Signature Areas:
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Disaster Risk Reduction

Learn how novel sensing and analysis platforms can allow the assessment and mitigation of natural hazards.

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Advanced Sensing for Civil Infrastructure

Learn how our workin health monitoring is responding to America's infrastructure crisis.

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Citizen Engineering + Virtual Collaboration

Learn how, by sharing our resources, knowledge and manpower, we can answer society's grand challenges.

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Enhancing the Performance of Tall Buildings

Learn how in-situ observations can reveal insights to enhance the efficiency of tall buildings.

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Engineering Empowering Development

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

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Research

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Education

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Impact

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News & Events
What's new in DYNAMO Lab

22nd / April / 2013

Graduate Student and E2E Co-Founder Dustin Mix will represent our work in Haiti as part of Open Minds 2013 at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. More »

12th / Sept / 2012

Tracy Kijewski-Correa delivers keynote address "Empowering Sustainable Reconstruction" at CONSTRUCT Conference in Phoenix, AZ.

News Archive

See past news and events in DYNAMO Lab. More »

Welcome to the DYNAMO Lab
Answering 21st Century Infrastructure Challenges with Context-Appropriate Solutions

Welcome to the Structural DYNAmics and MOnitoring (DYNAMO) Laboratory in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth 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 sustainable systems suitable for developing countries.

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 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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