International Engineering Research and Education Workshop "In-situ Evaluation of Masonry and Wood Historic Structures: Challenges and Opportunities"

这次研讨会将汇集一批来自美国、捷克共和国、意大利和德国的工程师和科学家，他们在历史木材和砖石结构保护的技术方面拥有专业知识。联合组织者是北卡罗来纳州立大学的Bohumil Kasal、捷克理论与应用力学研究所的Milos Drdacky和米兰理工大学的Luigi Binda。他们的总体目标是交流知识，并为未来的国际合作研究和教育活动制定议程。为了立竿见影，美国和欧洲的研究生和本科生将参加研讨会，并在捷克共和国的历史遗迹参加各种技术的现场演示。讲习班的议程包括：1)确定评估历史建筑所需的基础设施要求和非破坏性技术；2)为国际工程和历史建筑修复研究生学位编制一般框架。结果应导致对最先进的非破坏性技术的有效应用作出定义，并对现有结构进行适当的记录和评估。在人力资源开发方面，会议预计将有助于培养了解工程评估和历史和现代建筑保护细节的新一代专业人员。这个多学科研讨会通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够在共同感兴趣和能力很强的领域结合互补的人才和共享研究资源来实现促进科学知识的计划目标。更广泛的影响包括将美国研究生和本科生尽早介绍给国际研究界的工程师，他们领导有效保护代表全球文化遗产的历史建筑的努力。

This workshop will bring together a group of engineers and scientists from the United States, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany who have expertise in the technical aspects of historic timber and masonry structure preservation. The co-organizers are Bohumil Kasal of North Carolina State University, Milos Drdacky of the Czech Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Luigi Binda of Politecnico di Milano. Their overall goal is to exchange knowledge and develop an agenda for future international collaborative research and education activities. For immediate impact, U.S. and European graduate and undergraduate students will attend the workshop and participate in field demonstrations of various techniques, at historic sites in the Czech Republic. The workshop agenda features: 1) identification of infrastructure requirements and non-destructive technologies needed to assess historic buildings and 2) preparation of a general framework for an international graduate degree in engineering and restoration of historic structures. Results should lead to the definition of effective applications of state-of-art non-destructive technologies and to the proper documentation and assessment of existing structures. In terms of human resource development, the meeting is expected to contribute the preparation of a new generation of professionals who understand the specifics of engineering evaluation and preservation of both historic and modern structures.This multidisciplinary workshop fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include early career introduction of U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to engineers in the international research community who lead efforts to effectively preserve historical structures that represent global cultural heritage.