International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering

International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering
Maintenance and Management

This symposium was mainly concerning the assessment, techniques and applications on life-cycle performance.  In addition to understanding the worldwide up-to-date research and development of life-cycle performance evaluation, maintenance, monitoring and management on structures, the experience of typhoon Morakot last summer in Taiwan was also discussed for domestic structures on life-cycle performance and evaluation.  Besides, this issue already successfully got attention by life-cycle related government authorities and companies to respect for the life-cycle engineering maintenance and management.

Participants were quite interested 
in the topics.

Speakers: 

• Prof. Dan Frangopol, Lehigh University-Integrated Life-Cycle Optimization Framework for Maintenance, Monitoring and Management of Structures and Infrastructures
• Associate Professor Wei-Feng Lee, Office of Research and Development, Taiwan Tech - Performance of Bridge Foundations During Extreme Natural Hazards - 2009 Typhoon Morakot
• Director Chung-Yue Wang, China Engineering Consultants.Inc. - Bridge Diagnostics

Chairman:

• Prof. Alfredo H-S. Ang, Univ. of California, Irvine; and Director, TBTC, Taiwan Tech