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

摘要：项目摘要：美国国家科学基金会（NSF）于1999年底发起的小乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）旨在改造美国。开展地震工程研究的能力。拥有超过8000万美元用于实验、网络、数据管理和通信的尖端工具，地震工程领域最优秀的人才将能够挑战和解决最困难的障碍，以减少国家对地震的脆弱性。为了加速实现NEES的目标，并避免不必要的重复工作，美国调查人员需要进行合作，并能够在国际上访问数据和设施。日本已经开始了一项名为e - defense的重大长期研究计划。该计划由日本教育、文化、体育、科学和技术部（MExT）代表日本国家地球科学与防灾研究所（NIED）管理。该项目的一个关键组成部分是一个新的大型（20 × 15米）振动台，能够承受比1995年破坏性的兵库县南北区地震更大的全尺寸、五层楼高的样品的三维地震激励。此外，还计划使用该振动台和其他主要设备进行实验和计算机模拟的长期研究计划。这一计划需要强有力的、但尚未明确的国际合作组成部分。因此，计划会议将于2004年4月6日至8日在日本神户的E-Defense震动台设施附近召开，讨论NEES和E-Defense之间的合作机会。来自美国和日本的一个小型但多样化的代表研究人员小组，以及来自NIED， next， NSF, ees Consortium, Inc. （NCI）的代表正在开会，以确定共同感兴趣的研究课题，充分利用电子防御设施的独特能力，发展机制。08/10/04 2的第1页研究计划和项目，以及在E-Defense中实施NEESgrid和相关服务所需的步骤，以便实现NEESgrid合作实验室和E-Defense参与者之间的全部合作潜力。会议的结果正在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：日本的电子防御项目为当前的NEESportfolio中不可能实现的发现和创新提供了真正惊人的机会。通过集中合作，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/E-Defense预计将为整个美国地震工程社区提供丰富的数据集。拟议活动产生的更广泛影响：明确的NEES/ e - defense合作将为国际合作提供更高的机会。这包括开展合作研究项目，共享独特的研究资源，制定国际标准和能力，以记录、归档和共享信息，以及人员交流。NEES/ e - defenseproject的参与者预计将包括初级研究人员、妇女和代表性不足的群体成员，以及地震工程和IT研究社区的高级成员

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