Research Interests

Ultrasonic transduction - experimental and modelling.

Ultrasonic measurements of material properties.

Non-contact ultrasound, particularly EMATs and laser-based ultrasound.

Eddy current and electromagnetic methods for NDE.

Thermographic methods, particularly laser spot thermography.

Ultrasonic flow measurement.

Industrial applications of ultrasound.

Steve Dixon is the Director of the Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics (CIU) and a Member of the UK Research Centre for NDE. He has previously held two EPSRC Research Fellowships, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship funded by Elster/Honeywell and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Rolls Royce. He has previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation and Chair of the Technical Committee for the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing. He has served on other committees including the IOP Physical Acoustic Group, the IOM Steel Committee and the IOM Steel Instrumentation Committee. He is has set up three spin-out companies in NDT, and has been a Director of Sonemat Ltd since 2005.

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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

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