The Committee on Earthquake Engineering

该奖项为地震工程委员会提供了新的支持，该委员会成立于1983年，是国家研究委员会工程和技术系统委员会的常设委员会。委员会已经完成了两个项目：一项关于地震对大型地下结构影响的研究，以及一次关于在全世界减少地震灾害的潜在经济影响的战略规划会议。委员会的另一项研究报告《估计未来地震的损失》（1989年1月发表）是由联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）请求并单独资助的项目。1989年，委员会将完成其关于混凝土大坝地震工程的研究，评估地震政策的采用和执行情况，并开始一个关于国家地震工程实验设施的研究小组。此外，在单独供资的情况下，委员会将很快开始下列方面的研究：对结构抗震设计的基础隔离技术的评价、关于地震经济问题的讲习班和对联邦地震工程活动的评估。

This award provides renewed support for the Committee on Earthquake Engineering which was established in 1983 as a standing committee within the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council. The committee has completed two projects: a study on seismic effects on large underground structures, and a conference on strategic planning to reduce the potential economic impacts of earthquake hazards throughout the world. Another study of the committee, Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes (issued January 1989), was a project requested and separately funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In 1989, the committee will complete its study on earthquake engineering for concrete dams, an evaluation of seismic policy adoption and implementation, and begin a study panel on National Earthquake Engineering Experimental Facilities. Further, with separate funding, the committee will soon begin studies on the following: an evaluation of base isolation techniques for seismic design of structures, a workshop on earthquake economic issues, and an assessment of federal earthquake engineering activities.