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| I-35W Mississippi River bridge, collapsed on August 1, 2007. |
The main field of research focuses on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in association with Artificial Intelligence (AI); combining SHM and AI offers promising scientific opportunities that could bring considerable benefits to the society: Emerging problems such as ageing of structures, considerable expenditures for rehabilitation work as well as recent collapses of public infrastructure are only a few of the problems that might be solved by these novel engineering concepts.
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| Burj Khalifa – (currently) the tallest building of the world (828 m). |
Ambitious engineering structures like the Burj Khalifa can only be realized using modern SHM systems that are installed in the structure in order to permanently assess the current condition and actual performance based on permanent data acquisition and analyses. Developing and implementing capable SHM strategies is a great technological challenge and a heterogeneous, complex engineering task that might efficiently be solved by coupling various advanced techniques stemming from different disciplines. Details can be found on the pages listed below.
