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The 30th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE (QNDE) will be held at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from July 27 through August 1. The Review is a highly regarded conference that is specifically designed to enhance communication and transfer of results between the research and engineering communities. A comprehensive technical program is planned that consists of leading-edge keynote and plenary talks, technical sessions organized by research leaders in their specialty fields and contributed sessions, both verbal and poster. A student poster competition has been added this year which will be judged by a group of NDE experts from around the world, with the winners being announced at the conference dinner on Tuesday evening.
In addition to the plenary talks, leaders in their respective fields have assembled special sessions of high interest to the NDE research and engineering community. These sessions and their organizers are:
Contributed and poster sessions, including a first-time student poster competition, will provide additional coverage of progress in the development of all quantitative NDE technologies and their application to various system and materials problems. Advances in all the primary technologies are covered and materials range from homogeneous and isotropic materials such as fine-grained metals and ceramics to inhomogeneous and anisotropic materials such as cast metals and weldments and specially engineered materials such as composites. The poster sessions provide an excellent opportunity for one-on-one discussions between the audience and the authors. On Wednesday evening, the traditional discussion session will focus on the topic of sensors. There is a renewed national interest in sensor technology for a wide range of applications. Presentations of plans and needs of various industries and agencies will be followed by a general discussion. The session will be designed to make the NDE community aware of the scope of opportunities in this subject - an area in which the community's measurement science expertise can make important contributions. The Review of Progress in QNDE is sponsored by QNDE Programs and hosted by the Center for NDE, a member of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology at Iowa State University, in cooperation with the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Ames Laboratory (USDOE), the Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Langley Research Center, and the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers.
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Dr. Jean-Pierre Monchalin will provide the
keynote talk to open the conference on Monday, July 28 at 9:00 a.m.
Dr. Monchalin is presently the Principal Research Officer at the
Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada
in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada. He also heads the Optical
Techniques group at the Institute and is widely recognized as one of the
leaders in development work in laser ultrasonics and optical techniques
for industrial applications. In his talk, entitled "From the
Laboratory to Industry", Monchalin will outline the principles of
generation and detection of laser ultrasound, stressing a few key
characteristics of the technique. Further discussion will include
the complexity of the "laser-ultrasonic transducer"; and applications of
laser-ultrasonics to the inspection of the polymer matrix composites used
in aerospace and thickness gauging of hot steel tubing in production.
Monchalin received a diploma in optical engineering in Paris in 1968 and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in lasers and optics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1971 and 1976 respectively.
Two excellent plenary speakers will follow the
keynote speaker and will discuss exciting technical areas that are
receiving increasing attention. In the first of these Professor John
Popovics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present a
talk titled "Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Engineering Structures
and Materials." He will discuss the theoretical bases and
experimental requirements of several current NDE techniques. Case
studies of application of the described techniques to specific structures
will be highlighted. Popovics received the B.S. and M.S. in civil
engineering at Drexel University in 1988 and 1990, respectively, as well
as the Ph.D. in engineering science and mechanics from Pennsylvania State
University in 1994. He is currently an assistant professor in the
department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor
Fu-Kuo Chang of Stanford University will present the final talk in the
opening session. His presentation titled "structural Health
Monitoring: Promises and Challenges" will discuss this emerging
strategy to optimize structural performance through the combination of
smart sensing and intelligent diagnostics. The talk will highlight
recent interdisciplinary advances and remaining technical challenges.
Chang received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, in
1983.
