ANEX/RIED: Analysis, Experiment and Engineering Drawings in a Portable Structural Model Laboratory

一个原型的“AneX”设备已经开发出来，它允许低级土木工程专业的本科生在便携式、个人计算机控制的环境中比较小规模结构模型试验的分析和实验结果。这个项目是改进和测试现有的AneX原型，并开发一个专家系统，当分析和实验结果不能很好地相互关联时，该专家系统将作为学生用户的故障排除程序。此外，将在AneX设施中开发和部署“RIED”设施，以提高学生阅读和解释工程图纸的技能。Red设施还帮助学生将理想化的小比例模型与现实世界的工程结构联系起来。将准备评估AneX/RIED对密苏里大学罗拉大学和新汉普郡大学入门结构分析课程的影响的计划，然后将开始准备公布结果。

A prototype "ANEX" facility has been developed that allows lower division Civil Engineering undergraduates to compare ANalytical and EXperimental results of small-scale structural model tests in a portable, personal computer-controlled environment. This project is to refine and test the existing ANEX prototype and to develop an expert system that will act as a trouble-shooter for student users when analytical and experimental results do not correlate acceptably well. Further, a "RIED" facility is to be developed and deployed in the ANEX facility to improve student skills related to the Reading and Interpretation of Engineering Drawings. The RIED facility also helps students to correlate idealized small-scale models with real-world engineering structures. Plans to assess the impact of ANEX/RIED on introductory structural analysis courses at the University of Missouri-Rolla and at the University of New Hampshire are to be prepared, and then, preparation for the disemination of the results will be initiated.