Preparing the Next Generation of Bridge Engineers
Assistant professor works with bridge and wind engineers at conferences throughout Asia
By Peter Murphy
Published July 23, 2018 This content is archived.
Teng Wu, a civil engineering faculty member participated in roundtable discussions and presentations at national conferences on wind and bridge engineering.
Wu traveled to both the World Transport Convention (WTC) in Beijing, China and the International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) in Seoul, Korea, last month.
During the WTC, Wu attended a preparatory meeting for the Belt & Road International Transport Alliance (BRITA). More than 60 delegates from over 20 countries and world regions attended the BRITA roundtable meeting to discuss a proposal for establishing the BRITA. “The goal is to operate this alliance with members worldwide,” Wu says.
The delegates discussed the charter and vision of the BRITA. Wu helped to develop the vision and identity for this alliance that will become a think-tank for transportation development and a cooperative platform for all transportation related organizations.
Wu traveled to CWE 2018 with his PhD student Tao Li. CWE is an international event, representing the world’s largest international conference on the application of computing in wind engineering. This conference meets every four years and foster scientific discussion and information exchange on research and practical applications associated with wind engineering.
Li presented findings from research he and Wu conducted at UB. Simulation of Nonlinear Structural Aerodynamics Based on Deep LSTM Networks, is a collaboration between UB and Southeast University, in Nanjing, China.
“This research attempts to address the nonlinear aerodynamics effects on the wind design of flexible structures such as long-span bridges,” Wu says, “specifically, a numerical example of linear structural dynamics with a single degree of freedom, governed by an ordinary differential equation is employed to explore the self-excited structural vibrations under the motion-induced nonlinear aerodynamic loads.”