NON-DETERMINISTIC APPROACHES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING
September 23 2013, 13.00-14.00EST Conference Call
Chairman:
Vice Chairman:
Secretary:
Barron Bichon
Ben Smarslok
Shyama Kumari
Attendance List (in alphabetical order):
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Name
Barron Bichon
Michael P. Enright
Gianluca Iaccarino
T. Krishnamurthy
Shyama Kumari
Yongming Liu
Laura Lurati
Ravi Penmetsa
Jason E. Pepin
Svetlana Poroseva
Masoud Rais-Rohani
Vicente Romero
Benjamin Smarslok
Ben H. Thacker
Tony Torng
Eric Tuegel
Qiqi Wang
Markus P. Rumpfkeil
Mike Eldred
Chris L. Pettit
Associate Members
1 Shankar Sankararaman
2 Girish Modgil
Affiliate/Friend
1 Pingfeng Wang
2 Mark Haney
3 Galib H. Abumeri
Affiliation
Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research Institute
Stanford University
NASA
Pratt & Whitney
Clarkson University
The Boeing Company
Air Force Research Laboratory
Los Alamos National
Laboratory
University of New Mexico
Mississippi State University
Sandia National Laboratories
Air Force Research Laboratory
Southwest Research Institute
The Boeing Company
Air Force Research Laboratory
MIT
University of Dayton
Sandia National Laboratories
U.S. Naval Academy
barron.bichon@swri.org
michael.enright@swri.org
jops@stanford.edu
t.krishnamurthy@nasa.gov
shyama.kumari@pw.utc.com
yliu@clarkson.edu
laura.b.lurati@boeing.com
ravi.penmetsa@wpafb.af.mil
jpepin@lanl.gov
poroseva@unm.edu
masoud@ae.msstate.edu
vjromer@sandia.gov
Benjamin.Smarslok@wpafb.af.mil
bthacker@swri.edu
tony.y.torng@boeing.com
eric.tuegel@wpafb.af.mil
qiqi@mit.edu
markus.rumpfkeil@udayton.edu
mseldre@sandia.gov
pettitcl@usna.edu
NASA Ames
Rolls Royce
shankar.sankararaman@gmail.com
girish.modgil@rolls-royce.com
Wichita State University
AFRL
FAA LA
pingfeng.wang@wichita.edu
mark.haney@wpafb.af.mil
galib.abumeri@faa.gov
Meeting Minutes
Opening remarks by TC chair Barron Bichon
TC made good progress in assigning different subcommittee members this summer. Thank
you for volunteering on the subcommittee tasks.
Membership report by Ben Smarslok:
Academic
Industry
Government/Org.
TC Full Members (excluding Int)
International (Full)
Affiliate/Friend
Associate Members
Alumni
TC Total (Full, Int., Assoc.,
Alumni)
Overall Total Count
27
12
16
34
5
9
6
1
46
55
Percentage
49%
22%
29%
max = 35
max = 50
Other membership related updates
- Christos Chamis and Curtis Larsen moved to Alumnus status and Jay Martin moved
to Affiliate status.
- Sondipon Adhikari recently became an AIAA Associate Fellow
AIAA NDA TC Activity Rating
- Rating system is used to ensure activity of our members and reinforce reasons for
promotion of Associate Members and Affiliates to Full Members. The evaluation
period is the past two years, including 2 SciTech conferences. Activity of TC
Members is expected in the following form. The weighted points indicate the level of
impact on the TC:
1.5pts – NDA TC Office position
1.0pt – Subcommittee member
0.5pts – Liaison
2pts – NDA Conference Chair position
1pt – Special Session organizer
1pt – Student paper judge
0.5pts – Abstract or paper reviewer, session chair, and attendance
2013 AIAA NDA TC Membership Application Deadline
- This year’s TC Membership application deadline is Nov. 1, 2013. Any
prospective Associate or Full Member can use the online nomination form
found on the AIAA website at:
https://www.aiaa.org/TechCommitteeNomination.aspx
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New members and Affiliates/Friends must apply online. However, regarding the
limited Full member slots, we should move some deserving Associate members to
Full. But, new Associate members are encouraged to apply online. Associate
members DO NOT need to apply again through AIAA to become a Full Member. If
you wish to become a Full Member, contact me or someone on the Membership
Subcommittee. The Membership Subcommittee also continually evaluates Associate
member candidates and nominates those who are particularly active in the TC
and/or are now over 35 years of age.
