CSP - 8TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORINGEWSHM2016
Abstract
8TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORINGEWSHM2016:a. EWSHM 2016 is the 8th in a series of biennial workshops that focus on the S&T of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). This conference is held in Europe every two years, alternating with IWSHM (Stanford University, USA), and is the most significant SHM workshop for 2016 in the world. The topic areas cover broad basic research fields such as intelligent materials and structures, sensor and actuator development, signal processing, damage identification and diagnostics, and structural integrity characterization and assessment methodologies. In this year, SHM for human sensing session will be added for the 1st time, leading an important multi-disciplinary topic. One of the unique features of EWSHM is that it is conjoined with the European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society (PHM). PHM has become an increasingly important subject, specifically within the context of getting SHM into applications. The Conference will bring together the global community of PHM experts from industry, academia, and government in application areas such as energy, aerospace, transportation, automotive, and industrial automation. The conference setting is well-suited for presentations/discussions that address key and emerging S&T issues which are critical and unique in SHM. More than 500 participants in industry, academia, and government from around the world are expected to attend in order to obtain the latest developments in the field of SHM through more than 350 technical presentations and oral and poster sessions held in parallel. Papers in the conference proceedings are expected to reflect current state-of-the-art technologies and S&T activities in the field in Europe and in the world. b. SHM S&T and its many underlying fundamental research topics are extremely important to DON and ONR, as outlined in the Naval S&T Strategy. It is important that ONR Global supports this workshop in order to lead the SHM S&T development and maintain the global technical awareness. Supporting this workshop allows us to directly communicate topics of interests of ONR and DON to the S&T communities in order to encourage future development directly relevant to support Navy S&T focus areas including Information Dominance, Autonomy and Unmanned Systems, War Fighter Performance, and Assure Access to the Maritime Battlespace c. ONR/ONR Global have been supporting the S&T in SHM for many years. ONR GLOBAL supported EWSHM 2014 and related Asian Pacific events in 2012 and 2013. Several Code 33 POs, such as Dr. Paul Hess and Dr. Ignacio Perez, have been funding the US version of this workshop at Stanford U since 2007. Dr. Tim Bentley, Code34 is extremely interested in verity of SHM S&T for human monitoring and protection applications. In addition, AFOSR view SHM as a highly relevant technology for the Air Force and funded some previous SHM workshops. d. The workshop promotes international exchange and cross-fertilization among many disciplines. In addition to conference materials and reports, other expected outcome from this workshop is the initiation of international research collaborations in SHM and its new application topics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2016
- Source ID
- N629091612140
Entities
People
- Alfredo Gemes
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy