International Workshop: Estimation of Time or Cycles to Failure of Aging Components and Systems; Changwon, Korea; June 14-17, 2014

桥梁、大坝、飞机、核反应堆、石油和天然气管道以及其他复杂系统等老化基础设施的管理受到了质疑。卡特里娜飓风、明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯的35号州际公路大桥坍塌和康涅狄格州的Mianus River大桥坍塌，以及福岛第一核电站的灾难，都是最近值得注意的例子。鉴于韩国作为新兴的先进技术和制造业国际领导者的地位，将在昌原举办一次国际研讨会，随后将参观韩国高级科学技术研究所。来自德国、印度、韩国、法国、英国、中国和美利坚合众国的国际研究人员将就改进老化和高风险复杂系统管理的方法交换意见。改善这类系统的管理将使美国经济和社会受益。一本装订好的书将对研讨会进行总结，并对未来提出建议。在后福岛时代，工程师们面临着越来越多的责任，他们需要开发出新的、更有效的工具，用于测试数据收集和挖掘、微结构成像、损伤诊断、寿命到故障建模以及用于时间关键型决策的成本效益风险平衡分析，以确保公众的安全。该讲习班将解决基于物理的寿命预测方面的知识空白，以及快速发展的无损评估和结构监测系统将带来的好处。研讨会的重点是疲劳行为和失效时间或周期的估计，包括新一代抗疲劳材料。贡献将是在基础层面上的，高度优先分配给革命性的实验和模拟方法，以支持材料基因组倡议。

The management of aging infrastructure such as bridges, dams, aircraft, nuclear reactors, oil and gas pipelines, and other complex systems has come into question. Hurricane Katrina; the Interstate 35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Mianus River Bridge collapse in Connecticut; and the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant serve as recent notable examples. Due to the status of South Korea as an emerging international leader in advanced technology and manufacturing, an international workshop will be held in Changwon with a follow on visit to the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. International researchers from Germany, India, South Korea, France, the United Kingdom, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America will exchange ideas for improved approaches related to the management of aging and high risk complex systems. Improved management of such systems will benefit the U.S. economy and society. A bound volume will summarize the workshop and provide recommendations for the future. In the post-Fukushima era, engineers are faced with increasing responsibility to come up with new and more effective tools for test data collection and mining, microstructural imaging, damage diagnostics, life-to-failure modeling, and cost-benefit risk-balanced analysis for time-critical decision-making to ensure the safety of the public. This workshop will address the knowledge gaps in the physics based prediction of service life and the benefits to be offered by rapidly evolving nondestructive evaluation and structural monitoring systems. A focus of the workshop is on fatigue behavior and estimation of time or cycles to failure, including a new generation of fatigue resistant materials. Contributions will be on a fundamental level with high priority assigned to revolutionary experimental and simulation approaches to support the materials genome initiative.