Planning Meeting for NEES/E-DEFENSE Collaboration in Earthquake Engineering

提案标题：地震工程中NEES/E-防务协作规划会议机构：Nees Consortium，Inc.摘要日期：08/10/2004项目总结The George E.Brown，Jr.地震工程模拟网络(NEES)由美国国家科学基金会(NSF)于1999年底发起，旨在改变美国开展地震工程研究的能力。有了超过8000万美元的用于实验、联网、数据管理和通信的尖端新工具，地震工程领域的最优秀人才将能够挑战和解决降低国家地震脆弱性的最困难的挑战。为了加速实现NEES的目标，避免不必要的重复工作，美国调查人员需要合作，并有权获得国际上的数据和设施。日本已经启动了一项名为.E-Defense的重大长期研究计划。该倡议由国家地球科学与灾害预防研究所(NIED)代表日本文部科学技术省(MEXT)管理。这一倡议的一个关键组成部分是一种新的大型(20x15米)振动台，能够使五层楼高的全尺寸试件受到比1995年兵库县南步大地震更大的三维地震激励。此外，还计划利用该振动台和主要的实验和计算机模拟设备进行长期研究。这一计划需要一个强大的、但尚未确定的国际合作组成部分。因此，计划于2004年4月6-8日在日本新神户电子防务共享桌子设施附近召开一次会议，讨论NEES和电子防务之间的合作机会。一小群来自美国和日本的代表研究人员正在与来自NIED、MEXT、NSF、NEES Consortium，Inc.(NCI)的代表举行会议，以确定共同感兴趣的研究主题，这些主题充分利用E-Defense设施的独特能力、发展国家科学基础的机制建议摘要：0431490 PI姓名：Back，Ian Print From eJacket：08/10/04第1页，共2个研究计划和项目，以及在E-Defense内实施NEES网格和相关服务所需的步骤，以便充分发挥NEES实验室和E-Defense之间的合作潜力。会议结果被广泛分发给日本和美国的潜在赞助商和研究人员。智力优势：日本的电子防务计划为发现和创新提供了真正惊人的机会，这在当前的NEES投资组合中是不可能的。通过集中合作努力利用美国和日本的资源，有可能加快发现和创新的步伐，以减轻大地震造成的灾难性损失。NEES/电子防务预计将为整个美国地震工程界提供丰富的数据集。拟议活动产生的广泛影响：明确的NEES/E-防御工事将为国际合作提供更多机会。其中包括开展合作研究项目、共享独特的研究资源、制定记录、存档和共享信息的国际标准和能力，以及人员交流。NEES/电子防御项目的参与者预计将包括初级研究人员、妇女和地震工程和IT研究社区的代表不足群体的成员，以及高级成员国家科学基础建议摘要建议：0431490 PI姓名：巴克尔，伊恩

Proposal Title: Planning Meeting for NEES/E-DEFENSE Collaboration inEarthquake EngineeringInstitution: NEES Consortium, Inc.Abstract Date: 08/10/2004Project SummaryThe George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)initiatedby the US National Science Foundation (NSF) in late 1999 is intended to transform thenation.s ability to carry out earthquake engineering research. With over $80 million innewcutting-edge tools for experimentation, networking, data curation and communication,thebest minds in earthquake engineering will be able to challenge and solve the mostdifficultimpediments to reducing the nation's vulnerability to earthquakes. To accelerateattainmentof NEES's goals, and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, US investigators need tocollaborate and have access to data and facilities internationally.A major long-term, research initiative has begun in Japan known as .E-Defense.. Thisinitiative is managed by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and DisasterPrevention (NIED) on behalf of the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Scienceand Technology (MExT). A key component of this initiative is a new, large (20 by 15 m)shaking table capable of subjecting full-scale, five-story tall, specimens tothree-dimensionalseismic excitations larger than those experienced in the devastating 1995 Hyogo-kenNanbuearthquake. In addition, a long-term research program using this shaking table andothermajor facilities for experimentation and computer-based simulation is planned. Thisprogramcalls for a strong, but as yet undefined, component of international collaboration.As such, a Planning Meeting is being convened in Shin-Kobe, Japan, near theE-Defenseshaking table facility, during April 6-8, 2004 to discuss opportunities for collaborationbetween the NEES and E-Defense. A small, but diverse group of representativeresearchersfrom the US and Japan are meeting, along with representatives from NIED, MExT, NSF,theNEES Consortium, Inc. (NCI), to identify research topics of mutual interest that fully takeadvantage of the unique capabilities of the E-Defense facilities, mechanisms fordevelopingNATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONProposal AbstractProposal:0431490 PI Name:Buckle, IanPrinted from eJacket: 08/10/04 Page 1 of 2research plans and projects, and steps needed to implement NEESgrid and relatedserviceswithin E-Defense so that the full potential of collaboration between those involved in theNEES Collaboratory and E-Defense can be realized. The findings of the meeting arebeingdistributed widely to potential sponsors and researchers in Japan and in the US.Intellectual Merit: The E-Defense program in Japan provides truly phenomenalopportunities for discovery and innovation not possible within the current NEESportfolio.By leveraging US and Japanese resources through focused collaborative effort, it ispossibleto accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation needed to mitigate catastrophiclosses dueto large earthquakes. NEES/E-Defense is expected to provide the overall USearthquakeengineering community access to rich sets of data.Broader impacts resulting from proposed activity: Explicit NEES/E-Defensecollaboration will provide heightened opportunities for international cooperation. Theseinclude conduct of collaborative research projects, sharing of unique researchresources,development of international standards and capabilities for documenting, archiving andsharing information, and exchange of personnel. Participants in NEES/E-Defenseprojectsare expected to include junior researchers, women and members of underrepresentedgroups,as well as senior members, of the earthquake engineering and IT research communitiesNATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONProposal AbstractProposal:0431490 PI Name:Buckle, Ian