The following activities are planned for the period under consideration (from the end of spring to the end of December of the year 2024):
1) Conduct experiments and theoretical analyses of high-speed MFL testing
2) Visit each other’s’ universities to discuss the task at hand and the content of a possible joint article.
3) Joint organization of seminars at the relevant departments of the universities under consideration, and invite each other to give presentations at SPBU and HUST.
4) Seeking potential customers on both side in the industrial field, consulting on the exploitation and implementation possibilities of the technologies worked out.
5) Develop a proposal for external funding calls, preferentially the RSF-NSFC joint research funding.

Necessity of the collaboration:
The problem to be studied requires interdisciplinary knowledge. Thus, the complementary research backgrounds of the investigators from SPBU and HUST are critical for the success the study. The investigators from SPBU are from the Faculty of Physics, thus they could contribute very well to the theoretical analysis and calculation of the physical fields. As for the investigators from HUST, they are from the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering and work in the area of Measurement Technology and Instrumentation. Thus, they could contribute to the development of sensors, signal processing modules and mechanical structures for the project. The collaborations between the investigators from SPBU and HUST would surely increasing the outputs of this project.
Besides, the sharing of experimental platforms in the labs of SPBU and HUST is also vital for the project. Currently, the team from HUST has laboratory platforms that can test specimens at speed as high as 80 km/h. The platform is specially designed for the high-speed MFL testing and have good stability. The team from SPBU has good conditions for on-site tests on real rails. After developing the high-speed MFL testing method and devices, they can be well tested with the conditions at SPBU.