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| I-35W bridge, collapsed on August 1, 2007. |
The main field of research focuses on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Combining SHM and AI offers promising scientific opportunities of practical relevance that could bring considerable benefits to the society: Ageing of structures, increasing rehabilitation and maintenance costs as well as recent collapses of public infrastructure are only some of the emerging problems that could be solved by new engineering concepts.
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| Burj Khalifa, (currently) the tallest building of the world (828 m). |
Ambitious engineering structures like the Burj Khalifa can only be realized by using modern SHM systems that are installed in the structure to permanently assess the current condition and actual performance based on continuous data acquisition and real-time analyses. Developing and implementing capable SHM strategies is a great technological challenge and a heterogeneous, complex engineering task to be solved by coupling various advanced techniques stemming from different disciplines. Details can be found on the pages listed below.
