US-Italy Workshop/Seminar on Intelligent Structural Systems;Como, Italy; June 26-28, 1991

该奖项将支持为期三天的智能研讨会， 结构系统在科莫，意大利对6月底 1991. 该研讨会由Yi-Kwei教授组织 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校教授温 Favio Casciati来自意大利帕维亚大学。 的 讲习班/研讨会的目的是审查进展情况， 为进一步的研究确定日期并提出方向 包括利用以知识为基础的专家 监测、控制和评估系统 结构系统。 重点将放在利用 最近的分析/数值方法，高科技硬件， 和专家系统，以确保现有的 下一代结构系统。 建筑业（包括建筑物和构筑物及其他 土木工程）可能是世界上最大的产业。 最近的报告表明，在这一领域的投资 占世界国内生产总值的10%。 结构通常具有较长的使用寿命， 与其他商业广告相比， 产品. 然而，监测和保持健康的技术 建筑物和结构系统的设计 与其他主要商业产品相比， 就像汽车一样。 最近， 分析/数值建模和响应分析领域 结构系统在荷载作用下，包括 负载和阻力的不确定性。 在同一 随着时间的推移，新的技术和硬件已经发明出来， 使真实的时间感测、监测、评估和控制 结构系统是可行的和可行的。 通过交换 信息和促进新思想的引进， 概念，这个研讨会有可能导致新的 发展、应用和执行现有的 技术.

This award will support a three-day workshop on intelligent structural systems in Como, Italy toward the end of June 1991. The workshop is being organized by Professor Yi-Kwei Wen of the University of Illinois at Urbana and Professor Favio Casciati of the Universita di Pavia, Italy. The objective of the workshop/seminar is to review progress to date and propose directions for further research in various areas including the utilization of knowledge-based expert systems for the monitoring, control and assessment of structural systems. The main thrust will be on the utilization of recent analytical/numerical methods, high-tech hardware, and expert systems to ensure better performance of existing and next generation structural systems. Construction (including buildings and structures and other civil works) is probably the largest industry in the world. Recent reports indicate that the investment in this area amounts to 10% of the world's gross domestic product. Structures generally have longer service life, and are not as easily replaced compared with any other kinds of commercial products. Yet technology to monitor and maintain the health of the buildings and structural systems has been practically non-existent compared with other major commercial products such as automobiles. There have been recent developments in the areas of analytical/numerical modeling and response analysis of structural systems under loadings, including the effect of uncertainty in both loading and resistance. At the same time, new technologies and hardware have been invented that make real time sensing, monitoring, assessment and control of structural systems possible and feasible. By exchanging information and promoting the introduction of new ideas and concepts, this workshop has the potential to lead to new developments, applications and implementation of existing technologies.