Professor Anthony Gachagan

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Prof Gachagan has been Director of the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) since October 2010. This research Centre comprises approximately 55 staff and students and has a current funding portfolio of in excess of £5M. Prof Gachagan has line management responsibilities for all CUE personnel, reporting directly to the Departmental Head of Department. Interestingly, the research portfolio within CUE is diverse, with Electronic and Mechanical Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians, Polymer Scientists and Biologists involved in the research teams. The research portfolio of the Centre has expanded in recent years, with robotics, metrology, bioacoustics and high power ultrasound building on the traditional fields of NDE and Sonar. Prof Gachagan has been directly involved in all of these areas and it is his interest in a broad, diverse range of scientific and engineering topics coupled with his strategic leadership that has seen CUE strengthen in terms of international profile, industrial engagement and funding profile.

Prof Gachagan is the Academic Chair and a member of the Management Board of RCNDE. He is also a member of both the Technical and Scottish Branch Committees of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT). Within Strathclyde, he is the Deputy Head of Department for EEE, EEE Research Director and sits on the departmental Departmental Strategy Advisory Group and Departmental Executive Team.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Ultrasonic transducer and transducer array design
Application of ultrasonic monitoring techniques to NDE, Sonar, Industrial Process Control
Design of bespoke high power ultrasound reactors
Application of high power ultrasound in Sonochemistry
Array signal processing
Air-coupled NDE
Robotics and Automation

Prizes and awards

The BINDT Annual Conference Award: Recipient; 5/9/2019

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Qualifications

PG Cert in Advanced Academic Studies, Strathclyde, 2009
PhD entitled "An evaluation of 1-3 connectivity compoiste transducers for air-coupled ultrasonic applications", Strathclyde, 1996
BSc Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering, Strathclyde, 1985

Publications

Modelling of echo amplitude fidelity for transducer bandwidth and TFM pixel resolution: Lines David, Mohseni Ehsan, Zimermann Rastislav, Mineo Carmelo, MacLeod Charles Norman, Pierce Gareth, Gachagan Anthony; 47th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (2020)
Calibration of ultrasonic hardware for enhanced total focusing method imaging: Ingram M, Gachagan A, Nordon A, Mullholland A J, Hegarty M; Insight: The Journal of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing Vol 62, pp. 408-415 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1784/insi.2020.62.7.408
In-process calibration of a non-destructive testing system used for in-process inspection of multi-pass welding: Javadi Yashar, Sweeney Nina E, Mohseni Ehsan, MacLeod Charles N, Lines David, Vasilev Momchil, Qiu Zhen, Vithanage Randika KW, Mineo Carmelo, Stratoudaki Theodosia, Pierce Stephen G, Gachagan Anthony; Materials and Design Vol 195 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108981
Determination of bubble size distribution using ultrasound array imaging: Ingram Marcus, Mineo Carmelo, Gachagan Anthony, Mulholland Anthony J, Nordon Alison, Hegarty Martin; IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Vol 67, pp. 1424-1437 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2020.2972406
Continuous monitoring of an intentionally-manufactured crack using an automated welding and in-process inspection system: Javadi Yashar, Mohseni Ehsan, MacLeod Charles N, Lines David, Vasilev Momchil, Mineo Carmelo, Foster Euan, Pierce Stephen G, Gachagan Anthony; Materials and Design Vol 191 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108655
Effective grain orientation mapping of complex and locally anisotropic media for improved imaging in ultrasonic non-destructive testing: Tant K M M, Galetti E, Mulholland A J, Curtis A, Gachagan A; Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (2020); https://doi.org/10.1080/17415977.2020.1762596

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Teaching

Prof Gachagan is involved with the delivery of Analogue Electronics modules to 3^rd (EE315) and 4^th (EE468) year EEE/CES/EME students. These modules focus on amplifier design using transistors and cover amplifier design, biaising considerations, frequency response and noise characteristics. In addition, he delivers a Project Management module (EE318) to 3^rd year EEE/CES students.

Research interests

Prof Anthony Gachagan's specific research interests encompass ultrasonic transducers and arrays, power ultrasound, robotics and automation, industrial process control, bioacoustics, thermosonics and the application of coded excitation techniques. His research activities involve both national and international collaboration with academia and industry. His research activities encompass the following thematic sectors:

Non-Destructive Evaluation and Condition Monitoring
Sensors for Process Control
Health Technologies
Process Intensification
Pressure Field Mapping
Ultrasonic Transduction

Professional activities

IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium: Participant; 22/10/2019
Correction of B-Scan Distortion for OptimumUltrasonic Imaging of Back Walls with ComplexGeometries: Contributor; 15/10/2019
IEEE international ultrasound symposium (IUS) 2019: Contributor; 6/10/2019
External Examiner: Examiner; 2/9/2019
2019 Innovation Showcase: Nuclear Asset Management and Industrial Informatics: Participant; 9/5/2019
ANRC International Showcase: Participant; 9/5/2019

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Projects

OGIC - Arrow: Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator); 08-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Poole, Alastair: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Poole, Alastair (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
EPSRC 2018 ICase for A Poole | Poole, Alastair: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Poole, Alastair (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2023
Multi-Sensor Solid Monitoring Acoustic System: Gachagan, Anthony (Principal Investigator) Mulholland, Anthony (Co-investigator) Nordon, Alison (Co-investigator); 12-Jan-2018 - 12-Jan-2020
Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Zimermann, Rastislav: MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Zimermann, Rastislav (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
OGTC Project with SMS Oilfield Ltd: Gachagan, Anthony (Principal Investigator); £150k project through OGTC, with Prof Mulholland and Dr Nordon as Co-Investigators; 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2019

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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