Wind and the Built Environment U.S. Needs in Wind Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (1993) / Chapter Skim
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5. Education and Technology Transfer
5. Education and Technology Transfer
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Wind-engineering-based design concepts should be incorporated to help students to experience the actual practice of wind-engineering knowledge and skills. In the technical courses, time should be allotted for the study and use of building codes and specifications and how they affect the design implementation of a professional work product.
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The knowledge `derived from this research is needed by practicing architects and engineers responsible for designing buildings and structures; scientists and engineers for manufacturing materials and building components; individuals for developing testing standards; and associations for representing building products manufacturers. Perhaps the most important targets of all for w~nd-engineering technology transfer are the personnel who adopt, publish, and promulgate the use of building codes, such as Building Officials and Code Administrators International, International Conference of Building Officials, Southern Building Code Congress International, and the National Fire Protection Association's Life Safety Code.
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With personal computers becoming increasingly powerful and versatile, software can be made available to expedite the transfer of the state of the art in wind engineenug and to provide quick feedback for improvements. Effective communication with the organizations responsible for promulgating building codes and standards can accelerate the implementation of a good knowledge base into these codes.
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One main feature distinguishing a KBES from a conventional algorithmic and typically numerical program is that the knowledge pertaining to a specific problem is explicitly encapsulated in a knowledge base rather than being part of sequentially executable statements. Recent exploitation of expert systems has been facilitated by the development of software "shell" and production systems for mainframe and personal computers.
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Therefore, a knowledge-based expert system offers an ideal solution. Based on observations from past storms, inductive and inexact inference mechanisms can be utilized to encapsulate the body of information concerning damage patterns, often expressed in the form of causal relations or rules in the knowledge base.
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Another potential application may involve the building layout of coastal communities to provide optimal shelter configurations to enhance structure performance in hurncanes. Decision Making for Hurricane Response Many local government agencies, private businesses, and military installations use personal-computer-based software to incorporate hurricane ~ , _ the dec~s~on-mak~ng process, using official watch/warning information from the National Hurricane Center.
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1. Enhance continuing education for design and construction professionals by creating seminar series, short courses, television courses, v~deo-based classes, interactive courseware, intelligent computer-aided instruction, and university/industry internships and by circulating research abstracts.
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