Monday, May 15, 2017

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:50 Registration - Accreditation and withdrawal of workshop material  
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome/Opening Remarks - Dr. Oliver McGee, III (Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering - TTU)  
09:10 - 09:55 Fleet monitoring for failure prognosis (ICC 105 A-B) - Dr. Jan Helsen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab, Belgium  
10:00 - 10:30 PHM for Off-Shore Energy Systems (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Shuangwen Sheng  
10:00 - 10:30 › Cost reductions for offshore wind plants through structural health and prognostics management - Dr. D. Todd Griffith, Sandia National Laboratories, USA  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (ICC 105 A-B)  
11:00 - 12:05 PHM for Off-Shore Energy Systems (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Shuangwen Sheng  
11:00 - 11:30 › O&M strategy map and costs for U.S. offshore wind - Mr. Tyler Stehly, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA  
11:35 - 12:05 › Drill string dynamics and uncertainties - Dr. Thiago Ritto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  
12:05 - 13:30 Luncheon  
13:00 - 13:30 Luncheon Presentation - Vector-phase analysis of bearing defect on the base of wave health monitoring (WHM) (ICC 105 A-B) - Mr. Edgard Grant (Advanced Vector Analytics - Latvia)  
13:30 - 14:15 Stochastic modeling for system remaining life prognosis (ICC 105 A-B) - Dr. Robert Gao, Case Western Reserve University, USA  
14:20 - 14:50 Emerging Technologies on Sensing and Filtering (ICC 105 A-B) - Chairs: Dr. Aparecido C. Gonçalves and Dr. João Paulo Dias  
14:20 - 14:50 › Location of ompacts on composite plates via piezoelectric rosettes - Dr. Vicente Lopes Jr, State University of São Paulo, Brazil  
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee break (ICC 105 A-B)  
15:20 - 16:25 Emerging Technologies on Sensing and Filtering (ICC 105 A-B) - Chairs: Dr. Aparecido C. Gonçalves and Dr. João Paulo Dias  
15:20 - 15:50 › Next generation smart, state-aware materials for enabling prognostic health management - Dr. Douglas Adams, Vanderbilt University, USA  
15:55 - 16:25 › Optical sensing for structural dynamics, structural health monitoring, and wind energy - Dr. Christopher Niezrecki, University of Massachusetts, USA  
16:30 - 17:30 Panel Discussion (ICC 105 A-B) - New Trends in PPHM - Chair: Dr. Stephen Ekwaro-Osire  

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Time Event  
08:10 - 09:10 Registration - Accreditation and withdrawal of workshop material  
09:10 - 09:55 Vibration and wave energy harvesting by exploiting nonlinearities and metamaterials (ICC 105 A-B) - Dr. Alper Erturk (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)  
10:00 - 10:30 Vibration Based PHM (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Americo Cunha Jr  
10:00 - 10:30 › Performance analysis of a multi degree of freedom piezoelastic energy harvester from structural vibrations - Dr. Paulo Sérgio Varoto, University of São Paulo, Brazil  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (ICC 105 A-B)  
11:00 - 12:05 Vibration Based PHM (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Americo Cunha Jr  
11:00 - 11:30 › Reference-free detection of minute, non-visible, damage using full-field, high-resolution mode shapes output-only identified from digital videos of structures - Dr. Chuck Farrar, Los Alamos Laboratory, USA  
11:35 - 12:05 › Time-frequency MUSIC beamforming for nondestructive evaluations of shell structures using ultrasonic Lamb waves - Dr. Yong-Joe Kim, Texas A&M University, USA  
12:05 - 13:30 Luncheon (ICC 105 A-B)  
13:00 - 13:15 Sponsor Presentation - An overview of TTU's Global laboratory for energy asset management and manufacturing initiatives (ICC 105 A-B) - Mrs. Annette Sobel (Director GLEAMM)  
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Exhibition (ICC 105 A-B)  
14:30 - 15:15 When will it break? (ICC 105 A-B) - Dr. Kai Goebel (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)  
15:20 - 15:50 Internet-of-Things for PHM (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Fisseha Alemayehu  
15:20 - 15:50 › Creating meaningful physics based analysis of large data sets in wind energy - Dr. Carsten Westergaard, Texas Tech University, USA  
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break (ICC 105 A-B)  
16:20 - 17:25 Internet-of-Things for PHM (ICC 105 A-B) - Chair: Dr. Fisseha Alemayehu  
16:20 - 16:50 › Big data-enabled PHM for wind turbines: opportunities and challenges - Dr. Shuangwen Sheng, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA  
16:55 - 17:25 › Characterization and simulation of inhomogeneous and non-stationary turbulent wind fields for assessment of wind turbine reliability - Dr. Jason McNeill, Envision Energy, USA  
17:30 - 17:40 Wrap up/Closing Remarks  

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Time Event  
10:00 - 11:00 NWI Tour - Visit to National Wind Institute (NWI) facilities. http://www.depts.ttu.edu/nwi  
11:00 - 12:00 Group NIRE Tour - Visit to Group NIRE test and research facilities. http://groupnire.com