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Date
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21 FEBRUARY 2012
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18:30 - 20:30
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Meeting
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One of the greatest challenges facing civil engineers in the 21st century is the stewardship of civil engineering infrastructure. Nowhere is this more apparent than in underground structures in the major cities around the world. Advances in the development of fibre optics, computer vision, miniature micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) and wireless sensor network (WSN) offer intriguing possibilities that can radically alter the paradigms underlying existing methods of condition assessment and monitoring of such infrastructure. This talk discusses potentials of these technologies for monitoring geotechnical infrastructure.
Kenichi Soga is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His current research activities are innovative monitoring and long-term performance of infrastructure and energy geomechanics. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers and is co-author of "Fundamentals of Soil Behavior" from John Wiley & Sons. He is recipient of many awards including George Stephenson Medal (2006) and Telford Gold Medal (2010) from ICE and Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (2007) from ASCE.
Contact iceyandh@ice.org.uk
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