Conference Primer

AEWG-46

Aug. 4-6, 2003

PSU Portland, Oregon

AEWG-49 will be held U of California at Berkeley June 19-21, 2006

AEWG-50 will be held in 2007 in Lake Tahoe in collaboration with European and Japanese Working Groups

	General Information on AEWG can be found at www.aewg.org
	links to Video-Streamed Primers from AEWG-46
	AEWG-48 was held May 8-12, 2005 in Houston, TX hosted by S.E.S.

On Monday, August 4, 2003 a one day short course ("Primer") was be presented. The primer lecturers were video streamed. There was also one pre-conference lecture that was video streamed on March 21, 2003. Three of the lecturer's agreed to allow their primers viewed. These can be viewed from the links below:

Instrumentation Background

Richard Nordstrom, 2 hours; pre-conference, local audience
http://www.media.pdx.edu/PSU/Nordstrom_032103.asx
for printable notes on this lecture:

http://www.cecs.pdx.edu/~nordsr/AEWG46/PreConferencePrimer.PDF

Introduction to AE from Composites

Marvin Hamstad, U of Denver, 2 hours
http://www.media.pdx.edu/PSU/AEWG-46a.asx

AE in Infrastructure Testing

David Prine, Northwestern, 1 hour
http://www.media.pdx.edu/PSU/AEWG-46e.asx

Video Requirements: typically cable or DSL is required for viewing live (250 kilobits/sec). University connections have not given a problem for live viewing until now. Viewing software can be obtained from media page http://www.media.pdx.edu/, if you don't already have it installed.

Note: the primers are in .asx format. If you can view other web video but are having troubles with these videostream, check to make sure that the .asx format can be viewed.

From the PSU media website *** Notice: Streaming at PSU is an experiment. The technology, logistics, methods, and content are all in a trial state.

Primer Lecturers

Marvin Hamstad, University of Denver

Stuart McBride, AE Monitoring Services, Inc.

H. Reginald Hardy, Jr, Penn State University (*)

Mike Gorman, Digital Wave Corporation

David Prine, Infrastructure Technology Institute, Northwestern University

(*) Prof. Hardy has recently finished the first of two volumes on AE in Geology and Geotechnical Structures. His second book may or may not be ready by the AEWG-46.

Primer Format

Morning Sessions:

	AE from Composites, 2 hours
	AE from Metals, 2 hours

Afternoon Sessions:

	AE use in Geotechnical Applications, 1 hour
	Signal Processing in AE, 1 hour
	AE use in Testing Infrastructure , 1 hour
	Panel Discussion of AE Applications, 1 hour

Pre-Conference Lecture

On Friday, March 21st, 2003 a pre-conference internet lecture on AE Instrumentation was given in the format of the primer.

Archive of video: now available.

Companion Lecture notes:

	Title Page here
	Final Version, (html version of powerpoint, blue background).
	Printer Friendly Version (.pdf, white background), Final Version

From the PSU media website *** Notice: Streaming at PSU is an experiment. The technology, logistics, methods, and content are all in a trial state.