Latest Updates
This page highlights recent project meetings, technical progress, experimental activities, and dissemination outcomes.
Recent Progress
Ongoing UK–Brazil project meetings and coordinated technical progress
The UK and Brazil groups have continued to hold regular project meetings to coordinate research activities and review progress across modelling, experimentation, and future dissemination plans.
On the UK side, progress has been made in numerical simulation of tensor direction mapping for wind turbine blades, with current work focusing on the representation of anisotropic directions on curved blade geometries.
On the Brazil side, a series of preliminary experiments and simulations has been carried out on existing wind turbine blades, providing an initial basis for subsequent validation and comparative analysis.
Meetings
Simulation
WTB
Preliminary Experiments
Conference
Participation in ECNDT 2026 in Verona on 15 June
The project team participated in the European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (ECNDT 2026) in Verona on 15 June 2026. The conference provided an opportunity to present recent research progress, exchange ideas with the wider NDT community, and strengthen international academic engagement.
ECNDT 2026
Verona
Conference
Publications
Two papers accepted for publication
Two project-related papers have recently been accepted, marking an important dissemination milestone for the collaboration:
- Lift-off Trajectory Analysis for Eddy Current Detection of Millimetre-Scale Cracks in Curved Geometries
- EPH-iFNO: Self-Evolving Physics-Attention Heads with Fourier Neural Operators for Virtual-Wave Inversion
These accepted papers reflect recent advances in curved-geometry eddy current inspection and physics-informed operator learning for inversion problems.
Accepted Papers
Eddy Current Testing
FNO
Dissemination
Manuscripts · Under Review
Additional manuscripts under review
Further research outputs from the wider collaboration are currently under review:
- Embedded Inductive Sensing and Fourier Neural-Operator Global Curvature Estimation in Heliostat Mirrors — Under review
- Lift-Off-Robust Eddy-Current Pulsed Thermography Using an LCC Resonant Drive — Under review
- Complementary In-process Monitoring and Post-build Non-destructive Evaluation for Defect Control in Additive Manufacturing — Under review
Under Review
Intelligent Sensing
Thermography
Fourier Neural Operator
Additive Manufacturing