Chen Liang and You Ling: Risk and Reliability Engineering
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2012 · Education
Civil Engineering graduate students Chen Liang and You Ling describe their work within the research group of Dr. Sankaran Mahadevan, which focuses on Risk and Reliability Engineering and Management. www.cee.vanderbilt.edu Chen Liang describes his research "Design Optimization Under Different Sources and Types of Uncertainties" as it relates to aircraft wing design. You Ling describes his research with aircraft components entitled "Integration of Structural Health Monitoring and Fatigue Crack Growth Prognosis." Ling is also working with Purdue University on a project to perform a long-term reliability analysis of a radio-frequency Micro Electronic Mechanical System Switch (MEMS). All of the research in Dr. Mahadevan's group is categorized into 4 areas: 1. Reliability Analysis of Structures and Materials 2. Structural Health Monitoring 3. Optimization Under Uncertainty 4. Model Uncertainty Qualification, Verification and Validation. Dr. Mahadevan and another of his research students, Ghina Nakad, also have videos on the Vanderbilt YouTube channel. His group's comprehensive research interests are in reliability and uncertainty analysis methods, material degradation, structural health monitoring, design optimization, and model uncertainty. The methods have been applied to civil, mechanical and aerospace systems. This research has been funded by NSF, NASA (Glen, Marshall, Langley, Ames), FAA, U. S. DOE, U. S. DOT, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U. S. Army Research Office, U.S. Air Force, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, General Motors, Chrysler, Union Pacific, Transportation Technology Center, and the Sandia, Los Alamos, Idaho and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. For more information on graduate study options and research at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering, visit www.cee.vanderbilt.edu. To learn more about Vanderbilt, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu.
