US-Tanzania Workshop: Advancing the Structural Use of Earth-based Bricks; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 20-21 May 2009

美国-坦桑尼亚研讨会：推进土基砖的结构使用；

• 批准号: 0914372
• 负责人: Esther Obonyo
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-15 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0914372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Tanzania; Workshop; Advancing; Structural

This award is to provide funds to hold a two-day US-Tanzania workshop to discuss experiences and potential strategies for advancing the structural use of earth-based bricks, particularly in Africa. The workshop will benefit from the expertise of professionals championing the use of earth-based technologies in the US and in Africa. The workshop will formalize loosely coupled relationships the PIs have with different individuals/ groups in the US and Africa. The proposed workshop will result in the identification of fundamental research and development challenges, knowledge gaps, and research needs in the existing efforts directed at resolving significant variations in the performance of earth-based bricks depending on the soil conditions, brick manufacturing methods and climatic conditions.The workshop will provide both a national and international forum for researchers in earth-based technologies and experts from closely aligned disciplines to discuss the fundamental structural and durability performance of earth-based bricks. The workshop will take place in Tanzania, Africa and will help to establish research collaborations between US researchers and African university and building construction researchers. The US PI and co-PI are leaders in the field of earth structures and earth based brick technologies. This award is co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.

该奖项将为举办为期两天的美国-坦桑尼亚研讨会提供资金，讨论促进土砖结构使用的经验和潜在战略，特别是在非洲。研讨会将受益于美国和非洲倡导使用地球技术的专业人士的专业知识。研讨会将正式确定PI与美国和非洲不同个人/团体的松散耦合关系。拟议的研讨会将确定现有工作中的基础研究和开发挑战、知识差距和研究需求，旨在解决土砖性能因土壤条件而产生的重大差异，砖的制造方法和气候条件。研讨会将提供一个国家和国际论坛的研究人员在地球，基于技术的专家和来自密切相关学科的专家讨论土砖的基本结构和耐久性性能。 该研讨会将在非洲坦桑尼亚举行，将有助于建立美国研究人员与非洲大学和建筑施工研究人员之间的研究合作。 美国PI和co-PI是土工结构和土砖技术领域的领导者。 该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。