UJNR Workshop on Smart and High Performance Materials and Systems

本项目于1993年5月14日和15日在日本筑波举办了一个关于智能和高性能材料和系统的美日合作讲习班。研讨会的技术方案侧重于地震荷载和一般运动条件下土木工程结构的应用。本次研讨会包括来自学术机构、政府实验室和工业界的美国和日本研究人员。研讨会的目的是讨论该主题的最新进展，并为美国和日本研究人员制定未来的合作研究议程。传感器、执行器和计算机技术的最新进展以及现代高性能材料的出现对土木工程研究和开发界提出了巨大的挑战。现在全国一致认为，迫切需要通过恢复、升级和改造国家日益恶化的基础设施，发展更安全、更经济和更环保的基础设施系统。陈旧和老化的基础设施系统，以便在其他方面显著提高国家的国际竞争力。在这方面，智能和高性能材料和系统的使用被认为是美国研究人员共同努力的最有前途的领域。参加本次研讨会的所有美国研究人员都是大学的，并在各自的机构中展示前沿研究工作。预计日本参与者将主要代表政府实验室、建筑和其他行业，从而为美国代表团带来更多面向应用的研究成果。该研讨会是美日国家资源合作项目的一部分。

This project conducts a US-Japan Cooperative Workshop on Smart and High Performance Materials and Systems in Tsukuba, Japan on May 14 and l5, 1993. The technical program of the workshop focuses on the applications in civil engineering structures under seismic loads and generic motion conditions. This workshop involves U.S. and Japanese researchers from academic institutions, government laboratories and industry. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the state-of-the-art of the subject matter and to develop future cooperative research agenda for U.S. and Japanese researchers. Recent advances in sensor, actuator and computer technologies as well as the emergence of modern high performance materials pose a great challenge to the civil engineering research and development community. National consensus now exists for urgent necessity to develop safer, more economical and environmentally friendly infrastructure systems by rehabilitating, upgrading and retrofitting the nation's deteriorating, obsolete and aging infrastructure systems in order, among other things, to significantly enhance the international competitiveness of the nation. In this respect use of smart and high performance materials and systems is considered as a most promising area for the concerted effort on the part of the U.S. researchers. All the U.S. researchers participating in this workshop are university-based and present the cutting edge research work at their respective institutions. The Japanese participants are expected to represent primarily government laboratories, and construction and other industries, thus presenting more application oriented research results to the benefit of the U.S. delegation. This workshop is implemented as a part of the U.S.-Japan in National Resources (UJNR) program.