US-Japan Seminar: Network and Center-Based Research for Earthquake Engineering and Smart Structures Technologies

0407727 singh该奖项支持美国科学家参加将于2004年7月6日至9日在日本大阪举行的关于地震工程和智能结构技术的网络和中心研究的美日联合研讨会。联合组织者是布莱克斯堡弗吉尼亚理工学院的Mahendra Singh教授和日本大阪大学的Eizaburo Tachibana教授。地震工程学科领域以及传感器和基于传感器的系统领域都取得了重大进展。新研究的主旨是开发智能和可预测的基础设施系统，能够适应变化，能够保护自己免受环境和社会威胁，能够自我诊断和治疗，并且具有前瞻性。在实现这些目标的过程中，传感系统起着核心作用。许多新的研究中心联盟已经建立起来，以促进全球在地震工程和智能技术领域工作的主要研究中心之间的合作研究和交流活动。此外，最近还建立了一个名为NEES（地震工程模拟网络）的新的基于互联网的网络系统，该系统由联网的硬件测试设施和具有软件的远程操作系统组成，旨在创建一个“共享使用和地理分布的实验实验室”，以促进和促进美国地震工程方面的创新研究活动。来自不同领域和学科的材料和器件专家致力于这些新的前沿研究领域。会议的目标是：1)为加速基于传感器的智能结构技术新前沿的中心到中心的研究活动提供急需的新轨道；2)拓展和激活地震工程学科研究与基于传感器的智能结构研究交叉的界面；3)培养、促进和培育美国和日本这两个在地震工程和先进技术方面处于领先地位的国家之间的合作和交流研究活动；4)让美国学生和年轻科学家了解日本的社会、技术和文化价值观。共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专业知识。这使他们能够评估和吸引最优秀的科学和工程研究人员参与。这些新的发展将彻底改变未来土木和机械结构系统的建造和维护方式，并将影响结构动力学、地震工程、传感器系统、信号处理系统识别、光纤、无线技术和智能系统等领域。研讨会的组织者特别努力让博士后和研究生作为参与者和观察员。与该领域的日本专家交流想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作项目奠定基础。研讨会结束后，组织者计划建立一个研讨会网页。会议记录将在本网站公布。

0407727SinghThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan joint seminar on network and center-based research for earthquake engineering and smart structures technologies to be held in Osaka, Japan from July 6-9, 2004. The co-organizers are Professor Mahendra Singh at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg and Professor Eizaburo Tachibana at Osaka University in Japan. Significant advances have been made in the disciplinary area of earthquake engineering and also in the area of sensors and sensor-based systems. The main thrust of new research is to develop infrastructure systems that are smart and predictable, can adapt to changes, can protect itself from environmental and societal threats, can self diagnose and heal, and is proactive. In achieving these objectives sensing systems play a central role. Many new consortia of research centers have been created to facilitate collaborative research and exchange activities among the premier research centers worldwide working in the area of earthquake engineering and smart technologies. In addition, a new Internet-based network system called NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) consisting of networked hardware testing facilities and enabling tele-operating systems with software, has been recently established to create a "shared-use and geographically-distributed experimental laboratory" to facilitate and promote innovative research activities in earthquake engineering in the U.S. The meeting will bring together scientists, engineers, computer scientists, materials and device experts from diverse fields and disciplines working on these new frontier research areas. The goals of the meeting are to: 1) provide a much needed new track to accelerate center-to-center based research activities on new frontiers of sensor-based smart structure technologies; 2) expand and energize the interface which overlaps discipline-based research in earthquake engineering and research in sensor-based smart structures; 3) cultivate, promote and nurture collaborative and exchange research activities between US and Japan -- two leading countries in earthquake engineering and advanced technology and 4) expose US students and young scientists to social, technical, and cultural values in Japan.The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best science and engineering researchers to participate. These new developments will revolutionize how civil and mechanical structural systems are built and maintained in the future and will impact the areas of structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, sensor systems, signal processing system identification, fiber optics, wireless technology, and smart systems. The seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve postdocs and graduate students as both participants and observers. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in the field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Following the seminar the organizers plan to establish a workshop web page. Conference proceedings will be published on this web site.