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Awards &
Achievements
Head of CSE honored by ASCE
Prof. Xu You-Lin, Chair Prof. of Structural Engineering and Head
of the CSE Department, was the latest individual honoured
by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) with the
Robert H. Scanlan Medal, an annual award that has been
rewarding distinguished cumulative achievement in engineering
mechanics since 2003. The award, which consists of a medal
and a certificate, is the top award in the field of bridge wind
engineering. It was presented to Prof. Xu in early July for his
outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of the
aerodynamics and health monitoring of long-span cablesupported
bridges, which he and his team have worked
on for more than 15 years. The major contributions Prof.
Xu made to wind engineering and bridge aerodynamics
include wind and structural health monitoring of long-span
cable-supported bridges, wind-vehicle-bridge interaction
and fatigue analysis, wind-rain-induced cable vibration
and control, buffeting analysis of long-span bridges
under skew winds, and typhoon wind simulations
over complex terrain. Prof. Xu and his team
are heavily involved in the wind and structural
health monitoring of the Tsing Ma Bridge
and the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong
Kong and the under-construction
Shanghai Tower in mainland China,
conducting safety checkups with datarich
sensors loaded with information.
Their research results on this topic have been summarized in a
newly published book Structural Health Monitoring of Long-span
Suspension Bridges by Spon Press. Congratulations to Prof. Xu
for his significant accomplishment in this field.
(ASCE)
Robert H. Scanlan 2003
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