Visiting Research Seminar - Institute for Infrastructure Engineering

Presenter: Associate Professor Yan Yu, Deputy Director of Sensors Institute, School of Electronic Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology China.

Seminar title: Design, Calibration and some applications of Wireless Sensors and their Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures

Seminar Abstract: Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is more and more becoming a technique for ensuring the health and safety of civil infrastructures and is also an important approach for the research of the damage accumulation and disaster evolving characteristics of civil infrastructures; it is attracting prodigious research interests and the active development interests of scientists and engineers because a great number of civil infrastructures are being planned and built every year in mainland China. 

In this speech, some recent advances on the research, development, and implementation of wireless sensors networks for the SHM of civil infrastructures are introduced, particularly in DUT and HIT in mainland China.

Finally, solutions to the key problem of finite energy for wireless sensors networks are discussed.

Some future works are also introduced, for example, the wireless sensor networks powered by corrosion signal for corrosion monitoring and rapid diagnosis for large structures.

Biography: Yan Yu received his B. S. in industrial automation , his M. S. in architecture technique science and PhD in Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in1999, 2001 and 2006. Now He is an associate professor, PHD. supervisor, Director of DUT-MEMSIC Wireless Sensor Networks Joint Lab, Deputy director of Sensors Institute, at School of Electronic Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include wireless sensor network, data fusion, structural health monitoring and intelligent building.

A light lunch will be provided, for catering purposes, please RSVP to iie-admin@uws.edu.au by COB Thursday 8 August 2013. Please advise if you have any special dietary requirements.