About CE & AM
The Civil Engineering program at Caltech has been active since the founding of the Institute. Currently, the department is concentrated primarily on earthquake engineering, a field in which Caltech researchers have been important contributors since the 1920's. Research is currently being conducted in areas such as seismic early warning, characterization of near-source motion in earthquakes, soil-structure interaction, nonlinear finite element analysis of civil structures, structural health monitoring and earthquake loss-estimation.
The Applied Mechanics department was founded nearly five decades ago to focus on research and education in the areas of solid mechanics and dynamics. Current research is mainly in the area of dynamics, dealing with topics such as vibrations of structures and machinery, structural response to earthquakes, including system identification and control of structural response, and fundamental studies of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. |
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Upcoming Events
Some Applications of Dual (Parameter-State) Estimation
for Structural Health Monitoring
Andrew Smyth , Columbia University
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Structural health monitoring using vibration response measurements has been an area of promising research in structural engineering for its potential to assess structural damage and deterioration and in turn afford improved infrastructure management decision making. Recent developments include the application of a variety of Bayesian estimation techniques for the simultaneous estimation of structural system parameters together with unmeasured system states. Read more... 1.27.10
Accurate Uncertainty Quantification Using Inaccurate Computational Models
Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis, Cornell University
Thursday, January 14, 2010
This talk deals with a novel uncertainty quantification framework for computationally demanding systems characterized by high-dimensional random input. It combines state-of-the-art techniques in advanced Monte Carlo sampling with Bayesian formulations. Read more... 1.6.10 |
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