Activities

Our collaboration on Big Data and bridge health has resulted in numerous presentations, workshops, etc. Below is a running list of such activities:

Professional development

• Feb 2020: PhD Students Akshay and Anoop attended a TRB Webinar, Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Deterioration of Highway Bridges

Presentations

• March 2019: We presented the SMARTI project at the Nebraska Bridge Conference https://www.ltap.unl.edu/neltap/Events.asp with bridge stakeholders from across Nebraska.  We also conducted an online survey with attendees of the conference to understand their immediate decision making and information needs. This survey is now informing our sensor selection and configuration efforts.

• MBDH 2018 All hands meeting: We discussed the SMARTI project as a lightning talk and poster session.

• MBDH 2019 All hands meeting, October 29-30, 2019 Big Ten Center, Rosemont IL: We discussed the SMARTI project updates in the Spoke updates session. 

• ISCRAM - We have presented our SMARTI framework and related research program at the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). 

• KICT Collaborations, Korea - Several discussions with visiting researchers from Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology (KICT), a government research lab. KICT’s research team are currently engaged in big data driven preventive maintenance technologies for civil infrastructures. 

• University of Agder, Norway -  We have presented SMARTI research and outcomes at a workshop hosted in Houston by our collaborators at the University of Agder’s Center for Integrated Emergency Management. The Houston based Norwegian Consulate organized this event. We are working closely with our Norwegian partner in their effort to develop a similar Big Data for Infrastructure effort through the Norwegian government.

• UKC 2019 - We participated the Smart Science, Engineering, and Health for Livable Communities Conference, including the Data Science Hackathon/Workshop. Tools for data visualization and image classification using convolutional neural networks for covered in the workshop.  

• IWSHM 2019 (International Workshop for Structural Health Monitoring)  - A peer reviewed conference proceeding “Computer-Vision Based UAV Inspection for Steel Bridge Connections” was accepted. Presentation was given at Stanford, CA on September 10-12, 2019 by Jiyoung Lee (PhD student in Computer Science) and Chungwook Sim (Faculty member in Civil Engineering). 

• Rageh, A., Eftekhar Azam, S., and Linzell, D.G., “Automated Damage Detection in Floor System Bracing,” ASCE Structures Congress 2018, April 19-21, 2018, Fort Worth, TX. Conference presentation.

• Eftekhar Azam, S., Rageh, A., Linzell, D. and Seibel, T., “Utilizing an Augmented Kalman Filter for Output-Only Response Prediction in a Steel Beam Excited by a Series of Moving Masses,” IMAC-XXXVI - Engineering Extremes: Unifying Concepts in Shock, Vibration and Nonlinear Mechanics. February 12-15, 2018, Orlando, FL USA. Conference presentation.

• Rageh, A., Eftekhar Azam, S., and Linzell, D.G., “Nondestructive Fatigue Life Evaluation of Steel Railway Bridges,” presented at the AFF10(1) Subcommittee Meeting at the 2018 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January, 2018. Subcommittee presentation.

• 2016 Bridging Big Data Workshop, November 30, Omaha, NE. Talk title: Bridging Big Data Project Goals and Objectives, Presented by Robin Gandhi and Daniel Linzell.

• 2017 Joint PI Meeting: NSF BIGDATA and Big Data Hubs & Spokes, Washington D.C., March 15-17, 2017. Planning Grant Panel participation, Poster presentation and Lightning presented by Robin Gandhi, Chungwook Sim and Daniel Linzell.

• Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs and Spokes Workshop, Held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Orlando, FL, June 2nd, 2017. Talk title: Big Data Innovations for Bridge Health, Planning Grant. Presented by Robin Gandhi.

• MBDH Transportation Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 22-23, 2017. Lightning/Panel talk and Breakout Session on Bridge Health using Big Data. Presented by Chungwook Sim.

• UKC 2017, Washington D.C., August 9-13, 2017. Big Data Innovations in Bridge Health at the Infrastructure Resilience Session. Presented by Chungwook Sim.

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Talk title: Project Results and the Path Forward with SMARTI - SMart big data pipeline for Aging Rural bridge Transportation Infrastructure. Presented by Robin Gandhi and Daniel Linzell.

• November 29th, 2017, Research talk on “Bridging Big Data: Big Data Innovations for Bridge Health” Center for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM), University of Agder (Norway). Presented by Deepak Kazanchi.

• May 2018, Gandhi, R., Khazanchi, D., Linzell, D., Ricks, B. and Sim, C. “Developing Smart Big Data pipelines to address Challenges of Bridge Infrastructure health in the US”. Pre-OTC GCE NODE NORTEX Data Science Cluster (URL: http://gcenode.no/wp-content/uploads/2018-04-09-Emergency-Response-Seminar-Program-and-invitation-vNO-2.pdf). (Talk presented by Deepak Khazanchi)

• June 20-22, 2018, Lightning talk and poster presentation, “Bridging Big Data”, at the 2018 NSF BIGDATA and Big Data Hubs and Spokes PI meeting, Arlington, Virginia. Gandhi, R., Linzell, D., and Sim, C.

Tool Demonstrations

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Demonstration topic: NBI Data Analysis with Jupyter and MongoDB, Presented by Akshay Kale (M.S. Student), Robin Gandhi, University of Nebraksa at Omaha

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Demonstration topic: Diving into Bridge Data with Virtual Reality, Presented by Brian Ricks, University of Nebraksa at Omaha

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Demonstration topic: Health Monitoring Schemes for Double-Track Steel Railway Bridges, Presented by Ahmed Rageh (M.S. Student), Saeed Eftekhar Azam (Ph.D.), Daniel Linzell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Demonstration topic: Development of Image-Based Autonomous Bridge Deck Crack Mapping System, Presented by Chungwook Sim, Kwanghee Won, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• 2017 Bridging Big Data Workshop, October 4, Omaha, NE. Demonstration topic:Interactive Control of a Flying Robot for Automated Bridge Inspection, Kwanghee Won and Chungwook Sim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln