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

Towards guided wave robotic NDT inspection : EMAT size matters: Trushkevych Oksana, Dixon Steven, Tabatabaeipour Morteza, Dobie Gordon, Potter Mark D G, MacLeod Charles, Gachagan Anthony, Pierce S Gareth, Edwards Rachel S; 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (2019)
Using coded excitation to maintain signal to noise for FMC+TFM on attenuating materials: Lines David, Mohseni Ehsan, Javadi Yashar, Mineo Carmelo, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, Qiu Zhen, MacLeod Charles Norman, Pierce Gareth, Gachagan Anthony; 2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (2019)
Flexible robotic cell for in-process inspection of multi-pass welds: Lines David I, Javadi Yashar, Mohseni Ehsan, Vasilev Momchil, MacLeod Charles N, Vithanage Randika W, Qiu Zhen, Zimermann Rastislav, Loukas Charalampos, Foster Euan, Pierce S Gareth, Gachagan Anthony; NDT2019, pp. 1-12 (2019)
Ultrasonic phased array inspection of a wire plus arc additive manufactured (WAAM) sample with intentionally embedded defects: Javadi Yashar, MacLeod Charles N, Pierce Stephen G, Gachagan Anthony, Lines David, Mineo Carmelo, Ding Jialuo, Williams Stewart, Vasilev Momchil, Mohseni Ehsan, Su Riliang; Additive Manufacturing (2019)
In-process inspection of multi-pass robotic welding: Javadi Yashar, MacLeod Charles, Lines David, Vasilev Momchil, Mohseni Ehsan, Foster Euan, Qiu Zhen, Vithanage Randika, Zimermann Rastislav, Loukas Charalampos, Pierce Gareth, Gachagan Anthony; ‎46th Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference (2019)
Automated pressure tube defect analysis: Zacharis Panagiotis, West Graeme, Wallace Christopher, Dobie Gordon, Gachagan Anthony; 2019 Innovation Showcase: Nuclear Asset Management and Industrial Informatics (2019)

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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
IEEE international ultrasound symposium (IUS) 2019: Contributor; 6/10/2019
External Examiner: Examiner; 2/9/2019
ANRC International Showcase: Participant; 9/5/2019
IEEE IUS 2018 Invited Talk: Speaker; 24/10/2018
Faculty Robotics and Automation Users Group Discussion: Participant; 10/10/2017

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Projects

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
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
Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Lukacs, Peter: Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Lukacs, Peter (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
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
New Wire Additive Manufacture- NEWAM: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator); 25-Jan-2018 - 24-Jan-2023
OGTC Robotics Vessel Inspection: Dobie, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Yan, Xiu (Co-investigator) Yang, Erfu (Co-investigator); 20-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2021

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Address

Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Royal College Building

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