Rosters are officially updated at the end of January. Full, current roster is included at the
end of the minutes.
TC Activity Rating: Due to an increased number of TC applicants and some confusion at
AIAA regarding membership status, we are currently at the maximum number of TC
members with 35 of 35 slots full. Therefore, to rotate in new, active members, we are
going to be relying on the TC activity report card. The metrics for the report card
include meeting attendance, sessions chaired, papers reviewed, and office positions.
The more inactive members are going to be requested to move to Affiliate status. Please
contact Ben Smarslok or Shyama Kumari if you have any concerns or questions.
Upcoming NDA Conference Chair and Tech Chairs:
Chair/Tech Chair:
2014 Thacker/Tuegel
2015 Tuegel/Rumpfkeil
2016 Rumpfkeil /???
2014 NDA conference statistics summarized by Eric Tuegel:
Abstracts received: 48
(48 in 2013)
Abstracts accepted: 44
(47 in 2013)
TBD papers withdrawn
(6 in 2013)
TBD papers presented
(48 in 2013)
9 sessions
(10 in 2013)
9 NDA student papers
(16 in 2013)
9 sessions, one in each time slot. There is no concurrent session. 3 special sessions for the
model validation, uncertainty quantification, and nondeterministic method for diagnostics
& prognostics are on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, respectively.
Keynote:
Dr. Ravi Chona (AFRL) is scheduled as the keynote speaker; Ben Thacker is also
working on plan B.
Student papers:
9 student papers are received for the competition. A monetary award will not be
available for 2014. Awards subcommittee should decide on a possible solution
before the conference, possibly providing a plaque and certificate. Award
subcommittee should decide on the award ceremony will be part of SDM or a
separate ceremony.
NDA conference challenges:
Abstracts are down, but membership is growing, and more new members are
encouraged. We need to increase participation. One way to increase submissions is
increasing the number of special sessions. Please submit ideas.
Next Year:
New Event Model goes into effect and SDM is combined with ASM at SciTech 2014,
13-17 January 2014 at National Harbor, MD. Ben Thacker (General Chair) and Eric
Tuegel (Technical Chair)
Deadlines: Abstracts due 6/5/2013, Papers due 12/12/2013
NASA has a UQ challenge problem and there will be an NDA Special Session for that.
Transition to SciTech (Barron Bichon/Ben Thacker)
For organizers, there is more TC now to manage. “Verification and Validation Best
Practices for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering” was originally proposed as
an NDA short course was later withdrawn due to schedule and material conflict with
another TC.
Education committee will meet up with Krishnamurthy to decide on a new mini-NDA
course (offered for free this year) for the duration of an entire session.
New NDA TC officers summarized by Barron Bichon:
2014 NDA Conference Tech Chair – Eric Tuegel
2013-2014 NDA-TC Chairmen – Barron Bichon
2013-2014 NDA-TC Vice Chair – Ben Smarslok
Elections:
NDA Technical Chair (2016) to be elected.
Subcommittee Updates:
Conference:
It was suggested that a SC member become a Student Paper Chair and interact
with the Awards SC. Spring 2013
Awards:
Ben Thacker raised remaining $5,140 (contributed by SWRI) to get the final $10,000
amount to create a perpetual one student paper award in NDA. We could raise
another $10,000 to secure another NDA award on student paper/presentation. The
award will begin from 2015; it will not be available for 2014. Awards
subcommittee should decide on a possible solution before next year’s
conference. Award subcommittee should decide on the award ceremony will be
part of SDM or a separate ceremony.
Publications:
NDA-TC year in review Aerospace America article has been received by Greg Wilson.
Shyama Kumari will be sending out reminders regarding submissions for the next
year Aerospace America article starting spring 2014.
