FCE Public Lecture

Intelligent Infrastructure, Sustainable Design, and Signature Structures

by Prof. Hojjat Adeli

Co-organizer: Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD)

Date: 15 Nov 2012 (Thu)

Time: 3p.m. to 4p.m.

Venue: Room TU101, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Abba G. Lichtenstein ProfessorCollege of Engineering

The Ohio State University

AbstractThree topics of Intelligent Infrastructure, Sustainable Design, and Signature Structures and their interconnections are presented. The focus of building sustainability so far has been mostly on saving energy and water and making them more environmentally friendly by, say, reducing the carbon emissions. Sustainable building design initiatives strive to transform structural developments to more environmentally conscious building design and ultimately improve the quality of life. In this lecture the author presents the vision of sustainability via intelligent infrastructure. This vision is broad and encompasses not only structures but also transportation systems. The author envisages a new generation of civil smart structures where intelligent sensors and actuators are integrated for health monitoring and vibration control of structures under extreme dynamic loading. The health of such a smart structure is continuously monitored in real time by sensors and its behavior is actively controlled in an effective and efficient way through properly designed actuators. In addition to the innovative hardware technologies such as smart materials, sensors and actuators, advanced computing technologies such as data mining and automatic feature extraction techniques play an important role in creating an effective smart structure technology. It is shown the smart structure technology is particularly attractive for tall buildings leading to a much lighter structure with substantial weight reduction in the order of 20-35%. Multidisciplinary methodologies and information technologies are presented for health monitoring and nonlinear active control of tall building structures subjected to extreme dynamic loading such as those due to winds or earthquakes.

About the SpeakerProf. Hojjat Adeli is Abba G. Lichtenstein Professor at College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976. He has authored nearly 500 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine including fourteen books such as Machine Learning - Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Systems (Wiley, 1995); Wavelets in Intelligent Transportation Systems (Wiley, 2005); Intelligent Infrastructure (CRC Press, 2009); and Automated EEG-based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders - Inventing the Future of Neurology. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from OSU. In 2005, he was elected an Honorary/Distinguished Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a recipient of the OSU College of Engineering Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering Education and the Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2010 he was profiled as an Engineering Legend in the ASCE Journal of Leadership and Management in Engineering. Prof. Adeli is Editor-in-Chief of three international journals: Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, and International Journal of Neural Systems.

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