SAVI/Collaborative Research: Pacific Rim Earthquake Engineering Mitigation Protective Technologies International Virtual Environment

基础隔震、被动耗能、半主动和主动控制等抗震防护系统可以应用于新建和既有建筑，以显著减少建筑物在地震中的运动和破坏。该奖项的目标是通过一个虚拟研究所，建立一个由智利、日本、新西兰和美国的研究人员组成的社区，以加快地震防护系统的研究。该研究所将使美国研究人员能够主动从环太平洋国家的外国同行那里了解具有地震防护系统的建筑物在2010年智利以及2011年新西兰和日本大地震中的表现，以确保地震防护系统的研究针对未来的危险更好地做好准备。这一奖项将使美国地震防护系统社区能够更好地预测未来大地震对结构的破坏，并通过现在进行研究来应对将促进建筑物实施地震防护系统的挑战，从而避免这些事件的风险。该虚拟研究所将包括以下面对面和虚拟活动：(A)每年举办一次研讨会，在外国合作伙伴国家顺序举办，为美国参与者提供直接机会，与国际合作者分享研究和数据，并规划未来的研究方向；(B)职业生涯早期的美国教员与外国同行配对，就过去地震中地震防护系统的有效性进行案例研究，从而建立长期研究合作；(C)外国同行和美国高级参与者关于其国家地震防护系统研究的讲座，(D)一个在线定向学习的地震防护系统课程，将用于向美国和世界各地的研究生讲授地震防护系统方面的最新技术和最新研究；(E)利用在线协作工具，每季度定期举行一次虚拟会议。虚拟研究所将汇集地震防护系统领域13个活跃的NSF奖项的研究人员，以及20-30名职业生涯早期参与者，与他们的国际合作者形成长期的全球研究关系，这些合作者共享共同的研究兴趣，并得到各自政府研究机构的支持。该奖项被指定为跨虚拟学院(SAVI)科学奖，由NSF工程局和NSF综合与国际活动办公室共同资助。

Seismic protective systems, such as base isolation, passive energy dissipation, and semi-active and active control, can be applied to new and existing buildings to provide significant reductions in building motion and damage during earthquakes. The objective of this award is to build a community of researchers from Chile, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States, through a virtual institute, to accelerate research on seismic protective systems. This institute will enable U.S. researchers to proactively learn from their foreign counterparts from Pacific Rim countries about the performance of buildings with seismic protective systems during recent major earthquakes in Chile in 2010 and in New Zealand and Japan in 2011, to ensure that seismic protective systems research is directed to better prepare for future hazards. This award will enable the U.S. seismic protective systems community to better anticipate structural damage from future large earthquakes, and avert risk to these events by conducting research now to address the challenges that will facilitate seismic protective systems implementation in buildings. The virtual institute will incorporate the following face-to-face and virtual activities: (a) one workshop per year, hosted sequentially in the countries of the foreign partners, to provide direct opportunities for U.S. participants to share research and data and chart future research directions with international collaborators, (b) pairings of early career U.S. faculty participants with foreign counterparts to develop case studies about the effectiveness of seismic protective systems in past earthquakes, thereby building long-term research collaborations, (c) lectures by the foreign counterparts and U.S. senior participants about research on seismic protective systems in their country, (d) an on-line, directed-study seismic protective systems course that will be used to teach graduate students in the United States and around the world about the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-research in seismic protective systems, and (e) regular quarterly virtual meetings using online collaboration tools. The virtual institute will bring together researchers on 13 active NSF awards in the areas of seismic protective systems, as well as 20-30 early career participants, to form long-term global research relationships with their international collaborators, who share common research interests and are supported by their respective government research agencies. This award is designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is co-funded by NSF's Directorate for Engineering and NSF's Office of Integrative and International Activities.