题目： Climate Change-Associated Disasters and Forensic Engineering

讲座人：Shen-En Chen, Professor

时间：2018-6-27（星期三）11:00 AM

地点： 望江校区行政楼128

摘要

The 2017 hurricane season started with three heavy blows (Harvey, Irma and Maria) in the Atlantic region resulting in significant economic losses to the US territory totaling $183 billion exceeding the 2005 economic losses due to hurricane (Katrina, $108 billion). The losses include power loss for many customers resulting from collapsed structures and faulted lines. The economic losses and struggles to recover continue to burden the municipalities and federal agencies and there is an urgent need to have a dialogue about ways to make coastal cities more resilient against climate change.

This presentation focuses on a mile-high discussion about the role of forensic engineering in disaster industry, which is rapidly becoming a trillion-dollar (annual) business due to frequent global disaster events. Forensic engineering is the discipline specialized in identifying failure causes. Traditionally, forensic engineering targets at single structure/event investigations. More recently, forensic engineering relies on modern tools to enhance its data collection capabilities. For systemic level causality studies, forensics also adopts analytic tools such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

This presentation will draw from the speaker’s current and past disaster assessment experiences and various research projects to paint a picture of the increasing significance of forensic engineering in the dawn of a climate event-dominated world.

报告人简介

Shen-En Chen, PhD, is a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA.He graduated from the West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1989, a Master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Structural Engineering in 1996. His research and professional focuses include infrastructure (transportation and power transmission) health monitoring and management, geophysical testing for environmental effects related to energy production and mining. He is Fulbright scholar and a member of the Forensic Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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