International Workshop on Civil Engineering Infrastructure Systems

在经历了17年多的内战之后，黎巴嫩在1990年代中期开始了重建和重建的新时代。为了实现再正常化，它已拨出超过120亿美元的支出，用于重建、升级和翻新其基础设施系统的几乎所有方面：建筑结构、桥梁、交通系统、下水道和供水线路、发电厂、通信线路、海港和旅游设施。研讨会的举办前提是，交流美国和外国在土木工程基础设施系统领域的现有经验对双方都有利。研讨会将重点介绍高性能材料、监测和管理。高性能材料的发展也许可以被认为是过去25年来建筑材料领域最重要的发展之一。拟议的讲习班选址是为了在一个已经和目前正在大规模实施各种建筑、维修和修复计划的国家，作为讨论的现场实验室。在技术方面，目标是介绍和讨论最新的想法和发展，实用的解决方案，确定现有知识的需求和差距，并建议遵循的方向。计划讨论的问题涉及结构系统，重点是建筑物和桥梁，包括：1)高性能材料：纤维增强聚合物(FRP)复合材料、高性能混凝土、高强度钢等；2)监测、诊断和评估；以及3)土木工程基础设施系统的管理。讨论、其他贡献和最终建议将包括在研讨会会议记录中。会议记录将张贴在研讨会的网站上，并将在美国广泛分发给研究人员和工程师。这些报告还将在各种专业会议和会议(ASCE、ACI、TRB等)上提供。研讨会为期两天，从6月6日星期一上午开始，到2005年6月7日星期二下午在黎巴嫩贝鲁特美国大学结束。贝鲁特是黎巴嫩的首都。

AbstractAfter more than seventeen years of civil war, Lebanon embarked in the mid 1990s on a new era of reconstruction and rehabilitation. In its drive towards re-normalization it has earmarked a spending level of over $12 billion for reconstruction, upgrading, and renovation of almost every aspect of its infrastructure systems: building structures, bridges, transportation systems, sewer and water supply lines, electrical power plants, communication lines, sea-ports and tourist facilities.The Workshop is organized on the premise that the exchange of existing American and foreign experience in the area of civil engineering infrastructure system is beneficial for both parties. The workshop will focus on the high performance materials, monitoring, and management. The development of high performance materials can perhaps be considered one of the most significant developments in construction materials of the past twenty-five years. The proposed location of the workshop is intended to serve as a live laboratory for the discussions in a country where various construction, repair and rehabilitation schemes have been and are being currently applied on a large scale. On the technical side, the goals are to present and discuss latest ideas and development, practical solutions, identify needs and gaps in existing knowledge, and suggest directions to follow.Issues planned for discussion deal with structural systems, with emphasis on buildings and bridges, and include: 1) High performance materials: Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, high performance concrete, high strength steel, etc.; 2) Monitoring, diagnosis and assessment; and 3) Management of Civil Engineering infrastructure systems.The discussions, additional contributions and final recommendations will be included in the Workshop Proceedings. The Proceedings will be posted on the workshop web site and will be widely distributed in the US to researchers and engineers. The presentations will also be made available at various professional meetings and conferences (ASCE, ACI, TRB, etc.) as well as in professional journals.The Workshop is scheduled for two days starting on the morning of Monday, June 6, and ending on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.