Answering 21st Century Infrastructure Challenges with Context-Appropriate Solutions

Advanced Sensing for Civil Infrastructure

Learn how our work in health monitoring helps to answer America's infrastructure crisis.

Citizen Engineering & Virtual Collaboration

Learn how pooling our resources, knowledge & manpower can answer 21st Century Challenges.

Enhancing the Performance of Tall Buildings

Learn how in-situ observations reveal new insights that enhance the efficiency of tall buildings.

Engineering Empowering Development

Learn how product and process innovations address the challenges of developing world urbanization.

News

Kijewski-Correa Seminars at RPI

November 6, 2012: Undergraduate semiar entitled "Is There Hope for the 1 in 7? A Story of Empowerment in Post-Quake Haiti"

 

Nov. 7, 2012: General seminar entitled "Learning from the Big Boys: What a Decade of Full-Scale Monitoring Has Taught Us About the Performance of Tall Buildings in Urban Zones"

Kijewski-Correa Keynote at CONSTRUCT Conference

September 12, 2012: Keynote address entitled "Empowering Sustainable Reconstruction"

 

 

Kijewski-Correa new chair of ASCE Tall Buildings Committee
October 2012: Tracy Kijewski-Correa was named to a three year term as chair of the ASCE/SEI Technical Committee on Tall Buildings. Kijewski-Correa previously held leadership positions as the committee secretary and head of two subcommittees on Human Comfort in Tall Buildings and Full-Scale Monitoring.
Bentz + Kijewski-Correa win Hsieh Award
July 2012: Dr. Audrey Bentz and Dr. Tracy Kijewski-Correa received the T K Hsieh Award by the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) for their paper entitled “Wind-Induced Vibration s of Buildings: Role of Transient Events.” The prize is given annually to the authors of the best paper published by the Institution in the field of structural and soil vibration. Dr. Bentz will travel in October to London to receive the award.

Mission Statement

Welcome to the Structural DYNAmics and MOnitoring (DYNAMO) Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame dedicated to addressing 21st Century Civil Infrastructure Challenges posed by increased urbanization and hazard vulnerability, using inter-disciplinary collaborations and context-driven technologies ranging from advanced sensing, simulation and cyber-infrastructure to innovative sustainable systems suitable for developing countries.

 

Venues for DYNAMO's research and education extend from computational and experimental facilities at Notre Dame to full-scale investigations, virtual domains and international field reconnaissance. With a commitment to education and technology transfer, DYNAMO delivers practical engineering solutions to public and private sector partners, while inspiring a new generation of engineers.

 

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