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Events for January 18, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Jan 18, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Ph. D. Seminar
Fri, Jan 18, 2013 @ 04:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Felipe de Barros and Dr. Ketan Savla, USC-Civil and Environmental Engineering
Talk Title: Research in Civil Engineering
Abstract: Dr. Felipe de Barros and Dr. Ketan Savla are new hired faculty in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. They will speak to faculty and graduate students about their research work.
Location: John Stauffer Science Lecture Hall (SLH) - 102
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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CEE Oral Dissertation Defense
Fri, Jan 18, 2013 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Reza Jafakhani, CE Ph.D. Candidate
Talk Title: Studies Into Vibration-Signature-Based Methods for System Identification, Damage Detection and Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures
Abstract:
Civil infrastructures play a vital role in human societies. Recent catastrophic events due to the deficiency, failure or malfunction of these systems, claiming many lives and resulting in substantial economic loss, have attracted extensive attention focused on reviewing and amending the design and maintenance procedures of civil infrastructures. In addition to the possible failure of structural components, long-term forms of damage due to deterioration or fatigue may also necessitate regular monitoring of civil structures. Therefore, depending on the importance, use and risk, the structure of interest needs to be equipped with inspection, monitoring and maintenance systems. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is generally associated with any engineering methodology whose aim is to detect, locate and quantify the damage in the target system. Vibration-based techniques, as the most conventional SHM approaches, acquire and analyze the structural response using a variety of sensors mounted at different locations on the structure. The main goal of the study reported herein is to investigate and compare different vibration-signature-based methods for system identification, damage detection and health monitoring of civil structures. Various well-known techniques such as finite element model updating approach and damage detection methods based on artificial neural networks are studied and evaluated. Experimental data from two case studies, a quarter-scale two-span bridge system, tested at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a 1/20 scale 4-story building equipped with smart devices of magneto-rheological (MR) damper, are used for investigation and validation purposes. Guidelines are established for the optimum selection of the dominant control parameters involved in the application of some of the robust SHM approaches for achieving reliable SHM results under realistic conditions.
Advisor: Sami Masri
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
