SEM DYNAMICS OF CIVIL STRUCTURES TECHNICAL DIVISION (DCSTD)
2014 Winter Meeting
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Chair: F. Necati Catbas, University of Central Florida
Vice Chair: Juan Caicedo, University of South Carolina
Secretary: Kelly Salyards, Bucknell University
Attendees:
Necati Catbas
Martin Turek
Carlos Ventura
Arcan Yanik
Trevor Haskett
Michael Wesolowsky
Julia Graham
Brad Pridham
Eric Hernandez
Young-Jin Cha
Luigi Carassale
Shamim Pakzad
Paul Reynolds
Ben Barben
Alfredo Cigada
Matthew Whelan
Ramin Madarshahian
Marcello Vanali
Juan Caicedo
Richard Christenson
Oral Buyukozturk
Albert Ortiz
Ruben Boroschek
Salam Rahmatalla
Tong Wang
Stana Zivanovic
Vito Racic
Kirk Grimmelsman
Osman Ozbulut
Kelly Salyards
University of Central Florida
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
Istanbul Technical University
RWDI
Swallow Acoustic
RWDI
Novus Environmental
University of Vermont
MIT
University of Genova, Italy
Lehigh University
Exeter University
Penn State
Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
University of South Carolina
Universita degli studi di Parma, Italy
University of South Carolina
University of Connecticut
MIT
University of South Carolina
University of Chile
University of Iowa
Nanjing University of Aero. and Astro.
University or Warwick, UK
University of Sheffield, UK
University of Arkansas
University of Virginia
Bucknell University
catbas@ucf.edu
meturek@mail.ubc.ca
ventura@civil.ubc.ca
arcan.yanik@gmail.com
rrevor.haskett@rwdi.com
mwesolowsky@swallowacoustic.ca
julia.graham@rwdi.com
bradp@novusenv.com
eric.hernandez@uvm.edu
yjcha@mit.edu
Luigi.carassale@unige.it
pakzad@lehigh.edu
p.reynolds@exeter.ac.uk
bbarben@psu.edu
alfredo.cigada@polimi.it
mwhelan3@uncc.edu
mdrshhn@email.sc.edu
Marcello.vanali@unipr.it
caicedo@cec.sc.edu
rchriste@engr.uconn.edu
obuyuk@mit.edu
aro@email.sc.edu
rborosch@ing.uchile.cl
salam_rahmatalla@uiowa.edu
wt78@nuaa.edu.cn
s.zivanovic@warwick.ac.uk
v.racic@sheffield.ac.uk
kgrimmel@uark.edu
ozbulut@virginia.edu
kas046@bucknell.edu
Meeting Minutes:
Theme for IMAC 2015: Balance between simulation and testing
1.
Introductions
TD Chair Catbas opened the meeting and introductions were made.
2.
Minutes of previous meeting
Motion to accept meeting minutes from 2013 Winter Meeting by Ventura, seconded by Reynolds.
3.
Discussion of committee mission, purpose and objectives/Membership and recruitment
 Ventura provideed short overview of committee history and encourages involvement in all levels of SEM
 Necati would like to improve student attendance and pre-conference short courses
 Recommendation to offer short courses online prior to conference
SEM DYNAMICS OF CIVIL STRUCTURES TECHNICAL DIVISION (DCSTD)
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Concern of incorporation of structural health monitoring education in typical curricula or conference.
Planned in 2013 to organize a short workshop/panel discussion for IMAC 2014 related to practical
aspects of SHM and several case studies (not necessarily research-oriented.) Continued interest for IMAC
2015. Identify individuals with existing materials to offer educational session. Need collective effort,
share responsibility and workload.
4.
Summary of IMAC 2014 participation
 68 organized sessions in the conference – 13 organized by Dynamics of Civil Structures TD (20%)
 ~75 papers presented within these 13 sessions
 Shooting for 30% next year
 Need more volunteers to organize sessions in the future
5.
Activities for 2015
 Educational session/workshop/tutorial: Martin Turek, Jerry Lynch? Vince Chiarito? (Check with SEM on
posting presentation online – either synchronized or later?) Relate topics in session to IMAC theme.
 Educational session for course development: 8 TD members already teaching courses on structural
dynamics / testing - Pakzad
 Pridham – Session on design of facilities for ultra-sensitive equipment; drawing from both industry and
research
 Racic and Zivanovic – Session on human-induced vibrations of civil structures
 Ventura proposed that the TD commit to X number of sessions on bridges, X number of sessions on
structural identification of civil structures, etc. (Bridges – Cunha?)
 Problem session – encourage industry professionals to participate? (IMAC-wide); Be prepared with
“problems” or representative case studies?
 Develop database of case studies; Share data for common interest or benchmark study.
 Caicedo – polling TD for interest in shared dataset on human-structure interaction or other shared
datasets, preferably from real structure. Possible datasets include: damaged structure, SHM. (request
session to follow/align with TD meeting). TD members to send short email description of dataset that
could be made available to TD. (Caicedo/Catbas)
 Caicedo – Sesson on model updating in civil structures
6.
Other business:
 Experimental Techniques – Reynolds serving as editor (beginning June 2015)
 New publisher from Wiley to Springer (upcoming)
 Backlog of papers already present (>1 year), how to manage?
 Special issues or special series for the future – please forward ideas to Paul (Paul will email request)
 Proposed future: less than 3 months of backlog would be ideal
 ET history: developed from newsletter to magazine to journal
 Awards – Best paper award related to Civil Structures
 Catbas attended Executive Session to learn about procedure for TD award; Follow up with Tom
Proulx to determine procedures
 Nominations – cannot nominate your own paper; looking for feedback from anyone who attended a
good presentation this year;
 Guidelines/standards for dynamic testing: how to proceed?
 Elections for TD leadership: all 3 positions open
 Nominations
1. Chair – Juan Caicedo
2. Vice Chair – Shamim Pakzad
3. Secretary – Kirk Grimmelsman
 Elections – single nominations confirmed
 Thanks to all officers
 SEM has several awards that any member can be nominated. Procedure is currently being streamlined.
SEM DYNAMICS OF CIVIL STRUCTURES TECHNICAL DIVISION (DCSTD)
Meeting adjourned 1:25 pm. Next meeting of TD will be February 3, 2015.