WEATHER AND CLIMATE IMPACTS ON MILITARY OPERATIONS

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1 WEATHER AND CLIMATE IMPACTS ON MILITARY OPERATIONS

2 Outline Civil Engineering Expertise in Flood Modeling/Infrastructure Hydrology and Water Security Core Competencies New MS and PhD programs Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Related Expertise

3 CEES Expertise in Flood Modeling & Infrastructure 1D/2D/3D Hydraulic Models of Coastal/Riverine Zones Coupled Hydraulic/Hydrology/Traffic Routing Models Successful in Transferring Research to Operations Urban Hydrology Low Impact Development/Green Infrastructure Structural Reliability Risk and Resilience Novel Passive Treatment Systems for Water Quality River Morphology and Natural Stream Restoration

4 OU Hydrology & Water Security Core Competencies Synergy of remote-sensing, water, weather, and climate Observing and modeling span local, state, regional and global Competencies Hydrology and water resources Hydrological system analysis Natural hazard prediction and disaster risk research (e.g. Flood, Droughts, and Landslide etc.) Measurement, Retrieval, Validation, and Applications of Precipitation, Soil Moisture, and Evapotranspiration Hydrometeorology/Radar Meteorology/Radar Hydrology Data Assimilation Systems for Water and Climate Prediction Water Availability and Hydrologic Extremes Environmental Resources & Sustainable Development

5 OU Hydrology and Water Security Program Cross-Campus Collaboration HWS builds on tradition of collaborative research between CEES, SoM, ARRC, Geography and state/federal partners at the NWC HWS Programmatic elements Online MS, on-campus MS, on-campus PhD Broad thematic research areas Online MS in HWS Two tracks Hydrology/hydrometeorology track ("technical track") launches Fall 2018; First fall cohort ~20 online students. Water security track (more policy and qualitative physical science) launches Spring 2019.

6 Integrated Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems for Sensing and Healing Multifunctional Composites Hybrid structural fibers with sensing, interface healing, auto heating-cooling, etc. Self-sensing structures (piezoelectric, piezoresistive, mechanophore based sensing) Self-healing composites for autonomous damage repair Multi-scale property characterization & visualization of composites, metals, 3D printing Structural Health Monitoring & Prognosis Integrated sensing, signal processing, and data mining for structural diagnostics Combining physics based modeling and data-driven models for useful life prediction

7 Sensors and Inspection of Infrastructure Additive manufacturing of nanocomposites and sensors Research Highlights: Additive manufacturing of lightweight composites with load sensors for in-situ structural state awareness and prognostics Extremely high resolution (microns) and high fidelity non-destructive evaluation (NDE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for proximity inspection and automatic path planning for sensing and payload delivery near built environment; wireless sensing, data acquisition, and infrastructure inspection Benefits: Gather information for use in deep learning based feature extraction and automatic building state awareness; Probabilistic modeling for risk management and safety enhancement of infrastructures 3D printing of nanocomposite sensors direct fabrication of embedded strain sensors Extremely high resolution NDE SLA based 3D printing of polymers from liquid to solid parts with high spatial resolutions SLS based 3D printing from solid powders to solid structures Carbon fiber reinforced polymer Eurofighter Metal surface defects

8 Energy Efficient Built Environments Smart, low cost air/water flow and thermal energy meters Cyber-Physical systems for optimal building energy system management Multi-agent framework; automated control synthesis; agent library of common building components; distributed consensus based algorithm Data-analytics for advanced BLDG operations for timely fault detection & diagnosis; load forecast & management for microgrid; expand intelligence of smart thermostats - 8 -