Professor Victor Giurgiutiu from University of South Carolina visited JI

Professor Victor Giurgiutiu visited JI on May 20th, 2016. He delivered a presentation which addressed the structural health monitoring (SHM) and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) research performed in the laboratory for active materials and smart structures (LAMSS) of the University of South Carolina, USA. The presentation covered (a) the research team; (b) main research facilities and equipment; (c) principal fundamental research thrusts; major research projects. His presentation ended with conclusions and suggestions for the future work.

Biosketch:

Dr. Victor Giurgiutiu received his BSc(Eng) in Aeronautics and his PhD in Aeronautical Structures from Imperial College, London, UK in 1972 and 1977, respectively. He has a wide research interest in structural mechanics that spans active materials, smart structures, structural health monitoring, mechatronics, and other multi-physics applications. Dr. Giurgiutiu is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Active Materials and Smart Structures (LAMSS) at the University of South Carolina. He has published 7 books, 16 book chapters, 102 archival journal articles, and many conference papers. He is widely cited worldwide with h-index=39. His book on Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (Elsevier Academic Press, now at the 2ndEd.) has been cited ~750 times, and two of his seminal papers have received ~500 and ~400 citations, respectively. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), Fellow of ASME, and Associate Fellow of AIAA. Dr. Giurgiutiu serves as Special Issues Editor to theStructural Health Monitoring – An International Journal (Sage, UK). He is Associate Editor to the Aeronautical Journal of RAeS and Associate Editor to the International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems (Inderscience Pub., Switzerland). He was recognized with Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award 2003 and asNondestructive Evaluation Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. He has recently completed his duty as co-chair of the SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and NDE which comprises 10 parallel conferences and has an international participation of over 800 attendees. During 2006-2009 he served as Structural Mechanics Program Manager with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).