Structural Health Monitoring for Space Systems

Dr. Andrei Zagrai is an Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering department chair at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. His research interests encompass intelligent, adaptive structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and vibrations. Dr. Zagrai's current research is concentrated on structural health monitoring and diagnosis of space systems. His team is responsible for a first demonstration of active SHM during suborbital spaceflight. Dr. Zagrai has published more than seventy technical papers and has received a number of national and international awards including, Achenbach medal for contribution in the field of SHM, several prestigious scholarships and two best paper awards. He is a member of AIAA, ASME, ASA, IIAV.

Dr. Brandon Arritt manages AFRL's Space Resilience Technologies program, which develops integrated technology solutions to assure our Nation's critical space services in the face of natural and man-made threats. Dr. Arritt has led numerous teams in the development and transition of technologies for next generation space systems, to include conducting multiple experiments on sounding rockets, experimental satellites, the International Space Station, and National Security Space missions. Dr. Arritt has over 80 technical publications covering a wide range of space related topics, including: structural health monitoring, satellite thermal management, structural approaches for responsive space, low-cost space access, composite structures, electromagnetic metamaterials, and infrared optics.

Derek Doyle is the Symbiotic Structures Lead, working in Integrated Structural Systems at the Air Force Research Laboratory in the USA.