Spring 2020 | Vol. 2 | No. 1 Your Global Resource for Infrastructure Protection I Researchers Envision Possibility of “Living” Infrastructure By Anthony Punt repair itself as needed. While these may sound like sci-fi scenarios, researchers are currently exploring ways in which such futurist conceptions of infrastructure can materialize sooner rather than later. At ETH Zürich, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics university based in Zürich, Switzerland, Drs. Eleni Chatzi and Mark Tibbitt have joined forces to investigate the innovative concept of “living” infrastructure. Chatzi, the chair for Structural Mechanics and Monitoring in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, and Tibbitt, an magine a world in which bridges and other infrastructure grow from geneti-cally engineered seeds or from organic components that can be programmed to form a “conscious” shape. Or imagine infrastructure that is responsive to its environment and can sustain, monitor, and Researchers Envision Possibility of “Living” Infrastructure ………………… 1 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Breaks Ground on Folsom Dam Raise Project …………………………………………………………………………………… 3 New Dehumidification System Stops Cable Corrosion on Pitts burgh Bridge ………………………………………………………………… 4 Optimizing Corrosion Monitoring with Wireless Technology …………… 11 Painting Crew Tackles Winter Weather at Power Plant ………………… 12 Bats Inspire New Pipeline Corro sion Detection System ……………… 15 NACE Infrastructure Education Course Schedule …………………………… 16 NACE Infrastructure Books ………………………………………………………… 18 NACE Infrastructure Reports & Standards …………………………………… 19 Preservation of Philippines’ San Sebastian Basilica …………………………… 6 菲律宾圣塞巴斯蒂安教堂的保护 ……………………………………………………… 7 AUT of Thick Duplex Piping Hook-Up Joints Offshore ……………………… 8
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