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4/2025
Our research group is excited to announce the publication of a new patent titled "Non-Contact System and Method for Inspecting Railroad Track Using a Laser Doppler Vibrometer," now officially published and available through the UT Office of Technology Commercialization: View Patent.
2/2025
Congratulations to Mir Mohammad for earning 1st place at the 2025 CAEE Department Graduate Student Symposium!
1/2025
Our NIH-Funded Research on Ultrasonic Rodent Behavioral Phenotyping Featured by TEXAS RESEARCH: Design Thinking Sparks Novel Research Among Newly Tenured Faculty Link
10/2024
We are thrilled to be part of the National University Rail Center of Excellence (NURail CoE), recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), this $5 million initiative aims to advance research and development in rail transportation, focusing on improving safety, efficiency, and reliability for both passenger and freight systems. The center also emphasizes workforce development to shape the future of the rail industry. As one of the nine partner institutions in the consortium, we are excited to contribute to this groundbreaking effort! Link
09/2024
Paper Alert! AN IMPULSIVE NOISE FILTER FOR RAIL VIBRATION MEASUREMENTS USING A LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER ON A MOVING PLATFORM – has been published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing! Congratulations Korkut! Link
07/2024
Paper Alert! An explainable variational autoencoder model for three-dimensional acoustic emission source localization in hollow cylindrical structures – has been published in @Sage Publishing and Structural Health Monitoring! Congratulations Tony! Link
03/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Salamone, who has been promoted to Full Professor! Link
02/2024
My research group has just received an award from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) SENSE grant! More to come!.
10/2023
Big news! My research group has just received an award from Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) through the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) program! More to come, stay tuned. That said, we are hiring! Postdoc position available in computer vision and reinforced concrete structures. Link
10/2023
Paper Alert! "Super excited to announce our first paper investigating the link between acoustic emissions and behavioral parameters in rodents is now published!
Thanks to @UTexasResearch for instigating this collaboration between @CockrellSchool and @ut_neuroscience!
09/2023
Thrilled to share the news that Dr. Helwig, Dr. Hebdon and I got funded by the TXDOT. The project will focus on develop assessment and mitigation guidance for ancillary highway structures with existing cracks.
08/2023
Super excited to announce that Dr. Novoselac and I, just got a US Airforce grant to study deployable passive cooling with passive radiative composite (PRC) metamaterial,
08/2023
Paper Alert! "Missing Rail Fastener Detection Based on Laser Doppler Vibrometer Measurements" has been published online in @SpringerNature, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation,#SharedIt, Congratulations Chi and Korkut! #NDT #Railways #HookEm, https://rdcu.be/dgWly
06/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Chi Yang @ut_caee who earned second place in the Michael Sutton international student paper competition at the 2023 SEM annual conference and exposition on experimental and applied mechanics! Proud of you Chi! #HookEm Read more: https://sem.org/annualispc Link
05/2023
Paper Alert! A rail defect detection system based on laser Doppler vibrometer measurements – has been published in @ElsevierConnect #NDT&E! Congratulations Korkut and Chi! #NDT #Railways Link
04/2023
Dr. Salvatore Salamone and Mr. Tony Lee (Ph.D. student) have been selected by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) board of directors to receive the 2023 ASNT Fellowship Award. Recognition will be given at the annual awards banquet of the 2023 ASNT Annual Conference in Houston, TX in October 2023.
02/2023
Our paper on “Frequency-based leak signature investigation using acoustic sensors in urban water distribution networks" has been published on Advanced Engineering Informatics, Volume 55, January 2023, 101905 . Congratulations Konstantinos! Link
01/2023
Our paper on “Investigation of wave propagation and attenuation in periodic supported rails using wave finite element method" has been published on Acta Mechanica| 10.1007/s00707-023-03484-8 . Congratulations Chi! Link
01/2023
Dr. Salamone joins the editorial board of ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering as a new Associate Editor. Link
12/2022
Rail Defect Detection system @ut_caee. How it started vs How it’s going! Big shout out to the students involved! Korkut, Chi and Junghoon, I’m very grateful for your many contributions to our team! Also, major thanks to @USDOTFRA @BNSFRailway @PolytecInc for making this happen! Link
08/2022
Dr. Salamone joins the editorial board of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal, as a new Associate Editor. Link
07/2022
Dr. Salvatore Salamone received the 2022 SHM Person of the Year Award! Link
07/2022
Our paper on “Evaluation of Fastening Modeling Approaches for Dynamic Assessment of Rail Based on Finite-Element Method" has been published on Journal of Engineering Mechanics | Vol 148, No 9. Congratulations Chi! Link
06/2022
Our paper on “Our paper on "Numerical Simulations to Examine the Interaction of Train-Induced Guided Waves With Transverse Cracks", has been published on journal of the TRB, Transportation Research Record. Congratulations Korkut! : Link.
