Fwd: Invited Lecture by Prof. Koh from NUS - Structural Health Monitoring for Sustainable Development - at ICSR Auditorium at 5:30 PM on March 14 (Tuesday)
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Date: Mar 13, 2017 13:41
Subject: Invited Lecture by Prof. Koh from NUS - Structural Health Monitoring for Sustainable Development - at ICSR Auditorium at 5:30 PM on March 14 (Tuesday)
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Dear All,
Professor Koh Chan Ghee, the Director, Center for Hazards Research, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore will be delivering an invited lecture on March 14th (Tuesday). Please feel free to invite your students/student groups.
Topic: "Structural Health Monitoring for Sustainable Development - Two decades of research"
Venue: IC&SR Auditorium, IIT Madras.
Time: 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM, March 14th (Tuesday)
Refreshments will be served by 5:15 PM.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Speaker profile: Prof. Koh earned his Ph.D. from the Univ. of California Berkeley in 1986. Then, he joined the faculty of Civil & Environment Engineering at NUS. Prof. Koh's research interest has primarily been in structural dynamics, with applications on structural health monitoring and system identification, train-track dynamics, and offshore/marine engineering. To his credit, he has more than 200 international journal papers and conference papers, one book and five invited book chapters. Professor Koh is active in the professional and academic circle, serving in four journal editorial boards, including “Structural Health Monitoring” and “Smart Structures and Systems”. He was Vice Dean (Research) for two years in the Faculty of Engineering at NUS. Currently, he is the Director of the Centre for Hazards Research at NUS.
Abstract: Buildings, bridges, railways and many other types of infrastructure often require inspection and maintenance for the purpose of safe and sustainable usage. In this regard, structural health monitoring has attracted much attention in taking advantage of technological advances in sensors, data acquisition, signal processing, wireless communication and structural identification algorithms. In particular, robust and efficient structural identification algorithms play an important role in determining key structural parameters and detecting damages based on analysis of measurement signals. While many structural identification algorithms have been developed, this remains a challenging task due to the ill-conditioned nature of inverse analysis, particularly for large structural systems. Professor Koh will share his research findings in this topic over the last two decades. Several novel strategies based on different principles will be presented towards improving identification accuracy and reducing computational time associated with the combinatorial explosion problem. He will also talk about some field measurement projects involving vibration measurement.
Regards,Radhakrishna G. Pillai----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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