Planning Visit for Developing New International Collaborations

计划访问以发展新的国际合作

• 批准号: 1202424
• 负责人: Richard Finno
• 金额: $ 2.36万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-15 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1202424&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Visit; Developing; New; International

This planning trip focuses on developing an international collaboration between US researchers and researchers at the new Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (IKC) at the University of Cambridge. Profs. Richard Finno of Northwestern University, Thomas O?Rourke of Cornell University and Andrew Whittle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with and five PhD students, will travel to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to meet with Professor Kenichi Soga and other members of the recently-established IKC. The purpose of this visit is to find mechanisms and strategies for catalyzing an international collaboration regarding development, maintenance and management of underground infrastructure. A unique opportunity exists for US researchers to combine their experience and expertise with those of researchers at the ICK. Such a partnership will leverage the capabilities of both the US and UK sides to broaden the research agenda for infrastructure improvements and catalyze innovations derived from the collaboration of academic experts, who are internationally recognized in underground technology. The research groups in the US and UK have focused on advanced construction, adaptive management, and monitoring of underground infrastructure. They have developed techniques to predict, monitor, and control ground movements during construction, wireless sensor networks to monitor and control urban transportation, energy delivery, and water supply facilities, and geographical information systems (GIS) and network analyses to protect geographically distributed infrastructure systems from the effects of earthquakes and other natural disasters. A unique aspect of the work of the US participants is their long-term involvement with real systems, which are used as full scale laboratories to learn about complex soil-structure interaction and understand the implications of component behavior on system-wide performance. The anticipated collaborative research projects that will result from this planning visit will have outcomes that result in: (1) the development of an integrated approach to safer, more efficient and more economical designs and construction procedures of underground space and infrastructure, (2) significant advances in geotechnical site characterization, construction monitoring and data management, (3) development of novel computational models for underground construction, (4) development of long-term monitoring, maintenance and protection measures for underground structures and underground infrastructure, and 5) improved graduate and undergraduate education. This planning grant will allow the research team to incorporate best practices and recent research advances in the US and UK to develop and promote technologies for the efficient, cost effective and environmentally sound use and maintenance of underground infrastructure to meet the increasing demand for sustainable space and services in urban areas. The research will target technologies to enhance quality of life in congested urban and suburban centers, and incorporate sustainability principles in the development and renewal of underground space. The research concentrates on technologies that integrate "intelligence?into the construction and operation of underground infrastructure. The team will focus on emerging technologies in sensors, wireless transmission of data, power scavenging to energize sensor systems, data management and mining, GIS visualization of infrastructure and spatially variable relations. This award is jointly funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation and the Office of International Science and Engineering.

这次规划之旅的重点是发展美国研究人员与剑桥大学新的智能基础设施和建设创新与知识中心（IKC）的研究人员之间的国际合作。 教授西北大学的理查德·芬诺，托马斯·O？康奈尔大学的鲁尔克和马萨诸塞州理工学院的安德鲁·惠特尔，沿着和五名博士生，将前往英国剑桥大学，会见最近成立的IKC的Kenichi Soga教授和其他成员。 此次访问的目的是寻找促进地下基础设施开发、维护和管理方面国际合作的机制和战略。 一个独特的机会存在，美国研究人员联合收割机结合他们的经验和专业知识与研究人员在国际刑事法院。 这种伙伴关系将利用美国和英国双方的能力，扩大基础设施改善的研究议程，并促进来自国际公认的地下技术学术专家合作的创新。 美国和英国的研究小组专注于地下基础设施的先进施工、适应性管理和监测。 他们开发了预测，监测和控制施工期间地面运动的技术，监测和控制城市交通，能源输送和供水设施的无线传感器网络，以及地理信息系统（GIS）和网络分析，以保护地理分布的基础设施系统免受地震和其他自然灾害的影响。 美国参与者工作的一个独特方面是他们长期参与真实的系统，这些系统被用作全尺寸实验室，以了解复杂的土壤-结构相互作用，并了解组件行为对系统性能的影响。此次规划访问将产生的预期合作研究项目将产生以下成果：（1）发展一种综合方法，以更安全、更有效和更经济地设计和建造地下空间和基础设施，（2）在岩土工程场地特性、施工监测和数据管理方面取得重大进展，（3）开发地下建筑的新型计算模型;（4）开发地下结构和地下基础设施的长期监测、维护和保护措施;（5）改进研究生和本科生教育。 这项规划拨款将使研究团队能够结合美国和英国的最佳实践和最新研究进展，以开发和推广高效，具有成本效益和环保的地下基础设施使用和维护技术，以满足城市地区对可持续空间和服务日益增长的需求。 该研究将针对技术，以提高拥挤的城市和郊区中心的生活质量，并将可持续性原则纳入地下空间的开发和更新。 该研究集中在技术，整合“智能？地下基础设施的建设和运营。 该小组将侧重于传感器、数据无线传输、为传感器系统供电的电力收集、数据管理和挖掘、基础设施的GIS可视化和空间变量关系等方面的新兴技术。 该奖项由土木，机械和制造创新部门以及国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。