Ben Franklin Center of Excellence in Structural Health Monitoring
- Brochure
- Charter
- Mission
- Goals
- Meetings
- Projects
- Founding Members
- Sources
- Contact Info

Ben Franklin Center of Excellence in Structural Health Monitoring

:-) NEXT MEETING DATE: 3-4 November 2008 @ Nittany Lion Inn :-)

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Center Information:Faculty Areas of Expertise Laboratory Facilities Sponsored Projects Faculty Publications Faculty Resumes

SHM Short Course Brochure July 8-10, 2008 at Penn State

Brochure

CoE SHM Brochure (pdf) This colorful brochure briefly highlights the CoE in Structural Health Monitoring and features recent projects on vibration monitoring and ultrasonic tomography (2 pages).

Charter

C H A R T E R

Download charter as pdf This document concisely outlines the mission, objectives, vision, strategy, scope of operations, and membership opportunities for the CoE in Structural Health Monitoring.

Advance the state-of-the-art in structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve public safety, reduce maintenance costs, improve readiness, and foster a paradigm shift in design by leveraging and fostering collaborative R&D efforts between academia, industry, and government entities. Provide a means for transferring technology to member companies, agencies, and institutions.

Goals

Spur the research and development of new SHM technologies
Transfer SHM technologies to member companies to give them a competitive advantage
Make PA a hotspot for structural health monitoring, creating a new high tech job market that will provide jobs for residents and draw people and SHM industries to PA
Train students to provide an outstanding workforce pool in the SHM technology areas

What is SHM?

Meetings

CoE SHM Fall 2008 Preliminary Program, 3-4 Nov 08

Register for Fall Meeting here! :-) NEW :-)

CoE SHM Spring 2008 Meeting Program (revised 4/1/08)

Viewing the April '08 and Nov '07 meeting presentations requires a USERID and PASSKEY. Contact Cliff Lissenden if you are interested in the Center and viewing the presentations Lissenden@psu.edu

16-17 April 2008 Meeting Presentations

7-8 November 2007 Meeting Presentations

Final Meeting Program Fall 2007 (revised 10/24/07)

12-13 April 2007 Meeting Presentations

CoE SHM Spring 2007 Meeting Program

CoE SHM Spring 2007 Meeting Preliminary Program

Ben Franklin Center of Excellence Announcement

Projects

The first Center funded project, “New Sensors for Improved Ultrasonic Guided Wave Tomography in SHM,” will be led by Professor Joseph Rose. The project addresses the need for new, more robust and efficient, sensor technology to enable self diagnostic aircraft structures. Recent development of ultrasonic guided wave tomography and imaging potential for defect detection will be leveraged to create new geometric sensor designs. These new sensors will enable advancement of physically based defect imaging. A progress report was given at the Spring 2008 meeting.

Founding Members

Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, CT, Contacts: James Cycon and Mark Davis; Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of military and commercial helicopters; fixed-wing aircraft; spare parts and maintenance, repair and overhaul services for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft; and civil helicopter operations. Sikorsky helicopters are used by all five branches of the United States armed forces, along with military services and commercial operators in 40 nations. Our well known rotary wing products include the BLACK HAWK, SEAHAWK, H-53 and Schweizer light helicopters. Our fixed wing aircraft include Schweizer reconnaissance airplanes as well as the PZL Mielec Sky Truck and Dromader airplanes.

Sikorsky Aerospace Services, provides full-spectrum service solutions to fixed and rotary wing, commercial and military customers worldwide. SAS comprehensive support is designed to minimize operator downtime, improve ease of use, and reduce cost of ownership. From newly engineered logistics programs to industry-recognized maintenance, repair and overhaul services and parts requisition, Sikorsky Aerospace Services keeps you flying.

Intelligent Automation Inc, Rockville, MD, Contact: Xiaoliang (George) Zhao xzhao@i-a-i.com; Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) is a woman owned firm founded in 1987. Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland and with over 100 researchers and technical staff, IAI has maintained its character as a diverse R&D “think tank.” Our current areas of research, applications, and products focus on distributed intelligent systems, networks, signal processing, controls, robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, health monitoring, electro-mechanical systems, forensics, and educational & training technology. Key application areas include defense, transportation, law enforcement, space, communications, and training. IAI has twice been honored with the prestigious “Tibbetts Award” from the Small Business Administration and the Small Business Technology Council for excellence in technology research and commercialization.

Impact Technologies, LLC, Rochester, NY, Contact: Carl Byington Carl.Byington@impact-tek.com;

GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies, Lewistown, PA, Contact: Paul Meyer

GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies is part of GE Enterprise Solutions, a $5 billion business helping customers compete and win in a changing global environment by combining the power of GE’s unique expertise and intelligent technology to drive customers’ productivity and profitability.

GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies is a leading innovator in advanced measurement, sensor-based and inspection solutions that deliver accuracy, productivity and safety to its customers. The company designs and manufactures sensing instruments that measure temperature, pressure, moisture, gas and flow rate for demanding customer applications. It also designs, manufactures and services inspection equipment, including radiographic, ultrasonic, remote visual and eddy current, that monitors and tests materials without disassembly, deforming or damaging them. Its products are used in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, power generation, aerospace, transportation and healthcare. The company has 4,700 employees at more than 40 facilities in 25 countries worldwide.

Siemens Power Generation, Orlando, FL, Contact: Pedy Chan

As one of the world's leading power engineering companies, Siemens delivers innovative and environmental-friendly solutions. The company develops and builds fossil fuel power plants and power-generating components as well as wind turbines. Instrumentation and control systems, fuel cell technology and extensive services round out the portfolio.