December Space Seminar

Seminar "SPC-I: A new nonlinear ultrasonic technique for nondestructive evaluation" will be conducted by prof. Tribikram Kundu from the University of Arizona. 

The seminar will take place 6.12.2024 at 11AM in 1.11 room in D3 building. You can also join online via MsTeams: Link to the meeting (no registration needed, just come/join online)

Abstract:

This seminar will cover the research carried out by the speaker in this decade on nonlinear ultrasonic techniques for non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring. In particular, it will focus on the nonlinear ultrasonic method called Sideband Peak Count–Index (or SPC-I) technique developed by the speaker in collaboration with his colleagues for monitoring damages at various stages - from microscopic dislocations and fatigue cracks to large scale cracks in metals, composites and concrete structures. Many of the shortcomings associated with the traditional nonlinear ultrasonic techniques such as higher harmonic generation, frequency modulation or wave modulation spectroscopy, and nonlinear impact resonant acoustic spectroscopy can be avoided in the proposed SPC-I technique.  

 

Bio:

The major research area of Professor Kundu is nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring.  On this topic he has published 10 books and 431 technical papers - 238 of those are in peer reviewed scientific journals. As of Sept 27, 2024 his publications have been cited 10,925 times according to Google Scholar with an h-index of 56 (Google Scholar), 46 (Scopus) and 42 (Web of Science). For his research, he received Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) in 2003, Humboldt Fellowship award in 1989 and 1996, Humbold Prize winner return visit awards in 2010, 2017 and 2024, all from Germany.  He was also recognized through 2012 NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), 2015 Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT (the American Society for Nondestructive Testing), 2017 Founders Award from Nondestructive evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics Division (NDPD) of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers),  2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and 2008 Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring Journal, Satish Dhawan Chair Professorship from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a number of Invited & Honorary Professorships from France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Poland, Singapore, India, China and Japan. He is a Fellow or a Distinguished Fellow of six professional societies (ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT, ASA & IIAV) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME JNDE (Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems). He has served as an associate editor of four other journals – Ultrasonics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessels Technology, and Structural Health Monitoring – An International Journal. Since 2020 he is serving as the Chairman of the yearly conference - ASME QNDE (Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation). Earlier he has served as the Chairman of the SPIE yearly conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems (held in March of every year) for 18 consecutive years, from 2001 to 2018, and Symposium Chair or vice chair of the SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and NDE for 4 years 2016 to 2019.