On May 14, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” held the 5th“Cloud Report” and invited Prof.Michael Todd from University of California San Diego to present a report named “A Bayesian Experimental Design Approach to Structural Health Monitoring with Specific Application to Ultrasonic Interrogation of Structures”.
This report was hosted by Associate Prof. Jie Xu from the School of Civil Engineering. Prof. Qinghua Han, Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, attended the report and delivered a welcome speech.
Prof.Michael Todd introduced a risk-based approach for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications,focusing on the example of active sensing using guided ultrasonic wavesby implementing an appropriate general statistical model of the wave propagation and feature extraction process.
This “Cloud Report” attracted a total of 284 teachers and students from 17 universities including Tianjin University, Zhejiang University, Southeast University, Shandong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, etc. They all responded enthusiastically.
Michael Todd currently serves as Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of California San Diego and is the Managing Editor of Structural Health Monitoring, an International Journal. To date, he has published over 150 journal papers, seven book chapters, over 360 conference papers and proceedings, and has 5 patents. His research areas are in applying nonlinear time series techniques (such as chaotic interrogation) to structural health monitoring problems, stochastic modeling/uncertainty propagation for structural health monitoring applications, building UAV-enabled RFID sensing systems for structural assessment, developing real-time shape reconstruction strategies for highly flexible structural systems, designing and testing fiber optic measurement systems, and developing noise propagation models for fiber optic measurement systems.
By the School of Civil Engineering
Editor: Eva Yin