Subcommittee member list:
Steering: TC Chair (Bichon), Thacker, Rais-Rohani, Singh, Rumpfkeil
Membership: TC Chair (Bichon), TC Vice Chair (?), TC Secretary (Smarslok), Pepin, Iaccarino, Romero
Awards: Adhikari, Rumpfkeil, Toropov, Lurati, Torng
Publication: Kumari, Tuegel, Wang, Romero, Rais-Rohani
Education: Venkataraman, Shin, Krishnamurthy, Singh, Liu
Conference: General Chair (Thacker), Technical Chair (Tuegel), Zhao, Graves
As a reminder, here are the roles of the Subcommittees:
Subcommittees are formed by the NDATC Chairperson to support the specific
objectives of the TC and perform the tasks required to support these objectives.
Members of the TC are assigned to work on the subcommittees in accordance with
their individual areas of knowledge and/or expertise.
Steering
The primary function of the steering committee is to participate in the planning and
oversight of the NDATC. The committee shall appoint members to all the standing
committees of the NDATC and supervise the activities of all standing and ad hoc
committees.
Conference
This subcommittee supports all conference related activities of the TC including: (1)
preparing of all conference approval documentation and coordination through TAC,
(2) overall management and technical program content of TC-sponsored
conferences/workshops, (3) coordinating with other TC’s and conferences and
workshops, and (4) sponsoring sessions/papers in the TC’s technical area at AIAA
and other society conferences.
Awards and Promotions
AIAA has many awards throughout the year and TC support is usually requested in
selecting the recipients. In addition, individual TC’s may have awards of their own
during the year. This subcommittee handles all award activities and may also be
assigned the responsibility for promoting member upgrade nominations for
Associate Fellow and Fellow. AIAA strongly recommends that each TC submit two or
more nominations for national awards that are aligned with the interests of their TC.
Publications
Each year Aerospace America publishes a highlights issue where each TC provides
an article describing the major accomplishments for the year in its technical area of
expertise. Members of the TC normally participate in writing sections of this article
and one member of this subcommittee is assigned the responsibility for combining
all of the inputs into an article of approximately 600 words in length. The highlights
article typically covers significant accomplishments on both a national and
international level of interest to the general aerospace community. Copies of
previous year’s contributions are posted on the NDATC website
https://info.aiaa.org/tac/adsg/NDATC/default.aspx
In addition, this subcommittee promotes preparation of position papers, technical
articles for the AIAA journals, is responsible for developing and maintaining the TC’s
Guidebook, and annually publishes and distributes a TC membership directory.
The NDATC Publications Subcommittee maintains the NDATC Procedures Manual
and Membership Directory. Under direction of the NDATC Chairperson, the NDATC
Procedures Manual is reviewed and updated annually and thereafter distributed to
the NDATC membership at the annual AIAA SDM Conference.
Prior to the annual spring NDATC meeting, the NDATC Chairperson sends the
NDATC Procedures Manual to each new incoming member. All information
presented in this Procedures Manual is for the exclusive use of the NDATC. Use of
this information outside the NDATC is authorized at the discretion of the NDATC
Chairperson.
Education
This subcommittee seeks and supports educational activities such as short courses
and colloquia related to the TC’s area of expertise. This subcommittee aggressively
supports furthering education at colleges and universities through its liaison with
the academic community and its support of AIAA student membership.
Membership
This subcommittee is responsible to review all the new and renewal of NDATC
membership applications.
Fellowships – April 15th was deadline for fellow nominations and June 15th is deadline for
fellows. Too late this year, but January conference timeframe might make it easier to
nominate fellows given AIAA’s timeline.
NDA course –Due to the new SciTech format, it’s a good opportunity to expose it to a new
audience. Suggestion to offer a new course that has a greater focus on UQ, rather than
our current reliability-focused course. Instructors and course material will need to be
developed. Any new course needs to be approved through the official AIAA process.
Liaison reports: To be added for final minutes.
AIAA Structures TC: Harry Hilton, Gossamer is renamed as space structures.
