Name

Chien-Ping "Thomas" Chiou

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
281 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-0299
515-294-7771 FAX
cchiou@cnde.iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities

C. Thomas Chiou is an Associate Scientist in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University.  He received his M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University, and holds a B. S. (1981) in Aerospace Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.  His research expertise and interests are in the general areas of ultrasonic and terahertz NDE with applications involving computer modeling, signal and image processing and artificial intelligence.  His past projects include crack detection below boltholes in aircraft skin and phased array simulation for anisotropic media.  Recently, he has advanced in applying both geometric and ultrasonic models to the characterization of hard-alpha inclusions in titanium alloys.  He is currently focused at material characterization using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and is actively exploring new applications of terahertz techniques to NDE problems.  Dr. Chiou has co-authored over 30 technical publications, and is a member of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.


(Updated 3/30/2009)