<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Director/Professor<div style="font-size:small">Computational Science Research Center</div><div style="font-size:small">San Diego State University</div><div style="font-size:small">5500 Campanile Dr</div><div><span style="font-size:small">San Diego CA 92182-1245</span></div><div><a href="http://www.csrc.sdsu.edu" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.csrc.sdsu.edu</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">CSRC Colloquium</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csrc.colloquium@sdsu.edu">csrc.colloquium@sdsu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 8:47 AM<br>Subject: [CSRC.COLLOQUIUM] REMINDER "Multifunctional Cementitious Materials for Addressing Infrastructure Challenges"<br>To: CSRC Colloquium <<a href="mailto:csrc.colloquium@sdsu.edu">csrc.colloquium@sdsu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div> <div><input style="min-height:1px;width:1px;overflow:hidden" type="text"><div><div style="overflow:auto"><div style="max-height:10000px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="overflow:auto"><div style="max-height:10000px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="overflow:auto"><div style="max-height:10000px"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:center;clear:both"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZPFNPh16sR0/Wt39FrXUP-I/AAAAAAAAAaw/3wQunGe20lUopmV_ggfPaDwE9cVAgVzxgCLcBGAs/s1600/image001.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZPFNPh16sR0/Wt39FrXUP-I/AAAAAAAAAaw/3wQunGe20lUopmV_ggfPaDwE9cVAgVzxgCLcBGAs/s1600/image001.jpg" border="0"></a></p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">SPEAKER/BIO:</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><br><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dr.</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Mo Li, Assistant Professor of </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine<br></span></b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b><span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"></span></span></b></span><span></span></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">ABSTRACT:</span></p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Today’s needs to improve concrete infrastructure service life and
resilience are challenged by the intrinsic quasi-brittleness of concrete
materials, and the difficulty with spatial damage sensing to inform
timely maintenance and prevent structural failure. Concrete is
susceptible to cracking and deterioration under service conditions and
damage under extreme hazard events. Current management practices of
concrete infrastructure rely on visual inspections that can be
subjective and are limited to accessible locations. Structural health
monitoring approaches mainly depend on point-based sensors that provide
local measurements and cannot spatially locate or quantify damage such
as cracking and corrosion. To tackle these challenges, this work focuses
on a new direct, spatial sensing approach based on novel
multifunctional cementitious materials. Multifunctional cementitious
materials are encoded with a distributed microcracking damage process
coupled with damage self-sensing capacity. The sequential formation of
steady-state microcracks during material strain-hardening stage leads to
a prolonged damage process and high damage tolerance, while allowing
detection of damage level long before failure occurs. The tailored
electromechanical behavior of the material enables strain and damage
self-sensing functionalities during elastic and post-cracking stages.
Through advances in novel tomography methods, spatial mapping offering a
visual depiction and quantification of damage in concrete members is
achieved by electrical probing only from the boundaries. This talk
highlights the research on these developments at the interface of
science and engineering. </span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">BIOGRAPHY:</span></span></font><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dr. Mo Li is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. She received her
M.S. in Civil Engineering, M.S. in Industrial and Operations
Engineering, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. She did her undergraduate studies at Tongji
University in China. Her research focuses on nonconventional
infrastructure materials, and their interfaces with structural
engineering, sensing, and advanced manufacturing methods. Examples are
infrastructure materials with intrinsic and repeatable self-healing
capacity, bio-inspired self-sensing and visualization of spatial damage
in concrete structures, damage-tolerant geopolymers, and 3D printing
concrete for highly loaded structures. She is the recipient of the
Samueli Faculty Career Development Professorship, the Innovation in
Teaching Award, and is the Director of the Advanced and Multifunctional
Infrastructure Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratory (AM3-Lab)
at UCI. She has served as a principle investigator for a number of
federal-, state- and industry-funded projects. </span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Host: Satchi Venkataraman, Aerospace Engineering</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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