AIAA MDO TC: Mike Eldred, no report
AIAA Design TC: No report.
AIAA Fluids TC: Vicente Romero. UQ section added
ASCE: Michael Enright, Conference is becoming more and more applied, particular
emphasis on civil structures, not much on methods development, 500-600 in
attendance, loosing non-deterministic context.
ASME: ASME turbo expo, 2 paper session, another panel session and tutorial session,
50-60 people each session.
SAE: Smaller than 2-3 years ago, 8-10 session on reliability, UQ, sparse data, Weibull
distribution and extreme events. 40-50 people each session.
Next several SciTech conferences through Gaylord hotels (affiliated with Marriott):
2015 – Orlando, FL
2016 – San Diego, CA
2017 – Grapevine, TX
2018 – Orlando, FL
Next meeting: Spring 2014, Gaylord national, national harbor, Maryland, Date and
Time TBD.
AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches TC Roster – Spring 2013
Members
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Name
Organization
Email
1
Sondipon Adhikari
University of Wales-Swansea (Intl.)
s.adhikari@swansea.ac.uk
2
Philip Beran
Air Force Research Laboratory
philip.beran@wpafb.af.mil
3
Barron Bichon
Southwest Research Institute
barron.bichon@swri.org
4
Jeff Brown
Air Force Research Laboratory
jeffrey.brown@wpafb.af.mil
5
Christos Chamis
NASA Glenn Research Center
christos.c.chamis@aol.com
6
Seung-Kyum Choi
Georgia Institute of Technology
schoi@me.gatech.edu
7
Mike Eldred
Sandia National Laboratories
mseldre@sandia.gov
8
Michael P. Enright
Southwest Research Institute
michael.enright@swri.org
9
LeRoy Fitzwater
The Boeing Company
leroy.m.fitzwater@boeing.com
10
Peter Gosling
Newcastle University (Intl.)
p.d.gosling@newcastle.ac.uk
11
Ramana V. Grandhi
Wright State University
rgrandhi@cs.wright.edu
12
Rick Graves
Ohio Aerospace Institute
rick.graves@wpafb.af.mil
13
Serhat Hosder
Missouri University of Science and Technology
hosders@mst.edu
14
Gianluca Iaccarino
Stanford University
jops@stanford.edu
15
Nam Ho Kim
University of Florida
nkim@ufl.edu
16
T. Krishnamurthy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
t.krishnamurthy@nasa.gov
17
Shyama Kumari
Pratt & Whitney
shyama.kumari@pw.utc.com
18
Curtis E. Larsen
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
curtis.e.larsen@nasa.gov
19
Yongming Liu
Arizona State University
Yongming.liu@asu.edu
20
Laura Lurati
The Boeing Company
laura.b.lurati@boeing.com
21
Sankaran Mahadevan
Civil and Environmental Engineering
sankaran.mahadevan@vanderbilt.edu
22
Jay Martin
Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory
jdm111@psu.edu
23
Samy Missoum
University of Arizona
smissoum@ame.arizona.edu
24
David Moens
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Intl.)
david.moens@mech.kuleuven.be
25
Zissimos Mourelatos
Oakland University
mourelat@oakland.edu
26
Ravi Penmetsa
Air Force Research Laboratory
ravi.penmetsa@wpafb.af.mil
27
Jason E. Pepin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
jpepin@lanl.gov
28
Chris L. Pettit
U.S. Naval Academy
pettitcl@usna.edu
29
Svetlana Poroseva
University of New Mexico
poroseva@unm.edu
30
Masoud Rais-Rohani
Mississippi State University
masoud@ae.msstate.edu
31
Vicente Romero
Sandia National Laboratories
vjromer@sandia.gov
32
Youngwon Shin
Applied Research Associates, Inc.
yshin@ara.com
33
Gulshan Singh
GE Global Research
gulshansingh@gmail.com;
34
Benjamin Smarslok
Air Force Research Laboratory
Benjamin.Smarslok@wpafb.af.mil
35
Ben H. Thacker
Southwest Research Institute
bthacker@swri.edu
36
Tony Torng
The Boeing Company
tony.y.torng@boeing.com
37
Vassili Toropov
University of Leeds (Intl.)
