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AUTOMATED STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION USING MECHANICS-INFORMED DATA ANALYSIS

VAlue proposition Structural health monitoring ensures the safety and longevity of structures like buildings and bridges. As the volume and scale of structures and the impact of their failure continue to grow, there is a need for techniques that are scalable, inexpensive, can operate passively without human intervention, and are customized for each...
Published: 8/19/2025   |   Inventor(s): Vishnu Boddeti, Nizar Lajnef, Li Xuyang, Mahdi Masmoudi
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Test and Measurement

2D SHAPE SENSING AND RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM

VAlue proposition Accurate shape sensing is crucial in robotics, biomedical engineering, and structural health monitoring for tasks like robotic guidance and infrastructure assessment. However, challenges such as dealing with complex geometries during sensing and data acquisition while maintaining high accuracy remain. This technology is a flexible...
Published: 8/19/2025   |   Inventor(s): Yiming Deng, Lei Peng
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Test and Measurement

Sensing Platform for Dynamic Soil Properties in Autonomous Vehicles

VALUE PROPOSITION A sensing platform which generates real-time soil property data for offroad autonomous vehicle control. The target application of this technology in autonomous vehicle guidance for off-road applications. Such vehicles could include Humvees and agricultural tractors. While not limited to autonomous vehicles, this system could also...
Published: 7/1/2025   |   Inventor(s): Nizar Lajnef, Mahmood Haq, Satish Udpa
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agriculture, Defense, Test and Measurement, Transportation

Photoelastic Polymer Sensor

Executive Summary Sensors for measuring force or pressure are used in a wide variety of applications in industrial, healthcare and automation. Soft sensors, in particular, are used in applications where only low levels of stress are measured. However, one drawback with current soft sensors, is the long term repeatability and cost. Researchers at Michigan...
Published: 4/22/2025   |   Inventor(s): Jiabin Liu, Shaoting Lin, Wei Li
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Advanced Materials, Devices, Test and Measurement

High-Speed, Wideband, and Widefield Coherent Raman Imaging

VALUE PROPOSITION Inter- and intra-molecular interactions in solids dictate a variety of physical and chemical properties, ranging from structural characteristics and carrier transports to reaction pathways and the emergence of topological states. In heterogeneous materials, compositional changes and local nanoscale environments tune these properties...
Published: 1/30/2025   |   Inventor(s): Elad Harel
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Photonics, Test and Measurement

Dual Mode Sensor for Non Destructive Testing of Composites

Executive Summary Fiber reinforced composites are used in a wide variety of applications in the automotive, aerospace, boating and energy sectors. Testing the composites for defects is an important part of manufacturing quality control, however, this often requires the costly sampling and destructive testing of finished parts. While several technologies...
Published: 6/10/2025   |   Inventor(s): Oleksii Karpenko, Eric Tarkleson, Lalita Udpa, Satish Udpa, Mahmood Haq, David Gorsich
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Test and Measurement

Non-contact railway inspection

VALUE PROPOSITION Rail transportation is periodically marred by accidents, highlighting ongoing safety challenges. There is a need for effective rail inspection methods. Current techniques are hindered by limitations such as low detection accuracy and sensitivity, particularly at high speeds. This technology introduces a novel method for high-speed,...
Published: 9/27/2024   |   Inventor(s): Yiming Deng, Sunil Chakrapani, Ming Han, Zebadiah Miles
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Analytical Instruments, Test and Measurement, Transportation

Heavy Metal Sensing

VALUE PROPOSITION Heavy metal pollution in soils is widespread in the world, resulting from both natural sources and human activities (e.g., mining and smelting, industrial emission, fossil fuel combustion, etc.). Due to their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and environmental persistence, elevated levels of heavy metals in the environment pose major threats...
Published: 8/14/2025   |   Inventor(s): Wen Li, Hasan Banna, James Siegenthaler, Mohammad Kafi Kangi, Tumi Olason
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Agriculture, Analytical Instruments, Environment, Test and Measurement

Super-resolution Optical Imaging

VALUE PROPOSITION Conventional microscopes rely on making a spatial measurement of light, which are diffraction limited. Traditional scanning microscopy approaches obtain a spatial image by scanning across known locations. The wavelength of light becomes the limiting factor in achieving better spatial resolution. It would be advantageous to have a...
Published: 9/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Elad Harel
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Nanotechnology, Photonics, Test and Measurement

Pipeline Inspection Robot

VALUE PROPOSITION Pipelines represent a major supporting industry for utilities and are used in a variety of applications such as for natural gas, water, and oil, as well as residential distribution. Natural gas pipelines alone travel over 2.5 million miles, delivering 28.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to customers in the United States alone....
Published: 3/21/2025   |   Inventor(s): Xiaobo Tan, Preston Fairchild, Claudia Chen, Yiming Deng, Mohand Alzuhiri, Zi Li, Xinda Qi
Keywords(s):   Category(s): Environmental, Test and Measurement
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