06/2022
Our paper on “Monitoring internal corrosion in steel pipelines: a two-step helical guided wave approach for localization and quantification ” has been published in Journal of SHM: Link. Congratulations Stylianos!
05/2022
Welcome to our newest lab members! Dr. Shivashankar Peruvazhuthi (Postdoc), and Nathan Wilson (PhD student). Great to have you on the team! Link
12/2021
Super excited to announce that Prof. M. Drew and I, just got a NIH R21 grant to study how ultrasonic waves can be used for monitoring behavioral and physiologic parameters in rodents. Thanks to @UTAustinVPR for instigating this collaboration between @ut_caee and @ut_neuroscience. Link
11/2021
Big news! My research group has just received an award from The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)! More to come, stay tuned. That said, we are hiring! Postdoc position available in ultrasonic sensing systems. Link
09/2021
Thrilled to share the news that we got funded by the DOE through the NEUP program. The project will focus on inspection and monitoring of dry cask storage systems. Link
08/2021
Dr. Salamone and Dr. Hall receive collaborative grant from CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY LP for Identification/Development of the Base Requirements for a New, Non-Invasive Pipe Sensing and Imaging System
04/2021
A former member of our group, Dr. Ehsan Dehghan Niri recently received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations Ehsan! . Link
04/2021
Our paper on "A deep learning framework for acoustic emission sources localization and characterization in complex aerospace panels" has been published in Materials Evaluation – Congratulations Arvin! Link
12/2020
Paper Alert! Acoustic emission diagnostics of corrosion monitoring in prestressed concrete using hidden Markov and semi-Markov models – Congratulations Brennan! Link
11/2020
Our paper on “Monitoring internal corrosion in steel pipelines: a two-step helical guided wave approach for localization and quantification ” has been published in Journal of SHM: Link. Congratulations Stylianos!
09/2020
Dr. Salamone has been selected by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) to be part of the Group of Evaluation Experts (GEV) for the evaluation of research quality 2015-2019 in the civil engineering programs. Link
09/2020
As we start the new Fall quarter, I am delighted to move four valued lab members to the Alum section! Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico Tech; Brennan Dubuc is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied Research Laboratories at The University of Texas at Austin; Apostolos Athanasiou is now a Senior Engineer at Thornton Tomasetti Inc; and Melanie B Schneider is now a mechanical engineer at Applied Research Associates in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Congratulations to all, come back to visit and we will celebrate in-person when we are able!
09/2020
Our paper on “Identification of Bending Modes of Vibration in Rails by a Laser Doppler Vibrometer on a Moving Platform” has been published in Journal of Experimental Techniques : https://doi.org/10.1007/s40799-020-00401-9. Congratulations Korkut!
09/2020
Dr. Salamone is being appointed to the Phil M. Ferguson Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering. “Endowed faculty fellowships are intended to reward unusually successful faculty members as their careers progress on a trajectory toward greater acclaim and larger endowments. These are intended for faculty at any academic rank whose productivity and promise are clearly well above the norm.”
08/2020
Dr. Salamone and Dr. Polina Sela receive the 2020 ConTex Collaborative Research Grant. The project, “Smart leak detection in water networks through low-cost nonintrusive distributed acoustic sensors”, is a research collaboration between CINVESTAV-Unidad Saltillo in Mexico and The University of Texas at Austin.
03/2020
Our paper on “Crack-induced guided wave motion and modal excitability in plates using elastodynamic reciprocity” has been published in Journal of Sound and Vibration, free access available for limited time: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022460X20301188. Congratulations Brennan!
02/2020
Our paper on "Single-Sensor Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Plate-Like Structures Using Deep Learning" has been selected as the Aerospace Best Paper Awards 2018 @MDPIOpenAccess https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/7/3/22. Congrats Arvin!
12/2019
Our paper on "A machine learning approach based on multifractal features for crack assessment of reinforced concrete shells" has been published on Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering! Well done Apostolos! Link
08/2019
Our paper on “Inversion algorithm for Lamb-wave-based depth characterization of acoustic emission sources in plate-like structures” has been published in Ultrasonics, free access available for limited time: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041624X1930318X
06/2019
Dr. Salamone receives a grant from the USDOT/Federal Rail Administration (FRA) in Support of Rail Safety.
