Date, time & venue
2019-10-17;6:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Refreshment), 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Talk);Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room – 9/F

Speakers: Dr. Alex Ching-Tai NG Director of Graduate Studies, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Synopsis:

Inspection of structures overs their lifetime to reduce life cycle costs, provide early detection of defects and improve reliability sustainability of structures is of vital importance in many engineering fields, such as civil, aerospace and mechanical engineering. Ultrasonic guided waves have been wide recognized as one of the effective and reliable techniques for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) applications because of their high sensitivity to small and different types of defects, moderately large inspection ranges, and flexibility of implementing on structures through a wide range of standard and built-in transducers. The talk provides an overview of studies and techniques devoted to developments of ultrasonic guided wave for NDE and SHM. Different examples on using ultrasonic guided waves are given to illustrate their capability and applications. The talk will first focus on linear ultrasonic guided waves and then focus on recent developments on using nonlinear ultrasonic guided waves.

About the Speaker:

Dr Alex Ching-Tai Ng is Director of Graduate Studies in Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, and Associate Professor in School of Civil Environmental & Mining Engineering at The University of Adelaide. He received his B.Eng and M.Phil from City University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D from The University of Queensland.

His research interest has been in the areas of structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing, smart materials and structures, and vibration testing. He leads a research group focusing on developments of guided wave and vibration techniques for structural health monitoring and damage identification at The University of Adelaide. He is Associate Editor and member of Executive Committee for Structural Health Monitoring An International Journal, and Associate Editor of Engineering Structures.

He is an elected member of Executive Committee of Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) and Council Member of International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures (ISHMII). He is member of National Committee on Applied Mechanics (NCAM), Engineers Australia. He was the recipient of The Nishino Prize at 2016 East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, and 2013 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award.

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