Welcome to the
NETECH websites which serves as
Web Portal of NatHaz e-Technologies
which has been hosted and maintained by
NatHaz Modeling Laboratory,
which is associated with
Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at
University of Notre Dame, directed by
Dr. Ahsan Kareem.
One of the major challenges in any engineering discipline is the processing and
archiving of large quantities of information. This is no exception in the field of Structural
Engineering, where such stores of data include those generated by wind tunnel studies,
laboratory experiments, material testing and even full-scale monitoring. Recent
developments in information technology (IT) offer attractive solutions to these challenges,
allowing efficient means to collect, store, analyze, manage, and even share large data sets
with the worldwide community. Not only do such approaches enable geographically dispersed researchers working
on a similar topic to share data and findings, but it also provides a venue in which this
information can be disseminated to other members of the design community around the
world.
This
NETECH web portal serves as an application of the use of advances in the field of
information technology to enhance, for the
purposes of
analysis and design, the accessibility, organization, dissemination and utility of
web-archived data. Using a combination of web-based programming tools and popular engineering software,
NETECH has been accomplished to offer more attractive features to allow not only
archives of data and technical information,
but also
web-based on-line analysis frameworks in several fields of Structural Engineering such as
NatHaz Aerodynamic Load Database (NALD),
Chicago Full-scale Monitoring Project,
NatHaz On-line Wind Simulator (NOWS),
NatHaz Gust-Front Factor (GFF) etc.
