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SUMMARY:Potentials for Collaborations and Recent Advances On the value of 
 Information in Structural Health Monitoring
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Michael H. Faber (DTU)\nEPFL and DTU are both members of
  the Eurotech University Alliance together with Technische Universiteit Ei
 ndhoven and Techische Universität München.  One of the aims of this par
 tnership concerns research collaborations within the European dimension\, 
 hereunder the HORIZON 2020 program. With the purpose of enhancing the rese
 arch collaborations between the Civil Engineering Departments of EPFL and 
 DTU the first part of the presentation thus aims to provide an overview of
  some of the main research interests and activities of DTU Civil Engineeri
 ng.\nStructural Health Monitoring (SHM) has\, over the last 2-3 decades\, 
 become a topic of significant interest within the structural engineering r
 esearch community\, but also in the broader areas of civil and mechanical 
 engineering. Whereas the merits of health monitoring are generally appreci
 ated in qualitative terms there has\, as of yet\, not been reported much f
 undamental research on the quantification of the benefit of SHM. The prese
 nt presentation\, addresses the quantification of the value of SHM taking 
 basis in the Bayesian pre-posterior decision analysis and the concept of V
 alue of Information (VoI) analysis.\nStarting point is taken in the identi
 fication of different typical situations in structural engineering in whic
 h health monitoring would have the potential to provide value beyond its c
 osts. Subsequently\, the theoretical framework which allows for the quanti
 fication of its value is shortly summarized and illustrated on a principal
  example. Subsequently\, the use of the VoI concept in optimization of ins
 pection and maintenance strategies of fatigue sensitive details in welded 
 connections of offshore structures is illustrated and finally a potential 
 framework for future collaborations within the EU COST Action program is o
 utlined.\nBio: Michael Havbro Faber is professor in Risk and Safety and th
 e head of the department of civil engineering at the Technical University 
 of Denmark\, DTU.\nHis research is directed on engineering decision making
  with focus on applied Bayesian decision theory\, life safety\, management
  of catastrophic risks\, risk assessment\, Bayesian uncertainty modeling\,
  structural reliability and risk based assessment and maintenance. During 
 his career Michael H. Faber has engaged continuously in industrial project
 s and acts as a consultant in ongoing projects related to offshore safety 
 and reliability\, transport risk and life safety assessments as well as na
 tural hazards risks management. \nMichael H. Faber is a member of the Dan
 ish Academy of Technical Sciences and is actively involved in several inte
 rnational committees\, including: The Joint Committee on Structural Safety
  (vice-president)\; the International Forum on Engineering Decision Making
  (founding president)\; the Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Associa
 tion (chair) and alumni of the WEF GAC on Catastrophic Risks.
LOCATION:GC B330
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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