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2011
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January – Shukui Liu joined NDT lab. o
Shukui is a visiting Ph.D.
student from Xi’an Polytechnic University, China. He is supported by China
Scholarship Council to study at UT for two years. Welcome! ·
March – Eric Giannini accepted an assistant
professor position offer from University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Congratulations! o
Eric is co-advised by Drs.
Folliard and Zhu. ·
March 19 – Xiaowei Dai won
ACI-James Instruments Award! o
Xiaowei Dai won the
ACI-James Instruments Student Award for his paper entitled: "Use
of parabolic reflectors in air-coupled impact-echo test". Congratulations to Xaiowei!
o
Seong-Hoon Kee received
this award in 2011. NDT group students have received this award two years in a
row. Can we make it three years in a row? ·
March 27-29 – Dr. Zhu visited University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University – a homecoming trip. o
Dr. Zhu gave a seminar to construction
material group students and faculty at UIUC “Piezoeletric
sensors for concrete NDT and health monitoring”. o
Dr. Zhu gave
a seminar at Northwestern University “Air-coupled sensing for nondestructive
testing of concrete”. 2011·
January 15-16 – Dr. Zhu
visited Tongji University. o
Dr. Zhu attended the 2nd
Conference on Structural Testing, Inspection and Education in Shanghai. Audience showed strong interests in her
presentation on air-coupled sensing. ·
January – Paper accepted
by ACI Materials Journal. o
Kee, S.H., Fernández-Gómez, E.,
Zhu, J., “Evaluation of Surface-Breaking Cracks in Concrete Using
Air-Coupled Sensors,” Submitted to ACI Materials Journal in Oct., 2010. ·
February – Kee wins
ACI-James Instruments Award! o
Seong-Hoon Kee won the
ACI-James Instruments Student Award for his paper entitled: "Low Cost Piezoceramic Sensors for Health Monitoring of Concrete
Structures". He will receive the
award and present his paper at ACI in April. Congratulations to Kee! o Only one ACI-James award is given each year. Dr. Zhu received this award in 2003 when she studied at UIUC. ·
March 28 – Kee passed his
Ph.D. dissertation defense today. o
Keee will graduate in May 2011. o
He has accepted a post-doc position at Rutgers
University. ·
April 3 – Kee received
ACI-James Instruments Award at ACI, Tampa, FL. http://fsel.engr.utexas.edu/news/2011/kee.cfm ·
April 19 – Paper accepted
by Cement and Concrete Research. o
Zhu, J.,
Kee, S.H., Han, D. and Tsai, Y-T.,” Effects of Air Voids on Ultrasonic Wave
Propagation in Early Age Cement Pastes,” is accepted by Cement and Concrete
Research. It was submitted in August 2010. ·
May 25 – Paper accepted by
Journal of Sound and Vibration. o
Kee, S., and Zhu, J. (2011). "Surface wave transmission measurements
across distributed surface-breaking cracks using air-coupled sensors." Journal
of Sound and Vibration, 330. ·
June 8 and 15 – Outreach
activities. o
Dr. Zhu and Dr. Ghannoum demonstrated concept
and experiments of concrete and earthquake to 100 high school students,
through the UT COE MITE program. ·
June 27 – Paper accepted
by Journal of Acoustical Society of America Express Letter o Xiaowei Dai, Jinying Zhu, Michael R. Haberman and Yi-Te Tsai, “Use of parabolic reflector to amplify in-air signals generated during Impact-Echo testing” is accepted by JASA-EL. o The JASA-EL paper is published on line. [Link] ·
August – Dr. Jinbiao Cai
joined the NDT group as a visiting scholar. o
Dr.
Cai is an associate
professor in Civil Engineering Department at Zhejiang University. He will
visit UT for one year. 2010·
August 20, 2010 – Xiaowei
Dai joined the NDT research group. o
Xiaowei obtained his B.S.
and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University. He will work on the NIST TIP
project to develop air-coupled sensing technique for concrete. Welcome
Xiaowei. ·
August, 2010 – Paper
accepted by IEEE Transaction UFFC. o
Kee, S.H., Zhu,
J., “Effects of Sensor Locations on Surface Wave Transmission
Measurements across a Surface-breaking Crack,” submitted in May, and accepted
by IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics
and Frequency Control. ·
May 11, 2010 – Seong-Hoon
Kee passed prelim exam. o
Kee gave a presentation
“Air-coupled surface wave transmission measurement for determining crack
depth in concrete.” Committee members gave high evaluation to Kee’s work.
Congratulations to Seong-Hoon. ·
April 10, 2010 – Dr. Zhu
gave two presentations in structural seminar at UT. o
In the first technical
presentation, Dr. Zhu described research progress and applications of bender
element to cement and concrete materials. o
The second presentation is about
reference management using google scholar and Jabref. ·
March, 2010 – Paper
published on JASA. o
Kee, S.H., Zhu,
J., “Using air-coupled sensors to determine the depth of a
surface-breaking crack in concrete”, the Journal of Acoustical Society of
America, Vol. 127, No.3, March 2010. [PDF ] ·
January 2010 – Yi-Te Tsai
(Ph.D. student) and Ariel Creagh (undergraduate) joined the NDT research
group. Welcome Yi-Te and Ariel. o
Yi-Te
Tsai obtained his B.S. degree from National Chiao
Tung University (Taiwan), and M.S. degree from Texas A&M University. 2009·
December – Dr. Zhu was awarded the UT SRA (Summer
Research Assignment) Award for summer 2010 (12/15/09) o
The UT SRA award will support Dr.
Zhu to conduct research on characterizing early age concrete properties using
ultrasonic waves. ·
December – Dr. Ting Du
joined the NDT group. Welcome! o
Dr. Du is a visiting
scholar from Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
China.
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