AEWG-64 Agenda

September 26-28, 2023
Crown Plaza Hotel-Witherspoon C (2nd Floor)
Princeton NJ
Monday, September 25, 2023, Mistras Group HQ. Princeton Junction, NJ
Primer 2:00-5:00
PM

Practical On-line Monitoring in the Power, O&G, and Infrastructure
Industries

6:00-8:00 PM

Social at “Stumpy’s Hatchet House” Princeton

Day 1 - Tuesday, September 26, Crown Plaza Hotel, Princeton, NJ
7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast & Coffee (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)

8:30-8:45 AM

Welcome and Introductions
Valery Godinez, Chair of AEWG
Welcome Remarks by Mistras Group
Keynote Presentation- Dr. Andy Foden-HNTB Corporation

8:45-9:30 AM“Values and Challenges of Structural Monitoring for Bridges”
9:30-10:00 AMCoffee Break (Hallway)
AEWG Awards Committee Meeting (by invitation)

10:00 -12:00 PM

10:00-10:20 AM
10:20-10:40 AM
10:40-11:00 AM
11:00-12:00 PM
12:00-1:20 PM

Session 1 – AE applications in Infrastructure

Richard Gostautas and Jon Watson – Practical Implementation of SHM forIn-Service Bridges
Seyyedmaalek Momeni – Automatic and high-precision microseismic
monitoring of progressive failure prior, during, and after tunnel excavation
Eloy Gasperin – Acoustic Emission Monitoring Installations – The Good, theBad, and the Ugly
AE in Infrastructure - Panel Discussion
Lunch (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)1:20-3:20 PMSession 2: Adrian Pollock Student Paper Submission

1:20-1:40 PM

Sarah Malik (Drexel University) – Towards Real-time and Artificial
Intelligence Assisted Acoustic Emission Analysis

1:40-2:00 PM

Tonghao Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago) – Acoustic Emission
Behaviors of the BFRP Reinforced Concrete Slabs Depending onReinforcement

2:00-2:20 PM

Pedram Bazrafshan (Drexel University) – Delamination detection using anentropy-based probabilistic model for RA value-average frequency

2:20-3:00 PMCoffee Break (Hallway)
AEWG Executive Committee Meeting (by invitation)

3:00-5:20 PMSession 3: AE Diverse Applications

3:00-3:20 PM

Marvin Hamstad – Trailing AE waves in thicker plates generated by buried
in-plane dipoles: comparing a narrow and a broadband bandpass

3:20-3:40 PM

Essa Al Amari – Defect Detection in Lithium-Ion Batteries using AcousticEmission

3:40-4:00 PM

Jun Young Song – Crack detection using Acoustic Emission sensors in
Additive Manufacturing

4:00-4:20 PM

Obdulia Ley – Acoustic monitoring seam welds subjected to creep in thelaboratory

4:20-4:40 PM

Li Ai – Transfer Learning for Acoustic Emission Zonal Localization on Steel
Plate-Like Structures

4:40-5:20 PM

Manoj Rijal – Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Stainless Steel Three-point
bend Specimens

5:20 PM

Adjourn Day 1

6:00-8:00 PM

Banquet and Awards - Seasons 52 Restaurant Princeton

Day 2 - Wednesday, September 27, Crown Plaza Hotel, Princeton, NJ
7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast & Coffee (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)

8:30-8:45 AM

Recap Day 1 and Announcements
Antonios Konstos, Vice-Chair of AEWG

8:45-9:30 AM

9:30-10:00 AM

Keynote Presentation- Professor Tomoki Shiotani - Kyoto University“Consortium of Innovative Technologies for Infrastructure and RILEM
Recommendations on AE Applications for AE Evaluationof Concrete Bridge Decks”
Coffee Break (Hallway)

10:00 -11:40 AM

Session 4 – AE Applications in Composite Materials

10:00-10:20 AM

Gerd Manthei – Simulation of acoustic emission wave propagation in alarge-scale concrete laboratory specimen

10:25-10:40 AM

Sena Tayfur – Feasibility Assessment of Embedding MEMS AE Sensors for
Crack Monitoring of Concrete Structures

10:40-11:00 AM

Travis Obie-Rolle – Monitoring Damage Development in Carbon/Thermoplastic Matrix Composite Materials

11:00-11:20 AM

Jiannan Zhang – Lamb Wave Propagation in Unidirectional Fiber
Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Plates for Nondestructive Testing and Condition
Monitoring

11:20-11:40 AM

Sulochana Shrestha – Study of attenuation characteristics of guided waves
in wind turbine blade material

11:40-12:20 PMVendor Commercial Presentations

12:20-1:20 PMLunch (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)

1:20-3:20 PM

1:20:1:40 PMSession 5 – AE Sensors and Calibration

Harmut Vallen – About ISO 24543 – Verification of the sensitivity spectra ofacoustic emission sensors

1:40:2:00 PM

Miguel Gonzalez – Modal AE: Exemption form End-to-End Sensor
Calibration

2:00-2:20 PM

Raguez Taha – Novel Packaging Strategies for MEMS Acoustic Emission
Sensors: Performance Evaluation and Analysis

2:20-2:40 PM
2:40-3:00 PM

Marvin A. Hamstad – Signals from a “shear” sensor (two differentcouplants) and two different sensor types excited by in-plane pencil leadbreaks
Yongfang Li – Piezoelectric MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensors

3:00-3:40 PM

The Future of AE Sensors- Panel Discussion

3:40-4:10 PMCoffee Break (Hallway)

4:10-5:30 PMSession 6: Business Meeting

4:10-5:30 PM

AEWG Business Meeting

5:30 PM

Adjourn Day 2

Day 3 – Thursday, September 28, Crown Plaza Hotel, Princeton, NJ
7:30-8:30 AM

Breakfast & Coffee (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)

8:30-8:40 AM

Recap Day 2 and Announcements
Obdulia Ley, secretary of AEWG

8:40-12:00 PM

8:40-9:00 AM

9:00-9:20 AM

Session 7– AE in the Power Industry

Gerrit Gloth – Acoustic Emission Monitoring System for Power Plants
Andrew Pollock – Continuous Condition Monitoring of High Energy Piping
Utilizing Acoustic Emission

9:20-9:40 AM

Obdulia Ley – Acoustic Characterization of Damage onset and propagation
due to shear-web disbonding in wind turbine blades

9:40-10:00 AM

Kye Drobac – Identifying relative wind turbine blade health using acousticemissions.

10:00-10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 AM

Keynote Presentation-Arturo Nuñez - Domain Expert Director
Convergence of Data and Power-Southwire Company“Challenges in the Power Industry and Existing Technologies to Overcome
Them, Commercial Considerations, and use of AI/ML Tools toAccelerate their Implementation”

11:30-12:00 PMFinal Remarks
Valery Godinez, Chair of AEWG
AEWG64 Adjourns

12:00-1:20 PM

Lunch (Please proceed to Waterfront- Lower Level)

Crown Plaza Hotel-Witherspoon C (2nd Floor)
Princeton NJ