Proceedings of the MCEER Workshop on Advanced Materials, Non-Destructive Evaluation, and Condition Assissment for Critical Facilities

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Abstract: This document reports on the results of the MCEER Workshop on Advanced Materials, Nondestructive Evaluation and Condition Assessment for Critical Facilities. This workshop, sponsored by MCEER and NSF, discussed the advanced technologies and materials that have the potential to impact the monitoring and evaluation of failure in civil infrastructures. In particular, the workshop was designed to identify the issues, theories and experimental results that define advanced materials and technologies, and to discuss some of the novel and potentially interesting approaches for the future. The format of the workshop was to bring a number of experts with overview knowledge of similar programs outside the civil infrastructure community together with a group of experts in earthquake engineering to formulate new trends in research focused on monitoring and condition assessment. The goal was to try and leverage results from the DoD, DoE and NASA communities into use in the rehabilitation and evaluation of civil infrastructure problems stemming from earthquakes in an attempt to minimize the post-event operation of communities. The results of this workshop are reported here.