Dr. Tribikram Kundu Chairs the 52nd Annual Review of Progress in QNDE

July 23, 2025
Araceli Hernández-Granados
Dr. Kundu

The 52nd Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation (QNDE) took place July 23–25, 2025, at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Dr. Tribikram Kundu serving proudly as Conference Chair.

Dr. Kundu, senior personnel of New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) and Professor in the Departments of Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Arizona, welcomed attendees and reaffirmed QNDE’s mission: advancing science-based quantitative evaluation rooted in the physics of wave propagation.

📚 Technical Sessions Led by Dr. Kundu
 Nonlinear Ultrasonic Techniques for NDE (with Zhongqing Su, HK PolyU)
Advanced Modelling for NDE (with Paul Fromme, UCL)
Material Characterization by Ultrasonic Waves (with Umar Amjad, Qatar University & Yanfeng Shen, SJTU)

🏆 Award Highlights

  • 2024 Outstanding Paper Award
    “Peri-Ultrasound Modeling to Investigate the Performance of Different Nonlinear Ultrasonic Techniques for Damage Monitoring in Plate Structures”
    by Guangdong Zhang, Zionbing Li, and Tribikram Kundu (ASME JNDE, August 2024).
  • High Citation Paper Award
    “Nonlinear Acoustic Technique for Monitoring Porosity in Additively Manufactured Parts”
    by SeHyuk Park, Hamad Alnuaimi, Anna Hayes, Madison Sitkiewicz, Umar Amjad, Tribikram Kundu, and Krishna Muralidharan (ASME JNDE, May 2022).

Congratulations to Dr. Kundu for his outstanding leadership, scholarship, and continued contributions to both the QNDE community and NewFoS!