US-Italy Workshop/Seminar on Intelligent Structural Systems;Como, Italy; June 26-28, 1991

该奖项将支持1991年6月底在意大利科莫举行的为期三天的智能结构系统研讨会。该讲习班由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校的文毅贵教授和意大利帕维亚大学的法维奥·卡西亚蒂教授组织。讲习班/研讨会的目的是审查迄今取得的进展，并为各个领域的进一步研究提出方向，包括利用基于知识的专家系统对结构系统进行监测、控制和评估。主要的重点将是利用最新的分析/数值方法、高科技硬件和专家系统，以确保现有和下一代结构系统有更好的性能。建筑业(包括建筑物、构筑物和其他土木工程)可能是世界上最大的行业。最近的报告表明，这一领域的投资占世界国内生产总值的10%。结构一般具有更长的使用寿命，与任何其他类型的商业产品相比，不容易更换。然而，与汽车等其他主要商业产品相比，监测和维护建筑物和结构系统健康的技术几乎不存在。在结构系统在载荷作用下的分析/数值模拟和响应分析领域，包括载荷和阻力的不确定性的影响，最近取得了一些进展。与此同时，新的技术和硬件的发明使结构系统的实时传感、监测、评估和控制成为可能和可行。通过交流信息和促进引入新的想法和概念，该讲习班有可能导致现有技术的新发展、新应用和新实施。

This award will support a three-day workshop on intelligent structural systems in Como, Italy toward the end of June 1991. The workshop is being organized by Professor Yi-Kwei Wen of the University of Illinois at Urbana and Professor Favio Casciati of the Universita di Pavia, Italy. The objective of the workshop/seminar is to review progress to date and propose directions for further research in various areas including the utilization of knowledge-based expert systems for the monitoring, control and assessment of structural systems. The main thrust will be on the utilization of recent analytical/numerical methods, high-tech hardware, and expert systems to ensure better performance of existing and next generation structural systems. Construction (including buildings and structures and other civil works) is probably the largest industry in the world. Recent reports indicate that the investment in this area amounts to 10% of the world's gross domestic product. Structures generally have longer service life, and are not as easily replaced compared with any other kinds of commercial products. Yet technology to monitor and maintain the health of the buildings and structural systems has been practically non-existent compared with other major commercial products such as automobiles. There have been recent developments in the areas of analytical/numerical modeling and response analysis of structural systems under loadings, including the effect of uncertainty in both loading and resistance. At the same time, new technologies and hardware have been invented that make real time sensing, monitoring, assessment and control of structural systems possible and feasible. By exchanging information and promoting the introduction of new ideas and concepts, this workshop has the potential to lead to new developments, applications and implementation of existing technologies.