SHMII-3 Conference in Vancouver

The upcoming The 3rd International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-3) conference will be one of the most important events for SHM this year. It will be held on
November 13-16, 2007 at the Fairmont Waterfront HotelVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Please visit the conference website for more information: http://www.isiscanada.com/shmii-3/index.htm

The conference will have sessions on these topics:

• Smart wireless or other advanced sensors
• Field applications
• Data acquisition, processing and management
• SHM of Heritage Structures
• Damage identification and localization
• Model updating, safety evaluation and reliability forecast
• Damage control, repair and strengthening
• Life-cycle performance-based design
• Smart materials and structures
• Global positioning system (GPS) and related systems for wind and earthquake hazard mitigation of civil infrastructure
• Remote monitoring systems
• Integrated systems and implementations of SHM
• Design guidelines and codes of SHM
• Standardization of SHM systems
• Non-destructive evaluation/testing

Special Sessions will be held on:

• Monitoring of Marine and Harbour Structures
• Structural Health Monitoring and Bridge Security
• Structural Identification of Constructed Systems
• Inverse Problems in Bridge Management
• SHM of GEO-Tech Problems
• Structural Analysis and Reliability Assessment
• Wireless Sensing
• Long Term Bridge Performance Program

Short Courses will be offered on:

• Implementing Structural Monitoring in Bridge Management and Maintenance Practices (Tuesday, Nov. 13th)
• Civil Engineering Education Reform (Friday, November 16th)

I will be presenting papers in the session in bold. I plan to blog from the conference to give updates on the most interesting papers and presentaitons.

There will also be an exhibit with the following companies exhibiting:

ISIS Canada Research Network
Micron Optics
SMARTEC SA / Roctest (I will be at this booth)
FiberSensing
OZ Optics
Vienna Consulting Engineers
MacDonnell Group
Physical Acoustics Corporation
Wardrop Engineering

I will report about new products announcements during the conference.

See you there!