General Program
	Keynote Lectures
	Invited Speakers
	SHM Short Course
	Social Program

General Program

Deadline Dates
	Submission of Full Paper: August 31, 2011
	Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 30, 2011
	Submission of Final Manuscripts: October 15, 2011

 

Short Course on SHM and Instructional Workshop

The technical program includes a short course and an instructional workshop to be held prior to the conference.

Short Course on SHM

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a process aimed at providing accurate and in-time information concerning structural health condition and performance. The information obtained from monitoring is generally used to increase the safety, plan and design maintenance activities, verify hypotheses, reduce uncertainty, and to widen the knowledge concerning the structure being monitored.

Recent developments in fiber optic sensing (FOS) technologies made possible global structural monitoring using long-gauge sensors and integrity monitoring using truly distributed sensors. These sensors combined in appropriate topologies and networks can provide for assessment of wide range of parameters relevant for structural behavior.

The aim of this course is to transfer the knowledge on SHM and FOS. Targeted groups are those who can take benefits from SHM: civil engineers, practitioners, consultants, contractors, infrastructure managers, and owners. Researchers on SHM are welcome too.

Covered topics include brief introduction to the SHM, overview of available FOS technologies, and SHM methods based on FOS technologies. The topics are illustrated through numerous examples taken from practice.

Instructional Workshop: Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Technology for SHM

The instructional workshop is the hands-on, experimental portion of the short course. This workshop will review the use and application of FBG sensors for strain & stress, acceleration, displacement, temperature and other parameters is made, along with discussions on sensor placement & installation, data analysis and interpretation. To reinforce the theoretical concepts and illustrate the practical aspects of the technology, a number of hands-on demonstrations of FBG sensors and instruments will be made.

Learning Outcomes

This course will enable the participant to:
•     understand the operating principles, characteristics and advantages of optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors
•     review a wide range of sensor types for the measurement of materials properties and structural characteristics
•     learn the required building blocks that make up a SHM system
•     illustrate specific sensing solutions and their benefits in applications for civil structures, aerospace, composite materials, FRP elements, railways, naval vessels, oil & gas, and others.
•     obtain an overall view of fiber sensors, the SHM industry and its trends

Intended Audience

Technical managers, scientists, engineers, technicians and research students who wish to learn about sensing and structural monitoring via optical fiber sensors and review their implementation and applications. The workshop is also suitable to gain an overview on the field of smart structures and learn about the state-of-the-art in on-line monitoring techniques of civil engineering, aerospace and composite structures and components.

Course Level

Introductory to intermediate

Course Fees

The registration fee includes all written materials, lunch and coffee breaks
Fees are in US dollars and include all taxes.

Conference fees may be paid by PayPal and Bank Transfers during the on line registration/payment process. Additional processing fees might apply for bank transfers.

Regular attendee $265

Student $85

Short Course and Instructional Workshop Schedule (Sunday, December 11, 2011)

Short Course Instructors
	Dr. Daniele Inaudi received a degree in Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) where his graduation work was prized with the ETHZ medal. In 1997 he obtained his Ph.D. in civil engineering at the Laboratory of Stress Analysis (IMAC) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne for his work on the development of a fiber optic deformation sensing system for civil engineering structural monitoring. In 2005 he received a Master in Business Administration form the University of Southern Switzerland. Daniele Inaudi is co-founder and CTO of SMARTEC SA and CTO of Roctest. He is fellow and member of the executive committee of ISHMII and is an active member of IABMAS, OSA, SPIE, IABSE and fib. Daniele Inaudi is author of more than 200 papers, five book chapters, a book on "Fiber Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring" and editor of a book on Optical Nondestructive Testing.
	Branko Glišić received his degrees in Civil Engineering (1994) and Theoretical Mathematics (1996) at University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Ph.D. degree (2000) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His thesis focuses on the development of fiber optic sensors for particular applications, and auscultation and characterization of concrete at very early age. He has been engaged in R&D of structural health monitoring (SHM) methods and fiber-optic sensors (FOS) since 1996. He was involved at different levels of responsibility in numerous SHM projects, EU and NSF funded projects, and internal R&D projects. After long experience in industry (2000-2008 SMARTEC SA), he became an Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University in 2009. His expertise and current research interest include SHM methods and strategies, structural analysis, FOS and advanced sensory systems, and model-based and model-free data analysis.
Instructional Workshop Instructors
	Alexis Méndez is president of MCH Engineering LLC, a consulting firm specializing in optical fiber sensing technology has over 25 years of experience in optical fiber technology, sensors and instrumentation. He was the former Group Leader of the Fiber Optic Sensors Lab within ABB Corporate Research (USA), working on the development of new fiber optic sensing systems for electric utility and oil & gas applications. He has written over 50 technical publications, is co-editor of the “Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook”, holds 5 US patents and is recipient of an R&D 100 award. Dr. Mendez holds a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University; is a Fellow of SPIE and was past Chairman of the 2006 International Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (OFS-18), and is a Council Member of SHMII.
	William Keith Chandler is founder and president of Chandler Monitoring Systems Inc. (CMS), an engineering firm specializing in optical fiber sensing monitoring systems design, planning and installation. Mr. Chandler has over 20 years of experience in the fiber optic components industry and, over the past few years, has been involved in numerous structural health monitoring (SHM) projects using fiber optics around the world—spanning civil structures, aerospace vehicles, geotechnical installations, and many others. Prior to founding CMS Mr. Chandler was Engineering Mgr. at North American Medical Operations, Sr. Manager for manufacturing systems at Ciena Corp., and research engineer at Lucent. Mr. Chandler holds several US patents, and has written numerous technical articles and white papers.

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