Planning Visit for Developing New International Collaborations

这次计划之旅的重点是发展美国研究人员与剑桥大学智能基础设施和建设创新与知识中心（IKC）研究人员之间的国际合作。教授。西北大学的Richard Finno， Thomas O？康奈尔大学的Rourke和麻省理工学院的Andrew Whittle，以及五名博士生，将前往英国剑桥大学会见Kenichi Soga教授和最近成立的IKC的其他成员。这次访问的目的是寻找促进地下基础设施开发、维护和管理方面国际合作的机制和战略。美国研究人员有一个独特的机会将他们的经验和专业知识与国际创新研究所的研究人员的经验和专业知识结合起来。这种伙伴关系将利用美国和英国双方的能力，扩大基础设施改善的研究议程，并促进来自学术专家合作的创新，这些专家在地下技术方面得到国际认可。美国和英国的研究小组专注于地下基础设施的先进建设、适应性管理和监测。他们开发了在施工过程中预测、监测和控制地面运动的技术，无线传感器网络用于监测和控制城市交通、能源输送和供水设施，地理信息系统（GIS）和网络分析用于保护地理分布的基础设施系统免受地震和其他自然灾害的影响。美国参与者工作的一个独特方面是他们长期参与实际系统，这些系统被用作全规模实验室，以了解复杂的土壤-结构相互作用，并了解组件行为对系统范围性能的影响。预期的合作研究项目将从这次规划访问中产生，结果将导致：(1)开发了一种更安全、更高效、更经济的地下空间和基础设施设计和施工程序的综合方法；(2)在岩土场地表征、施工监测和数据管理方面取得了重大进展；(3)开发了新的地下建筑计算模型；(4)开发了地下结构和地下基础设施的长期监测、维护和保护措施；5)加强研究生和本科生教育。这项规划拨款将允许研究团队结合美国和英国的最佳实践和最新研究进展，开发和推广高效、经济、环保的地下基础设施使用和维护技术，以满足城市地区对可持续空间和服务日益增长的需求。该研究将着眼于提高拥挤的城市和郊区中心生活质量的技术，并将可持续性原则纳入地下空间的开发和更新。该研究集中于集成“智能？参与地下基础设施的建设和运营。该团队将专注于传感器、数据无线传输、为传感器系统供电的电力清除、数据管理和挖掘、基础设施和空间变量关系的GIS可视化等新兴技术。该奖项由土木、机械和制造创新司和国际科学与工程办公室联合资助。

This planning trip focuses on developing an international collaboration between US researchers and researchers at the new Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (IKC) at the University of Cambridge. Profs. Richard Finno of Northwestern University, Thomas O?Rourke of Cornell University and Andrew Whittle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with and five PhD students, will travel to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to meet with Professor Kenichi Soga and other members of the recently-established IKC. The purpose of this visit is to find mechanisms and strategies for catalyzing an international collaboration regarding development, maintenance and management of underground infrastructure. A unique opportunity exists for US researchers to combine their experience and expertise with those of researchers at the ICK. Such a partnership will leverage the capabilities of both the US and UK sides to broaden the research agenda for infrastructure improvements and catalyze innovations derived from the collaboration of academic experts, who are internationally recognized in underground technology. The research groups in the US and UK have focused on advanced construction, adaptive management, and monitoring of underground infrastructure. They have developed techniques to predict, monitor, and control ground movements during construction, wireless sensor networks to monitor and control urban transportation, energy delivery, and water supply facilities, and geographical information systems (GIS) and network analyses to protect geographically distributed infrastructure systems from the effects of earthquakes and other natural disasters. A unique aspect of the work of the US participants is their long-term involvement with real systems, which are used as full scale laboratories to learn about complex soil-structure interaction and understand the implications of component behavior on system-wide performance. The anticipated collaborative research projects that will result from this planning visit will have outcomes that result in: (1) the development of an integrated approach to safer, more efficient and more economical designs and construction procedures of underground space and infrastructure, (2) significant advances in geotechnical site characterization, construction monitoring and data management, (3) development of novel computational models for underground construction, (4) development of long-term monitoring, maintenance and protection measures for underground structures and underground infrastructure, and 5) improved graduate and undergraduate education. This planning grant will allow the research team to incorporate best practices and recent research advances in the US and UK to develop and promote technologies for the efficient, cost effective and environmentally sound use and maintenance of underground infrastructure to meet the increasing demand for sustainable space and services in urban areas. The research will target technologies to enhance quality of life in congested urban and suburban centers, and incorporate sustainability principles in the development and renewal of underground space. The research concentrates on technologies that integrate "intelligence?into the construction and operation of underground infrastructure. The team will focus on emerging technologies in sensors, wireless transmission of data, power scavenging to energize sensor systems, data management and mining, GIS visualization of infrastructure and spatially variable relations. This award is jointly funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation and the Office of International Science and Engineering.