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CvEEN Brings Home Best Poster Paper Award at Stanford-Hosted Conference

September 15, 2025

We’re proud to announce that a team from the University of Utah’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received the Best Poster Paper Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, held at Stanford University from September 9–11, 2025.

The award-winning paper, titled “Locating crack tip in Mode-I fracture tests of engineered wood by acoustic emission and machine learning,” was authored by:

  • Xiangdong He (recent graduate)
  • Peng Zhang (current PhD student)
  • Dr. Xuan Zhu (Associate Professor)

This recognition highlights the team’s innovative approach to combining experimental mechanics and probabilistic machine learning to uncover the fracture behavior of the next-generation, low-carbon construction materials - mass timber.

Congratulations to Xiangdong, Peng, and Dr. Zhu for this outstanding achievement and for representing the University of Utah on a national stage!

by Joe LaFata

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