasonic imaging solution for buried sewer pipe inspection
Ultrasonics
Compact metamaterial plates for acoustic wave steering and focusing across an ultra-broad frequency bandwidth in MHz imaging applications
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Defect detection and localisation using guided wave images from array data processed by nonlinear autoregressive exogenous model and Gamma statistical operator
Structural Health Monitoring
Experimentally monitoring the growth of surface-breaking cracks using digital image correlation technique integrated with permanently installed low-cost ultrasonic arrays in fatigue tests
Structural Health Monitoring
Related people
Professor Bruce Drinkwater
Professor of Ultrasonics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Alexander Velichko
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Anthony Croxford
Professor of Ultrasonics and Dynamics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Paul Wilcox
Professor of Dynamics
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering