Expertise
Mr. Cramer is the Head of the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch in the Research Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center. Prior to his management position, he was a senior researcher with specialties including experimental techniques for thermal and ultrasonic NDE as well as computational modeling of energy propagation in materials. Mr. Cramer is also the recipient of numerous NASA awards including the 2009 Government Invention of the Year, holds 12 U.S. Patents and has authored, or coauthored, more than 80 technical publications.
Honor and Awards
Honor and Awards
2015 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal 2009 NASA Government Invention of the Year Award for “Ultrasonic Wire Crimp Inspection Technology.”
2007 NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal 2006 Space Flight Awareness Award (Silver Snoopy) – Shuttle Wing Leading Edge Inspection System.
2005 Sandia National Laboratories Presidents Quality Award – Gold – Health Monitoring of the Space Shuttle
2009 NASA Government Invention of the Year Award for”Ultrasonic Wire Crimp Inspection Technology.
Publication
Publication
Authors: Winfree, William, Zalameda, Joseph, et al.
Published: 11 May 2016
Advances in-situ inspection of automated fiber placement systems (Technical Article)
Authors: Juarez, Peter, Cramer, K. Elliott, et al.
Published: 11 May 2016
Principal component analysis of thermographic data (Technical Article)
Authors: Winfree, William, Cramer, K. Elliott, et al.
Published: 12 May 20154
Fixed eigenvector analysis of thermographic NDE data (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William
Published: 10 May 2011
Status of thermal NDT of space shuttle materials at NASA (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William, et al.
Published: 18 April 2006
Infrared on-orbit inspection of shuttle orbiter reinforced carbon-carbon using solar heating (Technical Article)
Authors: Howell, P., Winfree, W., et al.
Published: 18 August 2005
Line scan versus flash thermography: comparative study on reinforced carbon-carbon (Technical Article)
Authors: Woolard, Deonna, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 28 March 2005
The thermal photocopier: a new concept for thermal NDT (Technical Article)
Authors: Woolard, Deonna, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 12 April 2004
Thermosense XXVI (Technical Article)
Editors: Peacock, G. Raymond, Burleigh, Douglas, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 12 April 2004
Thermosense XXV (Technical Article)
Editors: Maldague, Xavier, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 1 April 2003
Inspection of high-performance Peltier coolers using lock-in thermography (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 15 March 2002
Thermal diffusivity imaging with a moving line source (Technical Article)
Authors: Winfree, William, Heath, D. Michele, et al.
Published: 23 March 2001
Boiler tube corrosion characterization with a scanning thermal line (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Jacobstein, A. Ronald, et al.
Published: 23 March 2001
Thermographic imaging of material loss in boiler water-wall tubing by application of scanning line source (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William
Published: 9 June 2000
Application of the thermal line scanner to quantify material loss due to corrosion (Technical Article)
Published: 30 March 2000
Reduction of thermal data using neural networks (Technical Article)
Authors: Winfree, William, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 30 March 2000
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William, et al.
Published: 5 February 1999
Thermographic detection and quantitative characterization of corrosion by application of thermal line source (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William
Published: 26 March 1998
Thermal characterization of defects in aircraft structures via spatially controlled heat application (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William
Published: 15 March 1996
Computational pulse shaping for thermographic inspections (Technical Article)
Authors: Winfree, William, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 15 March 1996
Quantitative thermal imaging of aircraft structures (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Howell, Patricia, et al.
Published: 28 March 1995
Quantitative thermal depth imaging of subsurface damage in insulating materials (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Howell, Patricia, et al.
Published: 6 April 1993
Corrosion detection in aircraft skin (Technical Article)
Authors: Syed, Hazari, Cramer, K. Elliott
Published: 6 April 1993
Processing infrared images of aircraft lapjoints
Authors: Syed, Hazari, Winfree, William, et al.
Published: 1 April 1992
Thermographic imaging of cracks in thin metal sheets (Technical Article)
Authors: Cramer, K. Elliott, Winfree, William, et al.
Published: 1 April 1992
Material property measurements with post-processed thermal image data (Technical Article)
Authors: Welch, Christopher, Winfree, William, et al.
Published: 1 March 1990
Conference Involvement
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVIII
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVII
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXV
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIII
Thermosense XXXII
Thermosense XXXI
Thermosense XXX
Thermosense XXIX
Thermosense XXVIII
Thermosense XXVI
Thermosense XXV