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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. A. Sychterz
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ann Sychterz\n15:30 – 16:15 – Prof. Ann Sychterz\nAs
 sistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, USA\n\nAdap
 tive and resilient modular civil infrastructure\n\nCurrent infrastructure 
 is designed and built such that it must simultaneously comply with all pos
 sible 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 b
 iology. Additionally\, modular assembly allows for simplified transportati
 on logistics\, lower installation equipment costs\, and high factory-contr
 olled part manufacturing. These aspects culminate in a desirable resilient
  built environment. Although deployable structures are already common\, de
 ployable active structures that change shape either autonomously or remote
 ly to accommodate challenging environments are rare. A tensegrity structur
 e 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://you
 tu.be/FeXxjerleZE). This seminar will present work to actuate\, control\, 
 and built large-scale adaptive civil infrastructure such as bridges\, roof
 s\, and foundation anchors to adapt to our ever-changing environment.\n\n\
 nShort bio:\n(SICK-teshj) is an assistant professor in the department of C
 ivil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Ch
 ampaign. She is also a faculty fellow at the National Center for Supercomp
 uting Applications\, a Faculty Affiliate with the Beckman Institute for Ad
 vanced Science and Technology\, and a Levenick Sustainable Teaching Fellow
 . She obtained her PhD in 2018 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technol
 ogy Lausanne (EPFL) addressing the novel use of control algorithms\, stati
 stical diagnostic tools\, and real-time feedback on a full-scale tensegrit
 y structure to enable smooth deployability\, damage detection\, adaptation
 \, and learning. She earned her bachelors and masters of applied science i
 n Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and won the SNSF Early P
 ostdoc.Mobility grant to work at the University of Michigan to work on ori
 gami. She is a guest editor for the journal Frontiers in Built Environment
  Structural Sensing. With her team at SMARTI lab at the University of Illi
 nois\, they harness geometrically nonlinear systems for adaptive and resil
 ient civil infrastructure.\n 
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87983194593
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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