Development of an Experimental Approach to the Health Monitoring of Structural Systems

这项规划补助金是与少数民族基金一起提交的， 美国国家科学基金会的研究启动计划是制定一项战略， 形成一种实验性的方法来解决健康监测问题， 结构. 这种方法将有它的起源在控制系统 实现理论 将进行分析， 允许现场工程师比较 老化，或可能损坏的复杂结构，以实现 当系统是“新的”并假定健康时的结构。

This planning grant, submitted in conjunction with the Minority Research Initiation program of the NSF, is to develop a strategy to form an experimental approach to the health monitoring issue of structures. This approach will have its origins in control system realization theory. An analysis is to be developed that would allow the field engineer to compare current realizations of an aging, or possibly damaged complex structure, to realizations of the structure when the system was "new" and assumed healthy.