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SUMMARY:From Timber Engineering (via Reliability) to Structural Sensing - 
 Thomas Reynolds\, University of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Dr Maria Marques de Carvalho
DESCRIPTION:You may be thinking\, “this sounds like it will be a vague a
 nd rambling research presentation.” In the event\, you may be right\, bu
 t I would argue that there is a strong thread that joins these fields. Aft
 er spending any time studying timber engineering\, and hearing what an unp
 redictable and variable material wood is (although perhaps it’s only as 
 unpredictable and variable a structural material as concrete)\, you can’
 t help but be drawn to the field of structural reliability to think about 
 how we deal with that variability. Then\, after a while looking at structu
 ral reliability and considering how we deal with uncertainty in structural
  design\, it’s hard to resist thinking about ways that we can try to red
 uce that uncertainty\, and it might seem like a good idea to put sensors o
 n buildings and other structures to try to find out what’s really happen
 ing to structures in-situ. \n\nMy research over the last few years has fol
 lowed that path\, and this talk will introduce: some of the strange behavi
 our of timber connections that I investigated in the Natural Material Inno
 vation group in Cambridge\; a study of structural reliability of tradition
 al structures in Madagascar\; and attempts to get useful information from 
 sensor data on timber buildings\, road bridges and the MX3D footbridge in 
 Amsterdam. In all this work\, I’m interested in how we can use the measu
 red behaviour of structures to allow engineers (or self builders in Madaga
 scar) to design and build with more confidence with a wider range of mater
 ials.
LOCATION:Zoom (email structures-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk for link)
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