v.v.toropov@leeds.ac.uk
38
Eric Tuegel
Air Force Research Laboratory
eric.tuegel@wpafb.af.mil
39
Satchi Venkataraman
San Diego State University
satchi@engineering.sdsu.edu
40
Byeng D. Youn
Seoul National University (Intl.)
bdyoun@snu.ac.kr
41
Jack Zhao
Pratt & Whitney
Jack.Zhao@pw.utc.com
Affiliate/Friend
#
Name
Organization
Email
1
Galib H. Abumeri
FAA Los Angeles Certification Office
Galib.Abumeri@faa.gov
2
Ha-Rok Bae
Wright State University
ha-rok.bae@wright.edu
3
Scott Burton
General Electric
scott.a.burton@ae.ge.com
4
Dan M. Ghiocel
GP Technologies Inc.
dan.ghiocel@ghiocel-tech.com
5
Mark Haney
Air Force Research Laboratory
Mark.Haney@wpafb.af.mil
6
Dimitri Mavris
Georgia Institute of Technology
dimitri.mavris@ae.gatech.edu
7
Efstratios Nikolaidis
University of Toledo, The
enikolai@eng.utoledo.edu
8
William L. Oberkampf
WLO Consulting
wloconsulting@gmail.com
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Name
Organization
Email
1
Erdem Acar
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
acar@etu.edu.tr
2
Girish Modgil
Rolls-Royce Corporation
girish.modgil@rolls-royce.com
3
Markus P. Rumpfkeil
University of Dayton
markus.rumpfkeil@udayton.edu
4
Shankar Sankararaman
NASA Ames
shankar.sankararaman@gmail.com
5
Qiqi Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
qiqi@mit.edu
6
Wei Wu
General Electric
wuw@ge.com
Associate Members
Alumni
#
Name
Organization
Email
1
Harry Hilton
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
h-hilton@uiuc.edu
Group email: s.adhikari@swansea.ac.uk; philip.beran@wpafb.af.mil;
barron.bichon@swri.org; jeffrey.brown@wpafb.af.mil; christos.c.chamis@aol.com;
schoi@me.gatech.edu; mseldre@sandia.gov; michael.enright@swri.org;
leroy.m.fitzwater@boeing.com; p.d.gosling@newcastle.ac.uk; rgrandhi@cs.wright.edu;
rick.graves@wpafb.af.mil; hosders@mst.edu; jops@stanford.edu; nkim@ufl.edu;
t.krishnamurthy@nasa.gov; shyama.kumari@pw.utc.com; curtis.e.larsen@nasa.gov;
yongming.liu@asu.edu; laura.b.lurati@boeing.com; sankaran.mahadevan@vanderbilt.edu;
smissoum@ame.arizona.edu; david.moens@mech.kuleuven.be; mourelat@oakland.edu;
ravi.penmetsa@wpafb.af.mil; jpepin@lanl.gov; pettitcl@usna.edu; poroseva@unm.edu;
masoud@ae.msstate.edu; vjromer@sandia.gov; yshin@ara.com; gulshansingh@gmail.com;
Benjamin.Smarslok@wpafb.af.mil; bthacker@swri.edu; tony.y.torng@boeing.com;
v.v.toropov@leeds.ac.uk; eric.tuegel@wpafb.af.mil; satchi@engineering.sdsu.edu;
bdyoun@snu.ac.kr; Jack.Zhao@pw.utc.com; acar@etu.edu.tr; girish.modgil@rollsroyce.com; markus.rumpfkeil@udayton.edu; shankar.sankararaman@gmail.com;
qiqi@mit.edu; wuw@ge.com; Galib.Abumeri@faa.gov; ha-rok.bae@wright.edu;
dan.ghiocel@ghiocel-tech.com; jdm111@psu.edu; dimitri.mavris@ae.gatech.edu;
enikolai@eng.utoledo.edu; wloconsulting@gmail.com; h-hilton@uiuc.edu