Analysis and Computation

Purpose:

To report, encourage development of, and evaluate innovative methods of structural analysis; to foster use of digital computer and other modern computing devices to obtain more effective analyses and improved designs, and to encourage the development and reporting of innovations in the use of computers that may have practical significance, and to report on professional problems involving multi-disciplinary use of computers.

Emerging Computing Technology

Purpose:

To provide a mechanism by which various emerging computing technologies that may be applicable to some part of the structural engineering process can be identified and brought to the attention of the structural engineering community. These technologies include parallel and distributed computing, databases and information systems, web-based and collaboration technologies, artificial intelligence, field based computing and automation.

Structural Control

Purpose:

The committee enrolls in intergrating and interfacing the discipline of structural control with the applications and specialties of civil engineering problems. Emphasis will be placed on the computing technology for the development, application and modification of active/hybrid control to achieve designed intelligence of civil engineering structures.

Methods of Analysis

Purpose:

To report, encourage development of, and evaluate methods of structural analysis; to advise the structural engineering community of the state-of-the-art of analytical and computational methods of analysis.

Optimal Structural Design

Purpose:

To further the development of the state-of-the-art of optimal design of structures. The Committee shall encourage and disseminate new developments in practical applications to structural design, and new computation techniques, methodology and algorithms.