SPECIAL SESSION #08

Leandro Maio

The University of Manchester

• leandro.maio@manchester.ac.uk

Vittorio Memmolo

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

• vittorio.memmolo@unina.it

Federico Carere

Telematic University Pegaso

• federico.carere@uniroma1.it

Alessandro Sardellitti

Universitas Mercatorum

• sardellitti@unimercatorum.it

Within the field of aerospace structural design, Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) is one of the most critical aspects. In fact, today, with the aim to guarantee the safety for both persons and components in the aerospace field, a wide range of NDT procedures ensure that not a single manufactured component reaches service without first passing a series of stringent tests. New researches in this field have strategic and essential role in order to reduce the NDT costs and improve the test performance. As natural evolution of NDT procedures, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been developing fast with the aim to reduce maintenance costs and limit design constraints. Continuous monitoring of aerospace components ensures high levels of safety reducing the number of inspections as well. This Special Session aims to represent a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government interested in methods, systems, and devices for NDT and SHM of equipment for aerospace security and maintenance.

Topics for this Special Session include but are not limited to:

• Methods and systems for designing, optimizing, and characterizing NDT instruments and devices;
• New NDT investigation methods;
• New SHM methodologies and damage assessment criteria;
• Methods and devices to optimize the performance of existing NDT techniques;
• Data processing and advanced techniques for NDT and SHM measurements;
• Sensors and Transducers for NDT/SHM in aerospace applications;
• Advanced techniques for NDT measurements;
• Reliability of NDT/SHM;
• NDT 4.0.

Leandro Maio is Lecturer with the Department of Materials, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research interests focus mainly on modeling of the materials behavior, structural health monitoring based on guided waves, non-destructive testing, aircraft icing, low velocity impacts, adhesive bonding.

Vittorio Memmolo is Assistant Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy. His main research interests include structural health monitoring, load monitoring, measurements, mechanics of composites and preliminary design of aircraft structures.

Federico Carere is tenure-track researcher with the Department of Information Science and Technology, Telematic University Pegaso. His research activity is focused on non-destructive testing based on eddy-current techniques especially for aerospace sector.

Alessandro Sardellitti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Science at Universitas Mercatorum. His research interests include the development of measurement methodologies, numerical modeling, and experimental set-ups for Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation, particularly in Eddy Current Testing.