1/13-17/2019 Attended Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Friend of: AFF40-Standing Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures AFF40(1)-Subcommittee, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Structures AHD30-Standing Committee on Structures Maintenance AHD30(3)-Subcommittee, Structural Health Monitoring AHD37-Standing Committee on Bridge Preservation
2/12/2019 US 10,203,268Methods for measuring and modeling the process of prestressing concrete during tensioning/detensioning based on electronic distance measurements, issued.
9/27/2018 US 2018/0278342 Apparatus and methods for emergency mine communications using acoustic waves, time synchronization, and digital signal processing, published.
8/27-29/2018 Attended NDE/NDT for Structural Materials Technology for Highway and Bridges (SMT) and International Symposium on Non- Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE) Conference.
7/23-27/2018 Attended 34th Annual Coordinate Metrology Society Conference. Gave paper on Experimental Uncertainty Analysis for Nondestructive Testing of the CSX Wilbur Bridge Using Electronic Distance Measurements to Measure 3-D Coordinates of Cardinal Points. Presentation slides available. Full paper to be published in the Proceedings.
7/10/2018 US 10,020,895Methods and apparatus for Emergency Mine Communications Using Acoustic Waves Time Synchronization and Digital Signal Processing issued.
5/31-6/1/2018 Attended Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Law Institute (RMIPI)
3/26-29/2018 Attended ASNT Research Symposium Gave paper on Opportunities for the use of electronic distance measurement instruments in nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring and implications for ASNT. Proceedings are scheduled to be available 8/16/2018.
1/7-11/2018 Attended Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Friend of: AFF40-Standing Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures AFF40(1)-Subcommittee, Non-Destructive Evaluation of Structures AHD30-Standing Committee on Structures Maintenance AHD30(3)-Subcommittee, Structural Health Monitoring AHD37-Standing Committee on Bridge Preservation
8/6-10/2017 Attended SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications Conference Gave invited paper 10376-8, Aberrations of temporally modulated optical wavefronts in dispersive optical systems. SPIE Vol. 10376, 1037609-1. Download copy.
7/17-21/2017 Attended Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) Gave paper, Opportunities for the use of electronic distance measurement instruments in nondestructive testing and structural health monitoring applications and how instrument manufacturers can facilitate early adopters in new fields. Published in Quality Digest August 16, 2017. Download copy.
3/25-29/2017 Attended SPIE Smart Structures NDE Gave paper 10169-43, Nondestructive testing and monitoring of stiff large-scale structures by measuring 3D coordinates of cardinal points using electronic distance measurements in a trilateration architecture. SPIE Vol. 10169, 1016918-1. Download copy.
9/22/2016 Methods for measuring and modeling the process of prestressing concrete during tensioning/detensioning based on electronic distance measurements was published.
8/1/2016 Patent 9,354,043, Methods for measuring and modeling the structural health of pressure vessels based on electronic distance measurements was reviewed in the August issue of ASNT Materials Evaluation, pp. 1140-1142.
7/11/2016 Proposal submitted for NineSigma Statoil Contest #7260180, Health Assessment of Insulated Pressure Vessels.
5/31/2016 Methods for measuring and modeling the structural health of pressure vessels based on electronic distance measurements was issued.
5/26/2016 Methods for measuring and modeling the process of prestressing concrete during tensioning/detensioning based on electronic distance measurements was filed.
5/15/2016 Article in The Daily Progress about Sua sponte establishment of large-scale person-to-person emergency electronic messaging communications based in part on subscriber telephone numbers. 1/26/2016 Sua sponte establishment of large-scale person-to-person emergency electronic messaging communications based in part on subscriber telephone numbers was issued.