International Engineering Research and Education Workshop "In-situ Evaluation of Masonry and Wood Historic Structures: Challenges and Opportunities"

这次讲习班将汇集来自美国、捷克共和国、意大利和德国的一批工程师和科学家，他们在保存历史木材和砖石结构的技术方面具有专门知识。联合组织者是北卡罗来纳州立大学的Bohumil Kasal，捷克理论与应用力学研究所的Milos Drdacky和米兰理工大学的Luigi Binda。他们的总体目标是交流知识，并为未来的国际合作研究和教育活动制定议程。为了取得立竿见影的效果，美国和欧洲的研究生和本科生将参加研讨会，并在捷克共和国的历史遗址参加各种技术的实地演示。讲习班议程的特点是：1)确定评估历史建筑所需的基础设施要求和非破坏性技术；2)为历史建筑工程和修复国际研究生学位编制总体框架。结果应导致确定最先进的非破坏性技术的有效应用，并对现有结构进行适当的记录和评估。在人力资源开发方面，预计会议将有助于培养新一代专业人员，他们了解工程评估和历史和现代建筑保护的具体情况。这个多学科研讨会实现了促进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和欧洲的专家能够在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域结合互补的人才和共享研究资源。更广泛的影响包括将美国研究生和本科生的早期职业介绍给国际研究界的工程师，他们领导着有效保护代表全球文化遗产的历史建筑的努力。

This workshop will bring together a group of engineers and scientists from the United States, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany who have expertise in the technical aspects of historic timber and masonry structure preservation. The co-organizers are Bohumil Kasal of North Carolina State University, Milos Drdacky of the Czech Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Luigi Binda of Politecnico di Milano. Their overall goal is to exchange knowledge and develop an agenda for future international collaborative research and education activities. For immediate impact, U.S. and European graduate and undergraduate students will attend the workshop and participate in field demonstrations of various techniques, at historic sites in the Czech Republic. The workshop agenda features: 1) identification of infrastructure requirements and non-destructive technologies needed to assess historic buildings and 2) preparation of a general framework for an international graduate degree in engineering and restoration of historic structures. Results should lead to the definition of effective applications of state-of-art non-destructive technologies and to the proper documentation and assessment of existing structures. In terms of human resource development, the meeting is expected to contribute the preparation of a new generation of professionals who understand the specifics of engineering evaluation and preservation of both historic and modern structures.This multidisciplinary workshop fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include early career introduction of U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to engineers in the international research community who lead efforts to effectively preserve historical structures that represent global cultural heritage.