President’s Welcome Message
Prof. Farhad Ansari President
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Public works civil infrastructure systems include many facilities and services, from highways, bridges, airports, seaports and railroads to water resources systems, oil and gas pipelines, and others. All civil infrastructure systems are characterized by high fixed costs and long economic lives. Each system or structure is critical to economic development, and together they function as complimentary industries. This is the arena in which we work.
ISHMII is an international society with a truly global perspective. Our mission is to advance the understanding and the application of health monitoring methodologies for the condition assessment and management of the civil infrastructure systems. As an engineering professional society, our objective is to share the knowledge and experience in technologies impacting the discipline of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (CSHM). These include sensors, instrumentation, monitoring strategies, data mining, management, and interpretation for decision making processes, case studies, and more. Since its inception in 2003, ISHMII has promoted international collaborations, encouraged owners to build intelligent structures, demonstrated the benefits of CSHM methodologies for maintenance of structures, and advanced the state-of-practice.
ISHMII is in a unique position to address the challenges facing the infrastructure of the 21st century. I invite you to be part of ISHMII.
It will be only through structural health monitoring where it will be possible to safely extend the service lives of the mature infrastructures of industrial nations or construct more daring larger span bridges in developing countries. Much more needs to be done. That is why ISHMII needs you to be an active participant in the development of our society and the advancement of the understanding of our field.
As the President of this society, I am pleased to welcome you all as members. I look forward in working with you to accomplish our objectives and in furthering the important work of ISHMII.
With best wishes,
Farhad Ansari, President.