Research directed by community needs
- After discovering a high earthquake risk, a Southeastern U.S. town decides to prevent catastrophic damage by strengthening and monitoring the natural gas trunklines that cross its land.
- A supply business wants to guarantee it can provide critical materials to its community immediately after a hurricane.
- Developers purchase hillside land that drains into a lake created by an aging and weakened dam.
- A city that serves as a medical and transportation center wants to ensure these services during a natural or human-caused disaster.
Integrating diverse expertise
All of the above decisions need expertise from many fields, such as risk assessment, structural materials, soil composition, measurement, and human behavior. Implementing the decisions will require still more specialized technical knowledge, including vibration control, combustion, communication, wireless sensors, and community education. Some solutions can be developed with existing technology and some will require research and development.
CELES activities support
- government agencies,
- municipalities,
- engineering firms, and
- businesses.
CELES researchers believe the best technology is developed considering human responses and community needs. We believe the most important advances in our fields will come from the interactions of engineers and scientists with business and community decision makers.
See also:
Facilities and associated centers
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Mission:
Structural resilience,
sustainable communities
CELES is a multidisciplinary research team dedicated to increasing the resilience of structures and the "built environment." CELES specializes in
- assessment,
- management, and
- mitigation of natural and human-caused hazards.
Multiple perspectives
CELES sports a long list of expertise. But the center's strength and promise come from analyzing each problem from the multiple perspectives of engineer, scientist, economist, social scientist, and community member.
Expertise
Advanced building technologies,
Infrastructure protection,
Hazard mitigation,
High performance computing,
Computational simulation,
Graphical visualization,
Geographical information systems,
Active and passive control systems,
Sensors, and wireless telecommunications
Emergency Communications
Community planning
Community education
See also: People
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