05/2019
Our paper on “A generalizable deep learning framework for localizing and characterizing acoustic emission sources in riveted metallic panels” has been published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, free access available for limited time: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Z2ve39~t0RW-Y#.XN8MH5s9dVQ.twitter …
04/2019
Professor Salamone receives the 2019 Department Teaching Award. The award is presented to a faculty member who has excelled in teaching and has demonstrated exceptional motivation of students in the classroom. Link
04/2019
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Apostolos Athanasiou on receiving the 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Link
03/2019
The SSRG will be well represented @SPIEevents conference in Denver next week. Four presentations showing our recent results on #ultrasonic wave-based SHM for #pipelines,#aircrafts, #bridges, #prestressed-structures. Link
02/2019
How UT is encouraging faculty members to think outside the (tenure) box and try something new. Link
02/2019
Dr. Salamone joins the editorial board of Sensors
12/2018
Dr. Salamone is organizing a special session entitled: Recent advances on data processing techniques for Ultrasonics-based SHM/NDE, @iwshm 2019 @Stanford . Please send me an email if you are interested. Further information can be found @ http://web.stanford.edu/group/sacl/workshop/IWSHM2019/index.html
11/2018
Dr. Salamone and Dr. Michael Drew (Associate Professor, Neuroscience) receive collaborative grant from the VPR's through the Associate Professor Experimental (APX) initiative, for investigating neural mechanisms of fear and anxiety in laboratory mice. Link
10/2018
Dr. Salamone receives grant from @PHMSA_DOT for pipeline safety research and innovation. (US_DOT Link), (The Daily Texan Link)
08/2018
Congratulations to Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou for successfully defending his Phd thesis today#HookEm @ut_caee
07/2018
Congratulations to Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou for winning the 60th AEWG student paper competition with the paper titled as Acoustic Emission Monitoring of a Nuclear Containment Wall during Post-tensioning: Data Minining and Knowledge Discovery.
06/2018
Congratulations to Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou for winning the 3rd place in the Structural Health Monitoring and Control (#SHMC) student competition at the ASCE EMI 2018 conference in Boston! Congrats Arvin!
06/2018
Our paper on "Computation of propagating and non-propagating guided modes in nonuniformly stressed plates using spectral methods" has been published@ASA_JASA! Well done Brennan!
05/2018
Dr. Salvatore Salamone and Mr. Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou (Ph.D. student) have been selected by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) board of directors to receive the 2018 ASNT Fellowship Award. Recognition will be given at the annual awards banquet of the 2018 ASNT Annual Conference in Houston, TX during the week of October 28-31, 2018.Link
05/2018
Our paper on "Localization of multiple acoustic emission events occurring closely in time in thin-walled pipes using sparse reconstruction" has been published in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. Congrats Brennan!
05/2018
Our paper on "Single-Sensor Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Plate-Like Structures Using Deep Learning" has been published in Aerospace as part of the Special Issue Selected Papers from IWSHM 2017. Congrats Arvin!
03/2018
Our @ut_caee graduate program is ranked #2 in the nation according to @usnews 2019 rankings! #bestgradschools #hookem http://bit.ly/2FOkSYJ
02/2018
Happy to announce that Dr. Salamone has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective September 1, 2018
12/2017
Our paper on "Higher order longitudinal guided wave modes in axially stressed seven-wire strands" has been published in Ultrasonics.
12/2017
Our paper on "The effect of applied stress on the phase and group velocity of guided waves in anisotropic plates" has been published in JASA!
10/2017
Dr. Salamone receives Federal Rail Administration (FRA) grant
09/2017
Dr. Salamone receives ExxonMobil grant
08/2017
Our paper on a probabilistic framework for single-sensor acoustic emission source localization in thin metallic plates has been published in Smart Materials and Structures.
06/2017
Dr. Salamone joins the editorial board of Mathematical Problems in Engineering
05/2017
Congratulations to Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou for passing his PhD Comprehensive Exam. Congratulations Arvin!
05/2017
Dr. Salamone receives Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant
04/2017
Dr. Salamone joins the editorial board of Acoustics
02/2017
Dr. Salamone joins the International Organization Committee of the 11th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring
01/2017
SSRG Alumni Ehsan Dehghan-Niri (PhD, 2014) has joined the Civil Engineering Department at New Mexico State University as Assistant Professor. Congratulations Ehsan!
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