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Shirley Dyke

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Professor of Civil Engineering

Expertise: civil engineering, semi-active structural control, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, system identification

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Dyke
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Dyke received her doctorate from the University of Notre Dame after graduating from the University of Illinois. She has published dozens of peer reviewed articles and is active in many international conferences and professional organizations. Research interests include semi-active structural control, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and system identification, critical infrastructure, natural disasters, sensors, and transportation. She is doing innovative work in the area of "smart" buildings and systems.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-5695
Home:(314) 367-1565
Fax:(314) 935-4338
E-mail:sdyke@wustl.edu
Address:Campus Box 1130
One Brookings Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Study: Wireless sensors limit earthquake damage (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/8961.html)

April 16, 2007 --
Shirley Dyke (left) and Pengcheng Wang adjust wireless sensors onto a model laboratory building in Dyke's laboratory.
Shirley Dyke (left) and Pengcheng Wang adjust wireless sensors onto a model laboratory building in Dyke's laboratory.
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An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless sensors with special controls called magnetorheological dampers to limit damage from a simulated earthquake load. More... (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/8961.html)



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Additional Background: Shirley J. Dyke, professor of civil engineering, has made major contributions to obtain a better understanding of structural dynamics, structural control, vibration and earthquake engineering. Dyke is the director of the Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, where researchers seek ways to reduce losses and property damages from earthquakes. In order to encourage more formal training in structural dynamics and earthquake hazard migration at the undergraduate level, Dyke formed and is currently the director of the University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables (UCIST). Dyke is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and is an Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
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•Dyke's Web page (http://cive.seas.wustl.edu/About/People.asp?PersonID=12&Org=CivE)

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