After obtaining a degree in Mathematics at Warwick
University, Ruth Sanderson joined TWI in Cambridge as a
Project Leader in July 1998. Since then she has
developed expertise in finite element modelling and is
now a Principal Project Leader in the Numerical
Modelling and Optimisation Section. Since Ruth started
at TWI, she has published 15 papers and won the ABAQUS
Young Engineers’ prize for modelling ultrasound in 2002.
In recent years, she has concentrated on using a mixture
of modelling and experimentation to understand the
behaviour of low frequency ultrasound in pipes. This is
now the topic of her Industrial Fellowship PhD which she
started in October 2009 thanks to a funding award from
the ERA Foundation, through the Royal Commission for the
Exhibition of 1851.
The aim of her PhD research is to develop quantitative
inspection techniques for the detection of corrosion in
pipe networks. Inspection plays a key role in extending
life, planning system outages and preventing failures.
Ruth will research long-range ultrasonic methods for
estimating the extent of corrosion and will also address
the signal distortion caused by pipe bends. These
advances will make rapid fitness-for-service assessments
of pipe networks possible. The PhD project is a
collaboration between Warwick University and TWI.
In her spare time Ruth is a keen rock climber and
usually climbs at grade ‘V0’ but is proud of recently
making it up a ‘V2’. |
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