Flora Hervin recently showcased her research at the SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Symposium, an internationally recognized event that brings together leading experts in material testing, structural health monitoring, sensor technologies, and nondestructive evaluation across aerospace, automotive, and civil application.
This year’s symposium featured over 350 technical presentations, attracting a diverse international audience from Europe, India, Asia, as well as the United States and Canada. The main event was organised into nine focused conferences, with Flora contributing to the “Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems” conference. This particular conference included sessions on ultrasonic technologies and included dedicated sessions on the monitoring of composite materials.
Flora delivered two presentations during the event. Her first talk explored guided wave propagation and damage detection in a curved carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) panel. She demonstrated an innovative technique for sending ultrasonic waves around corners, enabling the inspection of damage in hard-to-reach areas of complex structures.
In her second presentation, Flora provided an overview of the four key research challenges within the CerTest project. She then focused in-depth on the 3D reconstruction of ultrasonic immersion phased array scans of C-spar demonstrators, incorporating digital image correlation (DIC) surface data. Both presentations drew audiences of approximately 30 to 40 people and sparked lively discussions. Attendees expressed particular interest in Flora’s work on complex-shaped, industrially relevant demonstrators, highlighting the real-world applications and impact of her research.