U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Advanced Sensors and Smart Structures Technology for Civil and Mechanical Systems

该奖项支持美国科学家参加将于2003年11月16日至18日在日本横滨举行的美日联合研讨会，研讨会的主题是民用和机械系统的先进传感器和智能结构技术。联合组织者是伊利诺伊大学香槟分校的比尔·F·斯宾塞教授和日本庆应大学的三田明教授。在过去的几年里，世界各地在先进传感器和智能结构技术领域取得了重大进展，特别是在美国和日本。提出了与信息学、智能软件和算法相结合的多功能智能材料、传感器和执行器等创新概念，为实现智能结构提供了知识和技术基础。日本和美国也进行了几次智能结构技术的全面试验实施，以及建筑物和桥梁等大型结构的案例研究。研讨会将专门讨论四个主题：1)创新的传感硬件，2)无线技术的进步，3)损伤检测/表征和状态评估方法，4)国际试验台上的案例研究和实验验证。目标将是确定悬而未决的研究问题，并通过可能的合作研究项目和共享科学数据，制定一项行动计划，提出发展和实施建议。联合组织者在该领域拥有互补的科学专业知识。这使他们能够评估并吸引最好的工程师参与。这些新的发展将彻底改变未来土木和机械结构系统的建造和维护方式，以实现超高的可靠性/安全性、卓越的性能和最低的生命周期成本。研讨会组织者特别努力，让博士后和研究生既作为参与者，又作为观察员。与该领域的日本专家交换想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进他们自己的工作，并将为未来的合作项目奠定基础。研讨会结束后，组织者计划建立一个研讨会网页。会议记录将在本网站上公布。

0341903SpencerThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan joint seminar on advanced sensors and smart structures technology for civil and mechanical systems to be held in Yokohama, Japan from November 16-18, 2003. The co-organizers are Professor Bill F. Spencer at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign and Professor Akira Mita at Keio University in Japan. In the last few years there has been significant progress in the areas of advanced sensors and smart structures technologies around the world, but particularly in the United States and Japan. Innovative concepts such as multifunctional smart materials, sensors and actuators integrated with informatics, intelligence software and algorithms, were proposed to develop the knowledge and technology base to enable realization of smart structures. There have also been several full-scale trial implementations of smart structures technologies, as well as case studies of large-scale structures such as buildings and bridges, both in Japan and the U.S. The seminar sessions will be devoted to four theme topics of 1) innovative sensing hardware, 2) advances in wireless technology, 3) damage detection/characterization and condition assessment methodology, and 4) case studies and experimental verification on international testbeds. The objectives will be to identify the outstanding research issues, and to formulate an action plan with recommendations for development and implementation through possible collaborative research projects and sharing of scientific data. The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best engineers to participate. These new developments will revolutionize how civil and mechanical structural systems are built and maintained in the future to achieve ultra-high reliability/safety, superior performance, and minimal lifecycle costs. The seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve postdocs and graduate students as both participants and observers. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in the field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Following the seminar the organizers plan to establish a workshop web page. Conference proceedings will be published on this web site.