Pan American Advanced Studies Institute in Damage Prognosis, Florianopolis, Brazil, November 2003

泛美高等研究院(PASI)奖由美国国家科学基金会(NSF)和能源部(DOE)联合支持，由弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学的Daniel Inman博士与波利斯塔大学的文森特·洛佩斯博士合作组织。拟议的活动将于2003年11月在巴西的弗洛里亚诺波利斯和圣卡塔琳娜举行，将汇集与损伤预测相关的不同学科的合格研究人员。主要目标是让40至50名博士后、高级研究生、高级科学家和工程师参加为期两周的强化课程，突出与损伤预测相关领域的跨学科努力。拟议课程的关键统一主题是结合三个领域：1)实施预测的硬件；2)模拟和理解预测的物理原理的损伤力学；以及3)做出适当预测的算法，形成一个预测系统，并了解三个领域之间接口的性质。

0221222InmanThis Pan America Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) award, jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), is being organized by Dr. Daniel Inman of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in collaboration with Dr. Vincent Lopes of the Universidade Estadual Paulista. The proposed activity will take place in Florianopolis and Santa Catarina, Brazil in November 2003, and will bring together well-qualified researchers in diverse disciplines related to damage prognosis. The main objective is to involve forty to fifty postdoctoral, advanced graduate students, senior scientists and engineers in a two-week intensive course that highlights interdisciplinary efforts in fields related to damage prognosis. The key unifying theme of the proposed course is to tie in three areas: 1) hardware to implement prognosis; 2) damage mechanics to model and understand the physical principles of prognosis; and 3) algorithms to make appropriate predictions, to form a Prognostic System and understand the nature of the interface between the three areas.