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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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Civil Structures Testing - Updated May 2011
TD activities in the past year:
- New TD committee appointed at IMAC 2011 (above)
COMMITTEE MEETING ON 2/1/2011
Outgoing Chair: Bob Bolton, University of South Denmark
Vice-Chair: Paul Reynolds, Sheffield University
Secretary: Juan Caicedo, University of South Carolina
Summary of the Committee Work and Meeting:
- Civil Structural Testing and IMAC: Interest in civil structures research and applications is quite high. A total of 72 papers in 17 sessions focused on the testing, identification, analysis, and assessment of large civil structures. Approximately 330 papers are presented at the conference. The committee organized four sessions during IMAC 2011
- ET Feature Series: Civil Structures Testing: Feature series in Experimental Techniques continuing. Discussion of a potentially new format, higher level of journal impact. The journal is accepting ‘review’ papers with the guidance of the editors.
- TD Outreach activities: The TD will continue to consider strategies to promote the IMAC more widely in the civil engineering community worldwide, through avenues such as ASCE, Transportation Research Board (TRB), Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, UK Institution of Civil Engineering (Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamcis), and other similar bodies worldwide.
- Other Possible Activities: Committee considers conference session deveopment on student development, similar in style to the Dynamics Summer School sessions at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition, it is discussed that providing an educational outlet or session for improving leadership would be important.
- Emerging/Critical Research Topics: Damage detection (still a major area of interest), Infrastructure/Structure Health Monitoring, Smart Sensing, Structural Identification with applications to real civil structures.
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