Civil Structures Testing
Technical Division
| The purpose of this Technical Division shall be to provide technical benefits to its members, the civil structures professional community, and related technical disciplines within the Society umbrella by:
- Providing a unique multidisciplinary forum to disseminate and exchange information on new research and technical developments in the testing, identification, and assessment of civil and similar large in-situ structural systems using measured properties and response features.
- Enhancing research, technical developments, and standard practices in civil structures testing through the identification of critical research needs and the validation and dissemination of emerging methods and promising technologies that address the unique features of the civil structures test environment.
- Promoting and/or organizing special sessions, symposia, short courses, workshops, manuals or monographs that respond to identified needs of the TD member community and facilitate transfer of developed technologies and methods to the larger professional community.
- Interacting, assisting and cooperating with other committees, societies, associations or organizations by serving as a focal point on civil structures testing, identification, and assessment.
- Planning and coordinating, in cooperation with others, civil structures activities of the Society.
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| Officers |
Chair: |
Robert W. Bolton
Texas A&M University
bbolton@tamu.edu
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Vice Chair: |
Paul Reynolds
University of Sheffield
p.reynolds@sheffield.ac.uk |
Secretary: |
Vince Chiarito
US Army ERDC
vincent.p.chiarito@erdc.usace.army.mil |
Past Chair |
Alvaro Cunha
University of Porto
acunha@fe.up.pt |
Technical Division Bylaws
Civil Structures Testing
The SEM Executive Board approved the creation of the Civil Structures Testing Technical Division at it's meeting on June 2, 2007. The organizers of this new TD have been participating and organizing sessions for the IMAC Conference for over 10 years. IMAC XXVI will be held Feb. 4-7, 2008 in Orlando, FL.
The theme for IMAC-XXVI is Technologies for Civil Structures. The Civil Structures Testing TD will be developing sessions on instrumentation and sensor technologies for civil applications, data processing and property extraction methods for ambient and forced-response tests of large in-situ structures, computational model updating and validation methods using experimental results, and structural assessment methods using measured response data.
Additional developed sessions will focus on the testing of unique structural types, analysis and assessment of benchmark structure test data, stadia and bridge dynamics, damage detection methods, civil applications of guided wave methods, bridge health monitoring, civil technologies for infrastructure management, human comfort and vibration effects, blast effects and damage assessment, and a historical review of civil testing.
Additional civil oriented activities planned for the conference include a one day tutorial covering the fundamentals of popular civil structures test and identification methods and a tour of the University of Central Florida Structural Test Laboratory including a demonstration of their benchmark bridge structure. Finally, a portion of the exhibition hall will be devoted to a variety of civil oriented displays and demonstrations highlighting the dynamics of civil structural systems and the technologies used to monitor their response and performance.
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