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

抗震防护系统，如基础隔离、被动耗能、半主动和主动控制，可以应用于新建和现有建筑，以显著减少建筑在地震中的运动和损坏。该奖项的目标是通过一个虚拟研究所，建立一个由来自智利、日本、新西兰和美国的研究人员组成的社区，以加速对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向来自环太平洋国家的外国同行学习，了解在2010年智利、2011年新西兰和日本最近发生的大地震中，具有地震防护系统的建筑物的性能，以确保地震防护系统研究的方向是更好地为未来的灾害做好准备。该合同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，并通过开展研究来避免这些事件的风险，以解决将促进建筑物中地震防护系统实施的挑战。虚拟学院将包括以下面对面和虚拟活动：(a)每年举办一次研讨会，依次在外国合作伙伴的国家举办，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)将早期职业的美国教师参与者与外国同行配对，开展关于过去地震中地震防护系统有效性的案例研究，从而建立长期的研究合作；(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)在线定向学习地震防护系统课程，用于向美国和世界各地的研究生讲授地震防护系统的最新技术和研究状况，以及(e)使用在线协作工具的定期季度虚拟会议。该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名早期职业参与者，与他们的国际合作者建立长期的全球研究关系，这些合作者具有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研究所（SAVI）科学奖，由美国国家科学基金会工程理事会和美国国家科学基金会综合和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.