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Five Years After Bridge Disaster, Technology Advances: UMD Experts in Bridge Monitoring, Design, and Failure Analysis
University of Maryland experts include engineers who are creating sensor-based systems for real-time monitoring of bridge safety and others with extensive expertise in design, inspection and testing of bridges and of forensic analysis of the causes of failure or collapse of bridges.
More on UMD advances in affordable, real-time monitoring of bridge structural integrity:
http://newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=2745
Number of experts found: 5
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Bilal M. Ayyub
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Professor and Director
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Center for Technology and Systems Management
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Expertise Key Words:
Reliability and risk analysis, forensic engineering, uncertainty modeling and analysis, decision methods, infrastructure systems, sea level rise.
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Expertise Credentials:
Author of numerous articles and textbooks, including risk analysis, probability and statistics, elicitation of expert opinions for uncertainty and risk, reliability-based design, and infrastructure and sset protection for homeland security. Has analyzed the collapse of various types of buildings for government and private agencies. He received the Department of the Army Public Service Award in 2007 for leading the development of the risk model for the hurricane protection system of New Orleans. Ayyub co-directs the Sea Level Challenge Initiative, a UMD project with the objective of taking logical and necessary steps to develop timely engineering infrastructure solutions that could alleviate real hazards of climate change to society by planned phased-in construction and targeted retrofitting.
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Web Site(s):
 http://ctsm.umd.edu/ayyub
Center for Technology and Systems Management
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301 405 1956
301 299 9375
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ba@umd.edu
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Address:
Civil & Environmental Engineering
0305 Martin Hall
College Park, MD 20742
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Degrees:
PhD, Risk and uncertainty analysis, homeland security, marine systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Publication(s):
List of publications
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Chung C. Fu
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Research Professor and Director of the Bridge Engineering Software & Technology (BEST) Center
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Computer structural analysis and design; reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, steel and FRP structural design; bridge engineering, design, management, testing and inspection; seismic engineering.
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301 405 2011
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ccfu@umd.edu
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Mehdi Kalantari Khandani
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Research Scientist
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Bridge Integrity Sensors, Smart infrastructure, Structural Health Monitoring, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense in the Internet,Wireless Networks,
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301 405 6622
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mehkalan@umd.edu
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Donald W. Vannoy
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Prof (Emeritus)
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Structural engineering, structural analysis and design, forensic engineering, high performance concrete structures, bridge structures and buildings.
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301 405 1955
301 593-1003
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dwvannoy@umd.edu
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Yunfeng Zhang
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Assoc Professor
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
earthquake engineering, structural collapse, steel structures, sensor, fatigue crack, acoustic emission, vibration, bridge testing, structural health monitoring, building integrated photovoltaic panel use in building structures
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301 405 1955
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zyf@umd.edu
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