Name

Richard Livings

Contact Information

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
130 Applied Sciences Complex II
1915 Scholl Road
Ames, IA  50011-3042
515-294-9742 
515-294-7771 FAX
 rlivings@iastate.edu

CNDE Responsibilities


Expected date of graduation: May 2011

College/Department: AerE

Major Professor: Vinay Dayal

At CNDE working with Dave Hsu and Dan Barnard

Richard is
working with the air-coupled ultrasonics group on the Army armor project. He doing Finite Element Modeling of samples, scanning sample with different methods and configurations, and comparing the FEA results to the scan results. The comparison of the results help to improve the FE models which in turn help to direct where and how to scan for defects.

(Updated 8/26/2009)