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Mary Kasarda is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech.  She is Co-Director of the VT Smart Infrastructure Laboratory.  She received her BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia.  She has five years of professional engineering experience, including analytical and field work in the area of high-speed rotating machinery with Du Pont and Ingersoll Rand.  Her research areas are in vibration-related topics such as system health monitoring, smart building applications, and magnetic bearings as well as in areas of engineering education.  She serves as a delegate on the ABET Board of Directors.  She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

This event is being partially sponsored/funded by the Visiting Women & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series (VWMLS) which is funded by a grant to Institutional Equity & Inclusion from the State of Michigan's King-Chavez-Parks Initiative.

The Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Laboratory:

A High Performance Smart Research Building on the VT Campus

The Virginia Tech's Smart Infrastructure Laboratory (VT-SIL) education and research in topics that utilize sensor information to improve the design, monitoring and daily operation of civil and mechanical infrastructure as well as to investigate how humans interact with the built environment.  The centerpiece of VT-SIL is the full-scale living laboratory in the new, 160,000 sq ft, 5-story Goodwin Hall, which is the most instrumented public building in the world for vibration monitoring of both the building structure as well as human activity in the building.  In Goodwin Hall over 140 accelerometer mounts (3 axis per mount capability), along with other sensors, are being mounted throughout this operational campus building.  As of Fall 2015, the phase I instrumentation (over 230 hard-wired high-fidelity accelerometers) is 90%+ installed and is in the commissioning stage.  Significant amounts of pilot data have already been collected and analyzed in initial research studies.  This presentation will cover the development of the instrumentation infrastructure, the capabilities of the system, and results from pilot research studies.