United States - United Kingdom Exchange Experience in Civil Infrastructures

本建议旨在寻求支持，以便在2001年7月4日至6日于英国伦敦举行的“延长桥梁、土木和建筑结构的寿命”国际会议和展览上，为一组来自美国的潜在与会者交流土木基础设施方面的经验。会议的重点是桥梁调查和修复，混凝土和复合材料，以及建筑和土木结构，所有这些主题都是与美国民用基础设施系统的性能和安全有关的重要问题。预计会议将有助于确定美国和英国参与者之间潜在的合作研究主题，以推进民用基础设施系统性能评估、安全评估和生命周期管理方面的最先进和最先进的实践。需要在这些领域进行研究，以增强我们对民用基础设施系统性能的理解，改进现有和新结构系统的设计和安全评估方法，并允许对美国民用基础设施系统进行最佳管理。

This proposal is to solicit support for exchanging experience in civil infrastructures for a group of prospective participants from the United States at the International Conference and Exhibition on "Extending the Life of Bridges, Civil and Building Structures," London, United Kingdom, July 4-6, 2001. The focus of the conference is on bridge investigation and repair, concrete and composites, and buildings and civil structures All these topics are important issues pertaining to the performance and safety of civil infrastructure systems in the United States. It is expected that the conference will help identify potential cooperative research topics between the participants from the United States and the United Kingdom on advancing both the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in performance evaluation, safety assessment and life-cycle management of civil infrastructure systems. Research is needed in these fields to enhance our understanding of the performance of civil infrastructure systems, to improve current methods for design and safety assessment of new and existing structural systems, and to permit an optimal management of the civil infrastructure systems in the United States.