Dr Mark Evans
PhD CEng

Mobile: + 44 (0) 7890466802
email: mark@traxion-ndt.com

 

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

Chartered Engineer
PhD (1/1/94 - 0/10/98), Diffuse Field measurements for Acoustic Emission. Non-destructive Testing Lab, Imperial College, London SW7 2BX.
MSc (30/10/91 - 30/10/92), Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London.
Level 3 GUL certificate in Guided Wave Testing (GWT)
Level 3 ISO 9712 certificate in Guided Wave Testing (GWT)
Level 3 PCN certificate #S014S0034453 in Guided Wave Testing (GWT)

 

EMPOLYMENT

01/10/2017 – Present  - Senior Project Engineer Traxion NDT, Wallingford, UK.
01/01/2000 – 31/9/2017 Head of Training and Rail Testing Guided Ultrasonics Ltd, London UK.

Dr Evans studied for a PhD at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, within the Mechanical Engineering department from 1994 to 1998; working on developing methods and numerical simulations of using guided waves for acoustic emission testing of plate structures. During his PhD, he produced papers for respected international journals and gave unique presentations on his research at conferences such as Annual Review of Progress in QNDE in the USA.

Upon finishing his post doctoral research and development projects, Dr Evans joined Guided Ultrasonics Ltd as a development engineer where he worked until October 2017. Development projects included instrumentation and procedures for the inspection of pipe and rails. Dr Evans was primarily responsible for training, technical support, product development and procedure writing. Dr Evans has more than 17 years experience in the guided wave field with outstanding knowledge of the theory and application of guided waves in NDT.  Dr Evans is a Level 3 GW specialist.

Dr Evans currently works for Traxion NDT ltd as a senior project engineer current activities include a development project (Ontracs) for measuring the tension in rails and additionally providing training for guided wave testing inspection companies.

 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

M. Evans, A. Lucas, I. Ingram, ‘Guided Wave Inspection of Level Crossing Rails’, Railway Engineering Conference 2013.

R Charchuk, C. Werstiuk, M. Evans, E Sjerve, ‘High Temperature Guided Wave Inspection’, NDT in Canada Conference 2012.

M. Evans, S. Butler, ‘Guided Wave Inspection of High Temperature Pipe-Work’, NDT World Conference 2012.

M. Evans, T. Vogt,  ‘Reliability of Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing’, NDT European Conference 2010.

M. Evans, K. Vine, ‘Permanently Installed Transducers for Guided Wave Monitoring of Pipelines’, NDT European Conference 2010.

Alleyne, D., Pavlakovic, B., Demma, A., Evans, M., Cawley, P., Lowe, M., 'Ispezione rapida ed a lungo range di condotte e tubi usando Guided Waves', J. Italian Soc. Non Destr. Testing, vol. 24, pp. 23-26, 2003.

Wilcox, P., Alleyne, D.N., Pavlakovic, B., Evans, M.J., Vine, K., Cawley, P. and Lowe, M.J.S. 'Long range inspection of rail using guided waves', Proc Railway Engineering - 2002, London, 3-4 July, 2002. Similar paper in Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, Vol 22, DO Thompson and DE Chimenti (eds), American Institute of Physics, pp236-243, 2003.

Wilcox, P., Evans, M.J., Pavlakovic, B., Alleyne, D.N., Vine, K., Cawley, P. and Lowe, M.J.S. 'Long range inspection of rail using guided waves - Field experience', Proc Railway Engineering - 2003, London, 3-4 July, 2003.

Wilcox, P., Evans, M., Pavlakovic, B., Alleyne, D., Vine, K., Cawley, P. and Lowe, M. 'Guided wave testing of rail', Insight, Vol 45, pp413-420, 2003.

Wilcox, P., Evans, M., Dilient, O., Lowe, M. and Cawley, P. 'Dispersion and excitability of guided acoustic waves in isotropic beams with arbitrary cross section', Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, Vol 21, DO Thompson and DE Chimenti (eds), American Institute of Physics, pp203-210, 2002.

Evans M. J, Webster J. and Cawley P. (2000) Design of a self calibrating simulated acoustic emission source, Ultrasonics, Vol. 37, pp 589-594.

Evans M. J. and Cawley P. (1999) Measurement and Prediction of Diffuse Fields in Structures, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 106 No 6, pp 3348-3361.

Evans, M.J. and Cawley, P. 'Generation of diffuse Lamb waves in plates', Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, Vol 16, DO Thompson and DE Chimenti (eds), Plenum Press, New York, pp389-396, 1997.

Evans M. J. and Cawley P. (1996) Diffuse Lamb Waves in Plates for Acoustic Emission, presented at The Review of Quantitative Non-destructive Evaluation (QNDE), Maine, USA.

Evans M. J. and Evans J. H. (1994) The effect of prosthetic alignment on below-knee amputee walking gait. Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BME'94.  Hong Kong, pp. 38-41.

Evans M. J. and Evans J. H. (1994) A new method for the measurement of prosthetic alignment.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BME'94.  Hong Kong, pp. 410-411.

Evans M. J. (1992) A numerical study into the effects of transducer misalignment on ultrasonic measurements for NDT. MSc. project report, Imperial College.

Evans M. J. (1991) The influence of crack closure on fatigue crack growth in a high strength low-alloy steel. BEng. final year project report, University of Strathclyde.