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Bruce Thompson is the Director of
the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Director of the Ames
Laboratory Applied NDE Program, and a Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.
He received his B.A. in Physics from Rice University (1964), his
M.S. in Physics from Stanford University (1965) and his Ph.D. in
Applied Physics from Stanford University (1971). From 1970 to
1980 he served as a member of the technical staff and Group leader
of Ultrasonic Applications at the Rockwell International Center
before coming to Iowa State University.
Thompson's research interests fall in the area of ultrasonic
nondestructive evaluation. Specialties include the analysis
and development of noncontact sensors, in particular electromagnetic
acoustic transducers, modeling the effects of measurement geometry
on ultrasonic inspection, studying the uses of ultrasound to
characterize a variety of microstructural and material properties
such as stress, texture, porosity, grain size, and anisotropy and
partially contacting interfaces, and uses of physics-based
simulation tools to assist in the determination of probability of
detection.
Thompson is the author of 6 major invited review articles in the
field of nondestructive evaluation, over 90 articles in archival
journals and over 323 papers in edited conference proceedings.
He has been awarded 24 U.S. patents and presently serves as the
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation.
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