US/India Workshop: Enhancing the Resilience of Built Infrastructure; Chennai, India; December 2008

该项目将支持研究人员参加美国-印度关于增强已建成基础设施的弹性的研讨会的旅行。将于2009年在印度举行。研讨会将围绕以下四个主题举办：(1)极端负荷的定义和组合，(2)材料性能，(3)改造战略，(4)美印在这些领域继续合作的长期战略和计划。讲习班的目标是评估两国这三个领域的最新水平，然后确定未来在这些领域的研究议程和研究和教育合作机会。拟议的活动将使从事讲习班主题领域工作的国际研究人员汇聚一堂，交流科学信息和思想。研讨会主题目前对两国都有很大的研究兴趣。美国在这些领域拥有强大的研究基础和专业知识，印度目前正在积极开展这些领域的研究。然而，我们当然可以就共同研究感兴趣的问题相互学习更多，并从协同制定的合作研究计划中受益。这次讲习班将为与会者，特别是青年研究人员提供一个极好的机会，让他们相互欣赏两国科学界之间目前存在的文化协同作用，通过联合研究、教师交流机会、休假机会、学生交流机会以及信息技术和基于网络的合作，进一步促进科学的发展。

This project will support the travel of researchers to participate in the US-India Workshop on ?Enhancing the Resilience of Built Infrastructure? to be held in India in 2009. The workshop will be organized around the four theme topics of: (1) extreme load definitions and combinations, (2) material performance, (3) retrofitting strategies, and (4) long-term strategies and plans for continuing US-India collaboration in these areas. The objectives of the workshop are to assess the state of the art in the three areas in the two countries and then identify future research agenda and research and educational cooperative opportunities in these areas. The proposed activity will bring together international researchers working in the areas of the workshop theme topics for the exchange of scientific information and ideas. The workshop topic is of strong research interest to both countries currently. USA has a strong research base and expertise in these areas and India is now aggressively pursuing research in these areas. However, we certainly can learn more from each other about the problems of common research interest, and benefit from a synergistically formulated collaborative research plan. This workshop will provide an excellent opportunity to the participants, especially the young researchers, for mutual appreciation of the cultural synergies that now exist between the scientific communities of the two countries for further advancement of science through joint research, faculty exchange opportunities, sabbatical opportunities, student exchange opportunities, and information technology and web-based collaborations.