U.S. - Japan Joint Seminar: Earthquake-Resistant Design of Lifelines Facilities and Countermeasures Against Soil Liquefaction

0303880巴德特该奖项支持美国科学家和工程师参与美国-日本生命线设施抗震设计和土壤液化对策联合研讨会将在日本东京举行。 共同组织者是洛杉矶南加州大学的Jean-Pierre Bardet教授和日本东京早稻田大学的Masanori Hamada教授。 会议将汇集来自美国和日本的研究科学家，这两个国家在这一科学领域正在取得重要和令人兴奋的进展。 在过去的地震中，土壤液化一再破坏生命线（天然气，水和电力公用事业线）以及桥梁和公路立交桥的基础。 在1994年北岭地震和1995年兵库县南部地震中，对地震引起的地基变形和生命线系统的影响进行了大量的研究。 这导致提出了减轻未来地震中土壤液化破坏性影响的工程解决方案。 这些研究结果将进行讨论，因为它们是在美国和日本的岩土工程和结构工程中实施基于性能的设计的关键。 会议将为岩土地震工程的未来研究确定方向。共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专长。 这使他们能够评估和吸引最好的科学家和工程师参与。 研讨会预计将产生的结果，将影响不仅工程实践，而且在工程基础研究。 研讨会的组织者作出了特别努力，让博士后、研究生和本科生既作为与会者，又作为观察员。与该领域的日本专家交流想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作项目奠定基础。 研讨会之后，组织者计划建立一个研讨会网页。 会议记录将在本网站上公布。

0303880BardetThis award supports the participation of American scientists and engineers in a U.S.-Japan joint seminar on earthquake-resistant design of lifelines facilities and countermeasures against soil liquefaction to be held in Tokyo, Japan. The co-organizers are Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Professor Masanori Hamada at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. The meeting will bring together research scientists from the U.S. and Japan, two countries where important and exciting progress in this area of science is being undertaken. During past earthquakes, soil liquefaction has repeatedly damaged lifelines (gas, water and electric utility lines) and foundations of bridges and highway overpasses. There has been much research undertaken on the effects of liquefaction-induced deformation on foundations and lifelines systems in the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquakes. This resulted in proposed engineering solutions that mitigate the devastating effects of soil liquefaction in future earthquakes. These findings will be discussed, as they are critical to the implementation of performance-based design in geotechnical and structural engineering in the United States and Japan. The meeting will then define directions for future research in geotechnical earthquake engineering.The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best scientists and engineers to participate. The seminar is expected to yield results that will impact not only engineering practice but also fundamental research in engineering. The seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students as both participants and observers. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in the field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Following the seminar the organizers plan to establish a workshop web page. Conference proceedings will be published on this web site.