ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. A. Sychterz
Event details
| Date | 29.03.2021 |
| Hour | 15:30 › 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Ann Sychterz |
| Location |
Zoom
Online
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
15:30 – 16:15 – Prof. Ann Sychterz
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Adaptive and resilient modular civil infrastructure
Current infrastructure is designed and built such that it must simultaneously comply with all possible loads. This leads to overdesigned structures that are inefficient in terms energy and cost. A structure that can self-identify damage, adapt, and learn for future events addresses the emerging field of intelligent infrastructure and structural health monitoring through inspiration from biology. Additionally, modular assembly allows for simplified transportation logistics, lower installation equipment costs, and high factory-controlled part manufacturing. These aspects culminate in a desirable resilient built environment. Although deployable structures are already common, deployable active structures that change shape either autonomously or remotely to accommodate challenging environments are rare. A tensegrity structure is a pin-jointed composition of bars and cables held together in a state of self-stress. Since tensegrity structures are geometrically non-linear, they are ideal candidates for studying deployable structures (http://youtu.be/FeXxjerleZE). This seminar will present work to actuate, control, and built large-scale adaptive civil infrastructure such as bridges, roofs, and foundation anchors to adapt to our ever-changing environment.
Short bio:
(SICK-teshj) is an assistant professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also a faculty fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, a Faculty Affiliate with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and a Levenick Sustainable Teaching Fellow. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) addressing the novel use of control algorithms, statistical diagnostic tools, and real-time feedback on a full-scale tensegrity structure to enable smooth deployability, damage detection, adaptation, and learning. She earned her bachelors and masters of applied science in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and won the SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility grant to work at the University of Michigan to work on origami. She is a guest editor for the journal Frontiers in Built Environment Structural Sensing. With her team at SMARTI lab at the University of Illinois, they harness geometrically nonlinear systems for adaptive and resilient civil infrastructure.
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Adaptive and resilient modular civil infrastructure
Current infrastructure is designed and built such that it must simultaneously comply with all possible loads. This leads to overdesigned structures that are inefficient in terms energy and cost. A structure that can self-identify damage, adapt, and learn for future events addresses the emerging field of intelligent infrastructure and structural health monitoring through inspiration from biology. Additionally, modular assembly allows for simplified transportation logistics, lower installation equipment costs, and high factory-controlled part manufacturing. These aspects culminate in a desirable resilient built environment. Although deployable structures are already common, deployable active structures that change shape either autonomously or remotely to accommodate challenging environments are rare. A tensegrity structure is a pin-jointed composition of bars and cables held together in a state of self-stress. Since tensegrity structures are geometrically non-linear, they are ideal candidates for studying deployable structures (http://youtu.be/FeXxjerleZE). This seminar will present work to actuate, control, and built large-scale adaptive civil infrastructure such as bridges, roofs, and foundation anchors to adapt to our ever-changing environment.
Short bio:
(SICK-teshj) is an assistant professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also a faculty fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, a Faculty Affiliate with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and a Levenick Sustainable Teaching Fellow. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) addressing the novel use of control algorithms, statistical diagnostic tools, and real-time feedback on a full-scale tensegrity structure to enable smooth deployability, damage detection, adaptation, and learning. She earned her bachelors and masters of applied science in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and won the SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility grant to work at the University of Michigan to work on origami. She is a guest editor for the journal Frontiers in Built Environment Structural Sensing. With her team at SMARTI lab at the University of Illinois, they harness geometrically nonlinear systems for adaptive and resilient civil infrastructure.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Christine Crosetti