US-USSR Joint Workshop on Earthquake Hazard Mitigation (Moscow: September 17-23, 1990)

美国和苏联的许多地区都面临地震威胁。从历史上看，这两个国家都曾发生过多次破坏性地震，最近的一次是1988年12月亚美尼亚地震和1989年10月洛马·普里埃塔地震。我们可以从参与评估此类事件后果的美国和苏联科学家和工程师那里学到很多东西。灾后小组相互访问了对方的国家，交换了许多有价值的信息。这次研讨会的目的是扩大和深化这一关系，特别是促进这一领域的长期合作研究。研讨会将讨论的主题包括地基力学(土壤-结构相互作用、液化、地面破坏、滑坡和泥石流)；新建筑材料的开发；数学模型的开发和验证；以及加固和改造现有结构的方法的开发。该研讨会由美国国家科学院(NAS)和苏联科学院(ASUSSR)联合举办。NAS的参与由NAS/国家研究理事会地震工程委员会管理，代表团将由加州理工学院的委员会主席George Housner率领。苏联代表团将由苏联地球物理研究所所长V.N.Strakhov博士担任主席。该项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和苏联的顶尖研究人员能够在平等互利和互惠互利的基础上，在基础科学研究领域的共同利益和能力领域结合互补的努力和能力。

Many regions in the United States and the Soviet Union face earthquake threats. Historically, both countries have had a number of devastating earthquakes, most recently the December 1988 Armenian earthquake and the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Much can be learned from US and Soviet scientists and engineers involved in evaluating the consequences of such events. Post-disaster teams have visited each other's country and much valuable information has been exchanged. The objective of this workshop, is to extend and deepen this relationship and specifically to promote long-term cooperative research in this area. Topics to be addressed in the workshop are ground mechanics (soil-structure interaction, liquefaction, ground failures, and landslides and mudslides; development of new construction materials; development and validation of mathematical models; and development of methods for strengthen- ing and retrofitting existing structures. The workshop is being organized jointly by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (ASUSSR). The NAS participation is being managed by the NAS/National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering and the delegation will be led by committee chairman George Housner of the California Institute of Technology. The Soviet delegation will be chaired by Dr. V.N. Strakhov, Director of the ASUSSR Institute of the Physics of the Earth. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.