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

This time schedule for the Technical Program is subject to change

Tuesday, August 5, 2003

8:30                Herman Migliore (Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University), Welcome to PSU

8:40                Maochen Ge (Penn State), , Estimation of Magnitude of AE Events

9:00                Questions

9:05                Marvin Hamstad (NIST Boulder and University of Denver), Key Differences Between the Acoustic Emission Signals Generated by Monopoles Versus Dipoles

9:25                Questions

9:30          Kanji Ono (UCLA), H. Nishino (Tohoku University) and H. Cho (Aoyama Gakuin University), Wave Propagation in Tubing and Waveguide Characteristics

9:50                Questions

9:55                Yoshihiro MIZUTANI (National Space Development Agency of JAPAN), Takayuki SHIMODA and Fumio SHIMIZU, AE Monitoring of the Composite Propellant Tank at Cryogenic Temperature

10:15                Questions

10:20                BREAK

10:35        Oh-Yang Kwon (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inaha University), Jeong-Kon Kim, A Practical Solution for AE Source Location in Anisotropic Plates and Structures

10:55                Questions

11:00        Fang Shu (Physical Acoustics Corporation), Arturo Nũnéz (Quality Services Laboratory-Plus), Ronnie K. Miller (PAC), Development of A Classifier to Assist in Detection and Diagnosis of Problem Transformers Using New Acoustic Emission (AE) Technique

11:20                Questions

11:25                Yoshihiro MIZUTANI (National Space Development Agency of JAPAN), Mikio TAKEMOTO (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Jochen VALLEN (Vallen Systems GmbH), Kanji ONO (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA), Applications of wavelet transform for Acoustic Emission Analysis

11:45                Questions

11:50                Jochen VALLEN (Vallen-Systeme), Yoshihiro MIZUTANI (National Space Development Agency of JAPAN), Mikio TAKEMOTO (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University), Current status of the AGU-Vallen Wavelet project
and intended future developments

12:10                Questions

12:15                LUNCH BREAK

13:15                Masayasu Ohtsu (Kumamoto University), Uddin Farid, A. K. M, Mechanisms of Corrosion Cracking in Concrete by AE and BEM

13:35                Questions

13:40        Fang Shu (Physical Acoustics Corporation), Valery F. Godinez-Azcuaga, Richard D. Finlayson, Acoustic Emission (AE) Source Identification
Through Multimodal Analysis

14:00                Questions

13:40                William Processor (NASA Langley Research Center), Michael R. Gorman (Digital Wave Corporation), and Eric I. Madaras (NASA Langley Research Center), Acoustic Emission Detection and Location of High Velocity Foam Impact

14:00                Questions

14:05                BREAK

14:30                Masatoshi Tanaka  (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, JAPAN), Masayasu Ohtsu, Monitoring Corrosion Damage in Reinforced Concrete by Acoustic Emission

14:50                Questions

14:55                Sameer Bachani (Portland State University), Jack Devletian, Use Of AE to Understand A Weldability Test 

15:15                Questions

15:20                Albert To (Berkley), Steve Glaser, Full Waveform Inversion of the Kinematics of a Simulated Crack Inside an Artificial Rock

15:40                Questions

16:00                BREAK

16:10                Business Meeting

Wednesday, August 6, 2003

8:30                Claudio Allevato (Stress Engineering Services), Napoleon Douglas, Evaluating the Structural and Mechanical Integrity of Vessels by means of AET

8:50                Questions

8:55          Hal Dunegan (DECI), , Modal Ratios and Leak Detection

9:15                Questions

9:20          David Prine (Northwestern University, Infrastructure Technology Institute), , Noise Localization in Large Moveable Structures

9:40                Questions

9:45                Valery F. Godinez-Azcuaga (Physical Acoustics Corporation), Richard D. Finlayson, Leather Quality Assessment Using Acoustic Emission

10:05                Questions

10:10                BREAK

10:20        Rick Neimann (Portland General Electric), John Rodgers (Acoustic Emission Consulting), Life Management of Seam Welded Elbows on a Fossil Hot Reheat Line

10:40                Questions

10:45                Tomoki Shiotani (Research Institute of Technology, Tobishima Corporation), Evaluation of excavation induced microcracks at the underground power plant using AE

11:05                Questions

11:10                Marco Luzio (Physical Acoustics Corporation), Richard D. Finlayson, Mark Carlos, Surface Roughness Measurement System (SRMS)

11:30                Questions

11:35                Steven Lovejoy (Oregon Department of Transportation), Acoustic Emission Testing of Steel Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders Subjected to Shear Zone Cracking

11:55                Questions

12:00                LUNCH BREAK

13:00                Claudio Allevato (Stress Engineering Services), Napoleon Douglas, Acoustic Emission Testing Defects Environmentally Assisting Damaging Mechanisms

13:20                Questions

13:25        I. Roman (Graduate School of Applied Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), F. Zeides, AE-UT method designed for the determination of sound velocity in rods.

13:45                Questions

13:50        Mark Carlos (Physical Acoustics Corporation), , Acoustic Emission (AE) Loose Parts Monitoring Application
in a Nuclear Power Plant

14:10                Questions

14:15        Ing. Václav Svoboda (Preditest Ltd., Prague), Ing. František Žemlička, Application of AE during burst and fatigue test of pressure vessels

14:35                Questions

14:40        Gang Qi (Medical Acoustic Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Memphis,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Joint program of The University of Memphis and University of Tennessee Health Science Center), Jihui Li (U of Tenn), Stephen Andrew Whitten (U of Memphis), Marvin Hamstad (U of Denver), Using AE Technique to detect fatigue related damages in cemented total hip arthroplasty

15:00                Questions

15:05                BREAK

15:10                Commercial Presentations Followed by Lab Tour