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Societal Scale Civil Infrastructure Gregory L. Fenves

Explore how societal-scale issues impact civil infrastructure and discover the profound opportunities for improving quality of life and economic growth. This includes inexpensive sensors, reliable communication, data synthesis, simulation, and decision-making systems.

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Societal Scale Civil Infrastructure Gregory L. Fenves

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  1. UC Santa Cruz Societal Scale Civil Infrastructure Gregory L. Fenves Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

  2. Societal-scale Issues Affecting Civil Infrastructure Disaster Preparation, Response, Recovery TransportationManagement Environmental Engineering

  3. Profound opportunities for major shift in improving quality of life and economic growth • Inexpensive sensors with wide deployment • Reliable, secure communication • Data synthesis and visualization • Simulation • Decision-making and control

  4. Systems Approach to Civil Infrastructure • Infrastructure problems are complex and hard to solve • Develop multi-disciplinary approaches • Use CITRIS will integrate new technology into addressing societal-scale problems • Provide new opportunities for broad range of students • Expand role of civil and environmental engineers in addressing societal problems

  5. CITRIS Builds on Strengths Disaster Preparation, Response, Recovery TransportationManagement Top-ranked research and instructional programs In water quantity/quality, indoor and outdoor air quality, ecological engineering EnvironmentalEngineering

  6. What is the Earthquake Risk? Direct costs, millions of dollars projection Kobe, 1995 250000 230,000 200000 Northridge, 1994 150,000 Loma Prieta, 1989 150000 100000 50000 30,000 6,000 0 Event

  7. MEMs Accelerometers I I I I Dense grid of sensors for the shear wall and the header beam O I I I I

  8. Laboratory Application

  9. Pre-event Preparation Post-event Response and Recovery

  10. Hierarchical Approach • Local sensing and damage detection • Structure-level prognosis and diagnosis • Data and control for occupants and emergency responders • Regional decision-making on allocation, routing of emergency & recovery services • State/National assessment and decision-support systems

  11. Technology for Disaster-response

  12. Roadmap • Testbed applications • Campus networks • Signature structures • Integration of sensor networks • Coalition and collaboration with industry and government

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