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Associate Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Simon Laflamme's interest areas include structural health monitoring, adaptive systems, structural control, intelligent systems, and nonlinear time series.

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Simon Laflamme's interest areas include structural health monitoring, adaptive systems, structural control, intelligent systems, and nonlinear time series.

Present	Associate Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Structural Engineering

Structural control and Structural health monitoring

416A Town Engr

813 Bissell Rd

Ames, IA 50011

515-294-3162

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (73)

Damage Detection and Localization from Dense Network of Strain Sensors

Shock and Vibration (2015)

Simon Laflamme, Liang Cao, Eleni Chatzi and Filippo Ubertini

Structural health monitoring of large systems is a complex engineering task due to important practical issues. When dealing with large ...

Towards smart concrete for smart cities: Recent results and future ...

Journal of Smart Cities (2015)

Antonella D'Alessandro, Filippo Ubertini, Simon Laflamme and Annibale L. Materazzi

The use of smart technologies combined with city planning have given rise to smart cities, which empower modern urban systems ...

A parametric study on reliability-based TMD design against bridge flutter

Journal of Vibration and Control (2015)

Filippo Ubertini, Gabriele Comanducci and Simon Laflamme

We present a probabilistic methodology for designing tuned mass dampers for flutter suppression in long-span bridges. The procedure is computationally ...

Variable Friction Device for Structural Control based on Duo-Servo Vehicle ...

Journal of Sound and Vibration (2015)

Liang Cao, Austin R.J. Downey, Simon Laflamme, Douglas Taylor, et al.

Supplemental damping can be used as a cost-effective method to reduce structural vibrations. In particular, passive systems are now widely ...

Peel resistance of adhesive joints with elastomer–carbon black composite ...

International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives (2015)

Wei Zeng, Weixing Sun, Nicola Bowler and Simon Laflamme

The peel resistance of four adhesives (“J-B Weld” by J-B Weld (adhesive A), 3 M Scotch-Weld DP 125 Gy (adhesive ...

Smart sensing skin for detection and localization of fatigue cracks

Smart Materials and Structures (2015)

Sari Kharroub, Simon Laflamme, Chunhui Song, Daji Qiao, et al.

Fatigue cracks on steel components may have strong consequences on the structure's serviceability and strength. Their detection and localization is ...

Network of Flexible Capacitive Strain Gauges for Reconstruction of Surface ...

Measurement Science and Technology (2015)

Jingzhe Wu, Chunhui Song, Hussam S. Saleem, Austin R.J. Downey, et al.

Monitoring of surface strain on mesosurfaces is a difficult task, often impeded by the lack of scalability of conventional sensing ...

Adaptive structural control using dynamic hyperspace

International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements (2015)

The design of closed-loop structural control systems necessitates a certain level of robustness to cope with system uncertainties. Neurocontrollers, a ...

Bio-Based Soft Elastomeric Capacitor for Structural Health Monitoring Applications

Structural Health Monitoring (2014)

Sari Kharroub, Simon Laflamme, Samy Madbouly and Filippo Ubertini

Recent advances in flexible electronics have enabled the development of large-area electronics, which are typically fabricated from petroleum-based polymers. With ...

Electromechanical modelling of a new class of nanocomposite cement-based sensors ...

Structural Health Monitoring (2014)

Antonella D'Alessandro, Filippo Ubertini, Annibale L. Materazzi, Simon Laflamme, et al.

This work focuses on the analysis of a new nanocomposite cement-based sensor (carbon nanotube cement-based sensor), for applications in vibration-based ...

Dynamic Load and Response Prediction of HAWT Blades for Health ...

Wind Engineers, JAWE (2014)

Heather Sauder, Partha Sarkar and Simon Laflamme

Wind turbine blades of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) are prone to damage; some insurance agencies report that as ...

Dynamic Characterization of a Soft Elastomeric Capacitor for Structural Health ...

Journal of Structural Engineering (2014)

Simon Laflamme, Filippo Ubertini, Hussam Saleem, Antonella D'Alessandro, et al.

