US-PRC Workshop on Protection of Urban Infrastructure and Public Facilities Against Natural and Manmade Disasters

这项提议是举办一次美国和中国的联合研讨会，以开发关键基础设施保护的新研究机会。重点将放在必要的使能技术上，并确定可能的候选技术，以便对这些技术进行示范和评估，特别是那些可用于保护人口稠密的城市中心的基础设施免受地震和其他自然和人为灾害影响的技术。将特别考虑两种类型的城市结构系统：建筑群和交通网络，以抵御地震地面运动和意外和故意爆炸荷载。本次研讨会由建设部(MOC)、国家自然科学基金委员会(NNSF)、北京市科学技术委员会(BSTC)和北京市教育委员会(BMEC)根据美中地震议定书附件III计划共同支持。

This proposal is to conduct a US-PRC joint workshop on development of new research opportunities for critical infrastructure protection. The focus will be on needed enabling technologies, and the identification of possible candidates for the purpose of demonstration and evaluation of these technologies, particularly those that can be applied to protect infrastructures against earthquake and other natural and manmade disasters in populated urban centers. Special consideration will be given to two types of urban structural systems :a building complex and a transportation network, against earthquake ground motions and accidental and intentional blast loads. This workshop is jointly supported the Ministry of Construction (MOC), National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF), Beijing Science and Technology Committee (BSTC), and Beijing Municipal Education Commission (BMEC) under the US-PRC Earthquake Protocol Annex III program.