Evaluating Bridge Reliability Following Natural and Man-Made Hazards in Real-Time: Formulating an International Collaborative Research Program

实时评估自然和人为灾害后的桥梁可靠性：制定国际合作研究计划

• 批准号: 0450420
• 负责人: Ahmet Aktan
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Evaluating; Bridge; Reliability; Following; Natural

Abstract for: Evaluating Bridge Reliability Following Natural and Man-Made Hazards in Real-Time: Formulating an International Collaborative Research Program, CMS proposal 0450420PI: Ahmet Aktan, DrexelThis proposal is being submitted to NSF's Structural Systems and Engineering: StructuralSystems and Hazards Mitigation of Structures program of the Division of Civil andMechanical Systems. Dr. Steven McCabe is the Program Director and Dr. Galip Ulsoy is theDivision Director. The objective of the proposal is to solicit a small travel grant for agroup of academic, government and industry representatives to travel from the US to Japanfor three related purposes: (a) Participating at the International Association for BridgeManagement and Safety Conference at Kyoto, Japan (IABMAS?04, 18-22 October, 2004), (b)Participating at a meeting of the Executive Council of the International Society forStructural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructures (ISHMII) that is beingarranged to take place at Kyoto on October 20, (c) Participating at a half-day Workshopbetween the US and International participants of a problem-focused collaborative researchproject: "Evaluating the Reliability of Highway Bridges In Real-Time Following Hazards ByStructural Health Monitoring" during 17 October.The research project for "Bridge Reliability Following Hazards.." offers significantpotential for buy-in from bridge owners. This is necessary to overcome the reluctance ofmost bridge owners to embrace new technology and to demonstrate how leveraging recentresearch and technology development pays by advancing the state-of-practice forpost-hazard emergency response and recovery of the highway transportation infrastructure.We note that there is consensus between government engineers from State DOT's such asCALTRANS, as well as FHWA and USGS that reliable post-hazard condition assessment ofcritical elements of the highway infrastructure is perhaps the single most pressingproblem urgently requiring research and leveraging of technology for advancing thestate-of-practice. Based on various meetings between groups of stakeholders at Sacramento,Irvine and Bethlehem, the outline of a collaborative multi-institutional research projecthas been formulated by a group of academic, government and industry participants. Theresearch will be detailed in a proposal before January '05. The US participants of thiscollaborative project will be soliciting funding from various federal and state governmentagencies, and especially the NEES Program, while the European and Japanese participantsalready have or will receive funding from their respective governments. The outline ofthis project and the current participants will be described further in the following.In addition to supporting the travel of a US delegation to continue building an extremelyrewarding international collaboration with their counterparts from Canada, Europe and theFar East, a travel grant requested by this proposal will continue to serve for building astrategic relationship between the two U.S. federal government agencies that haveresponsibility for advancing the engineering and management of critical infrastructuresystems. Since 23 April 2003, NSF and FHWA have been exploring a synergistic partnershipfor launching a holistic and problem-focused research initiative to enhance theoperations, protection and preservation of the highway transportation infrastructure. Thisprogram is envisioned to take advantage of actual highways and bridges as test-sites thatwill be transformed into field laboratories for scientific research. There is furtheropportunity to expand an NSF-FHWA partnership by including USGS and NIST as we expect thatdelegates from these latter agencies will also be present. Additional information on thebackground of the proposed partnership for research and collaborations between theacademic and industry communities associated with NSF and FHWA is presented in thefollowing sections of the proposal.

摘要：实时评估自然和人为灾害后的桥梁可靠性：制定国际合作研究计划，CMS 提案 0450420PI：Ahmet Aktan，Drexel 该提案正在提交给 NSF 的结构系统和工程：结构系统和结构灾害缓解土木和机械系统部门的计划。 Steven McCabe 博士是项目总监，Galip Ulsoy 博士是部门总监。该提案的目的是为一组学术界、政府和行业代表争取一笔小额旅费补助金，以便他们从美国前往日本，以实现三个相关目的： (a) 参加在日本京都举行的国际桥梁管理和安全协会会议（ IABMAS?04，2004 年 10 月 18-22 日），(b) 参加国际结构健康监测和智能基础设施协会 (ISHMII) 执行理事会会议，该会议安排于 10 月 20 日在京都举行，(c) 参加由美国和国际参与者举办的为期半天的研讨会，该研讨会是一个以问题为中心的合作研究项目：“通过结构健康监测实时评估公路桥梁的危险程度” 10 月 17 日期间。“桥梁可靠性跟随危险”的研究项目为桥梁业主的认可提供了巨大的潜力。这是必要的，以克服大多数桥梁所有者不愿接受新技术的心理，并展示如何利用最新的研究和技术开发来推进灾后应急响应和公路交通基础设施恢复的实践状态。我们注意到，来自美国运输部（CALTRANS）、联邦公路管理局（FHWA）和美国地质调查局（USGS）等州交通部的政府工程师达成共识，认为对公路基础设施关键要素进行可靠的灾后状况评估可能是最紧迫的问题，迫切需要研究和利用技术来推进实践状态。根据萨克拉门托、欧文和伯利恒利益相关者团体之间的各种会议，学术界、政府和行业参与者制定了多机构合作研究项目的纲要。研究将在 2005 年 1 月之前的提案中详细说明。该合作项目的美国参与者将向各个联邦和州政府机构，特别是 NEES 项目寻求资金，而欧洲和日本参与者已经或即将获得各自政府的资金。该项目的概要和当前参与者将在下文中进一步描述。除了支持美国代表团的旅行以继续与加拿大、欧洲和远东的同行建立极其有益的国际合作外，该项目还请求提供旅行补助金该提案将继续有助于在负责推进关键基础设施系统的工程和管理的两个美国联邦政府机构之间建立战略关系。自 2003 年 4 月 23 日以来，NSF 和 FHWA 一直在探索建立协同合作伙伴关系，发起一项全面且以问题为中心的研究计划，以加强公路交通基础设施的运营、保护和维护。该项目预计将利用实际的高速公路和桥梁作为试验场，将其转变为科学研究的现场实验室。还有进一步扩大 NSF-FHWA 合作伙伴关系的机会，包括 USGS 和 NIST，因为我们预计这些机构的代表也将出席。有关与 NSF 和 FHWA 相关的学术界和工业界之间拟议的研究和合作伙伴关系的背景的更多信息将在提案的以下部分中介绍。