HRH The Prince of Wales celebrates success of his scholars
05/10/2010
HRH Prince of Wales, Chancellor of the University of Wales, welcomed Prince of Wales Innovation Scholars and their company representatives to his official Welsh residence in Llwynywermod, West Wales, in celebration of the project’s success on 2 July 2010.A Clarence House spokesperson commented: “The Prince of Wales was delighted to meet the first group of participants from The Prince of Wales Innovation Scholars programme following the launch of the project last year. His Royal Highness was keen to hear of the scholars’ progress through their work with the University of Wales Global Academy.”
POWIS is a partly EU-funded scholarship project which places a world-class scholar in a company for a period of three years, during which time they undertake research and development on any aspect of the company’s work, whether that is to improve the company’s products and service, its internal processes or the way that it interacts with other companies.
Sri Naga Pavan Addepalli is a TWI POWIS Scholar under the supervision of Professor Roderick Thomas, Thermography Programme Manager. They are both based at TWI Technology Centre (Wales), Port Talbot.
The TWI project deals with adopting and developing the latest non-contact infrared thermographic technology to identify various failure modes of complex aerospace composite materials and establish thermography as a new non-destructive testing technology. TWI Training & Examination Services has also developed new thermographic inspection training courses.
One of the advantages of this technology is that it is able to investigate relatively large surface areas quickly and efficiently. This is of particular significance to the aerospace industry where the ‘kissing bond’ phenomena are of major concern and are a focus of this research.
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