Structural health monitoring of civil infrastructures is a difficult task, often impeded by the geometrical size of the monitored systems. ...

Interfacial treatment effects on behavior of soft nano-composites for highly ...

Hussam Saleem, M. Thunga, M. Kollosche, M. R. Kessler, et al.

We investigate the influence of interfacial treatment on the matrix–filler interaction using a melt mixing process to fabricate robust and ...

Novel nanocomposite technologies for dynamic monitoring of structures: a comparison ...

Smart Materials and Structures (2014)

Filippo Ubertini, Simon Laflamme, Halil Ceylan, Annibale L. Materazzi, et al.

The authors have recently developed two novel solutions for strain sensing using nanocomposite materials. While they both aim at providing ...

Natural Frequencies Identification of a Reinforced Concrete Beam using Carbon ...

Engineering Structures (2013)

Filippo Ubertini, Annibale L. Materazzi, Antonella D'Alessandro and Simon Laflamme

Cementitious materials doped with carbon nanoparticles are robust materials capable of transducing strain into changes in electrical resistance. These properties ...

Soft Elastomeric Capacitor Network for Strain Sensing Over Large Surfaces

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2013)

Simon Laflamme, Husaam S. Saleem, Bharath K. Vasan, Randall L. Geiger, et al.

Field applications of existing sensing solutions to structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil structures are limited. This is due to ...

Robust Flexible Capacitive Surface Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring Applications

Journal of Engineering Mechanics (2013)

Simon Laflamme, Matthais Kollosche, Jerome J. Connor and Guggi Kofod

Early detection of possible defects in civil infrastructure is vital to ensuring timely maintenance and extending structure life expectancy. The ...

Self-organizing input space for control of structures

Smart Materials and Structures (2012)

Simon Laflamme, J. J.E. Slotine and J.J. Connor

We propose a novel type of neural networks for structural control, which comprises an adaptive input space. This feature is ...

Modified friction device for control of large-scale systems

Structural Control and Health Monitoring (2012)

Simon Laflamme, Douglas Taylor, Mohamed Abdellaoui Maane and Jerome J. Connor

Semi-active control of civil structures has shown to be promising at mitigating vibrations. Those systems typically perform significantly better than ...

Soft capacitive sensor for structural health monitoring of large-scale systems

Structural Control and Health Monitoring (2012)

Simon Laflamme, M. Kollosche, J. J. Connor and G. Kofod

Structural integrity of infrastructures can be preserved if damage is diagnosed, localized, and repaired in time. During the past decade, ...

Large-Scale Flexible Membrane for Automatic Strain Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure

International Journal of Pavement Research & Technology (2012)

Simon Laflamme, Venkata D. Kolipara, Hussam S. Saleem and Randall L. Geiger

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of transportation infrastructures is a complex task, typically conducted by visual inspection due to the technical ...

Wavelet Network for Semi-Active Control

Journal of Engineering Mechanics (2011)

Simon Laflamme, J.J.E. Slotine and J.J. Connor

This paper proposes a wavelet neurocontroller capable of self-adaptation and self-organization for uncertain systems controlled with semi-active devices, ideal candidates ...

Strongly enhanced sensitivity in elastic capacitive strain sensors

Journal of Materials Chemistry (2011)

Matthias Kollosche, Hristiyan Stoyanov, Simon Laflamme and Guggi Kofod

Strain sensors based on dielectric elastomer capacitors function by the direct coupling of mechanical deformations with the capacitance. The coupling ...

Data-Driven Risk-Based Assessment of Wind-excited Tall Buildings using Surrogate Models

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Publications (2019)

Laura Micheli, Alice Alipour and Simon Laflamme

The damage reported from structural and non-structural elements during severe windstorms promoted the extension of the performance-based design (PBD) philosophy ...

Life Cycle Cost Evaluation Strategy for High Performance Control Systems ...

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Publications (2019)

Laura Micheli, Ling Cao, Simon Laflamme and Alice Alipour

High-performance control systems (HPCSs), including active, hybrid, and semi-active control strategies, can perform over a wide excitation bandwidth and are ...