US-Japan International Technology Exchange on Shake Table Hybrid Testing

0120634 Bruneau该奖项支持纽约州立大学布法罗分校的Michael Bruneau教授、东京工业大学的Akira Wada教授和日本京都大学的Masayoshi Nakashima之间为期六个月的合作研究项目。 研究人员将在大规模高性能振动台地震模拟设施上进行混合测试研究。 美国PI正在开发世界上最通用的下一代地震工程研究设施，旨在提供测试能力，这将彻底改变对地震期间大型结构行为的基本理解，并将采用先进的振动台。 它是乔治E的一部分。小布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）。 NEES合作实验室将包括大约20个设备站点（振动台、离心机、海啸波池、大型实验室实验系统以及现场实验和监测装置），通过高性能互联网联网。 科学目标是为NEES项目增加一个新的国际前沿，以便：1）促进旨在与日本同行交流经验的国际合作; 2）确定此类设施开发商面临的共同挑战，将此类经验纳入布法罗和其他NEES地点拟议设施的实际设计开发/整合中;以及3）培养合作伙伴关系，以便将来共享设施，扩大测试能力，以促进共同目标。 该项目汇集了具有互补专门知识和研究能力的实验室的努力。通过交流思想和技术，该项目将扩大我们的知识基础，促进国际理解与合作。 研究人员计划在NEES网站上公布他们的合作结果。

0120634BruneauThis award supports a six-month collaborative research project between Professor Michael Bruneau of SUNY, Buffalo, Professor Akira Wada of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Masayoshi Nakashima at Kyoto University in Japan. The researchers will be undertaking a study of hybrid testing at large scale high performance shake table earthquake simulation facilities. The U.S. PI's are developing the world's most versatile next generation earthquake engineering research facility designed to provide testing capabilities that will revolutionize the fundamental understanding of how large structures behave during earthquakes and will feature advanced shake tables. It is a part of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The NEES collaboratory will include approximately 20 equipment sites (shake tables, centrifuges, tsunami wave basin, large-scale laboratory experimentation systems, and field experimentation and monitoring installations) networked together through the high performance Internet. The scientific objective is to add a new international frontier to the NEES project in order to 1) foster international collaboration aimed at exchange of experiences by the Japanese counterparts; 2) identify common challenges facing the developers of such facilities, inclusion of such experiences in the actual design development/integration of the proposed facility at Buffalo and other NEES locations; and 3) cultivate collaborative partnerships for future sharing of facilities to extend testing capabilities to further the common goals. The project brings together the efforts of laboratories that have complementary expertise and research capabilities. Through the exchange of ideas and technology, this project will broaden our knowledge base and promote international understanding and cooperation. The researchers plan to publish the results of their collaborations on the NEES web site.