IWSHM 2013 Program

List of Topics

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Click here for list of special session topics (Papers from Invited Speakers Only).

General Topics: Technical & Application Focus

1. Advanced Diagnostics for Damage Assessment
2. Advanced Monitoring for Load/Environments
3. Aerospace Structures: Field Evaluation and Validation
4. Aerospace Structures: Laboratory Demonstration
5. Autonomous Sensing, Monitoring to Control
6. Civil Structures: Field Evaluation and Validation
7. Civil Structures: Laboratory Demonstration
8. Mechanical Systems/Off-shore/Marine Structures
9. Modeling/Simulation
10. Novel Signal Processing Techniques
11. Operational Effects Consideration in SHM
12. Prognostics and Data mining for Health Management
13. Quantification/Validation/Certification
14. Sensor Network Optimization
15. SHM-based Structural Design/Intelligent Structures
16. Smart Sensors/Actuators and Energy Harvesting

Special Sessions (Papers from Invited Speakers only)

1. Sensing Strategy for Wave-based SHM
   Chair: Zhongqing Su (HKPU)
   Key words: Guided waves, Sensor and sensor network, Real-world implementation
2. SHM/NDE for Civil Infrastructures: Recent Development and Challenges
   Chair: Salvatore Salamone (U. of Buffalo)
   Keywords: Ultrasonic SHM/NDE technology, Signal processing and analysis techniques, Damage prognosis techniques, Sensors development, Remote sensing, Field implementation
3. Source Localization
   Chair: Tribikram Kundu (U of A)
   Key words: Acoustic source localization, Acoustic emission, Triangulation techniques, Time reversal techniques, Optimization for source localization
4. Very Dense Arrays of Sensors
   Chair: Branko Glisic (Princeton U.)
   Keywords: Distributed fiber optic sensors, Sensing skins, sheets, and paints, Self-sensing materials, Dense arrays of wave propagation sensors, Distributed/decentralized data analysis, Wireless nodes for dense arrays of sensors
5. Data Interpretation and Modeling for SHM
   Chair: Hui Li (HIT)
6. Fiber Optics Sensors and SHM for Composites
   Chair: Jinsong Leng (HIT)
7. Guided Waves in Structures for SHM
   Chair: Wieslaw Ostachowicz (PAS)
8. SHM Technology in Wind Turbines
   Chair: Wieslaw Ostachowicz (PAS)
9. SHM for Harsh Environments
   Chair: Debbie Senesky (Stanford U.)
   Keywords: Structures under extreme environment, High temperature/pressure conditions, Sensor survivability, Signal processing/data communication at extreme conditions
10. Bio-Inspired and Bio-mimetic Materials, Sensors and Manufacturing
    Chair: Bill Yu (CWRU)
    Keywords: Bio-inspired functional materials, Bio-inspired sensors, Manufacturing of biomimetic material systems
11. Optical fiber sensor based SHM system studies for aircraft structures
    Chair: Nobuo Takeda (U. of Tokyo)
12. Novel SHM/NDE techniques for Precursor to Material Damage Quantification
    Chair: Sourav Banerjee (U. of S. Carolina)
13. Next-Generation Sensing Systems for SHM
    Chair: Yang Wang (GIT) and Ken Loh (UC Davis)
    Key words: Wireless sensing, Passive and low-power sensors, Multi-functional smart skin, Nanotechnology, Sensor array and sensor network, Damage detection, Real-time monitoring