CENS Technical Seminar Series

Structural Health Monitoring Systems: LA Tall Buildings

Invited Speaker: Derek Skolnik, Civil Engineering, UCLA
Date: September 7, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: 4760 Boelter Hall, UCLA

Abstract

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the process of assessing the state of health (e.g., damage) of instrumented structures from measurements. The goal of SHM is to improve safety and reliability of infrastructure systems by detecting damage before it reaches a critical state, or to allow rapid post-event assessment. The primary objectives of this research are the development and implementation of robust SHM systems (i.e., novel sensors, associated hardware/software, fragility-based algorithms) using tall buildings in Los Angeles as a testbed.

Biography

Derek Skolnik is a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at UCLA. He received his MS from UCLA in 2005 and BS from University of Iowa in 2002, both in Civil Engineering. Research interests include field testing, sensor development, system identification, and structural health monitoring. Derek recently returned from a brief stint, by way of the NSF EAPSI program, as an honorary research scholar in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.